Sermons from a Heretical Preacher
Paperback | $12.00
Religion and politics have always been a potent mix. History is littered with times when that combination caused sweeping death and destruction, when it fueled aggression and oppression—and when it gave fascism a religious and diplomatic face.
The Complete Guide to Making and Selling Artisan Cheeses
Hardcover | $40.00
American Farmstead Cheese brings the science and history of farm cheeses from Europe and early America to small farm businesses today.
Science, Intuition, and Gaia
Paperback | $25.00
How Gaian science can help us to develop a sense of connectedness with the "more-than-human" world.
Paperback | $9.95
Gunter Pauli's ZERI* Education model proposes that children, adolescents and young adults learn science in a way that gives them a more profound academic understanding at the same time that it helps develop their emotional intelligence, eco-literacy, and artistic/creative capacities. The Ant Farmer is one of the books in Pauli's ZERI series.
A Guide for the Organic Orchardist, Second Edition
Paperback | $40.00
You can grow fruit organically--here is the latest scientific knowledge about growing apples and other tree fruits. For commercial growers, CSA gardeners, and backyard gardeners.
Paperback | $35.00
The Atlas of American Artisan Cheese is the first reference book of its kind and a must-have for every foodie's library.
The Way of a Naturalist
Paperback | $25.00
Ted Levin tracks animal's tracks in nature and traces his boyhood roots on suburban Long Island to his present life in northern New England.
A Hands-on Guide to Gardening Berries, Brambles, & Vine Fruit in the Home Garden
Paperback | $17.95
Packed with reliable methods and details of berry growing for all regions of the country.
A Complete Guide to Growing Fruit Trees in the Home Garden
Paperback | $16.95
"...packed with down-to-earth information that the home gardener and master gardener crave."
--Journal of Small Fruit and Viticulture
Searching for a Spiritual Missing Link
Paperback | $14.00
A story of a journey of a nephew following his deceased aunt's lifetime of work to preserve the environment.
Paperback | $25.00
Starting with the principles, design processes, and tools needed for designing, Ross Mars takes us through water harvesting, urban and rural designs, gardens, permaculture in schools and communities, and appropriate technology.
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Bayberry & Beau is an original tale inspired by a real horse and cat who became mysteriously attached to one another.
Paperback | $9.95
Gunter Pauli's ZERI* Education model proposes that children, adolescents and young adults learn science in a way that gives them a more profound academic understanding at the same time that it helps develop their emotional intelligence, eco-literacy, and artistic/creative capacities. The Bear and the Fox is one of the books in Pauli's ZERI series.
Paperback | $24.95
The Beauty of Straw Bale Homes makes a wonderful addition to the straw enthusiast's library and a delightful introduction for straw bale beginners. Includes recipes for homemade paints and earth plasters as well as invaluable insights into designing and building with straw bales.
Vegetarian Recipes
Paperback | $27.50
The New York Times calls Bloodroot “legendary” and Vegetarian Times has listed it as one of the ten best vegetarian restaurants in the nation.
This book opens up a world of exquisite tastes available from well-polished vegetarian recipes. The introduction includes notes from a cooking class that demonstrate the basics of how to cook and eat as a vegetarian, offering a guide to authentic an authoritative vegetarian cooking. Get ready to feed your body and soul on over 300 recipes, including Mushrooms Madeira, Sweet Dumpling Squash with Chestnut Stuffing, Collard Greens with Black-eyed Peas and Rice, and Chocolate Devastation.
Vegan Recipes
Paperback | $27.50
The New York Times calls Bloodroot “legendary” and Vegetarian Times has listed it as one of the ten best vegetarian restaurants in the nation.
This book contains the most exciting collection of over 350 dairy-free recipes available today. It opens with an essay on the merits of coconut milk and coconut oil in vegan cooking, and then dives right into recipes like African Curried Butternut Squash and Banana Soup. Who says eating vegan style has to be boring? Spiced Winter Squash Cake, Yam and Ground-Nut Stew, Southwest Chili Corn Enchiladas, Chilled Thai Rice Paper Spring Rolls, and Callaloo (a Caribbean soup) are just a few of the tastes offered in Volume 2.
A Handbook of Creative Discovery
Paperback | $10.00
Why go to the mall when you can make things at home using materials recycled from around the house? This classic educational and creative text features 125 projects, carefully selected by the author to "develop natural curiosity and self-esteem," and to demonstrate "simple and important concepts that have shaped the cultures of the world."
Paperback | $11.95 On Sale: $7.17!
Tomm Stanley entertains and educates adults and children alike about trees and their interactions with the environment.
Paperback | $7.95
A complete guide for making biking to work a safe reality for the beginning bike
commuter. For those who live within biking distance to work, this book offers simple safety, bike-buying, gear-buying, and basic maintenance tips, as well as ways to best plan your route to and from the office. By biking to work, you can improve your physical and mental health, save money, avoid creating pollution, and contribute to friendlier cities. In the face of rush-hour traffic, biking is often faster than driving, too!
Growing a New Energy Economy
Paperback | $19.95
The world, quite simply, is running out of oil. We need a solution now, one that will pave the way to a saner, more sustainable energy future without massive reinvestments in infrastructure and technology transfer. We need Biodiesel.
A Declaration of Interdependence
Paperback | $25.00
The Bioneers: A Declaration of Interdependence presents the fascinating and inspiring stories of 14 people at the cutting edge of technological innovation, social justice, and the natural world.
The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez
DVD | $19.95
Twenty years after the Exxon Valdez oil spill, marine biologist Riki Ott and the fishers in the town of Cordova, Alaska remind us that the biggest environmental catastrophe in North American history is still with us. Over time, its consequences have become all the more apparent and painful. The spill has profoundly altered the lives of tens of thousands of people, reducing them to poverty and despair.
Rediscovering an Old Way of Warming
Paperback | $35.00
A comprehensive survey of masonry heating systems, Lyle brings us back to a time of wood heating systems--with high efficiency, safety, and no pollution.
Hearth Loaves and Masonry Ovens
Paperback | $35.00
An in-depth guide to baking superb sourdoughs and building your own masonry oven.
The Gardener's and Farmer's Guide to Plant Breeding and Seed Saving
Paperback | $27.95
In the age of biotech companies, genetic patents, and multinational seed companies, Deppe makes learning to save and breed your own seed and varieties easy and desirable for the gardener or farmer.
A Low-Cost Wood-Fired Mud Oven; Simple Sourdough Bread; Perfect Loaves
Paperback | $17.95
A manual for building and baking in a basic mud oven.
A Step-by-Step Guide
Paperback | $45.00
Building with Cob covers everything from design, planning, and siting to roofs, insulation, and floors. It is lavishly illustrated with more than three hundred inspirational color photographs.
A practical guide for the UK and Ireland
Paperback | $18.95
Detailed guide to straw bale building from one of the world's experts.
Structural Design for Rammed Earth and Straw-Bale Architecture
Paperback | $25.00
An approachable and readable how-to book on ecological/sustainable architecture.
My Entrepreneurial Journey, Profits with Principles
Paperback | $12.95
Business As Unusual charts the story of Anita Roddick and her company The Body Shop, through all the highs and lows since 1990. It also examines the parallel growth of vigilante consumerism and predicts how businesses can evolve in this millennium.
Paperback | $9.95
Gunter Pauli's ZERI* Education model proposes that children, adolescents and young adults learn science in a way that gives them a more profound academic understanding at the same time that it helps develop their emotional intelligence, eco-literacy, and artistic/creative capacities. Can Apples Fly? is one of the books in Pauli's ZERI series.
Solutions for our Car-Addicted Culture
Paperback | $20.00
Car Sick is a passionate, well-argued case for moving away from a car-centered to a people-centered society.
36 Remodeling Projects to Help Kick the Fossil-Fuel Habit
Paperback | $35.00
The Carbon-Free Home gives you the hands-on knowledge necessary to kick the fossil-fuel habit, with projects small and large listed by skill, time, cost, and energy saved. For every aspect of your life currently powered by fossil fuels, The Carbon-Free Home offers alternatives you can accomplish yourself to get started using renewable and sustainable sources of power.
The Penikese Island Experiment
Paperback | $25.00
Cadwalader, a Marine captain severely wounded in Viet Nam, recuperates but is unable to return to combat. Strongly influenced by his experience in the Marines, he recruits a small band of unlikely "teachers"--well-educated social drop-outs--and launches an experiment in the rehabilitation of hard-core juvenile delinquents. The site he selects is Penikese, a remote island off the Massachusetts coast. Once a leper colony, Penikese is slowly transformed by the students and staff into a self-sufficient school community.
How to Build Your Own
Paperback | $26.95
Khalili's classic, authoritative manual describes how to build arches, domes, and vaults with earth, as well as techniques to fire and glaze earth buildings to transform them into ceramic houses.
Paperbacks | $44.95
Easy to use guides that have the answers to all your recycling, water use, energy, and composting questions. Packed with practical ideas for your home and garden. Use their A-Z listings and simple tips to do your bit for the planet.
Paperback | $45.00
An in-depth account of the cuisine that many consider to be Italy’s best. Internationally famous for its wine and white truffles, the Piedmont region provides numerous culinary delights used to prepare dishes that are both extremely interesting and extraordinarily delicious. This informative text is lavishly illustrated with beautiful drawings and watercolors, making every page a pleasure to read or simply browse. Cooks will appreciate the detailed recipes, while those that simply love the notion of Italy will enjoy reading the fascinating stories and delight in its visual qualities.
Yurts, Tipis, and Benders
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A look at housing technologies that might be forgotten in today's society--yurts, tipis, and other circle dwellings, all displayed here in a collection of information and color photographs.
Community Solutions to a Global Crisis
Paperback | $21.95
The Citizen-Powered Energy Handbook is a clear-eyed view of the critical situation of oil depletion we face and offers a way out.
Simple Things You Can Do to Make a Difference
Paperback | $7.95
You know that the ice caps are melting, the seasons are changing, sea levels are rising, storms are on the increase, but what can you do about it? Plenty! This book puts the power back into your hands in the face of the doom and gloom of climate change. You don’t have to wait for someone else to sort it out; rather than worry and feel helpless, you can get up and do something.
