Chelsea
Green
Fall/Winter 2008
An Open Letter to the Book Publishing Community
For more than 20 years, Chelsea Green has been the publishing leader for books on the politics and practice of sustainable living. We are a founding member of the Green Press Initiative and have been printing books on recycled paper since 1985, when we published our first list. One of the books on that list was The Man Who Planted Trees, an ecological fable by the great French writer Jean Giono, which has become one of the most inspirational books about environmental restoration ever published. Since that time we have continued to lead the industry both in terms of content – foundational books on renewable energy, green building, organic agriculture, eco-cuisine, and ethical business – and in terms of environmental practice, printing 95% of our books on recycled paper, containing a minimum 30% postconsumer waste and 100% whenever possible. This past year we launched a Green Partnership Program, the first step in creating a “zero-waste” publishing model. A key part of this initiative is eliminating the incredibly wasteful and inefficient practice of book returns. In exchange for buying on a nonreturnable basis, our retail partners (now over 30 key independent bookstores around the country) receive higher discounts, freight-free, carbon-offset shipping, and a host of other “preferred customer” benefits. The results to date are impressive: an overall 87% increase in net sales over the same period the prior year, reductions in costly returns processing and unnecessary shipping by both parties (our overall returns rate for last year was 18%), and a demonstration that doing the environmentally responsible thing also benefits the bottom line, both for publisher and retailer. This is a perfect example of what is called a “triple bottom line” approach, one that benefits people, planet, and profits – the emerging model for sustainable business in the 21st century. The book industry is poised to go green. The Green Press Initiative has made major progress in getting the largest houses to sign on, and I applaud everyone for their efforts to increase recycled content, reduce energy use, and minimize waste. But we can’t stop there. We need to take on the issue of returns and we need to do it now. Drastic climate change is upon us, and we can no longer tolerate a system that overproduces, oversells, and overships 30-40% of its product, a product – at least for now – that is made of paper and which requires enormous amounts of nonrenewable energy to transport. And paper manufacturing is hardly benign: It is the fifth most energy-intensive industry – ahead of aluminum and mining – and the fifth-highest emitter of toxic emissions, beating out hazardous waste recovery, electrical equipment, and plastics. There is no longer any reason to continue a practice that got its start in the Depression as a way to sell crossword puzzle books! We need to come together and solve this problem with a triple-bottom-line approach. Clearly there is a win-win solution, as we have demonstrated with our Green Partnership Program. We welcome other publishers and booksellers to join us in our efforts.
Margo Baldwin President and Publisher
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Nature & Environment Ethical Marketplace Science/Sciencewriters Gardening & Agriculture Food/Health/Travel Spirituality & Simple Living Green Building Renewable Energy Politics & Social Justice Chelsea Green Kids Other Products 02 19 26 29 43 49 55 61 63 67 69
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Holy Roller Not One Drop How the Rich Are Destroying the Earth Exposed Gaviotas Spell of the Tiger Journey of the Pink Dolphins Green Living Handbook The Transition Handbook The Gort Cloud A Bee’s-Eye View of and Inquiry into the Nature of SLOW MONEY Finding the Sweet Spot Mortgage Free! Companies We Keep Thinking in Systems Fresh Food from Small Spaces Gaia’s Kitchen Organic Places to Stay in the UK The Local Foods Wheel Open Spaces Sacred Places Returning to My Mother’s House
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HOLY ROLLER
Diane Wilson
Growing Up in the Church of Knock Down, Drag Out; or, How I Quit Loving a Blue-Eyed Jesus -A Childhood Memoir-
New Release
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. By night at tent revivals, Wilson gets religion from Brother Dynamite, an ex-con who finds Jesus in a baloney sandwich and handles masses of squirming poisonous snakes under the protection of the Holy Ghost. By day, Wilson scratches secret messages to Jesus into the paint on her windowsill and lies down in the middle of the road to see how long she can sleep in between passing trucks. Holy Roller is a fast-paced, hilarious, sometimes shocking experience readers won’t soon forget. It is the prequel to Wilson’s first book, telling the story of the Texas childhood of a fierce little girl who will grow up to become An Unreasonable Woman, take on Big Industry, and win. One of the best Southern writers of her generation, Wilson’s voice twangs with a style and accent all its own, as true and individual as her boundless originality and wild youth.
Praise for An Unreasonable Woman
Pub Date: October 2008
$24.95 US, $27.50 CAN • HC 9781933392820 51/2 x 81/2 • 240 pages • B&W photo insert
Also by Diane Wilson
“An Unreasonable Woman will stand as one of this nation’s greatest works of nonfiction. I have never read a book quite like this one, and worry already that I might not yet again.” —Rick Bass, author of The Lives of Rocks and Colter “What a terrific book. I don’t often gush, but this book had me fascinated from the first page and whomper-jawed half the time. A voice like Diane Wilson’s—working-class woman with five kids—is so rare . . . And to write this well is a stunning achievement.” —Molly Ivins, award-winning columnist and best-selling author
AN UNREASONABLE WOMAN
A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters, and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas Diane Wilson Foreword by Kenny Ausubel
$27.50 US • HC • 9781931498883 $18.00 US • PB • 9781933392271 6 x 9 • 391 pages An Unreasonable Woman is a novelistic tale of heroism and skulduggery that plays out against a backdrop of colorful outlaw shrimpers and crooked politicians, enviro-activists and informants, grudges and murder, betrayal and redemption. This book heralds the arrival of a vital new literary voice and introduces us to a daring, hopeful women’s activism that the times demand.
Diane Wilson, a fourth-generation shrimper, began fishing the bays off the Gulf Coast of Texas at the age of eight. By twenty-four she was a boat captain. In 1989, while running her brother’s fish house at the docks and mending nets, she read a newspaper article that listed her home of Calhoun County as the most polluted place in the country. Her ensuing work on behalf of the people and aquatic life of Seadrift, Texas, where she still lives, has won her a number of awards, including the National Fisherman Magazine Award, Mother Jones’s Hell Raiser of the Month, Louis Gibbs’ Environmental Lifetime Award, Louisiana Environmental Action (LEAN) Environmental Award, Giraffe Project, Jenifer Altman Award, Blue Planet Award, and Bioneers Award. She is cofounder of Code Pink and continues to lead the fight for social justice.
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Advance praise for Holy Roller
“How in the world does Texas turn out so many sassy, silver-tongued agitators like Ann Richards, Molly Ivins—and now, Diane Wilson? Holy Roller helps answer that question . . . Any reader who loves Harper Lee, Carson McCullers, or Flanner y O'Connor will find much to savor and admire in this mesmerizing tale of growing up among shrimp fishermen on the Texas bayous.” —Lisa Alther, best-selling author of Kinfolks and Kinflicks “This book is hothothot. Sizzling hot, hot as hellfire. Once again, Diane Wilson totally enthralls me with her one-of-a-kind voice and exotic material. My mouth is agape.” —Janisse Ray, author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
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oly Rollers loved missionaries. Hey, I loved missionaries, too. They were the generals in God’s army. That’s why I was a Junior Missionette (girls nine to twelve years old and namesakes for the real thing). Missionettes always met on Sunday evening right before the night church service so we could get from one church thing to the next church thing without indulging in any worldly nonsense like riding around in cars and chewing gum. We all wore the same Missionette uniform, too. White shirt (purity and submission), navy blue skirt (labor for the Lord), and a little gold pin (golden streets of glory), stamped with an M in the middle, and pinned to our shoulder. We’d sit around a metal table in an empty part of the church—ten little girls numberpainting Jesus’s face in oil and eating vanilla wafers and drinking red Kool-Aid until our lips were red as a horde of Jezebels. We had a huge responsibility on our little white shoulders. Just by sitting there we were setting good examples and winning souls to Christ and it was unfortunate that nobody could see us. After the Jesus faces and the Kool-Aid ran out, the pastor’s wife lined us up to test our memories on books of the Bible. My limit was about seven. I’d go straight for the easy ones: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Then I’d hop over to what I called the devil chapters: Deuteronomy and Revelation. Finally, I gave up with the easiest one of all: Genesis. My momma was a serious, serious Christian woman with two preachers in the family, and a mother who obsessed over a radio evangelist from San Antonio, but her emphasis was cleanliness was godliness and no body part was too low to be in service, so she wasn’t much for batting books of the Bible around with her kids. That was a huge waste of time! She could have two lines of wash strung out before the pastor’s
wife said Deuteronomy or Ecclesiastes. So the same girl won every time, and the pastor’s wife always handed her the same prize—a scrapbook full of pictures of Christians wearing heavy coats at a revival somewhere in Alaska. We didn’t know who they were. Being a Junior Missionette didn’t take up all my time. There was leftover time for the gypsy drawing. There was leftover time for the windowsill messages. Then there was time for hiding. But almost as good as the hiding was seeing how long I could sleep in the middle of the road before a truck came. So far I have made it six days with nothing major happening except the sun coming out from behind a cloud and blistering me. I was a fierce little bump in the road, as any truck driver would tell you. Anyhow, back to the hiding. I was hiding under the kitchen table and Momma was slaving away over the stove and burning the fish when Sister Pearl shot into the kitchen and shouted, “Praise Jesus, Sister Goldie! The missionaries are comin’!” Sister Pearl was a big German lady with a white-crepe face and neck and she had more hair than me and Momma put together and always wore it pinned up around her head like a crown of thorns. She also was a big house-cleaning fool with a huge farmhouse with lots of rooms and front and back porches and an attic that needed cleaning from top to bottom and behind boards nailed to the wall and underneath iron bathtubs and in pitch-black closets, so I was watching her shoes and hoping she’d scoot right back to her farmhouse. But she leaned down and peeked under the table like she’d seen me just yesterday fooling around with the worst boys in town. “You know, Silver, Jesus can see you under there. You can’t hide from Jesus.”
