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How Grassroots Community Action and 21st Century Technologies Can Empower Elders to Stay in Their Homes and Lead Healthier, Happier Lives $17.95 Alone and Invisible No More is a compelling look at elder care in America today. It has all the makings of a perfect novel. The book will make you laugh, cry, and maybe even make you angry at how our elders are treated. On these pages, Dr. Teel not only lays out the problems we face with elder care today,and the overwhelming economic disaster ahead of us, but also he clearly lays out a plan for our future. This plan puts meaning and purpose back into our lives.
Sermons from a Heretical Preacher $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.
Inspiration for a Positive and Abundant Life $18.00 The Art of Ageing gives advice on how to make the most of ageing, how we can celebrate its positive gifts and includes the stories of a variety of people who have enjoyed creative and productive lives well into their eighties and nineties.
Rituals and Celebrations for the Child-bearing Years $19.95 Birthrites offers practical advice for potential parents. However, rather than concentrating solely on pregnancy, birth, and motherhood, this book also explores “Becoming a Father,” “Adoption,” and “Miscarriage” (to name but a few). Jackie Singer emphasizes the importance of ritual and ceremony in marking life-changing events, and sharing this experience with others.
$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.
$19.95 In Earth Pilgrim, Satish Kumar draws on his personal experience and also his understanding of the spiritual traditions of both East and West. The book takes the form of conversations between Kumar and others about the inner and outer aspects of pilgrimage: “To be a pilgrim is to be on a path of adventure, to move out of our comfort zones, to let go of our prejudices and preconditioning, to make strides towards the unknown.” If we want to tread the pilgrim’s path, we need to go beyond ideas of good and evil and to be dedicated to our quest—to our natural calling. We need to shed not just our unnecessary material possessions but also our burdens of fear, anxiety, doubt, and worry; in this way we can find spiritual renewal and enter on the great adventure into the unknown.
A Toolkit for Resilience and Positive Change $21.95 Find Your Power describes how to strengthen your ability to bring about positive change.
Making Chairs in the 21st Century $29.95 Going with the Grain is for anyone who is interested in getting to know trees and wood better through the fulfilling process of turning a tree into their very own chair.
In Search of Simplicity $25.00
Currently on Backorder 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.
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Currently on Backorder A play examining what we have all longed for--the simple life of a small town in Vermont, full of joy, sorrow, and reality.
$18.95 Through Logodædaly one might not learn an everyday vocabulary, but beyond A and Z the reader finds that the meaning of a word is always much more than it seems.
$25.00
Currently on Backorder 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 Political Autobiography $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.
$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.
An Autobiography $20.00 An autobiography of Satish Kumar, the sage of the deep ecology movement.
Gnostic Vision, Sacred Ecology, and the Future of Belief $24.95 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.
$8.95 Numbers is intended to explore the strange and powerful relationship of humanity to its own system of numbers.
The Cosmic Code Beyond Astrology $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.
Reclaiming Domesticity from a Consumer Culture $23.95 Mother Nature has shown her hand. Faced with climate change, dwindling resources, and species extinctions, most Americans understand the fundamental steps necessary to solve our global crises—drive less, consume less, increase self-reliance, buy locally, eat locally, rebuild our local communities.
Taking Back the Wisdom of the Feminine $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.
Caring for Self, Connecting with Society $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.
Consciousness, Worldviews, and the Blossoming of Human Spirit $30.00 What if our entire experience of reality were based on an assumption that could be proven false? In Roadmap to Reality, Thomas J. Elpel tests the assumption that we are a sentient (self-aware) species, and finds evidence suggesting otherwise.
The Making of a Homesteader $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.
The Legacy of E. F. Schumacher $14.95 In the thirty-five years since he died, many other organizations have been established that trace their primary inspiration back to E. F. Schumacher. Small Is Beautiful in the 21st Century traces this legacy through the activities and outreach of those pioneering organizations that, over the years, have been working on practical solutions to our interrelated global crises.
A Collection of Poems $19.95 Poetic work from the Grandfather of Ecological Planning and author of the classic book Design with Nature. Twenty-five poems in all.