A Citizen's Guide
Paperback | $9.95
Climate Solutions explains in clear and simple language what different proposed climate policies will do—and what they won’t do. It tells you who’s behind the policies, who’d pay for them, and who’d profit. It strips away the spin and tells you the key facts you need to know. In a very real sense, Climate Solutions ushers in the next stage of the global-warming debate. In the first stage, we discussed the problem. In the next stage, we must choose solutions.
You Can Hand-Sculpt Your Own Home
Paperback | $23.95
An easy-to-read look at the world of cob-building.
Paperback | $9.95
Gunter Pauli's ZERI* Education model proposes that children, adolescents and young adults learn science in a way that gives them a more profound academic understanding at the same time that it helps develop their emotional intelligence, eco-literacy, and artistic/creative capacities.
Paperback | $9.95
Gunter Pauli's ZERI* Education model proposes that children, adolescents and young adults learn science in a way that gives them a more profound academic understanding at the same time that it helps develop their emotional intelligence, eco-literacy, and artistic/creative capacities. Colombian Mushrooms is one of the books in Pauli's ZERI series.
Paperback | $16.95
The three essayists weave a tapestry of hope in light of environmental and cultural devastation.
Paperback | $34.95
Information about sustainable forestry practices that should be all but common sense.
Employee Ownership and the Business of Community and Place
Paperback | $17.95
Part memoir and part examination of a new business model, the 2005 release of The Company We Keep marked the debut of an important new voice in the literature of American business. Now, in Companies We Keep, the revised and expanded edition of his 2005 work, John Abrams further develops his idea that companies flourish when they become centers of interdependence, or “communities of enterprise.”
Paperback | $21.95
Robust and versatile, the yurt has evolved into the ultimate portable dwelling.
An Adventure with Vermicomposting
Hardcover | $16.95
Author Michelle Eva Portman presents a wonderful adventure where a young girl and her mom convert a storage box into a house for their new pets. The box becomes a vermicomposting bin and the pets are redworms. Portman's poetic rhyming couplets provide a grand explanation of the process of vermicomposting in a manner that the youngest reader/listener will enjoy.
An Easy Household Guide
Paperback | $7.95
Everything you need to know about composting, from the different containers available, to what to put in them, to how to use the results. Includes an A-Z directory of how to compost everything from ash to weeds; plus expert advice on how to compost in small spaces, bins, and wormeries, and getting your community involved.
Living Stories About Living Systems
Paperback | $24.95
Connected Wisdom: Living Stories About Living Systems gathers twelve stories from different cultures that each reveal a unique example of a "living system." Through them, Linda Booth Sweeney shows that what we now call systems thinking has been around for a very long time.
How Communities are Paying for Parks and Land Conservation
Paperback | $21.95
This how-to guide, designed for community leaders and involved citizens as well as local government officials and conservation professionals, explains the once-complex process of securing federal, state, and private conservation funds, then researching, designing, and passing a local, voter-approved conservation finance measure.
Paperback | $19.95
Gene Logsdon combines vegetable gardening, raising livestock, pastures, grains and woodlots to create "cottage farming" for fun and profit. Logsdon's ebullient sense of humor and devotion to the land are apparent through stories and anecdotes about contrary farming.
Paperback | $25.00
William Cobbett wrote Cottage Economy, published in 1821, with a twofold aim. First, to promote his personal philosophy of self-sufficiency, which he viewed as the foundation of family happiness. And second, to "instruct country laborers in the arts of brewing beer, making bread, keeping cows, pigs, bees, ewes, poultry, rabbits, and other matters." The book has enjoyed classic
status ever since.
Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics
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Crashing the Gate is a shot across the bow at the political establishment in Washington DC and a call to re-democratize politics in America.
Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics
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Crashing the Gate is a shot across the bow at the political establishment in Washington DC and a call to re-democratize politics in America.
Paperback | $10.95
How can we improve the experience and ecological footprint of cities--explore that and more in this Schumacher briefing.
Paperback | $24.95
Thirteen years in the making, the Crescent City Farmers Market Cookbook is ready for the audience that has long been awaiting it. The world’s loudly proclaimed interest in New Orleans—its food, its culture, and most recently its struggle to rebuild after one of the greatest disasters in modern times—proves that, now more than ever, there is tremendous demand for such a book.
Paperback | $25.00
What begins as an exploration of the lines of thought and experience that run between the massive lynchings in early twentieth-century America to today's death squads in South America soon explodes into an examination of the very heart of our civilization.
Reflections on the Nature of Nature
Paperback | $25.00
The sometimes-dry topics of evolution and ecology come alive in this new collection of essays.
Hardcover | $25.00
Available for Pre-order (Expected Ship Date: October 5, 2009)
Two books under one cover deliver a brief, incisive, and entertaining romp through the science of sex and death.
Paperback | $9.95
Gunter Pauli's ZERI* Education model proposes that children, adolescents and young adults learn science in a way that gives them a more profound academic understanding at the same time that it helps develop their emotional intelligence, eco-literacy, and artistic/creative capacities. The Desert Witch is one of the books in Pauli's ZERI series.
The State of the Art
Paperback | $40.00
For the first time, a design manual for practicing professionals, drawing on the collective experience of the most senior and respected figures in the rapidly-emerging field of straw bale construction.
Paperback | $30.00
A collection of writings on Ecological Design from a wide range of people.
Paperback | $49.95
Designing and Maintaining Your Edible Landscape Naturally is the authoritative text on edible landscaping featuring a step-by-step guide to designing your own aesthetic yet productive environment using vegetables, fruits, flowers, and herbs for a combination of ornamental and culinary purposes.
Illness, Health, and the Politics of A1 and A2 Milk
Paperback | $24.95
This groundbreaking work is the first internationally published book to examine the link between a protein in the milk we drink and a range of serious illnesses, including heart disease, Type 1 diabetes, autism, and schizophrenia.
Paperback | $30.00
Diary of an Eco-Builder focuses on environmental
issues through the story of Will Anderson's attempt
to realize an inspiring and challenging vision: building
his own eco-home, which mirrors the fine-tuned ecology
of a tree.
A Manual for Making Art Out of Earth
Paperback | $15.00
Mud is fun! Also easy, durable, and (dirt!) cheap, it is
used worldwide to make beautiful homes, temples,
and art. This book teaches you how to transform the dirt
beneath your feet into your own beauty.
Know Your Values and Frame the Debate
Paperback | $10.00
George Lakoff explains in Don't Think of an Elephant! how the right has framed the notion of the political center, he presents both the most original and the most practical analysis of United States politics in many years.
Know Your Values and Frame the Debate
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George Lakoff explains in Don't Think of an Elephant! how the right has framed the notion of the political center, he presents both the most original and the most practical analysis of United States politics in many years.
Second Edition
Paperback | $24.95
Drip irrigation is the best way to help any plant flourish and survive tough times, especially short or long droughts. Pick the wrong “stuff ” and you easily can feel overwhelmed. Robert Kourik’s Drip Irrigation for Every Landscape and All Climates clearly explains how to use less water yet increase the yields of vegetables and promote the growth and flowering of all plants—trees, shrubs, and container plants—in any climate, even where it rains irregularly.
A Permaculture Handbook for Britain and Other Temperate Climates
Hardcover | $75.00
Patrick Whitefield, one of Europe's foremost permaculture teachers, has packed The Earth Care Manual with useful information, contacts, and ideas. This book is clearly and accessibly written, lavishly illustrated, and contains many case studies.
Series on Sustainable Development
Boxed Set with Belly Band | $55.00
Beginning in England, white papers have long provided a forum for exploring important social and political issues. Earth Pledge publishes the series on sustainable development to highlight and encourage discussion about the issues of sustainability the world faces in the twenty-first century. This remarkable collection, featuring essays by academics and experts in the fields of cuisine, architecture, and fashion, identifies the barriers to sustainability, provides solutions to overcome them, and celebrates the pioneers who lead the charge toward meeting the practical requirements of today without compromising the needs of future generations
The Complete DVD Guide to Backyard Ponds
DVD | $29.95
The guru of earth ponds explains how to site, design, shape, and plant these beloved fixtures of rural landscapes—and make them fit your property and your life.
A Resurgence Anthology of Contemporary Eco-poetry
Paperback | $16.95
A major anthology of eco-poetry collected from Resurgence Magazine.
An Architect's Sketchbook
Paperback | $24.95
Wells’s work is revolutionary, but readers will find his message to be pure common sense. Earth sheltering offers superior comfort with minimal energy input, and it is adaptable to diverse terrains as well as a variety of architectural aesthetics.
A Sustainable Solution
Hardcover | $45.00
Ecological Aquaculture offers a design framework for successful ecological aquaculture in all but the most extreme climates and regions. The systems described are not wasteful or polluting; they are self-sustaining.
Inventing the Future
DVD | $35.00
A look at ecological design and city planning, practically and philosophically.
Restoring the Earth and Her People
Paperback | $24.95
Everything you ever wanted to know about ecovillages: how they are created and the people behind them.
New Frontiers for Sustainability, Schumacher Briefing No. 12
Paperback | $14.00
In the last twenty years eco-villages—local communities that aim to minimize their ecological impact but maximize human wellbeing and happiness—have been springing up all over the world. This briefing describes the history and potential of the ecovillage movement, including the evolution of the Global Ecovillage Network and current developments around the world.
How Ordinary Citizens Are Restoring Our Great American Cities
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Part celebration and part inspiration, Edens Lost & Found chronicles the forward-looking transformation of America's urban landscapes and communities.
How Ordinary Citizens Are Restoring Our Great American Cities
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Part celebration and part inspiration, Edens Lost & Found chronicles the forward-looking transformation of America's urban landscapes and communities.