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NOT ONE DROP
Betrayal and Courage in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Riki Ott
New Release
Betrayed by oilmen’s promises in the 1970s, the people of Prince William Sound, Alaska, awaken on March 14, 1989, to the nation’s largest oil spill. Not One Drop is an extraordinary tale of ordinary lives ripped apart by disaster and of community healing through building relationships of trust. This story offers critical lessons for a society traumatized by political divides and facing the looming catastrophe of global climate change. 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. Ott illustrates in stirring fashion the oil industry’s 20-year trail of pollution and deception that predated the tragic 1989 spill and delves deep into the disruption to the fishing community of Cordova over the following 19 years. In vivid detail, she describes the human trauma coupled inextricably with that of the sound’s wildlife and its long road to recovery. Ott critically examines shifts in scientific understanding of oil-spill effects on ecosystems and communities, exposes fundamental flaws in governance and the legal system, and contrasts hard won spill-prevention and spill-response measures in the sound to dangerous conditions on the Alaska pipeline. Her human story, varied background, professional training, and activist heart lead readers to the root of the problem: a clash of human rights and corporate power embedded in law and small-town life. Not One Drop is as much an example of how too many corporate owners and political leaders betray everyday citizens as it is one of the universal struggle to maintain heart, to find the courage to overcome disaster, and to forge a new path from despair to hope.
Pub Date: November 2008
$21.95 US, $23.95 CAN • PB 9781933392585 6 x 9 • 320 pages • B&W photo insert
Also by Riki Ott
SOUND TRUTH AND CORPORATE MYTH$ The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Riki Ott Foreword by Walter Crinnion
Praise for Sound Truth and Corporate Myth$
“This book doesn’t just change our view of the Exxon Valdez spill; it forces us to dramatically reassess the risks from petroleum and the enormous costs that industry is imposing on our health and planet.” —Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., president, Waterkeeper Alliance
$24.95 US • PB • 9780964522664 51/2 x 81/2 • 560 pages Tracing 15 years of lingering harm to humans and wildlife from the Exxon Valdez oil spill, author Riki Ott reveals how corporate greed, government shortsightedness, manipulation of the truth, and the media have kept the public from learning the deadly nature of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Includes relevant information and practical recommendations for people and policy makers at this critical juncture in the history of civilization.
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SUSAN HARDING
2005 Finalist, Benjamin Franklin Award
A commercial salmon “fisherma’am,” Dr. Riki Ott (PhD in marine biology) experienced firsthand the devastating effects of the Exxon Valdez oil spill—and chose to do something about it. Ott retired from fishing and founded three nonprofit organizations to deal with lingering harm. Her previous book on the spill is Sound Truth and Corporate Myth$. She lives in Cordova, Alaska.
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HOW THE RICH ARE DESTROYING THE EARTH
Her vé Kempf
New Release
A best seller in France, and already translated into Spanish, Italian, Greek, and Korean, Hervé Kempf ’s How the Rich Are Destroying the Earth now appears in its first English edition. Bringing to bear more than twenty years of experience as an environmental journalist, Kempf describes the invincibility that many of the world’s wealthy feel in the face of global warming, and how their unchecked privilege is thwarting action on the single most vexing problem facing our world. 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. Societies have not been able to effectively combat the expanding ecological crisis because it is intimately linked to the social crisis in which the ruling form of capitalism has been organized to impede democratic initiatives. This link explains the failure to make progress against the greatest emergency of our time, because in this relationship the oligarchy plays an essential and destructive role. For this reason, solving the ecological crisis depends on disrupting the power of the world’s elite.
Pub Date: September 2008
$12.95 US, $14.50 CAN • PB 9781603580359 53/8 x 83/8 • 160 pages
We cannot understand the entwined ecological and social crises, Kempf argues, if we don’t see them as the two sides of the same disaster—a disaster that comes from a system piloted by a dominant social strata that has no drive other than greed, no ideal other than conservatism, no dream other than technology. But Kempf also calls for measured optimism: “Despite the scale of the challenges that await us, solutions are emerging and—faced with the sinister prospects the oligarchs promote—the desire to remake the world is being reborn.”
“[A] bombshell book.” —Louis-Gilles Francoeur, Le Devoir (Montréal, Québec) “An intellectually original and undeniably pugnacious endeavor.” —Patrick Piro, Politis
Hervé Kempf has more than 20 years of experience as a reporter. He is the environmental editor of Le Monde, France’s most influential daily newspaper, and the founder of Reporterre, a Web site devoted to discussion about the environment and social justice. He lives in France.
“An invigorating book, to be read at once.” —L'Ecologiste “A vigorous indictment against the ‘neoliberal ideology,’ guilty of driving the planet towards its own destruction.” —Olivier Nouaillas, La Vie “Stunning survey . . . great journalism.” —Anne Crignon, Le Nouvel Observateur
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EXPOSED
New in Paperback
“A gripping new book” —The Economist
From tainted pet food to toxic toys, Americans can thank the successful lobbying efforts of the U.S. chemical industry for the secret ingredients in everyday products that have been linked to rising rates of infertility, endocrine system disruptions, neurological disorders, and cancer. While the U.S. Congress stalls in the face of these dangers, the European Union has chosen to act. Strict consumer-safety regulations have forced multinationals to manufacture safer products for European consumers, while lower U.S. standards allow them to continue selling unsafe products to Americans. Schapiro’s exposé shows that short of strong government action, the United States will lose not only its ability to protect citizens from environmental hazards but also, as economic priorities shift, whatever claim it has to commercial supremacy. Increasingly, products on American shelves are equated with serious health hazards, hazards that the European Union is legislating out of existence in its powerful trading bloc, a lead that even China is beginning to follow. Schapiro illustrates how the blowback from weak regulation at home carries a steep economic, as well as environmental, price. In Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What’s at Stake for American Power, investigative journalist Mark Schapiro takes the reader to the front lines of global corporate and political power, where tectonic battles are being waged that will determine the physical and economic health of our children and ourselves.
The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What’s at Stake for American Power
Mark Schapiro
Pub Date: January 2009
$22.95 US, $29.95 CAN • HC 9781933392158 $16.95 US, $18.50 CAN • PB 9781603580588 6 x 9 • 224 pages
2008 Nautilus Book Awards Silver Winner
“In this smart and timely new book, Mark Schapiro . . . examines the widening gap between American and EU chemical and environmental regulation, cogently arguing that although the United States used to be a leader in environmental protection, the power has shifted across the Atlantic.” —ForeWord Magazine
Mark Schapiro is editorial director of the Center for Investigative Reporting. He has written extensively on foreign affairs and his work has appeared in Harper’s, The Nation, Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times Magazine, and other publications, and he has reported stories for FRONTLINE/World, NOW with Bill Moyers, and public radio’s Marketplace. Schapiro lives in San Francisco, California.
“Americans’ confidence in their government-sanctioned environmental and consumer protections receives another blow in investigative reporter Schapiro’s exposé.” —Publishers Weekly
“[Schapiro’s] startling message is that by lagging behind on environmental innovation, American industries are jeopardizing their financial future.” —San Francisco Chronicle
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10th Anniversary Edition
GAVIOTAS
A Village to Reinvent the World Alan Weisman New afterword by the author
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By the author of the national best seller The World Without Us
Los Llanos—the rain-leached, eastern savannas of war-ravaged Colombia—are among the most brutal environments on Earth and an unlikely setting for one of the most hopeful environmental stories ever told. Here, in the late 1960s, a young Colombian development worker named Paolo Lugari wondered if the nearly uninhabited, infertile llanos could be made livable for his country’s growing population. He had no idea that nearly four decades later, his experiment would be one of the world’s most celebrated examples of sustainable living: a permanent village called Gaviotas. In the absence of infrastructure, the first Gaviotans invented wind turbines to convert mild breezes into energy, hand pumps capable of tapping deep sources of water, and solar collectors efficient enough to heat and even sterilize drinking water under perennially cloudy llano skies. Over time, the Gaviotans’ experimentation has even restored an ecosystem: in the shelter of two million Caribbean pines planted as a source of renewable commercial resin, a primordial rain forest that once covered the llanos is unexpectedly reestablishing itself. Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez has called Paolo Lugari “Inventor of the World.” Lugari himself has said that Gaviotas is not a utopia: “Utopia literally means ‘no place.’ We call Gaviotas a topia, because it’s real.”
Pub Date: October 2008
$16.95 US, $18.95 CAN • PB 9781603580564 6 x 9 • 244 pages • Photos & diagrams Previous edition: 9781890132286
Relive their story with this special 10th-anniversary edition of Gaviotas, complete with a new afterword by the author describing how Gaviotas has survived and progressed over the past decade.
RONN SPENCER
“In the wake of the fall of so much idealism in Latin America, it is wonderful to discover this luminous book about a luminous place in eastern Colombia. Alan Weisman takes us to Gaviotas via many stories—stories that make the path completely engrossing.” —Julia Alvarez, author of In the Time of the Butterflies and A Cafecito Story “Gaviotas is the ongoing saga of what real, hands-on sustainability means, calluses and all, practiced in the most demanding social and environmental circumstances conceivable.” —Paul Hawken, author of The Ecology of Commerce and Natural Capitalism “Gaviotas is not merely a book of hope, but a story of twists and turns that remind us just how rich the human spirit and a human community can be. Weisman himself proves again that he is among the best journalist essayists North America has offered to the world toward the end of this millennium.” —Gary Paul Nabhan, author of Coming Home to Eat and Why Some Like It Hot
Author of the critically acclaimed New York Times best seller The World Without Us, Alan Weisman is an award-winning journalist whose reports have appeared in Harper’s, the New York Times Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, Discover, and Orion, among others, and on National Public Radio. A former contributing editor to the Los Angeles Times Magazine, he is a senior radio producer for Homelands Productions and teaches international journalism at the University of Arizona. He lives in western Massachusetts.
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From the author of the best-selling
SPELL OF THE TIGER
The Man-Eaters of Sundarbans
The Good Good Pig,
Sy Montgomer y
With a new afterword by the author
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.
Pub Date: February 2009
$16.95 US, $18.50 CAN • PB 9781603580595 51/2 x 81/2 • 240 pages • Color photo insert
PHEBE LEWAN
“Sy Montgomery puts the fear of God into you with her tales of the great mangrove swamp of Sundarbans.” —Los Angeles Times
“Part Indiana Jones, part Emily Dickinson,” as the Boston Globe describes her, Sy Montgomery is an author, naturalist, documentary scriptwriter, and radio commentator who has traveled to some of the world’s most remote wildernesses for her work. She has worked in a pit crawling with 18,000 snakes in Manitoba, been hunted by a tiger in India, swum with pink dolphins in the Amazon, and been undressed by an orangutan in Borneo. She is the author of 13 award-winning books, including her national best-selling memoir, The Good Good Pig. Montgomery lives in Hancock, New Hampshire.
