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Skills for a Changing World by $24.95 Responding to the threats of climate change, peak oil, resource deletion, economic uncertainty and energy insecurity demands the utmost in creativity, ingenuity, and new ways of thinking in order to reinvent self and society. In The Handbook of Sustainability Literacy, leading sustainability educators are joined by permaculturists, literary critics, ecologists, artists, journalists, engineers, mathematicians, and philosophers in examining the skills needed in the twenty-first century.
El Cuento del Cafecito (Bilingual Edition) $10.00 The lyric story of how a small cup of exceptional coffee can bridge nations, uniting people in trade, in words, with birds, and in love. Now published with facing-page Spanish translation.
Reimagining Civilization in the Age of Nature $17.95 In this collection of short, witty, poignant, even humorous essays, Bioneers co-founder Kenny Ausubel tracks the big ideas, emerging trends, and game-changing developments of our time. He guides us through our watershed moment, showing how it’s possible to emerge from a world where corporations are citizens, the gap between rich and poor is cavernous, and biodiversity and the climate are under assault and create a world where we take our cues from nature and focus on justice, equity, diversity, democracy, and peace.
A Declaration of Interdependence $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.
Visionary Solutions from the Bioneers $12.95 Restoring the Earth is destined to become the central enterprise of the years ahead. Leading that effort is a growing movement of "bioneers," biological pioneers who are using nature to heal nature and working with individuals, communities, businesses, and governments to implement real change. Offering practical solutions for virtually all our critical environmental problems, these working models hold keys to planetary survival that can be refined, replicated, and rapidly spread around the world.
A Citizen's Guide $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.
How Ordinary Citizens Are Restoring Our Great American Cities $25.00 On Sale: $10.00!
Part celebration and part inspiration, Edens Lost & Found chronicles the forward-looking transformation of America's urban landscapes and communities.
A Standards-Based Environmental Education Curriculum for Schools, Colleges, and Communities $59.95 This unique learning resource combines an integrated, detailed academic curriculum with service-based learning activities to educate, inspire, and empower citizen learners to build greener and healthier communities.
Student Workbook $19.95 This unique learning resource combines an integrated, detailed academic curriculum with service-based learning activities to educate, inspire, and empower citizen learners to build greener and healthier communities.
Charcoal’s Potential to Reverse Climate Change and Build Soil Fertility $14.95 The Biochar Debate is the first book to introduce both the promise and concerns surrounding biochar (fine-grained charcoal used as a soil supplement) to nonspecialists. Charcoal making is an ancient technology. Recent discoveries suggest it may have a surprising role to play in combating global warming. This is because creating and burying biochar removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Furthermore, adding biochar to soil can increase the yield of food crops and the ability of soil to retain moisture, reducing need for synthetic fertilizers and demands on scarce fresh-water supplies.
High Stakes, High Risks, and the Story Behind the Deepwater Well Blowout $14.95 Disaster on the Horizon delves into the worst oil well accident in US history, which killed eleven men and led to the current environmental and economic catastrophe on the Gulf Coast. With thirty years in oil and gas operations, insider Bob Cavnar provides a candid, engaging, and chilling look at the industry, its resistance to regulation, and the government concessions that are now putting people and the coastlines in jeopardy. He brings the industry's technology and people to life, delivering the untold story of the blowout, response, and decisions made by BP, Transocean, and the US government. Ultimately, Cavnar charts a crucial course for how to avoid these disasters in the future.
Simple Things You Can Do to Make a Difference $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.
Use Less--Save More $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.
From Cupboard to Corporation: an A-Z Guide $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.
Use Less—Save More $7.95 100 simple and effective tips for saving water, inside and outdoors of your home or business. Packed with practical ideas for your kitchen, bath, landscaping, and water using chores.
Untrashing the Planet One Community at a Time $24.95
Available for Pre-order (Expected Ship Date: September 16, 2013) Waste is something we make every day, but we rarely give it much thought. That is changing, though, as emerging programs around the globe show many ways in which a community can achieve zero-waste status.