Ecological Vision and Theory for Temperate Climate Permaculture
Hardcover | $75.00
Edible Forest Gardens is the authoritative text on edible landscaping featuring a step-by-step guide to designing your own aesthetic yet productive environment using vegetables, fruits, flowers, and herbs for a combination of ornamental and culinary purposes
Volume I: Ecological Vision and Theory for Temperate Climate Permaculture,
Volume II Ecological Design and Practice for Temperate Climate Permaculture
Hardcover | $150.00
Edible Forest Gardens is the authoritative text on edible landscaping featuring a step-by-step guide to designing your own aesthetic yet productive environment using vegetables, fruits, flowers, and herbs for a combination of ornamental and culinary purposes
Ecological Design and Practice for Temperate Climate Permaculture
Hardcover | $75.00
Edible Forest Gardens is the authoritative text on edible landscaping featuring a step-by-step guide to designing your own aesthetic yet productive environment using vegetables, fruits, flowers, and herbs for a combination of ornamental and culinary purposes
Staying Safe and Independent In Your Own Home As You Age
Paperback | $30.00
Altman takes you through renovating your dream home, as you enter older age
The Art of Creating Your Life As You Want It
Paperback | $17.95
Now in its 11th printing, and translated into eight languages, Empowerment: The Art of Creating Your Life As You Want It is widely considered to be a classic in the field of personal empowerment and transformation. Much more than a collection of inspiring principles, the book guides readers step-by-step through a systematic self-transformation program addressing seven key areas of life: relationships, sexuality, money, work, body, emotions and spirituality. Empowerment is based on its authors’ two decades of work helping thousands of people create the life of their dreams. Its simple premise—that our thoughts and beliefs create the conditions of our life—is illustrated with anecdotes from each of the seven areas.
Paperback | $39.95
Currently on Backorder
In a stunning indictment of the Bush administration and Congress, best-selling author Naomi Wolf lays out her case for saving American democracy. In authoritative research and documentation Wolf explains how events of the last six years parallel steps taken in the early years of the 20th century’s worst dictatorships such as Germany, Russia, China, and Chile.
2-Disc Directors' Edition
DVD | $29.95
Investigating parallels between our current situation and the rise of dictators and fascism in once-free societies, Wolf uncovers a number of deeply unsettling similarities—from the use of paramilitary groups and secret prisons to the targeted suspension of the rule of law. With this galvanizing call to arms based on her recent book, she urges regular citizens to take back our legacy of freedom and justice.
Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot
Paperback | $13.95
An impassioned call to action to Americans from all walks of life to restore the checks and balances—and our time-honored protections against abuses of power—outlined by our Founding Fathers.
Paperback | $19.95
Very few people realize that the nature of money has changed profoundly over the past three centuries, or—as has been clear with the latest global financial crisis—the extent to which it has become a political instrument used to centralize power, concentrate wealth, and subvert popular government. On top of that, the economic growth imperative inherent in the present global monetary system is a main driver of global warming and other environmental crises.
Use Less--Save More
Paperback | $7.95
100 energy saving tips for everything in your home or business. Includes suggestions on heating and cooling, lighting, cooking, appliances and much more. Also provides an overview on renewable energy options.
Homes for a Small Planet
Paperback | $25.00
Available for Pre-order (Expected Ship Date: December 8, 2009)
Energy Free is designed to equip building professionals and homeowners alike with a toolkit for creating homes that use no more energy than they produce—this means homes that are free from the vagaries of energy-price fluctuations and that help to free society of the high political and environmental costs of fossil fuels.
Growing the Green Economy
Paperback | $30.00
With insight, clarity, warmth, and enthusiasm Hazel
Henderson announces the mature presence of the
green economy. Throughout Ethical Markets Henderson weaves statistics
and analysis with profiles of entrepreneurs, environmentalists,
scientists, and professionals. Based on interviews
conducted on her longstanding public television
series, these profiles celebrate those who have led the
highly successful growth of green businesses around the
world.
War Stories from the Local Food Front
Paperback | $23.95
Salatin’s expert insight explains why local food is expensive and difficult to find and will illuminate for the reader a deeper understanding of the industrial food complex.
The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power
Hardcover | $22.95
This thought-provoking work will change the way American consumers think about everyday products—from plastic softeners that can contribute to sexual malformations to lipstick additives that are potential toxins to the brain, liver, kidneys, and immune system. And it will stir them into forcing our government to take the lead of others, including the European Union, China, and countries in Central and South America.
The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power
Paperback | $16.95
This thought-provoking work will change the way American consumers think about everyday products—from plastic softeners that can contribute to sexual malformations to lipstick additives that are potential toxins to the brain, liver, kidneys, and immune system. And it will stir them into forcing our government to take the lead of others, including the European Union, China, and countries in Central and South America.
A Multi-Generational Home-Based Business Testament
Paperback | $35.00
A well-written, easily read book on raising a family, children, and running a farm for a profitable business.
From the Late Sixties to the West Seventies and Beyond
Paperback | $19.95
Farm Friends is a memoir and a study of the generation of the 1960s. Beginning on
a communal farm in 1969, it continues as a personal chronicle of the author and his
extended family up to the present day.
A Guide to Grilling, Barbecuing and Spit-Roasting Grassfed Meat...and for saving the planet one bite at a time
Paperback | $21.95
In her first book, The Grassfed Gourmet Cookbook, author and livestock farmer Shannon Hayes introduced a radically simple concept: sustainable practices like pastured-based farming translate into food that is tastier, healthier, and better for both people and the planet. The key to getting the most out of pasture-raised meats, though, is understanding how to cook them properly. In The Farmer and the Grill, Hayes offers useful tips on grilling, barbecuing, and spit-roasting all cuts of pasture-raised meats: beef, lamb, pork, and poultry. Dozens of simple, straightforward recipes provide all the basic cooking instructions, plus directions on how to make a variety of herb rubs, marinades, and barbecue sauces to accompany the meats. Traditional techniques such as Southern barbecue and Argentine-style asado cooking will help readers grill like the pros. And specific notes from pasture-based farmers on dealing with natural variations in grassfed meats will ensure success every time.
Genetic Engineering, Industrial Agriculture and Sustainable Alternatives
DVD | $15.00
Using hilarious and disturbing archival footage and featuring interviews with farmers, scientists, government officials, and activists, Fed Up! presents an
entertaining and compelling overview of our current food production system from the Green Revolution to the Biotech Revolution and what we can do about it.
The Natural Entrepreneur’s Guide to Responsible, Sustainable, Joyful Work
Paperback | $17.95
Whatever your situation, this is the book to help you get started. Finding the Sweet Spot
explains how sustainable, responsible, and joyful natural enterprises differ from most jobs,
and it provides the framework for building your own natural enterprise. You’ll learn how to
find partners who will help make your venture successful, how to do world-class market
research, how to innovate, how to build resilience into your enterprise, and how to avoid the
land mines that sink so many small businesses. Most importantly, you’ll learn how to find the
"sweet spot" where your gifts, your passions, and your purpose intersect.
An Organic Grower's Guide to Raising and Selling Cut Flowers
Paperback | $35.00
A beautifully written and illustrated look at growing organic flowers—for yourself or business.
How to Turn Your Yard Into a Garden and Your Neighborhood Into a Community
Paperback | $25.00
Gardening can be a political act. Creativity, fulfillment,
connection, revolution—it all begins when we get our
hands in the dirt.
Paperback | $9.95
Gunter Pauli's ZERI* Education model proposes that children, adolescents and young adults learn science in a way that gives them a more profound academic understanding at the same time that it helps develop their emotional intelligence, eco-literacy, and artistic/creative capacities. Forest Drinking Water is one of the books in Pauli's ZERI series.
Cultivating an Edible Landscape
Paperback | $25.00
Hart uses years of experience in farming to explain "backyard permaculture."
with Robert Hart
DVD | $20.00
Some 45 years ago, the late Robert Hart had a vision of planting a small food-producing forest that could fulfill the needs of a healthy diet and at the same time create a beautiful and ecologically sound environment. Having explored Hart’s practical and philosophical ideas, this film goes on to look at two other projects inspired by the principles of forest gardening and perennial vegetable growing.
Organic Vegetables From Your Home Garden All Year Long
Paperback | $24.95
Fresh salad in February, tomatoes in April—can this be Maine? If Eliot Coleman can produce a four-season harvest on his northern homestead, so can you.
Hardcover | $16.95 On Sale: $5.00!
A look at 20 people who have restored homes-on-wheels--buses, gypsy wagons, etc.
The Square-Inch Gardener's Guide to Year-Round Growing, Fermenting, and Sprouting
Paperback | $24.95
Readers will learn how to transform their balconies and windowsills into productive
vegetable gardens, their countertops and storage lockers into commercial-quality sprout
and mushroom farms, and their outside nooks and crannies into whatever they can imagine,
including sustainable nurseries for honeybees and chickens. Free space for the city gardener
might be no more than a cramped patio, balcony, rooftop, windowsill, hanging rafter, dark
cabinet, garage, or storage area, but no space is too small or too dark to raise food.
A Guide to Cooking Farm-Fresh Seasonal Produce
Paperback | $19.95
Ever wonder how you'll ever be able to use all your vegetables? From Asparagus to Zucchini answers the question of what to do with your armloads of greens, exotic herbs (and the never-before-seen vegetables), with recipes that are as concise and doable as they are appealing. Created for and by Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) members, the book is an indispensable tool for anyone who wants to eat seasonally and locally.
The Story of Solar Electricity
Paperback | $32.00
From Space to Earth: The Story of Solar Electricity tracks the evolution of photovoltaics--the direct conversion of sunlight into electricity via solar cells--from its nineteenth-century beginnings through its success in the space program to its current position as an indispensable, versatile, and largely unrecognized power generator. Perlin details PV's early adoption by the telecommunications, transportation, and oil industries.
Food and the Hunger for Connection
Paperback | $25.00
Full Moon Feast invites us to a table brimming with locally grown foods, radical wisdom, and communal nourishment.
How Communities Can Adapt to Peak Oil and Climate Change
Paperback | $12.00
In Future Scenarios, permaculture co-originator and leading sustainability innovator David
Holmgren outlines four scenarios that bring to life the likely cultural, political, agricultural,
and economic implications of peak oil and climate change, and the generations-long era of
“energy descent” that faces us.
Paperback | $23.00
Earth Pledge’s newest publication, FutureFashion White Papers, is a collection of essays
by a diverse and international group of contributors. Designers, manufacturers, farmers,
professors, models, business owners, and creative directors add their experiences and
wisdom, producing a unique and multifaceted view of the apparel and textile industries.