“Spell of the Tiger is a splendid, transcendental book, distilled like brandy. Lovers of nature should love it.” —Edward Hoagland
“In a spiritual comprehension, people of the Sundarbans know that without the tiger, their human world is incomplete.” —Time
“Clear, emotionally telling and always right to the point, her accounts of the other forms of life are without peer.” —Farley Mowat, author of Never Cry Wolf
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two highly acclaimed books back in print!
JOURNEY OF THE PINK DOLPHINS
An Amazon Quest
Sy Montgomer y
With a new introduction by the author
When Sy Montgomery ventured into the Amazon to unlock the mysteries of the littleknown 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.
Pub Date: February 2009
$19.95 US, $21.95 CAN • PB 9781603580601 51/2 x 81/2 • 320 pages • Color photo insert
“One of the most brilliant books of our time.” —Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, author of The Tribe of Tiger “I started to read this book at six in the morning and did not move out of my chair for the rest of the day. I did not lose a day; I gained a whole world.” —Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, author of When Elephants Weep “Montgomery’s smart, bighearted book reminds us that there are still places whose sheer existence is cause for wonder.” —New York Times Book Review “A rich odyssey both real and mythical.” —Christian Science Monitor “The voyage is the ultimate in extreme . . . Deadly possibilities and impossible-to-imagine rewards lurk around the river’s bend . . . [Montgomery] writes with flair and with an ease that makes you feel like she’s sitting next to you, telling you her stories.” —USA Today
DENNIS OTTEN
COURTESY
WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
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GREEN LIVING HANDBOOK
A 6-Step Program to Create an Environmentally Sustainable Lifestyle David Gershon
New Release
Now, in an expanded edition, Green Living Handbook (originally called EcoTeam) is available to the trade for the first time. The original book has been translated into 22 languages, and with more than 250,000 copies sold through its unique grassroots distribution model, David Gershon’s in-depth program for sustainable living is the fulcrum of a global movement that is changing the way the world thinks about going green. 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. In a time when more and more Americans are seeking sustainable lifestyles, this first trade edition of Green Living Handbook is perfectly poised to help thousands of Americans translate their good intentions into action and contribute to a sustainable future for us all.
Pub Date: September 2008 $14.95 US • PB • 9780963032744 8 x 11 • 160 pages EMPOWERMENT INSTITUTE David Gershon is the author of nine books, including the best-selling Empowerment: The Art of Creating Your Life As You Want It. The founder and CEO of Empowerment Institute, he is one of the world’s leading authorities on behavior change and large-scale transformation. He has lectured at Harvard, MIT, and Duke and served as an advisor to the Clinton White House and the United Nations on behavior change and sustainability issues. He lives with his wife, Gail Straub, in the Hudson River Valley of New York.
“Green Living Handbook is the first step-by-step plan for turning environmental concern into action.” —The Chicago Tribune “A movement . . . of unquestionable zeal is challenging consumption at the grassroots . . . Local support groups called EcoTeams are methodically helping members reduce the amount and kind of material that flows in and out of homes.” —The New York Times
•••Other EcoTeam books by David Gershon•••
Winner of the 2007 Independent Publisher “Most Likely to Save the Planet” Book Award
WATER STEWARDSHIP A 30-Day Program to Protect and Conserve Our Water Resources . . . One Drop at a Time David Gershon
LOW CARBON DIET A 30-Day Program to Lose 5000 Pounds David Gershon
$12.95 US • PB • 9780963032720 8 x 11 • 80 pages • B&W illustrations
JOURNEY FOR THE PLANET A Kid’s Five-Week Adventure to Create an Earth-Friendly Life David Gershon
$12.95 US • PB • 9780964437371 8 x 11 • 88 pages • B&W illustrations
$12.95 US • PB • 9780964437302 8 x 11 • 72 pages • B&W illustrations
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THE TRANSITION HANDBOOK
From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience Rob Hopkins Foreword by Richard Heinberg
New Release
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.
Pub Date: September 2008
$24.95 US, $27.50 CAN • PB 9781900322188 9 x 9 • 240 pages • Two-color GREEN BOOKS
There are now over 30 “transition towns” in the UK, Australia and New Zealand with more joining as the idea takes off. They provide valuable experience and lessons-learned for those of us on this side of the Atlantic. With little proactive thinking at the governmental level, communities are taking matters into their own hands and acting locally. If your town is not a transition town, this upbeat guide offers you the tools for starting the process.
Rob Hopkins is the founder of the Transition Network. Having successfully created an Energy Descent Plan for Kinsale in Ireland, which was later adopted as policy by the town council, Rob moved to Totnes in Devon and initiated Transition Town Totnes, the first UK town to address the issues of life after peak oil. www.transitiontowns.org/totnes Richard Heinberg is Senior Fellow at the Post Carbon Institute. He is the author of several influential books on resource depletion including Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century Of Declines.
“The book is a great guide for how we must live in a future world where the limits of nature are honoured, but so are the basic comforts and joys of communities coming together in a great common cause. There is no more important book than this one for any community seeking change toward ecological sustainability.” —Jerry Mander, founder/director of the International Forum on Globalization and author of In the Absence of the Sacred
“If your town is not yet a Transition Town, here is guidance for making it one. We have little time, and much to accomplish.” —Richard Heinberg, from the foreword
“This is much more than just a book. It is a manual for a movement. And not just any movement, but one which—in avoiding the civilisational collapse threatened by the twin crises of peak oil and climate change—could prove to be the most important social force humanity has ever seen.” —Mark Lynas, author of Six Degrees
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The Chelsea GREEN Guides
Our Chelsea Green Guides offer succinct, useful advice on greening your life, whether at home, at work, or in between. Great as gifts and stocking stuffers, they are also well suited as promotional items or for businesses aiming to promote more environmental awareness (and cost-saving habits) among employees.
GREENING YOUR OFFICE: FROM CUPBOARD TO CORPORATION, AN A–Z GUIDE Jon Clift & Amanda Cuthbert
BIKING TO WORK Ror y McMullan
REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE: AN EASY HOUSEHOLD GUIDE Nicky Scott
9781933392981 • 96 pages • Full color For those who live within biking distance of work, this book offers simple safety, bikebuying, 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!
9781933392752 • 96 pages • Full color Answers all of your recycling questions with a complete listing of everyday household items and how to recycle them. From old cell phones and e-waste to expired medicines and motor oil, this little guide shows you where you can send your unwanted items and how you might make a bit of money while you’re at it. Also includes great ideas for reducing consumption and your volume of rubbish— ideal for businesses and consumers alike!
9781933392998 • 96 pages • Full color 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.
ENERGY: USE LESS—SAVE MORE Jon Clift & Amanda Cuthbert
WATER: USE LESS—SAVE MORE Jon Clift & Amanda Cuthbert
COMPOSTING: AN EASY HOUSEHOLD GUIDE Nicky Scott
9781933392721 • 80 pages • Full color One hundred 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.
9781933392738 • 80 pages • Full color One hundred simple and effective tips for saving water inside and outdoors at your home or business. Packed with practical ideas for your kitchen, bath, landscaping, and water-using chores.
9781933392745 • 96 pages • Full color An A-to-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.
$7.95 US each • PB • 43/4 x 61/2 • Illustrated
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CLIMATE SOLUTIONS
A Citizen’s Guide: What Works, What Doesn’t, and Why Peter Barnes Foreword by Bill McKibben
Recently Published
Millions of Americans are demanding that all levels of government—local, state, and federal—take immediate and effective action to fight climate change. But there’s a big problem. Hundreds of policy ideas are floating about, and many of them aren’t very good. It’s quite possible that bad climate policy will result, and that many years will then be lost before real emission reductions occur. We can’t afford to let that happen. That’s why this citizen’s guide is so important. It explains in clear and simple language what different 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. “Peter Barnes is right. The best and most efficient way to reduce global warming [is a] a cap-and-auction with dividends to all Americans. Read this useful guide and see why.” —Robert B. Reich, professor of public policy, University of California at Berkeley, and former U.S. Secretary of Labor “This citizen’s guide demystifies climate policy so that you can play an active role in forming it. We can’t wait any longer, and we can’t get it wrong.” —Bill McKibben, from the foreword
$9.95 US • PB • 9781603580052 5 x 8 • 110 pages • Illustrations throughout
STRANGERS DEVOUR THE LAND
Boyce Richardson Foreword by Winona LaDuke Revised Edition
With a new introduction by the author
First published in 1974, Strangers Devour the Land has become recognized as the magnum opus among the numerous books, articles, and films produced by Boyce Richardson over two decades on the subject of indigenous people. Its subject, the long struggle of the Crees of James Bay in northern Quebec—a hunting and trapping people—to defend the territories they have occupied since time immemorial, came to international attention in 1972 when they tried by legal action to stop the immense hydroelectric project the provincial government was proposing to build around them. The Crees argued that the integrity of their vast wilderness was essential to their way of life, but the authorities at first did not accept their knowledge of the land and its animals as authentic. Richardson, who sat through the many months of the trial, has mingled the scientific and Cree testimony given in court with his own interviews with Cree hunters, and experiences in gathering information and shooting films, to produce a classic account of cultures in collision. In a new introduction, he reveals that the Crees—now receiving immense sums of money as compensation for the loss of their lands—appear to be doing well, and to be in the process of joining modern, technological culture, while retaining the spiritual base of their traditional lives.
$25.00 US • PB • 9781603580045 6 x 9 • 376 pages • 8 B&W photos
“Richardson delivers a stunning parable of dissimilar societies on a collision course . . . It must not be ignored.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer
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Edited by Hildur Jackson and Karen Svensson
SIPPEWISSETT Or, Life on a Salt Marsh Tim Traver Illustrations by Bobbi Angell
$22.50 US • HC • 9781933392141 $16.95 US • PB • 9781933392783 51/2 x 81/2 • 260 pages
THE MAN WHO PLANTED TREES A story by Jean Giono Wood engravings by Michael McCurdy New foreword by Wangari Maathai New afterword by Andy Lipkis
$10.00 US • PB • 9781933392813 6 x 9 • 72 pages • Wood engravings
Tim Traver’s Sippewissett is heir to a rich history of nature writing. Akin to classics like Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac and Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, the book forms an eloquent bridge between ecology and memory, science and art. Traver alternates between remembrances of the Cape Cod salt marsh where he spent his boyhood summers and the history of Sippewissett, a place that has been studied by many of America’s great biologists, from Louis Agassiz to Rachel Carson.