In The Zero Waste Solution, author and scientist-turned-activist Paul Connett profiles the most successful zero-waste initiatives around the world, showing activists, planners, and entrepreneurs how to re-envision their community’s waste-handling processes.
The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez $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.
$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 Manifesto for Earth Justice, Second Edition $19.95 We are rapidly destroying our only habitat, Earth. It is becoming clear that many of the treaties, laws and policies concluded in recent years have failed to slow down, let alone halt or reverse, this process. Cormac Cullinan shows that the survival of the community of life on Earth (including humans) requires us to alter fundamentally our understanding of the nature and purpose of law and governance, rather than merely changing laws.
Simple Things You Can Do to Make a Difference $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.
Use Less—Save More $7.95 100 simple and effective tips for saving water, inside and outdoors of your home or business. Packed with practical ideas for your kitchen, bath, landscaping, and water using chores.
From Cupboard to Corporation: an A-Z Guide $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.
Use Less--Save More $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.
New Frontiers for Sustainability, Schumacher Briefing No. 12 $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.
$19.95 The tale of the fight to save the northern forest, a fight not unlike those waged across the world every day in other forests.
Series on Sustainable Development $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
$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
A Guide to Watching African Animals $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.
An Uncivilized Solution to a Global Crisis $17.95 Time’s Up! is about changing our behavior. The book describes how our actions affect the very things on Earth that we depend on for survival, at scales that we rarely contemplate. It arms us with the tools to free us from a culture that has blinded us for centuries, and which will allow us to live in a way that will give Earth, and ourselves, a viable future.
$16.00 Jean Giono's tale of Elzéard Bouffier, the intrepid tree planter who single-handedly reforests a barren section of southern France.
$29.95 Jean Giono's tale of Elzéard Bouffier, the intrepid tree planter who single-handedly reforests a barren section of southern France.
$22.50 Jean Giono's tale of Elzéard Bouffier, the intrepid tree planter who single-handedly reforests a barren section of southern France.
$10.00 Jean Giono's tale of Elzéard Bouffier, the intrepid tree planter who single-handedly reforests a barren section of southern France.
$10.95 How can we improve the experience and ecological footprint of cities--explore that and more in this Schumacher briefing.
Energy, Ecology, Equality $27.95 We have turned our home planet into a disposable world, using resources as though there were no tomorrow. It is time to make it a renewable world instead.
A Cultural History $24.95 In clear and thought-provoking terms, Ulrich Grober reassesses the concept of sustainability using a range of fascinating historical instances of its application. This book offers a historically rich and nuanced introduction to a concept that could not be of more pressing importance for the twenty-first century.
An Alphabet for Living $7.95 Award-winning actress Lisa Harrow and her husband, internationally renowned whale biologist Roger Payne, provide a practical and charming guide to Web resources for sustainable living.
$14.95 A collection of Matt's latest poems—horticultural, whimsical, ecological, political and just plain funny. Where Earwigs Dare contains a rich biodiversity of verse, some recycled from Matt's appearances on Radio 4's Saturday Live and his stint writing Desktop Poetry for The Guardian, others that bubbled doggedly up of their own accord—from a grim sense of joie de vivre.
$17.95 Called the best essayist of his time by luminaries like Philip Roth, John Updike, and Edward Abbey, Edward Hoagland brings readers his ultimate collection. In Sex and the River Styx, the author’s sharp eye and intense curiosity shine through in essays that span his childhood exploring the woods in his rural Connecticut, his days as a circus worker, and his travels the world over in his later years.
How Communities Can Adapt to Peak Oil and Climate Change $12.00 On Sale: $7.80!
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.
Restoring the Earth and Her People $24.95 Everything you ever wanted to know about ecovillages: how they are created and the people behind them.
A Guide to Composting Human Manure $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.
$25.00 Here for the first time is Derrick Jensen live, recorded at one of his many standing-room-only performances.
Conversations about Nature, Culture, and Eros $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.
$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.
What Black Bears Taught Me about Intelligence and Intuition $24.95
Available for Pre-order (Expected Ship Date: October 18, 2013) Out on a Limb delivers Kilham’s fascinating glimpse at the inner world of bears, and also makes a passionate case for science, and education in general, to open its doors to different ways of learning and researching—doors that could lead to far broader realms of discovery.