The book not only proposes solutions to environmental problems, but addresses the
financial outcomes of sustainable practices and offers individual business perspectives. FutureFashion White Papers aims to educate all people interested in sustainable
fashion and offers safe environmental practices for the industries and consumers. It is
an invaluable and ground-breaking resource that proves that style and sustainability can
coexist
Paperback | $12.95
What would you do if you could hear the Earth asking
for help? In the Gaia Girls book series, that is what happens
to four girls, each from a different region of the
world. They are approached by Gaia, the living organism
of the Earth. Each is endowed with powers over one of
the four elements: earth, air, fire, and water. They must
learn to use their powers to help Gaia survive the effects
of modern humanity.
Hardcover | $18.95
What would you do if you could hear the Earth asking
for help? In the Gaia Girls book series, that is what happens
to four girls, each from a different region of the
world. They are approached by Gaia, the living organism
of the Earth. Each is endowed with powers over one of
the four elements: earth, air, fire, and water. They must
learn to use their powers to help Gaia survive the effects
of modern humanity.
Paperback | $12.95
What would you do if you could hear the Earth asking for help? In the Gaia Girls book series, that is what happens to four girls, each from a different region of the world. They are approached by Gaia, the living organism of the Earth. Each is endowed with powers over one of the four elements: earth, air, fire, and water. They must learn to use their powers to help Gaia survive the effects
of modern humanity.
A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture
Paperback | $29.95
The first edition of Gaia’s Garden sparked the imagination of America’s home gardeners, introducing permaculture’s central message: Working with Nature, not against her, results in more beautiful, abundant, and forgiving gardens. This extensively revised and expanded second edition broadens the reach and depth of the permaculture approach for urban and suburban growers.
Vegetarian Recipes for Community and Family, Second Edition
Paperback | $25.95
Updating the first edition—winner of the Gourmand World Cookbook award for best vegetarian cookbook of 2001—the cuisine featured in Gaia’s Kitchen calls upon the best of Mediterranean, Californian, Indian, and Mexican vegetarian cooking. It celebrates old favorites rich in cheese and eggs and offers a variety of tempting new vegan dishes using ingredients such as pulses, tofu, and tempeh. Besides soups, main courses, and salads, there’s a mouthwatering selection of desserts, breads, cakes, and biscuits. Gaia’s Kitchen also explores the issues of nutrition, special diets, and the ecological dimension of food production. The recipes are the tried and tested creations of Julia Ponsonby and her colleagues at Schumacher College in Devon, England, which for almost twenty years has been brewing up a unique potpourri of human connections, raising ecological awareness, and stimulating taste buds.
An Inventory of Seed Catalogs Listing All Nonhybrid Vegetable Seeds Available in the United States and Canada
Paperback | $26.00
Garden Seed Inventory is an essential reference for all serious vegetable growers who care about seeds and preserving our common garden heritage.
A Village to Reinvent the World
Paperback - Revised Edition | $16.95
Chelsea Green’s 10th Anniversary Edition of Alan Weisman’s
Gaviotas will be in stores this September.
Gaviotas is a classic—one of the most elegant and hopeful environmental stories ever told. In the late 1960s, a young Colombian development worker named Paolo Lugari wondered if the nearly uninhabited, infertile land sixteen hours east of Bogota could be made livable. Lugari had no idea that four decades later his experiment would be one of the world’s most celebrated examples of sustainable living: a permanent village called Gaviotas. According to Gabriel Garcie Marquez, Paolo Lugari is “inventor of the World.”
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The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods
Hardcover | $27.95
The biotech industry's claim that genetically modified (GM) foods are safe is shattered in this groundbreaking book.
Paperback | $14.95
Over 50 practical projects to create productive gardens using mainly recycled materials
Paperback | $27.95
Now Jeffrey M. Smith's best-selling book is paired with a
new DVD and CD set that shows how genetically modified
organisms (GMOs) put our health and environment
at risk. This set will impact consumer perceptions
and buying habits.
Understanding and Using the Warmth in Sunlight
Paperback | $29.95
By distilling thousands of years of history and knowledge into one book, Tomm Stanley brings together the work of pioneering solar designers and some of the world's greatest scientists, along with a range of modern, practical solar-thermal applications for hands-on people.
A New Look at Ol' Demon Alcohol
Paperback | $14.95 On Sale: $5.00!
Gene brings us back to the history, traditions, and pleasures of small-scale, do-it-yourself alcohol.
Chain Saws, Portable Sawmills, and Woodlots
Paperback | $25.00
A look at woodcutting: equipment, people, and the connections to land.
The Invisible Force Powering Today’s Most Visible Green Brands
Hardcover | $24.95
Brand expert Richard Seireeni interviewed more than 30 “eco-capitalists” from a broad range
of industries—home improvement, transportation, household products, food and beverage,
energy, real estate, finance, and fashion. The collective experience of leaders such as Gary
Hirschberg of Stonyfield Farms, Jeffrey Hollander of Seventh Generation, and the grandsons
of Dr. Bronner, as well as other green experts, are a rich source of wisdom for green businesses
getting off the ground or for any business aiming to improve its environmental performance.
A Guide to Organic Viticulture
Paperback | $35.00
Now for the first time comes a book for grape growers who wish to use organic growing methods to raise healthy, thriving vineyards in the backyard or on a small commercial scale. The Grape Grower distills the broad knowledge and long-time personal experience of Lon Rombough, one of North America's foremost authorities on viticulture.
Getting Noticed in a Noisy World
Paperback | $22.95 On Sale: $10.00!
A how-to guide on making yourself heard on a shoe-string budget.
Further Thoughts on Land, Soul and Society
Paperback | $14.95
An activist's exploration of what land means to our culture. Through preserving land and rebuilding the relationship between land and people, the author argues that our culture can restore natural habitats and revitalize human communities.
A 6-Step Program to Create an Environmentally Sustainable Lifestyle
Paperback | $14.95
Green Living Handbook has been driving environmental-behavior change in cities, faith communities, universities, and businesses for over a decade. Much more than another collection of eco-tips for the newly green, this illustrated workbook walks readers step-by-step through a comprehensive lifestyle transformation program that has proven it can get results. Thousands of past participants of the program have reduced their environmental footprint by 25 percent on average.
How to Design and Build Your Own Eco-Home
Paperback | $50.00
The Green Self-Build Book gives inspiration and information to guide you through the green building process. It is intended for anyone who is planning a do-it-yourself project, and for housing professionals, students, and teachers.
From Cupboard to Corporation: an A-Z Guide
Paperback | $7.95
An A-to-Z guide for offices of all sizes, from energy use and better supply purchases to recycling and reusing materials, plus summaries of a range of renewable energy options, commuting techniques, and more. These tips help your workplace save money while reducing environmental impacts, and can boost employee morale in the process. Your choices for coffee, computer monitors, furniture, invoices, lighting, paper, stamps, and hundreds of other items can add up to a better world.
Stories of Saving Places, Finding Community
Paperback | $20.00
People long for a sense of community in today's fast-paced world, for connections to one another and to natural places of peace and beauty. Quietly, and for more than twenty years, a growing network of community trails, riverfront parks, forests, farms, gardens, and other green spaces has begun to satisfy this hunger, offering welcome refuges in neighborhoods, rural towns, and cities across the country.
Paperback | $9.95
Gunter Pauli's ZERI* Education model proposes that children, adolescents and young adults learn science in a way that gives them a more profound academic understanding at the same time that it helps develop their emotional intelligence, eco-literacy, and artistic/creative capacities. Grow a House is one of the books in Pauli's ZERI series.
Simón Vélez and Bamboo Architecture (German/English)
Paperback | $42.00
Constructing with bamboo is affordable, enduring, resembles many high tech compounds, and is utterly beautiful.
The Definitive Guide for Organic Gardeners and Small Farmers
Paperback | $16.95
Growing Great Garlic is the definitive growers' guide written by a small scale farmer who makes his living growing over 200 strains of garlic. Commercial growers will want to consult this book regularly.
Animal-Free Organic Techniques
Paperback | $35.00
The essential guide to growing organic vegetables, animal-free.
What the World Should Know
Paperback | $15.00 On Sale: $5.00!
Guantánamo teams prominent international human rights lawyer Michael Ratner with political journalist Ellen Ray to reveal the truth about the U.S. military prison camps in Cuba.
Paperback | $124.99
Gunter Pauli's ZERI* Education model proposes that children, adolescents and young adults learn science in a way that gives them a more profound academic understanding at the same time that it helps develop their emotional intelligence, eco-literacy, and artistic/creative capacities.
A Practical and Philosophical Guide to Building a Cob Cottage
Paperback | $35.00
This bible of radical simplicity explores the philosophical underpinnings of natural building while presenting the most comprehensive how-to guide to cob ever published.
In Search of Simplicity
Paperback | $25.00
William Coperthwaite is a teacher, builder, designer, and writer, who is exploring true simplicity on a homestead on the north coast of Maine. He examines themes of beauty, work, education, and design while giving instruction on hand-crafting of the necessities of life.
Paperback | $12.95
First in a trilogy on Happiness, Love, and Power by Spain's leading science personality.
Natural Healing and Prevention of Lyme Borreliosis and Its Coinfections
Paperback | $19.95
Healing Lyme examines the leading scientific research on Lyme infection and its tests and treatments, and outlines the most potent herbal medicines and supplements that offer help--either alone or in combination with antibiotics--for preventing and healing the disease. It is the essential guide to Lyme infection and its treatment.
The Art and Practice of Healing with Plant Medicines
Paperback | $30.00
The Herbalist's Way offers all that aspiring and experienced herbalists need to inform and inspire their practice. This updated version of The Village Herbalist provides a complete introduction to the herbalist's place in family and community life.
A Guide to Using Herbs for First Aid and Common Health Problems
Paperback | $22.00
Available for Pre-order (Expected Ship Date: October 13, 2009)
This user-friendly guide to herbs and their medicinal properties explains how to deal with common illnesses—including digestive, respiratory, circulatory and nervous system conditions. Newton suggests essential herbs everyone should have on hand, and offers advice on how to get the best out of herbs for general health, including how to maintain your energy level, increase your stamina, and improve your mood. Inside you’ll find information on dosages, possible allergies, and clues for when it’s time to seek professional help. Also included is guidance on how to make your own apothecary, how to concoct a first-aid kit for when traveling abroad, and a list of herb retailer and professional herbalists.