Jean Giono’s extraordinary fable brings to life a shepherd who plants one hundred acorns a day for thirty years. The shepherd’s tireless efforts transform the countryside, revitalize his community, and teach us about hope, humanity, and our own ability to create change in the world. This special twentieth-anniversary edition of The Man Who Planted Trees includes an inspiring foreword by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai, whose Green Belt Movement has planted millions of trees and brought new hope to women and families in Kenya. The afterword by TreePeople founder Andy Lipkis tells his own true story of planting trees in the unlikely ecosystems of Los Angeles and provides practical resources for taking action in our communities. This edition is printed on 100 percent recycled paper. •••Other Editions•••
Also Available in Hardcover Released on National Arbor Day, April 29, 2005, our best-selling twentieth-anniversary hardcover edition of The Man Who Planted Trees, with a foreword by Wangari Maathai, winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and founder of the African Green Belt Movement. ISBN: 9781931498722
•THE MAN WHO PLANTED TREES: A STORY BY JEAN GIONO • $17.50 US • HC • 7 x 10 • 72 pages • 9781931498722 •Audio Edition: THE MAN WHO PLANTED TREES • Jean Giono, and Robert J. Lurtsema $16.00 US • CD-Audio • 40 min • 9780930031763 •THE MAN WHO PLANTED TREES GIFT SET • $25.00 US • 40 min CD + HC edition • 9781931498814
A CAFECITO STORY EL CUENTO DEL CAFECITO Julia Alvarez and Bill Eichner Bilingual Edition
•••Other NATURE & ENVIRONMENT Titles•••
$10.00 US • PB • 9781931498067 6 x 9 • 78 pages
•GAIAN DEMOCRACIES: Redefining Globalisation and People-Power
Roy Madron and John Jopling • $14.95 US • 6 x 8 • PB • 160 pages • 9781903998281
Not a political or environmental polemic, A Cafecito Story is instead a poetic, modern fable about human beings at their best. The challenge of producing coffee is a remarkable test of our ability to live more sustainably, caring for the land, growers, and consumers in an enlightened and just way.
A CAFECITO STORY • English Edition Julia Alvarez Woodcut Illustrations by Belkis Ramírez
•ECOVILLAGE LIVING: Restoring the Earth and Her People
8 2 $24.95 US • 53/ x 81/ • PB • 96 pages • 9781903998168
•DESIGN OUTLAWS ON THE ECOLOGICAL FRONTIER • Edited by Chirs Zelov and Phil Cousineau
B&W photographs and illustrations $21.95 US • 8 x 11 • PB • 464 pages • 9780965030625
•EARTH SONGS: A Resurgence Anthology of Contemporary Eco-Poetry • Edited by Peter Abbs
$16.95 US • 6 x 9 • PB • 208 pages • 9781903998175
$14.95 US • HC • 9781931498005 6 x 9 • 64 pages $10.00 US • PB • 9781931498548 6 x 9 • 64 pages
•FIELD DAYS: An Anthology of Poetry • Edited by Angela King and Susan Clifford for Common Ground
$14.95 US • 6 x 9 • PB • 160 pages • 9781890132255
•THE RIVER’S VOICE: An Anthology of Poetry • Edited by Angela King and Susan Clifford
$16.95 US • 6 x 9 • PB • 302 pages • 9781890132699
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Great Books by Derrick Jensen
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A LANGUAGE OLDER THAN WORDS Derrick Jensen
LISTENING TO THE LAND Conversations about Nature, Culture, and Eros Derrick Jensen
THE CULTURE OF MAKE BELIEVE Derrick Jensen
$20.00 US • PB • 9781931498562 6 x 9 • 336 pages 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.
$25.00 US • PB • 9781931498579 6 x 9 • 720 pages 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.
$20.00 US • PB • 9781931498555 6 x 9 • 412 pages At once a beautifully poetic memoir and an exploration of the various ways we live in the world, A Language Older Than Words explains violence as a pathology that touches every aspect of our lives and indeed affects all aspects of life on Earth.
“Derrick Jensen tears our illusions from us with his shocking yet graceful prose.”
—Francis Moore Lappé
THE OTHER SIDE OF DARKNESS Derrick Jensen WALKING ON WATER Reading, Writing, and Revolution Derrick Jensen WELCOME TO THE MACHINE Science, Surveillance, and the Culture of Control Derrick Jensen and George Draffan
$25.00 US • CD-Audio • 9781931498593 Here for the first time is Derrick Jensen live, recorded at several of his standingroom-only performances.
$15.00 US • PB • 9781931498784 51/2 x 81/2 • 232 pages Walking on Water is a startling and provocative look at teaching, writing, creativity, and life by a writer increasingly recognized for his passionate and articulate critique of modern civilization.
$18.00 US • PB • 9781931498524 53/8 x 83/8 • 304 pages A hard-hitting look at the way technology is used as a machine to control us and our environment.
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Great Books from the Trust for Public Lands
CONSERVATION FINANCE HANDBOOK How Communities Are Paying for Parks and Land Conservation Kim Hopper and Ernest Cook
THE GREAT REMEMBERING Peter Forbes
COMING TO LAND IN A TROUBLED WORLD Peter Forbes, Kathleen Dean Moore, and Scott R. Sanders
$21.95 US • PB • 9780967280646 6 x 9 • 156 pages The essential and trusted guide for any conservation organization for planning and winning public finance campaigns. The Conservation Finance Handbook carefully illustrates all parts of the process, including how to analyze and measure public opinion, design a winning ballot measure, and run a successful campaign.
$14.95 US • PB • 9780967280615 51/2 x 81/2 • 112 pages • B&W photographs An activist’s exploration of the meaning of land to our culture. It is a also a call to land conservationists to redefine the promise of their work as the building of relationships between land and people.
$16.95 US • PB • 9780967280691 51/2 x 81/4 • 144 pages The work of conserving land, species, and ways of life is more urgent and vital than ever before. In three powerful essays, three influential writers and thinkers explore the meaning of land conservation and community life and reflect upon the vital importance of healing divisions in culture, consumption, and the fate of our earth.
GROUNDSWELL Stories of Saving Places, Finding Community Alix W. Hopkins
$20.00 US • PB • 9781932807042 75/8 x 10 • 208 pages Written from a practitioner’s perspective, Groundswell examines a diverse set of community-supported environmental projects ranging from New York City’s Bronx to Portland, Oregon. This book will inspire you, especially if you have the passion and energy to make a difference in your community.
OUR LAND, OURSELVES Readings on People and Place Edited by Peter Forbes, Ann Ambrecht Forbes, and Helen Whybrow
THE STORY HANDBOOK Language and Storytelling for Land Conservationists Edited by Helen Whybrow
$16.95 US • PB • 9780967280608 5 x 7 • 240 pages A collection of diverse readings on the meaning of people and place—themes such as the protection of wilderness and the idea of the wild, the nature of home, the purpose of work, and the meaning of community. These voices suggest a new way of viewing land conservation as the process of building values and positively shaping human lives.
$14.95 US • PB • 9780967280622 51/2 x 81/4 • 112 pages • B&W photos Contributors Tim Ahern, William Cronon, John Elder, Peter Forbes, Barry Lopez, and Scott Russell Sanders present us with the power of stories, narratives of people and places, and how those stories can advance the work of land conservation toward creating meaningful change in our culture.
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THRILLCRAFT The Environmental Consequences of Motorized Recreation Edited by George Wuerthner
VOICES OF THE LAND
Edited by Jamie Purinton Photographs by Charles Lindsay Foreword by Michael Pollan
$60.00 US • HC • 9781933392660 113/4 x 131/4 • 312 pages • Full color Thrillcraft exposes the lasting damage done to our land, water, and air from the growing plague of jet skis, quads, dirt bikes, dune buggies, snowmobiles, and other motorized recreational craft that are penetrating the last bastions of wild America. In stark detail the book describes how offroad vehicle use is responsible for wildlife habitat fragmentation, disturbance of sensitive wildlife, soil erosion, spread of invasive weeds, loss of silence, and water and air pollution.
EDENS LOST & FOUND How Ordinary Citizens Are Restoring Our Great American Cities Harr y Wiland and Dale Bell with Joe D’Agnese
$25.00 US • HC • 9781931498500 10 x 10 • 84 pages With evocative photographs that detail the intricacies of nature, Voices of the Land encourages homeowners to be responsive to the existing character and ecology of the land as it becomes a home.
$40.00 US • HC • 9781931498890 $25.00 US • PB • 9781933392264 8 x 10 • 304 pages • Full color Focusing on Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Seattle, four cities that face vastly different challenges, Edens Lost & Found highlights the remarkable power of hope, pride, ingenuity, and chutzpah that characterize a new era of collaboration between progressive city governments and their citizens.
WHAT CAN I DO?
An Alphabet for Living Lisa Harrow Introduction by Roger Payne
HEALING LYME Natural Healing and Prevention of Lyme Borreliosis and Its Coinfections Stephen Harrod Buhner
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PINHOOK Finding Wholeness in a Fragmented Land Janisse Ray
$7.95 US • PB • 9781931498661 41/4 x 7 • 144 pages The quintessential resource and reference guide for anyone concerned about the environment and interested in learning how to make a positive impact.
$19.95 US • PB • 9780970869630 6 x 9 • 288 pages This essential guide to Lyme infection and its treatment examines the leading research and tests and outlines the most potent herbal medicines and supplements that offer help—either alone or in combination with antibiotics.
$12.00 US • PB • 9781931498746 53/8 x 83/8 • 168 pages In lyrical, down-home prose, Ray draws together Pinhook Swamp’s need for restoration and the human desire for wholeness and wildness in our own lives and landscapes. An evocative paean to wildness and wilderness restoration with an extraordinary journey into southern Georgia’s Pinhook Swamp.