$7.95 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.
Deliberate Encounters with the Visible World $15.95 Seeing Nature is a series of true stories or parables that offer tools for understanding relationships in the natural world. Many of the stories take the reader to wild landscapes, including canyons, tundra, and mountain ridges, while others contemplate the human-made world: water-diversion trenches and supermarket check-out lines. At one point, Krafel discovers a world in a one-inch-square patch of ordinary ground.
The Way of a Naturalist $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.
$29.95 Jean Giono's tale of Elzéard Bouffier, the intrepid tree planter who single-handedly reforests a barren section of southern France.
$22.50 Jean Giono's tale of Elzéard Bouffier, the intrepid tree planter who single-handedly reforests a barren section of southern France.
Beechnuts, Birdsongs, Baseball Bats, and Benedictions $19.95 A philosophical look at woodlands, forest gardening, and what humans can learn from wood.
$29.95 Jean Giono's tale of Elzéard Bouffier, the intrepid tree planter who single-handedly reforests a barren section of southern France.
The Complete DVD Guide to Backyard Ponds $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.
The Embattled Future of Passenger Rail Service
A Year Spent Riding Across America $17.95 During the tumultuous year of 2008—when gas prices reached $4 a gallon, Amtrak set ridership records, and a commuter train collided with a freight train in California—journalist James McCommons spent a year on America's trains, talking to the people who ride and work the rails throughout much of the Amtrak system. Organized around these rail journeys, Waiting on a Train is equal parts travel narrative, personal memoir, and investigative journalism.
$29.95 Jean Giono's tale of Elzéard Bouffier, the intrepid tree planter who single-handedly reforests a barren section of southern France.
$22.50 Jean Giono's tale of Elzéard Bouffier, the intrepid tree planter who single-handedly reforests a barren section of southern France.
$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!
The 30-Year Update $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 $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 $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 $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.
The 30-Year Update $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.
The 30-Year Update $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.
Energy, Ecology, Equality $27.95 We have turned our home planet into a disposable world, using resources as though there were no tomorrow. It is time to make it a renewable world instead.
One Man's Adventures Battling Buckthorn, Making Peace with Authority, and Creating a Home for Endangered Bats $24.95
Available for Pre-order (Expected Ship Date: August 9, 2013) When a biologist approaches Mitchell about tracking endangered bats on his farm, Mitchell's relationship with bats and government is distrustful, at best. Ruminating on the nature of authority and the value of inhabiting one's niche, Flying Blind is a perfectly paced and skilled story of place.
Science and Adventure in Pursuit of a New Species $19.95 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 little-known 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.
Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Biruté Galdikas $19.95 Three astounding women scientists have in recent years penetrated the jungles of Africa and Borneo to observe, nurture, and defend humanity’s closest cousins. Jane Goodall has worked with the chimpanzees of Gombe for nearly 50 years; Dian Fossey died in 1985 defending the mountain gorillas of Rwanda; and Biruté Galdikas lives in intimate proximity to the orangutans of Borneo. All three began their work as protégées of the great Anglo-African archeologist Louis Leakey, and each spent years in the field, allowing the apes to become their familiars—and ultimately waging battles to save them from extinction in the wild.
The Man-Eaters of Sundarbans $16.95 A book that earned Sy Montgomery her status as one of the most celebrated wildlife writers of our time, Spell of the Tiger brings readers to the Sundarbans, a vast tangle of mangrove swamp and tidal delta that lies between India and Bangladesh. It is the only spot on earth where tigers routinely eat people—swimming silently behind small boats at night to drag away fishermen, snatching honey collectors and woodcutters from the forest. But, unlike in other parts of Asia where tigers are rapidly being hunted to extinction, tigers in the Sundarbans are revered. With the skill of a naturalist and the spirit of a mystic, Montgomery reveals the delicate balance of Sundarbans life, explores the mix of worship and fear that offers tigers unique protection there, and unlocks some surprising answers about why people at risk of becoming prey might consider their predator a god.