VHS | $19.95
Jeffrey Smith is the author of world's bestselling critique of genetically engineered foods, Seeds of Deception. He has testified before various committees and spoken in 150 cities on five continents. Smith is the director of the Institute for Responsible Technology, a member of the Genetic Engineering Committee of the Sierra Club, and on the Steering Committee of the Genetic Engineering Action Network. He was formerly vice president of marketing for a GMO detection laboratory.
DVD | $19.95
Jeffrey Smith is the author of world's bestselling critique of genetically engineered foods, Seeds of Deception. He has testified before various committees and spoken in 150 cities on five continents. Smith is the director of the Institute for Responsible Technology, a member of the Genetic Engineering Committee of the Sierra Club, and on the Steering Committee of the Genetic Engineering Action Network. He was formerly vice president of marketing for a GMO detection laboratory.
DVD and Book Set
Paperback and DVD | $34.95
Jeffrey Smith is the author of world's bestselling critique of genetically engineered foods, Seeds of Deception. He has testified before various committees and spoken in 150 cities on five continents. Smith is the director of the Institute for Responsible Technology, a member of the Genetic Engineering Committee of the Sierra Club, and on the Steering Committee of the Genetic Engineering Action Network. He was formerly vice president of marketing for a GMO detection laboratory.
VHS and Book Set
Paperback and VHS | $34.95
Jeffrey Smith is the author of world's bestselling critique of genetically engineered foods, Seeds of Deception. He has testified before various committees and spoken in 150 cities on five continents. Smith is the director of the Institute for Responsible Technology, a member of the Genetic Engineering Committee of the Sierra Club, and on the Steering Committee of the Genetic Engineering Action Network. He was formerly vice president of marketing for a GMO detection laboratory.
The New Energy Crisis
Paperback | $18.00 On Sale: $9.00!
Blackouts across North America have warned us of its coming: It's High Noon for Natural Gas and it's going to be bigger than Bonnie and Clyde.
Over 100 Natural Recipes for Gorgeous Healthy Skin
Paperback | $22.00
DIY skin care is fun, easy, and empowering. The Holistic Beauty Book is packed with safe, 100 percent natural, organic, eco-friendly skin-care potions you can make at home that are gorgeous yet affordable.
The Food Buyer's Guide to Farm Friendly Food
Paperback | $17.95
Holy Cows and Hog Heaven encourages every food buyer to embrace the notion that menus are a conscious decision, creating the next generation's world one bite at a time.
Growing Up in the Church of Knock Down, Drag Out; or, How I Quit Loving a Blue-Eyed Jesus
Hardcover | $24.95
In this rollicking memoir, Diane Wilson—a Texas Gulf Coast shrimper and the author of
the highly acclaimed An Unreasonable Woman—takes readers back to her childhood in rural
Texas and into her family of Holy Rollers.
Solutions from George Lakoff
DVD | $15.00
Featuring a lively interview with George Lakoff , television news clip, and illustrative graphics, this is a must see media tool for everyone who wants to better understand and communicate the progressive agenda.
DVD and Book Set
Paperback | $22.50
Featuring a lively interview with George Lakoff, television news clip, and illustrative graphics, this is a must see media tool for everyone who wants to better understand and communicate the progressive agenda.
Paperback | $12.95
In this important primer on the link between global ecology and the global economy, Kempf makes the following observations: First, that the planet’s ecological situation is growing ever worse, despite the efforts of millions of engaged citizens around the world. And second, despite environmentalists’ emphasis that "we’re all in the same boat," the world’s economic elites—who continue to benefit by plundering the environment—have access to "lifeboats" that insulate them from the resulting catastrophes.
Paperback | $30.00
A how-to guide to growing a garden based on the model of a natural woodland forest.
The Key to Self-Sufficiency
Paperback | $14.95
How to store and preserve your garden produce, enabling you to eat home-grown goodness all year round.
How We Can Achieve Affordable Medical Care for Every American and Make Our Jobs Safer
Paperback | $12.95
Millions of Americans lack health insurance; millions more pay for coverage that doesn't protect them from serious illness; and the status quo leaves Americans at the mercy of corporate interests. This persuasive argument from a passionate political strategist shows Americans how to take back the healthcare reins.
A Guide to Composting Human Manure
Paperback | $25.00
Everything you ever wanted to know about composting human waste. Jenkins gives an immense amount of information on purchasing, building, and just knowing more about composting toilets.
A Year of Hunger and Love
Paperback with Flaps | $25.00
More than a cookbook, In Late Winter We Ate Pears is a love affair with a culture and a
way of life. In vignettes taken from their year in Italy, husband and wife Caleb Barber and
Deirdre Heekin offer glimpses of a young, vibrant Italy: of rolling out pizza dough in an ancient hilltown at midnight while wild dogs bay in the abandoned streets; of the fogged car windows of an ancient lovers’ lane amid the olive groves outside Prato.
Designing & Building a House Your Own Way
Paperback | $40.00
The most complete and easy-to-use house-building handbook available. With an emphasis on accessibility, ergonomics, and "pattern languages," this comprehensive manual of design, planning, and construction provides readers with the tools to build a home that will be beautiful and comfortable long into the new century.
Electrical Power for Home, Boat & RV
Paperback | $19.95
You can learn about independently powering your home, boat, or RV and understand how energy systems work.
Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered
Hardcover | $21.95
Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money investigates an essential new strategy for investing in local food systems, and introduces a group of fiduciary activists who are exploring what should come after industrial finance and industrial agriculture. Theirs is a vision for investing that puts soil fertility into return-on-investment calculations.
A Guide to Their Discovery and Appreciation
Paperback | $25.00
A beautiful and picture-documented guide to 300 of Italy's specialty cheeses.
Dispatches from the World of Fair Trade Coffee
Paperback | $19.95
Cycon’s exhuberant work provides a custom blend of travel essay and business savvy with a finish of social responsibility that leaves readers a sense of hope and possibility for the lives connected to our favorite pick-me-up.
A Kid's Five Week Adventure to Create an Earth-friendly Life
Paperback | $12.95
Journey for the Planet guides children through a series of action steps that can impact both climate change and the environment as a whole.
An Amazon Quest
Paperback | $19.95
When Sy Montgomery ventured into the Amazon to unlock the mysteries of the little-known
pink dolphins, she found ancient whales that plied the Amazon River at dawn and
dusk, swam through treetops in flooded forests, and performed underwater ballets with their
flexible bodies. But she soon found out that to know the botos, as the dolphins are locally
called, you must also know the people who live among them. And so in Journey of the Pink
Dolphins, Montgomery—part naturalist, part poet, part Indiana Jones—winds her way
through watery tributaries and riverside villages, searching for botos and hearing the tales of
locals who believe these ethereal dolphins are shape-shifters—creatures that emerge from the
water as splendidly dressed men or women only to enchant their human onlookers, capture
their souls, and then carry them away to the Encante, an underwater world. Montgomery
takes readers on four separate journeys, exploring the river-dwelling dolphins’ natural
history, chronicling their conservation pressures, unraveling their prehistoric roots, and
visiting with shamans who delve into the Encante.
Paperback | $17.95 On Sale: $10.00!
A play examining what we have all longed for--the simple life of a small town in Vermont, full of joy, sorrow, and reality.
Paperback | $9.95
Gunter Pauli's ZERI* Education model proposes that children, adolescents and young adults learn science in a way that gives them a more profound academic understanding at the same time that it helps develop their emotional intelligence, eco-literacy, and artistic/creative capacities. The King of Hearts is one of the books in Pauli's ZERI series.
The Complete Guide
Paperback | $30.00
The guru of earth ponds explains how to site, design, shape, and plant these beloved fixtures of rural landscapes--and make them fit your property and your life.
The Complete Guide
Paperback | $45.00
The guru of earth ponds explains how to site, design, shape, and plant these beloved fixtures of rural landscapes--and make them fit your property and your life.
Paperback | $20.00
This chronicle of a young man's drive to transcend domestic abuse offers a challenging look at our worldwide sense of community and how we can make things better.
Hardcover | $25.00
In Libation, a Bitter Alchemy, a series of linked personal essays, Heekin explores the curious development of her nose and palate, her intuitive education and relationship with wine and spirits, and her arduous attempts to make liqueurs and wine from the fruits of her own land in northern New England. The essays follow her as she unearths ruby-toned wines given up by the ghosts of long-gone wine makers from the red soil of Italy, her adoptive land; as she embarks on a complicated pilgrimage to the home of one of the world’s oldest cocktails, Sazerac, in Katrina-soaked New Orleans; as she attempts a midsummer crafting of a brandy made from inherited roses, the results of an old Sicilian recipe she found in a dusty bookstore in Naples.
The 30-Year Update
Paperback | $22.50
The thirty year update to the international best-seller, The Limits to Growth, published now as a revised, updated edition of Beyond the Limits: Confronting Global Collapse, Envisioning a Sustainable Future.
The 30-Year Update
Paperback and CD-ROM | $42.50
The thirty year update to the international best-seller, The Limits to Growth, published now as a revised, updated edition of Beyond the Limits: Confronting Global Collapse, Envisioning a Sustainable Future.
The 30-Year Update
CD-ROM | $20.00
The thirty year update to the international best-seller, The Limits to Growth, published now as a revised, updated edition of Beyond the Limits: Confronting Global Collapse, Envisioning a Sustainable Future.
Conversations about Nature, Culture, and Eros
Paperback | $20.00
In this far-ranging and heartening collection, Derrick Jensen gathers conversations with environmentalists, theologians, Native Americans, psychologists, and feminists, engaging some of our best minds in an exploration of more peaceful ways to live on Earth.
Building a Business That Creates Value, Inspires Change, and Restores Land and Community
Hardcover | $27.95
The economic crash of late 2008 is just the latest evidence of the truth that many have known for so long: that too much of our modern economy is based on a house of cards. We need businesses that not only factor their impact on people and places into their equations for success but also strive to restore the communities and environments in which they operate. How can this be done? In Living Above the Store, Martin Melaver provides a roadmap for creating such a business. It’s not only a “how to” but a “why to” that challenges business as usual to change.
Farming & the American Dream
Paperback | $25.00
The Contrary Farmer revisits the state of farming in America with good sense and regret for what might have been. Along the way, he gives us good pointers for getting back to an authentic way of living in harmony with the Earth.