Visit Lisa Harrow’s Sea Change Institute to learn more about responsible living www.seachangeinstitute.org
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CASTAWAYS The Penikese Island Experiment George Cadwalader Foreword by Robert Coles
A SHADOW AND A SONG The Struggle to Save an Endangered Species Mark Jerome Walters
$25.00 US • PB • 9781933392202 6 x 9 • 208 pages “The story of Penikese Island is a convincing antidote to TV-inspired notions about miraculous cures for troubled children. It has the ring of truth . . . There’s a lot of old-fashioned virtue in it, and I imagine most readers will feel glad, as I did, that there are people like Mr. Cadwalader around.” —Tracy Kidder, author of House
$25.00 US • PB • 9781933392561 6 x 9 • 240 pages “This wise and careful book is about two things. First, one small and engaging part of God’s creation, the dusky seaside sparrow. Second, our desire for ‘development,’ for vacation homes without mosquitoes, for ducks to hunt, and even for a trip to the moon. The bird is no more, but thanks to Mark Walters it leaves behind a powerful testimony.” —Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature
BACKTRACKING The Way of a Naturalist Ted Levin Foreword by John Hay Illustrated by Jean Waltermire
$25.00 US • PB • 9781933392547 6 x 9 • 240 pages In this collection of 16 short essays Levin intertwines biological facts, historical data, regional information, personal experience, and a dash of humor, along with a strong conservation message. “Backtracking breathes with the sort of nature writing that awakens the reader to the world around him.” —The Washington Post
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•••Other NATURE & ENVIRONMENT Titles•••
•BELIEVING CASSANDRA: An Optimist Looks at a Pessimist’s World • Alan AtKisson
THE SAFARI COMPANION A Guide to Watching African Mammals Richard D. Estes Illustrated by Daniel Otte $16.95 US • 6 x 9 • PB • 256 pages • 9781890132163 $12.95 US • CD-Audio • 13 songs • 9781890132705
•THE BIONEERS: Declarations of Interdependence • Ken Ausubel
$25.00 US • 6 x 9 • PB • 302 pages • 9781890132767
$30.00 US • PB • 9781890132446 6 x 9 • 480 pages Since its original publication in 1993, The Safari Companion has been the best field guide to observing and understanding the behavior of African mammals. An indispensable tool for naturalists traveling to Africa, this new edition has been revised to acknowledge the enthusiasm for those watching these magnificent animals at zoos and wildlife parks and on film.
•SEEING NATURE: Deliberate Encounters with the Visible World • Paul Krafel
$15.95 US • 6 x 9 • PB • 208 pages • B&W illustrations • 9781890132422
•THE NORTHERN FOREST • David Dobbs
$19.95 US • 6 x 9 • PB • 384 pages • 9780930031817
•TROUBLED WATER: Saints, Sinners, Truths and Lies about the Global Water Crisis
Edited by Anita Roddick and Brooke Shelby Biggs • B&W photographs 4 4 $17.95 US • 73/ x 81/ • PB • 144 pages • 9780954395933
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THE GORT CLOUD
The Invisible Force Powering Today’s Most Visible Green Brands
New Release
Richard Seireeni
“Green” has gone mainstream, and for many companies caring for the environment is not just a philosophy, it’s a marketing strategy. So how does a company that’s genuinely committed to green principles differentiate itself from its greenwashing competitors? 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. The result of these interviews is the “Gort Cloud”—a term coined by the author that describes the vast and largely invisible network of NGOs, trendspotters, advocacy groups, social networks, business alliances, certifying organizations, and other members of the green community that have the power to make or break new green brands. Integrating the Gort Cloud into brand development and marketing strategies is critical to the success of any aspiring green brand. This “green community” can supply technical assistance, venture capital, the first line of core customers, and tremendous “echo effect” in getting the word out quickly and inexpensively. Creating a cause, building credibility, developing a simple and compelling message, identifying core customers and sales channels, deftly playing the green alternative media, and fending off second-to-market competitors are all required to build a green brand. How these skills are put into practice will vary for each business, but Seireeni’s research points toward a set of shared characteristics and basic tenets that every business can use to build a credible and successful green brand.
Pub Date: October 2008
$24.95 US, $27.50 CAN • HC 9781603580618 6 x 9 • 240 pages
The invisible green network
Richard Seireeni is a 30-year veteran in brand consulting and marketing. He has been art director of Rolling Stone magazine, creative director of Warner Bros. Records, and cocreative director of EnterpriseIG, New York. He has managed his own consulting business, The Brand Architect Group (www.brandarchitect.com), in Los Angeles since 1984, with affiliated offices in Tokyo and Shanghai. Seireeni graduated from the University of Washington School of Architecture and is a member of the US Green Building Council. Seireeni lives in Los Angeles, California, with his wife and two children.
Millions of people connecting to green messages through thousands of green portals
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A Bee’s-Eye View of and Inquir y into the Nature of
SLOW MONEY
Woody Tasch Foreword by Carlo Petrini
New Release
“Tom Robbins meets Warren Buffett.”
—Jay Cohen Gilbert, former CEO of AND 1
Slow Money is a revolutionary view of the world of entrepreneurship, capital markets, and sustainability. In a joyous, evocative blend of poetry, fiction, and business analysis, Woody Tasch explores the disappearance of honey bees as both disturbing symptom of and perfect metaphor for the economic challenges that face us in the wake of globalization. As wealth piles up around us, we are disoriented, displaced, dizzied by the spectacular power of global markets. Our dollars, and the businesses they finance, lose their connection to place. Our imaginations, as global citizens and as investors, require a new kind of pollination. In this era of gigabytes and nanoseconds and megatons, this era of tens of billions of dollars of venture capital financing a few thousand high-tech companies each year, this era of wealthnow/philanthropy-later, we need new forms of intermediation that nurture the slow, the small, and the local. We need to dare to imagine new approaches to investing and new kinds of capital markets. We need to embrace the task of managing the transition from a commerce of extraction and consumption to a commerce of restoration and preservation. We need Slow Money. Whether you are an investor who knows, deep down, that the system is broken, a philanthropist who lies awake at night worried about where your endowment is invested, or merely a seeker after the secrets of Roulette Pajama’s FUNNY MONEY HONEY, you will find here not only food for thought but a recipe for action. Tasch asks: How can we be so rich and so poor? How can we be so powerful and so vulnerable? Can we find the courage to step off the treadmill of ever-accelerating financial markets? Can we ever find our way back home? The answers are buzzing right outside your window, right inside your heart, and on the pages of this extraordinary foraging expedition across the boundaries of nature, imagination, and finance.
Pub Date: November 2008
$21.95 US, $23.95 CAN • HC 9781603580069 5 x 8 • 208 pages • B&W illustrations
“A brilliant and indispensable guide to the crypto-ecology of funny money.” —Gregory Whitehead, treasurer, the Whitehead Foundation
Woody Tasch is chairman of Investors’ Circle, a nonprofit network of investors that, since 1992, has facilitated the flow of $121 million to 192 sustainability-minded, earlystage companies and venture funds. Woody was formerly treasurer of the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation. He is an experienced venture-capital investor and entrepreneur and has served on numerous for-profit and nonprofit boards. He was founding chairman of the Community Development Venture Capital Alliance, which supports venture investing in economically disadvantaged regions. He lives in Truchas, New Mexico, and Berkeley, California.
Slow Money is a meme. •Slow Money signals a new way of thinking about capital, from “the ground up” instead of from “markets down.” •Slow Money contains within it the query: “What would the world look like if you had to invest 50% of your assets within 50 miles of where you lived?” •Slow Money points towards a new vision of fiduciary responsibility appropriate for the emergence of restorative economics.
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FINDING THE SWEET SPOT
The Natural Entrepreneur’s Guide to Responsible, Sustainable, Joyful Work
Dave Pollard Foreword by Dave Smith
New Release
“Now what am I going to do?” is a question many people ask—and leave unanswered—at critical potential turning points in their careers. Perhaps you’re a new graduate, but instead of lining up for a boring entry-level job at a big corporation, you wish you could start your own sustainable and responsible business. Or maybe you’ve been stuck in a job you hate for a few years, but you still dream of doing the thing you love and that you’re actually good at. Or maybe you’re a boomer and you’re ready for a second career, a personal venture that will represent a total change from what you’ve spent most of your work life doing. 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. And make no mistake: our world needs your talent. The current economic system and the educational system that feeds into it have let us down and are destroying our planet. We need a blossoming of natural enterprises—connected, collaborating, and supporting ventures—to form a dynamic new natural economy. Is such a thing possible? Inventor, entrepreneur, and humanist Buckminster Fuller said: “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” Finding the Sweet Spot presents a new model. Use it to find the work you were meant to do, thereby helping to create the world we’re meant to live—and make a living—in.
Pub Date: September 2008
$17.95 US, $19.95 CAN • PB 9781933392905 6 x 9 • 240 pages • Illustrations
Dave Pollard spent twenty-seven years with Ernst & Young LLP as practice leader and advisor to entrepreneurs and then as chief knowledge officer and member of the firm’s Strategy and Innovation Group. He recently became vice president of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (the counterpart of the US AICPA), with responsibility for research and professional guidance on sustainability, entrepreneurship, and governance. His popular environmental and business blog can be found at howtosavetheworld.ca. He lives with his family in Toronto, Canada. Dave Smith is cofounder of a dozen entrepreneurial businesses and the author of To Be of Use: The Seven Seeds of Meaningful Work.
PETE MCGREGOR
What’s Needed (Your Purpose)
The Sweet Spot What You’re Good At (Your Gifts) What You Love (Your Passions)
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MORTGAGE FREE!
Rob Roy
Revised & Updated
mort•gage (mor´-gij)
n. from Old French morgage, mort gage, literally “death pledge”
Innovative Strategies for Debt-free Home Ownership
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. From back-to-the-land homesteads to country homes, here is a complete guide to strategies that allow you to own your land and home, free and clear, without the bank. Included is detailed advice about: • Clarifying and simplifying your notions of what’s necessary; • Finding land that you love and can afford; • Taking control of the house-building process, for the sake of sanity and pleasure; and • Learning to take a long-term perspective on your family’s crucial economic decisions, avoiding debt and modern-day serfdom.
Pub Date: November 2008
$24.95 US, $27.50 CAN • PB 9781603580656 6 x 9 • 368 pages • Illustrations Previous edition: 9780930031985
Praise for the previous edition of Mortgage Free!
“Rob Roy challenges another of life’s ‘givens’—that your mortgage, like your job, will last almost as long as you do. This useful book will entertain even armchair explorers of alternatives to the standard consumer life.” —Vicki Robin, coauthor of Your Money or Your Life
MARTY CAIN
Rob Roy knows what it means to live mortgage free. As director of Earthwood Building School since 1981, he has instructed many in the arts of natural building, and renewable energy. He is also the author of Earth-Sheltered Houses, Cordwood Building, Timber Framing for the Rest of Us, The Sauna, and Stone Circles. Rob and his family live in West Chazy, New York.