An Amazon Quest $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.
$19.95 The tale of the fight to save the northern forest, a fight not unlike those waged across the world every day in other forests.
Betrayal and Courage in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill $21.95 Ott illustrates in stirring fashion the oil industry's 20-year trail of pollution and deception that led to the tragic 1989 spill and delves deep into the disruption to the fishing community for the next 10 years.
$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.
The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill $24.95 Sound Truth and Corporate Myth$ exposes oil as a human and environmental health hazard, based on stories of key witnesses and participants in the environmental tragedy that struck Prince William Sound in 1989. 2005 finalist for the Benjamin Franklin Book Award in Science and Environment.
A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years $24.95 Forty years after The Limits to Growth, Randers presents expert views on what the next forty years have in store -- economically, socially, politically, and environmentally.
The 30-Year Update $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 $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.
A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years $34.95 Forty years after The Limits to Growth, Randers presents expert views on what the next forty years have in store -- economically, socially, politically, and environmentally.
The 30-Year Update $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.
Finding Wholeness in a Fragmented Land $12.00 On Sale: $5.00!
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.
Revised Edition $25.00 In Strangers Devour the Land Boyce Richardson provides an intimate look into the people and communities of James Bay, particularly the Cree. It is a moving chronicle of the resistance of people to the dams, the story of James Bay I, and how Hydro-Quebec came to begin the largest single hydroelectric project in North America.
The Crisis of Energy and Money in a Post Peak Oil World
A 25-Point Program for Action $15.00 The world is running short of energy—especially cheap, easy-to-find oil. Shortages, along with resulting price increases, threaten industrialized civilization, the global economy, and our entire way of life.
The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power $19.95 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.
And Other Improbable Ways of Restoring Soil to Heal the Earth $17.95 Journalist Judith D. Schwartz looks at soil as a crucible for our many overlapping environmental, economic, and social crises. Schwartz reveals that for many of these problems -- climate change, desertification, biodiversity loss, droughts, floods, wildfires, rural poverty, malnutrition, and obesity -- our ability to turn these crises into opportunities depends on how we treat the soil.
An Easy Household Guide $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.
An Easy Household Guide $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.
How Toxins Are Making Our Children Chronically Ill
With new information on what we can do $17.95 In a landmark investigation that's been compared to Silent Spring, two veteran journalists definitively show how, why, and where industrial toxins are causing rates of birth defects, asthma, cancer, and other serious illnesses to soar in children. Philip and Alice Shabecoff reveal that the children of baby boomers—the first to be raised in a truly toxified world—are the first generation to be sicker and have shorter life expectancies than their parents. The culprits, they say, are the companies that profit from producing, using, and selling toxics.
How Toxins Are Making Our Children Chronically Ill
With new information on what we can do $17.95 In a landmark investigation that's been compared to Silent Spring, two veteran journalists definitively show how, why, and where industrial toxins are causing rates of birth defects, asthma, cancer, and other serious illnesses to soar in children. Philip and Alice Shabecoff reveal that the children of baby boomers—the first to be raised in a truly toxified world—are the first generation to be sicker and have shorter life expectancies than their parents. The culprits, they say, are the companies that profit from producing, using, and selling toxics.
The Truth about the Most Dangerous Energy Source on Earth $19.95 Nuclear Roulette dismantles the core arguments behind the nuclear-industrial complex's "Nuclear Renaissance." While some critiques are familiar -- nuclear power is too costly, too dangerous, and too unstable -- others are surprising. As nuclear engineers have long observed: nuclear energy can be cheap and it can be safe. But it can't be both.
The Truth about the Most Dangerous Energy Source on Earth $29.95 Nuclear Roulette dismantles the core arguments behind the nuclear-industrial complex's "Nuclear Renaissance." While some critiques are familiar -- nuclear power is too costly, too dangerous, and too unstable -- others are surprising. As nuclear engineers have long observed: nuclear energy can be cheap and it can be safe. But it can't be both.
A Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability, and Surviving the Long Emergency $35.00 When Technology Fails provides something for everyone, from parents who want to help their families when a disaster strikes, to the go-it-alone survivalist, to the eco-minded person who wishes to tread more lightly on the earth—whatever the future may hold.
A Comprehensive Guide for Emergency Planning and Crisis Survival $24.95 Disasters often strike without warning and leave a trail of destruction in their wake. Yet armed with the right tools and information, survivors can fend for themselves and get through even the toughest circumstances. Matthew Stein's When Disaster Strikes provides a thorough, practical guide for how to prepare for and react in many of life's most unpredictable scenarios.
The Uncomfortable Truth about Biodiversity $19.95 How much do we really know about the species that make up the natural world? In this fascinating book Ken Thompson explains what we do and don’t understand about biodiversity.
Or, Life on a Salt Marsh $22.50 On Sale: $6.00!
A biography of the famous New England salt marsh, interweaving science, history, and memoir.
Or, Life on a Salt Marsh $16.95 On Sale: $6.00!
A biography of the famous New England salt marsh, interweaving science, history, and memoir.
Recycling Waste and Conserving Water $14.00 The Toilet Papers is an informative, inspiring, and irreverent look at how people have dealt with their wastes through the centuries. In a historical survey, Van der Ryn provides the basic facts concerning human wastes, and describes safe designs for toilets that reduce water consumption and avert the necessity for expensive and unreliable treatment systems.
The Way of a Naturalist $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.
The Struggle to Save an Endangered Species $25.00 The story of endangered seaside sparrows in Florida.
A Village to Reinvent the World $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.” Click here for Alan Weisman’s Fall Tour Dates
How to Read and Understand It $37.95 Patrick Whitefield shares a lifetime’s knowledge of the myriad interactions that go to make up the fascinating and varied landscapes we see all around us. He will inspire you to reconnect with the land as a living entity, not a collection of different scenery, and develop an active relationship with nature and the countryside.
Student Workbook $19.95 This unique learning resource combines an integrated, detailed academic curriculum with service-based learning activities to educate, inspire, and empower citizen learners to build greener and healthier communities.
How Ordinary Citizens Are Restoring Our Great American Cities $25.00 On Sale: $10.00!
Part celebration and part inspiration, Edens Lost & Found chronicles the forward-looking transformation of America's urban landscapes and communities.
A Standards-Based Environmental Education Curriculum for Schools, Colleges, and Communities $59.95 This unique learning resource combines an integrated, detailed academic curriculum with service-based learning activities to educate, inspire, and empower citizen learners to build greener and healthier communities.
Growing Up in the Church of Knock Down, Drag Out; or, How I Quit Loving a Blue-Eyed Jesus $24.95 On Sale: $5.00!
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.
A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters, and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas $27.50 A lyrical, gripping narrative about one woman's fight to save her community, An Unreasonable Woman is an Erin Brockovich thriller with the literary richness of a Barbara Kingsolver novel.
An Unreasonable Woman Breaks the Law for Mother Earth $17.95 Diane Wilson delivers a no-holds-barred account of how she -- a fourth-generation shrimper, former boat captain, and mother of five -- took a turn at midlife, unable to stand by quietly as she witnessed abuses of people and the environment. Since then, she has launched legislative campaigns, demonstrations, and hunger strikes -- and generally gotten herself in all manner of trouble.
A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters, and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas $18.00 A lyrical, gripping narrative about one woman's fight to save her community, An Unreasonable Woman is an Erin Brockovich thriller with the literary richness of a Barbara Kingsolver novel.
A Life of Fritz Schumacher $22.95 E.F. Schumacher was a key figure in the development of environmentalism in the 20th century, and has left an enduring legacy. A profound thinker who was admired by Keynes, Beveridge and Cripps, he was for many years economic adviser to the Coal Board, and later put his ideas into practice by setting up the Intermediate Technology Development Group (now Practical Action) and becoming involved with the Soil Association. He was the inspiration for many other organizations that continue to this day, including the New Economics Foundation and Schumacher College. His views on industry, the environment, education and sustainable economics are as pertinent now as when Small is Beautiful was published.
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