Single copy | $12.95
The Local Foods Wheels are beautifully designed, full-color dials showing which foods are grown locally and when they are in season. The first two dials in the new series cover the San Francisco Bay area and the New York City area. Each is 12 inches in diameter and features charming hand-drawn images of vegetables, fruits, grains, dairy products, meats, and traditionally preserved regional foods.
10-copy prepack | $129.95
The Local Foods Wheels are beautifully designed, full-color dials showing which foods are grown locally and when they are in season. The first two dials in the new series cover the San Francisco Bay area and the New York City area. Each is 12 inches in diameter and features charming hand-drawn images of vegetables, fruits, grains, dairy products, meats, and traditionally preserved regional foods.
Single copy | $12.95
The Local Foods Wheels are beautifully designed, full-color dials showing which foods are grown locally and when they are in season. The first two dials in the new series cover the San Francisco Bay area and the New York City area. Each is 12 inches in diameter and features charming hand-drawn images of vegetables, fruits, grains, dairy products, meats, and traditionally preserved regional foods.
10-copy prepack | $129.95
The Local Foods Wheels are beautifully designed, full-color dials showing which foods are grown locally and when they are in season. The first two dials in the new series cover the San Francisco Bay area and the New York City area. Each is 12 inches in diameter and features charming hand-drawn images of vegetables, fruits, grains, dairy products, meats, and traditionally preserved regional foods.
The Ecological Importance of Plant Medicines to Life on Earth
Paperback | $19.95
A passionate and solidly researched critique of the modern perspective that has cut an artificial rift between human beings and the natural world.
Collaboration with Nature, Ecological Planning Lecture
Paperback | $30.00
A gift to future generations, this CD, made
from rare tapes lost until now, presents McHarg waxing
profound on a thermodynamic definition of creativity as
matter and energy raised to higher levels of order; evolution
both physical and biological (plants, animals, and
microorganisms) in the context of nature; and the criteria
and attributes of the creative process.
Paperback | $25.00
Helen and Scott Nearing, authors of Living the Good Life and many other books, lived together for 53 years until Scott's death at age 100. This is Helen's memoir of their life together and an inspiring testimonial to the ideals they stood for: self-sufficiency, simplicity, social justice, and peace.
A 30 Day Program to Lose 5000 Pounds
Paperback | $12.95
Low Carbon Diet is an easy to use guide that will show you, step-by-step, how to dramatically reduce your CO2 output in just a month's time.
Tales of Science and Love
Hardcover | $21.95 On Sale: $10.00!
A unique look at the inner lives of scientists.
The True Story Behind the USDA's War on a Family Farm
Hardcover | $25.00 On Sale: $10.00!
The page-turning account of a government cover-up,
corporate greed, and a courageous family's fight to
save their farm.
The True Story Behind the USDA's War on a Family Farm
Paperback | $17.95
The page-turning account of a government cover-up,
corporate greed, and a courageous family's fight to
save their farm.
Guidelines to Using Fly Ash for Higher Quality, Eco-Friendly Structures
Paperback | $20.00
Making Better Concrete is written by a practicing structural engineer after using and learning about fly ash concrete from the academic experts, concrete suppliers, engineers and architects who have studied, developed and used it. This isn't just for people who want to "build green"--this is for people who want to build better concrete.
A Political Autobiography
Paperback | $25.00
The autobiography of Scott Nearing, a homesteader who left life in the city with his wife to live the life of a homesteader in New England.
The Life and Times of Tony Mazzocchi
Paperback | $24.95
This profound work of non-fiction should be required reading for anyone who has ever had a job and everyone who believes that only fools limit their dreams for a better world.
The Life and Times of Tony Mazzocchi
Hardcover | $40.00
This profound work of non-fiction should be required reading for anyone who has ever had a job and everyone who believes that only fools limit their dreams for a better world.
Hardcover | $17.50
Jean Giono's tale of Elzéard Bouffier, the intrepid tree planter who single-handedly reforests a barren section of southern France.
Paperback | $10.00
Jean Giono's tale of Elzéard Bouffier, the intrepid tree planter who single-handedly reforests a barren section of southern France.
VHS | $49.95
Jean Giono's tale of Elzéard Bouffier, the intrepid tree planter who single-handedly reforests a barren section of southern France.
Hardcover,CD | $25.00
Jean Giono's tale of Elzéard Bouffier, the intrepid tree planter who single-handedly reforests a barren section of southern France.
CD | $16.00
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Jean Giono's tale of Elzéard Bouffier, the intrepid tree planter who single-handedly reforests a barren section of southern France.
Paperback | $25.00
Helen and Scott Nearing, the legendary homesteaders of New England, share information, pictures, and tales of maple sugaring, a trade they used and needed as a source of income.
So Why Are We Driving People to Drink?
Paperback | $14.95
Available for Pre-order (Expected Ship Date: July 29, 2009)
Marijuana Is Safer reaches for a broad audience, including people who have never used marijuana and may be skeptical about the authors’ claims. The book includes a detailed introduction to the plant and its effects on the user, and it debunks some of the government’s most frequently cited marijuana myths. For current and aspiring advocates of marijuana-law reform, as well as anyone else who is interested in what is becoming a major political battle at all levels of government, the authors spell out why the message that marijuana is safer than alcohol must be a prominent part of the public debate over legalization.
Toward a Sustainable Enterprise--The Interface Model
Paperback | $19.95
A personal look at making business more sustainable
Conversations with Great Scientists of Our Time
Paperback | $21.95
Passionate quests for truth from some of the greatest scientists at work today.
U.S. Soldiers Who Say No to Iraq
Paperback | $14.00 On Sale: $5.00!
Disillusioned, outraged, and betrayed, American soldiers are taking a stand against the war in Iraq.
Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender
Paperback | $25.00
Learn the truth about how money is created. Money tells the scandalous story of how our economy came to be based on debt, a system that depends on inequity and undermines local enterprise. Money is also a unique and indispensable handbook for developing community currencies and exchange systems, by one of the founders of Tucson Traders.
The Psychology of Money and the Transformation of Capitalism
Paperback | $19.95
Available for Pre-order (Expected Ship Date: October 13, 2009)
Many feel that money and what we perceive as the psyche (or soul) are bitter enemies—do we choose money or soul, finance or feelings, markets or common humanity? Money and Soul traces the origins of these opposing concepts, and the emotions that money provokes. Economic ideas often stand out as being universal, globally valid and without cultural ties. But when money is viewed in its cultural and philosophical context, it becomes evident that the money of today is a particular system of symbols—something that society itself has devised over many centuries—that both reflects and reinforces society’s dominant concerns.
Innovative Strategies for Debt-free Home Ownership
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As a wave of foreclosures sweeps the country, many people are giving up hope for owning a home of their own. They have good reason to turn their backs on the banks, but not on their dreams. In this revised edition of Mortgage Free!, Rob Roy offers a series of escape routes from enslavement to financial institutions, underscored by true stories of intrepid homeowners who have put their principles into action.
Organic Approaches to Modern Apiculture
Paperback | $35.00
Long-term organic solutions for healthy beehives.
The Complete Guide to Renewable Energy Options
Paperback | $30.00
The first comprehensive guide to heating your home with renewable energy sources.
A Complete Guide to Healthy, Energy-Efficient, Environmental Homes
Paperback | $35.00
A comprehensive overview of thirteen natural building techniques including straw bale, rammed earth, adobe, cob, and cordwood masonry, as well as a primer on renewable energy systems, passive heating and cooling, sustainable water systems, and Earth-friendly building materials, The Natural House is an indispensable guide for anyone planning to build green.
A Complete Guide to Green Building Options
Paperback | $35.00
The most comprehensive overview of green building techniques, materials, products, and technologies for environmentally conscious home buyers and builders.
A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener
Paperback | $24.95
Practical advice, good sense, and inspiration about every aspect of organic gardening including pest control and growing for market.
The Complete Guide to Photovoltaics for Your Home
Paperback | $39.95
The original Photovoltaics How-To Handbook, acclaimed as "the Best of the Books," is now revised, expanded & updated for our New Age of Photovoltaics. Condensing years of hands-on & industry experience, PV pioneers Joel Davidson & Fran Orner tell you everything you need to know to go solar.
An Autobiography
Paperback | $20.00
Currently on Backorder
An autobiography of Satish Kumar, the sage of the deep ecology movement.
One Woman's Fight to Save the Bays
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Acclaimed graphic artist Molly Bang brings Diane
Wilson's story to life in striking pictures. A vivid
companion to An Unreasonable Woman.
Paperback | $7.95
Available for Pre-order (Expected Ship Date: August 23, 2009)
Nontoxic Housecleaning—the latest in the Chelsea Green Guide series—provides a way for people to improve their immediate environment every day. Pregnant women, parents of young children, pet owners, people with health concerns, and those who simply care about a healthy environment—and a sensible budget—can all benefit from the recipes and tips in this guide.
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The tale of the fight to save the northern forest, a fight not unlike those waged across the world every day in other forests.
Gnostic Vision, Sacred Ecology, and the Future of Belief
Paperback | $21.95
Not in His Image describes the rich spiritual world of
pre-Christian classical Europe--the Pagan Mysteries,
the Great Goddess, Gnosis, the myths of Sophia and
Gaia--and its future as a force for rebalancing our lives
and reconnecting to the earth.
Betrayal and Courage in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
Paperback | $21.95
Ott illustrates in stirring fashion the oil industry’s 20-year trail of pollution and deception that lead to the tragic 1989 spill and delves deep into the disruption to the fishing community for the next 10 years.
Paperback | $39.95
In Not One Drop: Betrayal and Courage in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, Author Riki Ott—a rare combination of commercial salmon "fisherm'am" and PhD marine biologist—describes firsthand the impacts of oil companies' broken promises when the Exxon Valdez spills most of its cargo and despoils thousands of miles of shore. The documentary film Black Wave is a heartbreaking account of the environmental, social, and economic consequences of the spill that changed the lives of the people of Cordova, Alaska, forever.
A Brief History of the Future
Paperback | $14.95
In a quirky yet highly thought-provoking style, Dorion Sagan uses his knowledge of philosophy, science, and sleight-of-hand magic to probe some of the deepest questions we face on Earth.
Paperback | $8.95
Numbers is intended to explore the strange and powerful relationship of humanity to its own system of numbers.