“Yes! It’s about time somebody put together a how-to book for shedding those chains of a 30-year mortgage. We don’t have to slump through life in bondage. We can live well AND have our freedom, and Rob Roy shows us how in this entertaining, detailed, and well-illustrated book.” —Janet Luhrs, author of The Simple Living Guide and editor and publisher of The Simple Living Journal
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COMPANIES WE KEEP
Employee Ownership and the Business of Community and Place
Revised & Updated
John Abrams Foreword by William Greider
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.” Thoroughly revised with an expanded focus on employee ownership and workplace democracy, Companies We Keep celebrates the idea that when employees share in the rewards as well as the responsibility for the decisions they make, better decisions result. This is an especially timely topic. Most of the baby boomer generation—the owners of millions of American businesses— will retire within the next two decades. In 2001, 50,000 businesses changed hands. In 2005, that number rose to 350,000. Projections call for 750,000 ownership transitions in 2009. Employee ownership—in both the philosophical and the practical sense—is gathering steam as businesses change hands, and Abrams examines some of the many ways this is done. Companies We Keep is structured around eight principles—from “Sharing Ownership” and “Cultivating Workplace Democracy” to “Thinking Like Cathedral Builders” and “Committing to the Business of Place”—that Abrams has discovered in the 32 years since he cofounded South Mountain Company on the island of Martha’s Vineyard. Together, these principles reveal communities of enterprise as a potent force of change that can—and will— improve the way Americans do business.
Pub Date: November 2008
$17.95 US, $19.95 CAN • PB 9781603580007 6 x 9 • 340 pages • Photo insert Previous edition: 9781933392196
“John Abrams tells a wonderful story, full of ideas about our society. We all need the South Mountain Company—and its human lessons.” —Anthony Lewis, New York Times columnist and Pulitzer Prize winner “Abrams’ work is a compelling and celebratory reminder that companies like South Mountain are desperately needed in a time of real estate boom and inevitable bust and the ruins left in their wake.” —Jeff Biggers, The Bloomsbury Review “One of the best, most exciting business books I have ever read.” —Anne Alexander, Authentic Alternatives Inc.
John Abrams is cofounder and CEO of South Mountain Company, a 32-year-old employee-owned design, building, and renewable-energy company on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. Business Ethics magazine awarded South Mountain its 2005 National Award for Workplace Democracy. He and his wife Chris live in a cohousing neighborhood designed and built by South Mountain on Martha’s Vineyard.
RANDI BAIRD
“John Abrams is a philosopher disguised as a businessman . . . [He] shows how we can step off the treadmill and back into life.” —Marjorie Kelly, publisher of Business Ethics
“An exceptional, insightful guide for socially conscious business.” —Midwest Book Review
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BUSINESS AS UNUSUAL Anita Roddick
THE CHALLENGE TO POWER Money, Investing, and Democracy John C. Harrington
$12.95 US • PB • 9780954395957 5 x 7 • 340 pages Anita Roddick is one of the world’s most outspoken, controversial, and successful entrepreneurs of this age. In this autobiography, Roddick charts her personal story and that of her company, the Body Shop, through all the highs and lows since 1990, examining the parallel growth of vigilante consumerism and predicting how businesses can evolve in this millennium.
$40.00 US • HC • 9781931498968 $22.50 US • PB • 9781931498975 6 x 9 • 376 pages In a brilliant synthesis of thirty years of experience, John C. Harrington gives investors the strategies to thwart corporate domination of the earth’s resources, decentralize our economy, restore democracy, tame corruption, and regain community control of our financial resources.
MID-COURSE CORRECTION Toward a Sustainable Enterprise: The Interface Model Ray Anderson
$19.95 US • PB • 9780964595354 51/2 x 81/2 • 204 pages The personal story of Ray Anderson’s realization that businesses need to embrace principles of sustainability, and of his efforts, often frustrating, to apply these principles within a billion-dollar corporation that is still measured by the standard scorecards of the business world.
•••Other ETHICAL MARKETPLACE Titles•••
•UPSIZING: The Road to Zero Emissions: More Jobs, More Income, and No Pollution • Gunter Pauli
$16.95 US • 6 x 9 • PB • 220 pages • 9781874719182
•OUT OF THE BOX: Zeri Management Stories • Gunter Pauli
$30.00 US • 53/4 x 81/4 • PB • 160 pages • 9781920019402
•GRASSROOTS MARKETING: Getting Noticed in a Noisy World • Shel Horowitz
$22.95 US • 73/4 x 10 • PB • 320 pages • 9781890132682
• B&W illustrations • B&W diagrams
•MONEY: Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender • Thomas Greco
$19.95 US • 6 x 9 • PB • 320 pages • 9781890132378
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Dispatches from the World of Fair Trade Coffee Dean Cycon Second only to oil in terms of its value, the coffee trade is complex, with several levels of middlemen removing the 28 million growers in 50 distant countries far from you and your morning cup. Cycon changes that in this compelling book, taking the reader on a tour of ten countries in nine chapters with his passionate eye and unique perspective. Cycon, who is himself an amalgam—equal parts entrepreneur, activist, and mischievous explorer—has traveled extensively throughout the world’s tropical coffee lands and shows readers places and people that few if any outsiders have ever seen.
“Who would have thought that a cup of coffee contained World Bank schemes, indigenous rights, third-world women’s empowerment and a wide range of globalization issues? Dean Cycon reveals the worlds within worlds of coffee that have to make us think about the choices we make at the supermarket or café.”
—Susan Sarandon, actress and activist
$19.95 US • PB • 9781933392707 6 x 9 • 272 pages • B&W and color photos
“Javatrekker is a great book for anyone who wants to know what is really going on in their morning cup.”
—Rigoberta Menchu, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
To learn more about Dean’s Beans visit www.deansbeans.com
“Coffee is god to many of us in the morning, and yet, we know so little about its history and present issues. Linking coffee drinkers to the communities is the work of Dean Cycon in an animated, vital and forever engaging manner.”
—Winona LaDuke, indigenous rights activist, author of All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life and Recovering the Sacred
ETHICAL MARKETS Growing the Green Economy Hazel Henderson with Simran Sethi Foreword by L. Hunter Lovins
$30.00 US • PB • 9781933392233 7 x 10 • 300 pages
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, her profiles celebrate those who have led the highly successful growth of green businesses around the world. “If you want good news on where the world is heading, read this book.” —Marjorie Kelly, author of The Divine Right of Capital and cofounder of Business Ethics magazine
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A Primer
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THINKING IN SYSTEMS
Donella Meadows Edited by Diana Wright, Sustainability Institute
New Release
In the years following her role as the lead author of the international bestseller, Limits to Growth—the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet— Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in 2001. Meadows’ newly released manuscript, Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Edited by the Sustainability Institute’s Diana Wright, this essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world, showing readers how to develop the systems-thinking skills that thought leaders across the globe consider critical for 21st-century life. Some of the biggest problems facing the world—war, hunger, poverty, and environmental degradation—are essentially system failures. They cannot be solved by fixing one piece in isolation from the others, because even seemingly minor details have enormous power to undermine the best efforts of too-narrow thinking. While readers will learn the conceptual tools and methods of systems thinking, the heart of the book is grander than methodology. Donella Meadows was known as much for nurturing positive outcomes as she was for delving into the science behind global dilemmas. She reminds readers to pay attention to what is important, not just what is quantifiable, to stay humble, and to stay a learner. In a world growing ever more complicated, crowded, and interdependent, Thinking in Systems helps readers avoid confusion and helplessness, the first step toward finding proactive and effective solutions.
Pub Date: December 2008
$19.95 US, $21.95 CAN • PB 9781603580557 6 x 9 • 240 pages • Diagrams
“Thinking in Systems is required reading for anyone hoping to run a successful company, community, or country. Learning how to think in systems is now part of change-agent literacy. And this is the best book of its kind.”
—Hunter Lovins, founder and President of Natural Capital Solutions and co-author of Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
•••Also by DONELLA MEADOWS•••
LIMITS TO GROWTH
The 30-Year Update Donella H. Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and Dennis Meadows
$22.50 US • PB • 9781931498586 6 x 9 • 386 pages $20.00 US • CD • 9781931498852 $42.50 US • PB & CD Set • 9781931498869
In 1972, three scientists from MIT created a computer model that analyzed global resource consumption and production. Their results shocked the world and created stirring conversation about global “overshoot,” or resource use beyond the carrying capacity of the planet. Now, preeminent environmental scientists Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and Dennis Meadows have teamed up again to update and expand their original findings in Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update. Written in refreshingly accessible prose, Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update is a long-anticipated revival of some of the original voices in the growing chorus of sustainability. Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update is a work of stunning intelligence that will expose for humanity the hazy but critical line between human growth and human development.
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Donella Meadows
A Thinker Ahead of Her Time
woman whose pioneering work in the 1970s still makes front-page news, Donella Meadows was a scientist, author, teacher, and farmer widely considered ahead of her time. She was one of the world’s foremost systems analysts and lead author of the influential Limits to Growth—the 1972 book on global trends in population, economics, and the environment that was translated into 28 languages and became an international bestseller. That book launched a worldwide debate on the earth’s capacity to withstand constant human development and expansion. Twenty years later, she and co-authors Dennis Meadows and Jørgen Randers reported on their follow-up study in Beyond the Limits and a final revision of their research, Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update, was published in 2004. Meadows’ work as a scientist, communicator, and leader in the sustainability movement earned her a MacArthur Foundation “genius” award, recognition as a Pew Scholar in Conservation and the Environment, and many
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other top honors from organizations like the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and the Conservation Law Foundation. To many, Meadows is most remembered for her weekly, nationally syndicated column, “The Global Citizen,” which ran for 16 years and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Dana, as she was known to friends, was also an inspired teacher of environmental systems, ethics, and journalism at Dartmouth College, not far from the small town where she lived on and managed an organic farm. She was the founder of the Sustainability Institute, cofounder of the International Network of Resource Information Centers (INRIC, also called the Balaton Group), and a generally recognized leader in getting people at all levels of society, government, and business to think differently, understand systems, and strive for sustainability. She died unexpectedly in 2001 while she was finishing Thinking in Systems.
MEDORA HEBERT, VALLEY NEWS
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New Frontiers in Science from Sciencewriters
NOTES FROM THE HOLOCENE A Brief History of the Future Dorion Sagan $14.95 US • PB • 9781933392325 51/2 x 81/2 • 224 pages
THE HAPPINESS TRIP Eduardo Punset Foreword by Antonio Damasio $12.95 US • PB • 9781933392448 51/2 x 81/2 • 160 pages
Sagan uses his knowledge of philosophy, science, sleight-of-hand magic, and the fantastical writings of Philip K. Dick to explore some of the deepest questions we face on Earth.