Making Space for Creativity $18.00 The Spirit of Silence is for those who wish to look
beyond the speed and superficiality of our modern
lifestyle to find depth and spiritual space. It is devoted to
clearing the clutter from our minds, and to feeding the
creative heart and soul.
$17.95 A Taste of Tagore allows some of the magical poetry, elegant prose and meaningful prayers of Rabindranath Tagore, India's first Nobel Laureate, to be used as contemplations in our daily lives. These extracts are taken from his many writings about the environment, education, the arts, politics, travel and humanism.
The True Story of a Man Who Went Searching for Meaning— and Ended Up Making His Y-fronts $14.95 Through the Eye of a Needle is a brilliant account of his journey—illuminating, enchanting, and often extremely funny—arguing that the way we look at clothing influences the way we look at the environment, the economy, and life itself. Few books written in our soulless times have such potential to transform people’s minds so completely—while also making them laugh. His encounters are by turns humorous and enlightening. He meets BBC TV’s Jeremy Clarkson, Hollywood superstars Richard Gere and Daryl Hannah, spiritual teachers, politicians, call-center and sweatshop workers, artists, Transition Town leader Rob Hopkins, Prince Charles’s own Savile Row tailor, and many others.
In the Arts and Everyday Life $20.00 John Lane calls us to awaken to the possibilities of a culture that recognizes the importance of beauty, and to acknowledge that we are only fully human when in contact with the beautiful.
Making Your Community More Resilient in Uncertain Times $29.95 What would it look like if the best responses to peak oil and climate change came not from committees and Acts of Parliament, but from you and me, and the people around us?
From oil dependency to local resilience $24.95 On Sale: $16.22!
We live in an oil-dependent world, arriving at this
level of dependency in a very short space of time
by treating petroleum as if it were in infinite
supply. Most of us avoid thinking about what
happens when oil runs out (or becomes
prohibitively expensive), but The Transition
Handbook shows how the inevitable and
profound changes ahead can have a positive
outcome. These changes can lead to the rebirth
of local communities that will grow more of their
own food, generate their own power, and build
their own houses using local materials. They can also
encourage the development of local currencies to keep
money in the local area.
Totnes and District 2030, an Energy Descent Action Plan $35.00 This is a lively and colourful community-based guide to reducing local dependence on fossil fuels and reducing the local carbon footprint over the next 20 years, a period during which they anticipate changes associated with declining oil supplies and the impacts of climate change to become more apparent.
For a Local, Resilient Future $22.95 The Transition Timeline lightens the fear of our uncertain future, providing a map of what we are facing and the different pathways available to us. It describes four possible scenarios for the UK and world over the next twenty years, ranging from Denial, in which we reap the consequences of failing to acknowledge and respond to our environmental challenges, to the Transition Vision, in which we shift our cultural assumptions to fit our circumstances and move into a more fulfilling, lower energy world.
The Education of a Modern Homesteader $17.95 Ever since Thoreau's Walden, the image of the American homesteader has been of someone getting away from civilization, of forging an independent life in the country. Yet if this were ever true, what is the nature and reality of homesteading in the media-saturated, hyper-connected 21st century?
The 20th Century's 100 Most Important Inspirational Leaders $25.00 Portraits of inspirational leaders in the 20th Century.
A Homesteader's Personal Collection $14.95 Helen Nearing, a homesteader of New England, shares her favorite quotes from living the good life.
$39.95 This is a profound book that is both practical and poetic. It describes a way of life that is economically and ecologically viable and sets a new standard for managing our woods in a low-impact, sustainable way. As such, it holds some of the fundamental keys to how we can achieve a lower-carbon society.
A Declaration of Dependence $20.00
Currently on Backorder Satish Kumar offers us the gift of So Hum--"You Are, Therefore I Am." His mental journey and inspirations need to become everyone's inspiration, to help us to move from violence to non-violence, from greed to compassion, from arrogance to humility.
Relax! Warm Your Bones! Get to Know the Sky! $14.95 A how-to book on creating a simple and environmentally friend hot tub.
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