America's Economic Crisis and the Power of a Transformative Presidency
Paperback | $14.95
Barack Obama approaches the Presidency at a critical moment in American history, facing simultaneous crises of war, the environment, health care, but most especially in the economy. If he is able to rise to the moment, he could join the ranks of a small handful of previous presidents who have been truly transformative, succeeding in fundamentally changing our economy, society, and democracy for the better.
Stories of How Nature Heals and Unifies
Paperback with flaps | $30.00
Open Spaces Sacred Places is a book that dramatically demonstrates how nature has the power
to heal and unify in our increasingly frenetic 21st-century world. It is a series of inspirational
stories told through the voices of "firesouls," those passionate and persistent people who have
brought communities together to create public areas of respite.
Paperback | $9.95
Gunter Pauli's ZERI* Education model proposes that children, adolescents and young adults learn science in a way that gives them a more profound academic understanding at the same time that it helps develop their emotional intelligence, eco-literacy, and artistic/creative capacities. Oranges Soap is one of the books in Pauli's ZERI series.
A Complete Guide to Managing Finances, Crops, and Staff—and Making a Profit
Paperback with CD-ROM | $34.95
Available for Pre-order (Expected Ship Date: September 30, 2009)
In The Organic Farmer’s Business Handbook, Richard Wiswall shares advice on how to make your vegetable production more efficient, better manage your employees and finances, and turn a profit. From his twenty-seven years of experience at Cate Farm in Vermont, Wiswall knows firsthand the joys of starting and operating an organic farm—as well as the challenges of making a living from one. Farming offers fundamental satisfaction from producing food, working outdoors, being one’s own boss, and working intimately with nature. But, unfortunately, many farmers avoid learning about the business end of farming; because of this, they often work harder than they need to, or quit farming altogether because of frustrating—and often avoidable—losses.
The Case for Organic Farming
Paperback | $22.50
Organic Futures presents an overwhelming argument for replacing modern farming methods with organic techniques.
Paperback | $24.95
The Organic Gardeners Handbook tells you everything you need to know to create a highly productive vegetable garden. Combining European tradition with American creativity, it covers the art and science of organic gardening with a depth that is rarely seen in contemporary books. There are chapters on every aspect of organic vegetable gardening, soil dynamics, soil management, cultivation, composting, crop planning, raising seedlings, watering, harvesting, seed saving, greenhouses, and much more. Whether you are a complete novice and need your hand held through every step, or a veteran gardener with a permanent layer of soil under your fingernails, you will find this book both helpful and informative. A book that will soon be covered in dirty fingerprints, The Organic Gardeners Handbook is a companion to The Vegetable Growers Handbook.
The Natural No-Dig Way
Paperback | $22.00
Dowding shares his philosophy, tips, and techniques that have enabled him to run a successful organic garden that has supplied local restaurants and shops for 25 years.
2nd Edition
Paperback | $22.00
Are you looking for a hotel or bed-and-breakfast that serves organic food? Would you like to stay at a campsite and have organic vegetables delivered? Do you like to have organic food available in your holiday cottage? Do you want to spend your holiday on an organic farm? Organic Places to Stay gives you all the information you need for an “organic holiday.”
A Guide to Traditional Places to Eat and Stay in Italy
Paperback | $29.00
Osterie & Locande d'Italia combines for the first time in a single volume--and in English--two of the most popular Slow Food travel guide to Italy: Osterie d'Italia and Locande d'Italia.
CD - Audio | $25.00
Here for the first time is Derrick Jensen live, recorded at one of his many standing-room-only performances.
Readings on People and Place
Paperback | $16.95
A ravishing anthology of classic and contemporary readings on the many facets of land stewardship, including relationships between wild and settled lands, the ecological nature of home, the purpose of work, and the role of the local in an age of the global.
ZERI Management Stories
Paperback | $30.00
The 21 fairy tales in Gunter Pauli's Out of the Box prepare companies, executives and their teams to be the pioneering agents of transformation, as well as promising to be both fun and profitable.
The Complete Guide to Heating and Cooling Your Home
Hardcover and CD-ROM | $40.00
Now this definitive guide to passive solar home construction includes custom software to analyze the passive solar potential of new building plans and existing homes anywhere in North America.
Paperback | $35.00
A couple working six months per year for 50 hours per week on 20 acres can net $25,000-$30,000 per year with an investment equivalent to the price of one new medium-sized tractor. Seldom has agriculture held out such a plum. In a day when main-line farm experts predict the continued demise of the family farm, the pastured poultry opportunity shines like a beacon in the night, guiding the way to a brighter future.
How Women Can Win and Lead
Hardcover | $24.95
Pearls, Politics, and Power is a call to action for new political engagement and leadership from the women of America. Informed by conversations with elected women leaders from all levels, former three-term Vermont Governor and Ambassador to Switzerland Madeleine M. Kunin asks: What difference do women make? What is the worst part of politics, and what is the best part? What inspired these women to run, and how did they prepare themselves for public life? How did they raise money, protect their families' privacy, deal with criticism and attack ads, and work with the good old boys?
How Women Can Win and Lead
Paperback | $14.95
Pearls, Politics, and Power is a call to action for new political engagement and leadership from the women of America. Informed by conversations with elected women leaders from all levels, former three-term Vermont Governor and Ambassador to Switzerland Madeleine M. Kunin asks: What difference do women make? What is the worst part of politics, and what is the best part? What inspired these women to run, and how did they prepare themselves for public life? How did they raise money, protect their family’s privacy, deal with criticism and attack ads, and work with the good old boys?
One Lawyer’s Campaign To Bring the President to Justice and the National Grassroots Movement She Encountered Along the Way
Paperback | $14.95
Available for Pre-order (Expected Ship Date: September 28, 2009)
When journalist-turned-lawyer Charlotte Dennett became outraged that Bush White House officials were acting above the law, she did something that surprised even herself. She ran for a state attorney general seat on a platform to prosecute George W. Bush for murder. She lost the race, but found a movement—one that continues its quest to hold leaders accountable to U.S. law and preserve a Constitutional presidency.
From Artichokes to Zuiki Taro, a Gardener's Guide to Over 100 Delicious, Easy-to-Grow Edibles
Paperback | $35.00
In Perennial Vegetables the adventurous gardener will find information, tips, and sound advice on less common edibles that will make any garden a perpetual, low-maintenance source of food.
Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability
Paperback | $30.00
David Holmgren brings into sharper focus the powerful Permaculture concept he pioneered with Bill Mollison in the 1970's, drawing together 25 years worth of ideas into twelve simple design principles. Explains the foundations of sustainable design and culture.
Paperback | $25.00
This is simply the best book that you can buy about every aspect of permaculture gardening in a cool climate.
Ecologically sound living—by design
DVD | $20.00
Currently on Backorder
This DVD, whose aim is to inspire people to start their own permaculture projects, shows how permaculture is practiced in four very different settings: a Hampshire back garden belonging to the editors of Permaculture Magazine, including fruit trees, vegetables, bees, chickens, and ducks; a City Challenge project in Bradford close to a housing estate with 10,000 residents, tackling the problems of unemployment, environmental awareness, and backyard food growing; a community co-op in Devon, which involves a café, allotments, and local composting scheme; and a small farm in the Forest of Dean where innovative marketing schemes ensure a close link between producer and consumer, including meat production, a vegetable box scheme, and locally produced charcoal.
A Selection
Paperback | $29.95
This is an easy to use guide to selecting hundreds of perennial species. It is indispensable for growers and designers working in subtropical and warm temperate/arid climates, and also includes some cool tolerant species. Permaculture Plants: A Selection details hundreds of common and unusual edible, medicinal and useful plants.
Practical Steps to Create a Self-Sustaining World
Paperback | $29.95
The Permaculture Way shows us how to consciously design a lifestyle which is low in environmental impact and highly productive; how to meet our needs, make the most of resources by minimizing waste, and still leave the Earth richer than we found it.
Finding Wholeness in a Fragmented Land
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Pinhook: Finding Wholeness in a Fragmented Land is a meditation on our fragmented wilderness, the power of wild places, and the ways we can begin to repair the damage we've done to the land and to ourselves.
Paperback | $18.95
Available for Pre-order (Expected Ship Date: September 15, 2009)
The last decade has seen an unprecedented rise in demand for organic fruit and vegetables, and each year more of us are discovering that homegrown food is fresher, tastier, and more nutritious than food shipped in from elsewhere. A polytunnel can be used as an affordable, low-carbon aid to growing your own food all year round, from crispy salads and fresh vegetables in the dead of winter to juicy melons and mouthwatering grapes in high summer.
Electricity from Solar Cells
Paperback | $18.95
An interesting look at renewable energy through photovoltaics.
Traditional Techniques Using Salt, Oil, Sugar, Alcohol, Vinegar, Drying, Cold Storage, and Lactic Fermentation
Paperback | $25.00
Traditional food preservation techniques from France that retain the nutritional value of foods with a minimum of boiling or freezing.
Science’s Surprising Answer to Religion’s Most Profound Question
Paperback | $15.95
Available for Pre-order (Expected Ship Date: May 12, 2010)
What is the purpose of life? Some say it's to reproduce, others to glorify God, but behind these and other proposed purposes lies a scientific purpose. In The Purpose of Life, science writer Dorion Sagan and biophysicist Eric D. Schneider lay out the fascinating evidence for life’s natural purpose —its function in an energy-driven cosmos. New evidence shows that the evolution of life on Earth over the past three-and-a-half billion years has not been random but has a clear direction, and its direction is related to life's function as a natural system. Indeed, life shares its function —its purpose —with that of certain other complex natural systems. Although the answer is simple and not exclusive —life may have other purposes —its profound implications may change the way we see ourselves, our relationships to other living beings, and our future on this shared, energy-driven planet.
The Cosmic Code Beyond Astrology
Paperback | $29.95
Unsuspected by the world at large, astrology uses a model that ignores the stars. Many who practice it do not know that there is a lost, star-based zodiac, entirely distinct from the well-known circle of twelve sun signs. Quest for the Zodiac corrects this error and recovers the visible star patterns observed in ancient times. The distinction between sign stereotypes and the real sky constellations is astounding and revolutionary.
Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life and Landscape
Paperback | $24.95
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands Volume 1 helps bring your site to life, reduce your cost of living, endow you with skills of self-reliance, and create living air conditioners of vegetation growing beauty, food, and wildlife habitat. Stories of people who are successfully welcoming rain into their life and landscape will invite you to do the same!
Water-Harvesting Earthworks
Paperback | $32.95
The second book in the series of Rainwater Haresting for Drylands talks about Earthworks and how they are one of the easiest, least expensive, and most effective ways of passively harvesting and conserving multiple sources of water in the soil.
Paperback | $40.00
The Rammed Earth House is an eye-opening example of how the most dramatic innovations in home design and construction frequently have their origins in the distant past.
| $39.95
The Rammed Earth Renaissance is more than a video about a simple construction technique. It's a sharing of one man's vision and his twenty years of work to regain credibility for this venerable material--an informative journey through the past and the present, the process and the product.
Behind America's Emerging Battle Over Food Rights
Paperback | $19.95
Available for Pre-order (Expected Ship Date: October 26, 2009)
The Raw Milk Revolution takes readers behind the scenes of the government's tough and occasionally brutal intimidation tactics, as seen through the eyes of milk producers, government regulators, scientists, prosecutors, and consumers. It is a disturbing story involving marginally legal police tactics and investigation techniques, with young children used as political pawns in a highly charged atmosphere of fear and retribution.
A Guide to Getting Your Message Heard by Millions on Talk Radio, Talk Television, and Talk Internet
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Ready, Set, Talk! will help anyone--from the novice activist to the
sophisticated public relations professional--develop a talk media message,
prepare a campaign, and roll it out. The authors demystify the process of
identifying and analyzing potential media targets and opportunities, and
show readers how to develop media events for maximum attention and
continuing exposure on talk media.
Paperback | $9.95
Gunter Pauli's ZERI* Education model proposes that children, adolescents and young adults learn science in a way that gives them a more profound academic understanding at the same time that it helps develop their emotional intelligence, eco-literacy, and artistic/creative capacities.
An Easy Household Guide
Paperback | $7.95
This easy to use guide has the answers to all your recycling questions. Use its A-Z listing of everyday household items to see how you can recycle most of your unwanted things, do your bit for the planet, and maybe make a bit of money while you’re at it.
Photographs and Essays on The Bread & Puppet Theater
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Photographer Ronald T. Simon and novelist (Insect Dreams) Marc Estrin have set out to capture the legendary Bread and Puppet Theater's magnificent drama. It is a partnership of stunning duotone photographs and essays that describe Bread and Puppet from its inception to the present.
Policies, Practices & Technologies
Paperback | $27.95
Available for Pre-order (Expected Ship Date: October 13, 2009)
Climate change and energy shortages are set to become the greatest challenges for humanity in the twenty-first century. While a few reports have given some indication about what can be done to come to grips with these problems, very little has been written about how these necessary changes can be brought about. A Renewable World outlines the key steps needed to make the crucial transition actually happen.
Saving and Savoring the Continent's Most Endangered Foods
Paperback | $35.00
Renewing America’s Food Traditions is a beautifully illustrated dramatic call to recognize, celebrate, and conserve the great diversity of foods that gives North America its distinctive culinary identity that reflects our multicultural heritage. It offers us rich natural and cultural histories as well as recipes and folk traditions associated with the rarest food plants and animals in North America. In doing so, it reminds us that what we choose to eat can either conserve or deplete the cornucopia of our continent.
Taking Back the Wisdom of the Feminine
Hardcover | $21.95
Gail Straub, a leader in the human potential field, had helped thousands around the world find meaning and purpose in their lives, all the while sensing that something fundamental within her was missing. Many years after the premature death of her mother, she undertook a period of soul searching and came to believe that, like her mother and so many women of our time, she had overcorrected in the direction of the masculine, her “successful” life of outer accomplishment and committed social activism having come at the expense of a rich and satisfying inner life.
Paperback | $12.95
A Revolution in Kindness seeks to turn the preconception of 'kindness' on its head -- to revolutionize our thinking about it and redefine it as a moral and ethical value, and to recognize those unconventional places where it is found.
Inside America's Underground Food Movements
Paperback | $20.00
The handbook for cultural resistance for a new
generation of monkey-wrenching food activists.
Caring for Self, Connecting with Society
Paperback | $14.95
The Rhythm of Compassion addresses one of the central spiritual questions of our time: Can we heal ourselves and society simultaneously? The core premise of this book is that the health of the human psyche and the health of the world are inextricably related, and we cannot truly heal one without healing the other. The book is written to help readers balance soul and society, offering a seamless set of values that unites the inner and the outer. Providing real answers, inspiration, and practical exercises, this is a book for those who long to make a difference and search for a way to balance self-care with service to the world. Using the profound metaphor of in-and-out breath meditation, Straub compellingly invites the reader to connect with the in-breath of self-knowing and the out-breath of acting to heal others. Through this fascinating yet simple practice, Straub shows, we can truly heal ourselves, our society, and our planet.
Change Your Gardening Habits to Help Roots Thrive
Paperback | $25.00
Roots Demystified explains simple solutions for growing healthy roots and, thereby, healthier plants. The book explores the subterranean part of every gardener’s world, revealing how roots really grow while correcting common errors such as where most gardeners apply water, mulch, and fertilizer or compost. This is the first and only book in print for gardeners with such an extensive number of illustrations of garden and orchard roots. The roots covered underlie lawns, prairies, shrubs, vegetables, fruit trees, and native and ornamental trees. Practical tips for how a gardener can use this information to create more abundant vegetables, better lawns, and sturdier trees and shrubs are offered with each of the 70 illustrations. Roots Demystified also describes several ways to garden without turning the soil--no-till and surface cultivation--a plus for aging baby-boomers.
A Year with the Funeral Underground
Paperback | $14.95 On Sale: $5.00!
In Round-Trip to Deadsville, the author taps death on the shoulder and asks to bum a ride. Sometimes you'll feel as if Buster Keaton had slipped through a trap door into a funeral parlor in backcountry Vermont. Other times you'll be at the wheel, with Hitchcock and Sartre riding shotgun. Round-Trip to Deadsville offers thrills, chills, and laughter, but also a face-to-face encounter with some of life's Big Questions.
A Documentary Film
DVD | $19.95
In 1993, Larry and Linda Faillace had a dream. They imported sheep from Europe to make cheese on their family farm in Warren, Vermont. By 1998, their dream was turning into a years-long struggle to keep their sheep alive. The USDA believed the sheep may have contracted Mad Cow Disease and put U.S. livestock at risk. Even though no sheep in the world have ever contracted Mad Cow Disease under natural circumstances, the USDA destroyed the Faillace family's dream in March 2001, when dozens of armed Federal agents seized their sheep and slaughtered them. This is a story of optimism, heartbreak, politics, community, and family.
A Guide to Watching African Animals
Paperback | $30.00
The best field guide for observing and understanding the behavior of African mammals. This is an indispensable tool for travelers to Africa, as well as for wildlife enthusiasts watching these magnificent animals at zoos and wildlife parks.
Paperback | $35.00
Beef can be lean and good for you when it is not a product of the industrial agriculture machine--Salatin brings us back to small scale family farming and teaches us how to make "salad bar beef."
Organic Growing from Pot to Plot
Paperback | $22.00
Small is beautiful, less is more; a salad a day—but not the supermarket way. This compendium of practical methods for growing a wide variety of salads throughout the year will inspire you to grow your own, whether on a windowsill or a garden. Here is all the information you need for productive, healthy, and tasty salads. Learn the subtleties of salad seasons and virtues of different leaves throughout the year. And when your table is groaning with the abundance of your harvests, there are delicious and imaginative recipes from Susie, Charles’ wife, exploiting the fantastic flavors, color, and vitality of home-grown salad leaves.
A Complete Guide to the Construction, Use, and Benefits of the Finnish Bath
Paperback | $30.00 On Sale: $10.00!
This completely revised, full-color edition contains everything you need to know about building and enjoying your own sauna.
The Making of a Homesteader
Paperback | $17.95
This well-researched biography looks into the life of Scott Nearing, a homesteader who left city life for the good life in Northern New England--inspiring numerous followers.
Science and Adventure in Pursuit of a New Species
Paperback | $19.95
Available for Pre-order (Expected Ship Date: July 20, 2009)
Search for the Golden Moon Bear recounts Montgomery’s quest—fraught with danger and mayhem—to reconstruct an evolutionary record and piece together a living portrait of her littleknown subject. This beautiful animal is not just a scientific eureka! It is also a powerful symbol of conservation. Search for the Golden Moon Bear is a field report from the frontiers of science and the ends of the earth, seamlessly weaving together folklore, natural history, and contemporary research into fantastic travelogue.
Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners
Paperback | $24.95
Seed to Seed is a complete seed-saving guide that describes specific techniques for saving the seeds of 160 different vegetables. This book contains detailed information about each vegetable, including its botanical classification, flower structure and means of pollination, required population size, isolation distance, techniques for caging or hand-pollination, and also the proper methods for harvesting, drying, cleaning, and storing the seeds.
Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Foods You're Eating
Paperback | $17.95
Jeffrey M. Smith exposes the serious health dangers that genetically modified foods can pose and explains how corporate influence has been used to cover them up.
A Home Construction Guide for All Climates
Paperback | $30.00
Serious Straw Bale is the first book to examine thoroughly the specific design considerations critical to success with straw bale building in cold and wet climates.
A Christian Call to Action
Hardcover | $25.00
Serve God, Save the Planet is a call to action for all people of faith who believe that we must cherish and protect the world that God created.
The Struggle to Save an Endangered Species
Paperback | $25.00
The story of endangered seaside sparrows in Florida.
A Citizen's Guide to Community Supported Agriculture
Paperback | $35.00
In this thoroughly revised and expanded edition of a Chelsea Green classic, authors Henderson and Van En provide new insight into making CSA not only a viable economic model, but the right choice for food lovers and farmers alike.
Paperback | $9.95
Gunter Pauli's ZERI* Education model proposes that children, adolescents and young adults learn science in a way that gives them a more profound academic understanding at the same time that it helps develop their emotional intelligence, eco-literacy, and artistic/creative capacities. Shiitake Love Caffeine is one of the boo