A lucid and passionate approach to the most recent discoveries in the science of happiness and its conditioning factors.
ANIMATE EARTH Science, Intuition, and Gaia Stephan Harding Foreword by Lynn Margulis $25.00 US • PB • 9781933392295 6 x 9 • 256 pages
Harding incorporates formal philosophy, spirituality, and hard science and provides a lively introduction to carbon cycles, biodiversity, microbial life, and other planetary ecology concepts.
MIND, LIFE, AND UNIVERSE Conversations with Great Scientists of Our Time Edited by Lynn Margulis and Eduardo Punset Foreword by David Suzuki $35.00 US • HC • 9781933392615 $21.95 US • PB • 9781933392431 6 x 9 • 358 pages
DAZZLE GRADUALLY Reflections on the Nature of Nature Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan $25.00 US • PB • 9781933392318 6 x 9 • 260 pages
Luminous Fish Tales of Science and Love Lynn Margulis $21.95 US • PB • 9781933392332 51/4 x 8 • 180 pages
Two of today’s most creative minds in science and science writing collect their most intriguing essays, covering a wide range of topics.
“A book full of nuggets of wisdom.” —David Baltimore, Nobel Laureate and president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Linked stories reveal science from the inside—its thrills, disappointments, and triumphs—portraying the poor judgment, exhaustion, and life-threatening dedication of scientists.
•••Other SCIENCE/SCIENCEWRITERS Titles•••
Sciencewriter’s Books is an exciting new imprint aimed at developing outstanding works of science for the general public. It is codirected by Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan, founders of Sciencewriters, an educational partnership devoted to advancing science through enchantment in the form of the finest possible books, videos, and media.
•THE LOST TAPES OF IAN MCHARG:
Collaboration with Nature, Ecological Planning Lecture
Ian McHarg • Edited by Lynn Margulis, Adam MacConnell, and James MacAllister • $30.00 US • CD-Audio
74 Min • 14 Tracks • 9781933392301
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FRESH FOOD FROM SMALL SPACES
The Square-Inch Gardener’s Guide to Year-Round Growing, Fermenting, and Sprouting R. J. Ruppenthal
New Release
Books on container gardening have been wildly popular with urban and suburban readers, but until now, there has been no comprehensive “how-to” guide for growing fresh food in the absence of open land. Fresh Food from Small Spaces fills the gap as a practical, comprehensive, and downright fun guide to growing food in small spaces. It provides readers with the knowledge and skills necessary to produce their own fresh vegetables, mushrooms, sprouts, and fermented foods as well as to raise bees and chickens—all without reliance on energy-intensive systems like indoor lighting and hydroponics. 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. With this book as a guide, people living in apartments, condominiums, townhouses, and single-family homes will be able to grow up to 20 percent of their own fresh food using a combination of traditional gardening methods and space-saving techniques such as reflected lighting and container “terracing.” Those with access to yards can produce even more.
Pub Date: November 2008
$24.95 US, $27.50 CAN • PB 9781603580281 7 x 10 • 240 pages • Illustrations
Author R. J. Ruppenthal worked on an organic vegetable farm in his youth, but his expertise in urban and indoor gardening has been hard-won through years of trial-and-error experience. In the small city homes where he has lived, often with no more than a balcony, windowsill, and countertop for gardening, Ruppenthal and his family have been able to eat at least some homegrown food 365 days per year. In an era of declining resources and environmental disruption, Ruppenthal shows that even urban dwellers can contribute to a rebirth of local, fresh foods.
A licensed attorney and college professor, R. J. Ruppenthal has never given up on his gardening passion, even when his day jobs led him to a more urban life. He currently teaches at Evergreen Valley College in San Jose, California, and lives and gardens in the San Francisco Bay area.
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Will Allen
gardening & agriculture
THE WAR ON BUGS
Recently Published
In the early nineteenth century, as the American population grew rapidly, the demand for crop output also increased. Seeing an opportunity to play upon fears of shortages, chemical companies declared war on the vile, profit-sucking, output-wrecking, archenemy of the average American farmer—bugs. Pesticide manufacturers delivered a “shock and awe” media campaign: bugs were a mortal threat to the American dream, and there was a cure available to every farmer in spray, granule, dust, or systemic form. Akin to seminal works on the topic like Sinclair’s The Jungle, Kallet and Schlink’s 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs, and Carson’s Silent Spring, The War on Bugs is richly illustrated with dozens of original advertisements and promotions. Allen details both the chemical industry’s relentless efforts to promote its products and the recurring waves of outrage and resistance by generations of consumers and activists struggling against toxic food, a struggle highlighted in today’s headlines but with deep roots in the long rise of corporate agriculture.
$35.00 US • PB • 9781933392462 9 x 9 • 298 pages • Two-color throughout
“The War on Bugs is must reading for organic consumers and every concerned citizen.” —Ronnie Cummins, national director, Organic Consumers Association
“In 1984, when the gas leak from Union Carbide’s pesticide plant in Bhopal killed thousands, I asked myself why agriculture had become like war. In The War on Bugs, Will Allen tells us why. Whether you care about the bugs or the food you grow or eat, this is a book you must read. It will help us all move from violent agriculture to a non-violent agriculture which protects all life and our health.” —Dr. Vandana Shiva, author of Stolen Harvest and Biopiracy
SHARING THE HARVEST
A Citizen’s Guide to Community Supported Agriculture Elizabeth Henderson with Robyn Van En Foreword by Joan Dye Gussow
Revised and Expanded
To an increasing number of American families, the CSA (community-supported agriculture) is the answer to the globalization of our food supply. The premise is simple: create a partnership between local farmers and nearby consumers, who become members or subscribers in support of the farm. In exchange for paying in advance—at the beginning of the growing season, when the farm needs financing—CSA members receive the freshest, healthiest produce throughout the season and keep money, jobs, and farms in their own community. 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. Sharing the Harvest continues to lead the way toward a revitalized agriculture.
“Community Supported Agriculture has the possibility, even the likelihood, of transforming community, farming, eating, and economics in the U.S. Elizabeth Henderson’s update of Sharing the Harvest offers timely tools for keeping this evolutionary movement on track.” —“Farmer John” Peterson, Angelic Organics
$35.00 US • PB • 9781933392103 8 x 10 • 320 pages • Illustrations
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Recently RENEWING AMERICA’S FOOD TRADITIONS Published Saving and Savoring the Continent’s Most Endangered Foods
Edited by Gar y Paul Nabhan Foreword by Deborah Madison
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. While offering a eulogy to a once-common game food that has gone extinct—the passenger pigeon—the book doesn’t dwell on tragic losses. Instead, it highlights the success stories of food recovery, habitat restoration, and market revitalization that chefs, farmers, ranchers, fishermen, and foresters have recently achieved. Through such “food parables,” editor Gary Paul Nabhan and his colleagues build a persuasive argument for eater-based conservation. In addition, this book offers the first-ever list of foods at risk in America (more than a thousand), shows how all of us can personally support and participate in such recoveries, and lists food festivals held across the continent to honor and enjoy some of the country’s most iconic foods, from crab cakes to maple syrup and filé gumbo. Organized by “food nations” named for the ecological and cultural keystone foods of each region—Salmon Nation, Bison Nation, and Chile Pepper Nation, among others—this book offers an altogether fresh perspective on the culinary traditions of North America.
$35.00 US • PB • 9781933392899 9 x 9 • 320 pages • Color illustrations
“If you’re going to buy a single book about American food, buy this one. Knowledge is everything. I’m grateful to the authors and publishers of this vital book for making knowing, saving and savoring one and the same action.” —Betty Fussell, author of The Story of Corn and Raising Steaks
Gary Paul Nabhan, Ph.D., is a writer, lecturer, and world-renowned conservation scientist. He is the outgoing director of the Center for Sustainable Environments at Northern Arizona University and the author of more than ten books, including Coming Home to Eat: The Pleasures and Politics of Local Foods and Arab/American: Landscape, Culture, and Cuisine in Two Great Deserts. The co-leader of a Slow Food convivium, Deborah Madison has also served on the Slow Foods ARK and Presidia Committee and on the board of the Slow Food Foundation for BioDiversity. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including Cooking Light, WilliamsSonoma Taste, Vegetarian Times, Gourmet, Food and Wine, Bon Appetit, Orion, and others. She lives in the village of Galisteo, New Mexico, with her husband, painter Patrick McFarlin.
“We are threatened with the loss of productive agricultural lands and farmers, and the productive species that feed our bodies and souls. This book shows the importance of food as the essential bond between what we eat and who we are. A must read for everyone who cares about food and the land from whence it comes. Great recipes, too!”
—Patrick F. O'Toole, rancher and president of the Family Farm Alliance
“Nabhan and his colleagues honor all of us who grow food with a sense of gratitude for our ancestors from the human, plant and animal worlds.”
—David Mas Masumoto, farmer and author of Epitaph for a Peach
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THE FLOWER FARMER
An Organic Grower’s Guide to Raising and Selling Cut Flowers, Revised and Expanded Lynn Byczynski
Recently Published
The domestic cut-flower business has experienced a renaissance in the past decade, thanks in large part to the first edition of The Flower Farmer: An Organic Grower’s Guide to Raising and Selling Cut Flowers, which helped thousands of small growers start successful businesses. This newly expanded and thoroughly revised edition will be equally influential for novices and experienced growers alike. With the cut-flower business growing at record rates, demand is at an all-time high, challenging growers to take advantage of new techniques to prolong the harvest. New sections on utilizing greenhouses, recommendations for flower cultivars, and postharvest handling for growers throughout all of North America will help improve their bottom line. Also updated is the acclaimed resource directory, complete with sources of seeds, plants, and supplies, and expert information on organic production under the National Organic Program. For the beginner and backyard gardener, there is an extensive section on the basics—variety selection, soil preparation, planting, cultivation, harvest, and floral design. For the commercial grower, The Flower Farmer includes information about larger-scale production, plus advice about selling to florists, wholesalers, supermarkets, and brides, at farmers’ markets, and more. Also includes revised profiles of successful growers, offering behind-the-scenes insight into the operation of some of the cutting-edge flower farmers in the country.
$35.00 US • PB • 9781933392653 8 x 10 • 284 pages • Full color
2008 American Horticulture Award
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PERENNIAL VEGETABLES From Artichokes to ‘Zuiki’ Taro, a Gardener’s Guide to Over 100 Delicious and Easy-to-Grow Edibles Eric Toensmeier
FOOD NOT LAWNS How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden and Your Neighboorhood into a Community Heather C. Flores
$35.00 US • PB • 9781931498401 8 x 10 • 256 pages • 80 illustrations • Full color In this groundbreaking and groundhealing new book, author and plant specialist Eric Toensmeier (Edible Forest Gardens) introduces gardeners to a world of little-known and wholly underappreciated vegetable plants that require little maintenance yet produce in abundance season after season.
$25.00 US • PB • 9781933392073 8 x 10 • 352 pages • Full color Combines practical wisdom on ecological design and community building with a fresh, green perspective on an age-old subject. Activist and urban gardener Heather Flores shares her nine-step permaculture design to help farmsteaders and city dwellers alike build fertile soil, promote biodiversity, and increase natural habitat in their own “paradise gardens.”
RAINWATER HARVESTING FOR DRYLANDS Vol. I: Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life and Landscape Vol. II: Water-Harvesting Earthworks Brad Lancaster
Vol. I • $24.95 US • PB • 9780977246403 81/2 x 11 • 200 pages Vol. II • $32.95 US • PB • 9780977246410 81/2 x 11 • 336 pages These guides enable you to assess your on-site resources, give you a diverse array of strategies to maximize their potential, and empower you with guiding principles to create an integrated, multifunctional water-harvesting plan.
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SALAD LEAVES FOR ALL SEASONS Organic Growing from Pot to Plot Charles Dowding Pub Date: July 2008
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HOW TO STORE YOUR GARDEN PRODUCE The Key to Self-Sufficiency
Revised Edition
Piers Warren Pub Date: July 2008
$22.00 US • PB • 9781900322201 6 x 9 • 234 pages • 32-page color signature GREEN BOOKS
$14.95 US • PB • 9781900322171 8 x 10 • 128 pages • 8-page color signature GREEN BOOKS
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 in a garden. Here is all the information you need for productive, healthy, and tasty salads.
How to Store Your Garden Produce: The Key to Self-Sufficiency has been completely revised and is the modern guide to storing and preserving your garden produce, enabling you to eat homegrown goodness all year round. Learn simple and enjoyable techniques for storing your produce and embrace the wonderful world of self-sufficiency.
“This is the number one book for anyone who loves salads.” —Anna Pavord
“Ever y serious organic gardener should have a copy.” —Organic Gardening
THE VEGETABLE GROWERS HANDBOOK Frank Tozer Pub Date: July 2008
THE ORGANIC GARDENERS HANDBOOK Frank Tozer Pub Date: July 2008
$22.95 US • PB • 9780977348930 8 x 11 • 192 pages • B&W illustrations GREEN MAN
$24.95 US • PB • 9780977348916 8 x 11 • 280 pages • B&W illustrations GREEN MAN
This highly practical book contains all the information you need to successfully grow more than 50 common vegetables. There are specific step-by-step instructions for each crop: soil requirements, variety selection, raising transplants, direct sowing, protection, harvesting, seed saving, and storage. A book with imagination, it also discusses many unusual crops, culinary herbs, and more. The Vegetable Growers Handbook is the companion to The Organic Gardeners Handbook.
Combining European tradition with American creativity, The Organic Gardeners Handbook 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, including soil dynamics, soil management, cultivation, composting, crop planning, raising seedlings, watering, harvesting, seed saving, greenhouses, and much more. A book that will soon be covered in dirty fingerprints, The Organic Gardeners Handbook is a companion to The Vegetable Growers Handbook.
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ROOTS DEMYSTIFIED
Change Your Gardening Habits to Help Roots Thrive Robert Kourik 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 actually grow while correcting common errors in the application of water, mulch, and fertilizer or compost. This is the first and only gardening book in print about what happens underground, and it contains an extensive number of illustrations of garden and orchard roots. The roots discussed 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.
Recently Published
“A rare combination of firsthand observation, research, humor, and the author’s practicality makes for a refreshingly original look at roots.” —Joy Larkcom, author of Grow Your Own Vegetables “What a book! Robert Kourik’s underground pursuit has unearthed a great treasure, a guide both wondrous and eminently practical.” —Roger Swain, science editor at Horticulture magazine and host of PBS’s The Victory Garden “Everyone needs a better sense of his or her roots, and Roots Demystified will help a lot.” —John Jeavons, author of How to Grow More Vegetables
$25.00 US • PB • 9780961584832 8 x 11 • 176 pages • B&W illustrations METAMORPHIC PRESS
DESIGNING AND MAINTAINING YOUR EDIBLE LANDSCAPE NATURALLY Robert Kourik Foreword by Rosalind Creasy Edited by Mark Kane
THE PERMACULTURE GARDEN
Graham Bell Illustrated by Sarah Bunker
$25.00 US • PB • 9781856230278 6 x 9 • 172 pages Working entirely in harmony with nature, this practical guide shows you how to turn a bare plot into a beautiful and productive garden. Illustrates how to plan your garden, save time and effort weeding, recycle materials, and create year-round harvests, all within an organic framework.
THE PERMACULTURE WAY Practical Steps to Create a Self-Sustaining World Graham Bell Introduction by Bill Mollison Foreword by David Belamy
$49.95 US • PB • 9781856230261 81/4 x 11 • 382 pages The authoritative text on edible landscaping, featuring a step-by-step guide to designing a productive environment using vegetables, fruits, flowers, and herbs for a combination of ornamental and culinary purposes.
$29.95 US • PB • 9781856230285 6 x 9 • 240 pages Illustrates how to consciously design a lifestyle that is low in environmental impact and highly productive by making the most of resources, minimizing their waste and maximizing their potential.
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EDIBLE FOREST GARDENS, VOL. ONE Ecological Vision and Theory for Temperate Climate Permaculture
HOW TO MAKE A FOREST GARDEN Patrick Whitefield
FOREST GARDENING Cultivating an Edible Landscape Robert Hart
$75.00 US • HC • 9781931498791 8 x 10 • 396 pages • Full color
EDIBLE FOREST GARDENS, VOL. TWO Ecological Design and Practice for Temperate Climate Permaculture
$29.95 US • PB • 9781856230087 8 x 11 • 184 pages
This highly practical and inspiring book gives you the knowledge to create a beautiful, highly sustainable, and productive forest garden, including layout, plant selection, step-by-step installation guide, and numerous resource lists.
$25.00 US • PB • 9780930031848 6 x 9 • 256 pages
Robert Hart blends history, philosophy, anthropology, and seasonal gardening wisdom in a lucid sequence of essays, which together comprise a remarkable testament to the pleasures of hands-off as well as hands-on gardening.
$75.00 US • HC • 9781931498807 8 x 10 • 672 pages
Dave Jacke with Eric Toensmeier
Edible Forest Gardens is a groundbreaking two-volume tome that explores the key concepts of forest ecology and applies them to the needs of natural gardeners in temperate climates. Volume 1 develops the vision of the forest garden and explains the basic ecological principles that make it work. Volume 2 moves forward with concrete ways to design, establish, and maintain your own forest garden. Case studies and examples appear throughout, as well as tables, illustrations, and a uniquely valuable “plant matrix” that lists hundreds of the best edible and useful species. Taken together, the two volumes of Edible Forest Gardens offer an advanced course in ecological gardening—one that will forever change the way you look at plants and your environment.
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PERMACULTURE Principles & Pathways Beyond Sustainability David Holmgren
•HEPBURN PERMACULTURE GARDENS:
Ten Years of Sustainable Living David Holmgren • B&W photos & illustrations $39.00 US • 17 x 12 • PB • 61 pages 9780646269900
$30.00 US • PB • 9780646418445 7 x 91/2 • 320 pages
For anyone seriously interested in understanding the foundations of sustainable design and culture, this book is essential reading. More fundamental and distilled than Mollison’s encyclopedic A Designers’ Manual and with refreshing perspectives on a range of environmental issues.
•PERMACULTURE PLANTS: A Selection
Jeff Nugent and Julia Boniface • $29.95 US
81/4 x 113/4 • PB • 160 pages 9781856230292
$150.00 US • 9781890132606
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GAIA’S GARDEN A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture Toby Hemenway Foreword by John Todd
THE BASICS OF PERMACULTURE DESIGN Ross Mars Illustrated by Martin Ducker
GETTING STARTED IN PERMACULTURE Ross and Jenny Mars
$24.95 US • PB • 9781890132521 8 x 10 • 240 pages
A wonderful addition to any gardener’s library; details how to create a low-maintenance, nearly self-sustaining permaculture garden, complete with plant selection, requirements, and maintenance guidelines. Illustrated with beautiful color photos.
$25.00 US • PB • 9781856230230 65/8 x 95/8 • 200 pages
A useful guide for designers and gardening enthusiasts, packed with tips, clear illustrations, and a wealth of experience to guide you through designs for gardens, urban and rural properties, water-harvesting systems, animal systems, and space challenges from patios to ecovillages.
$14.95 US • PB • 9781856230353 7 x 10 • 96 pages • B&W photos
Permaculture experts Ross and Jenny Mars outline the steps to transform your garden into a productive living system. Modeled upon the development of Candlelight Farm and illustrated with photographs, this guide encourages the reader to make postive steps toward reconciling human impact with nature—following the permaculture ideal.
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THE EARTH CARE MANUAL A Permaculture Handbook for Britain & Other Temperate Climates Patrick Whitefield
ECOLOGICAL AQUACULTURE A Sustainable Solution Laurence Hutchinson
•THE WOODLAND WAY:
$75.00 US • HC • 9781856230216 81/4 x 115/8 • 482 pages
The long-awaited exploration of permaculture specifically for cooler Northern Hemisphere climates, accessible to the curious novice and essential for the knowledgeable practitioner. Expanded to include many aspects of permaculture, from community design to energy use and all that is sustainable.
$45.00 US • HC • 9781856230322 81/4 x 113/4 • 160 pages
Offers a design framework for successful, selfsustaining ecological aquaculture in all but the most extreme climates and regions. A groundbreaking work of ideas and practices for those interested in environmental management and aquatic ecosystem enhancement and repair.
A Permaculture Approach to Sustainable Woodland Management Ben Law • $30.00 US • 6.5 x 9 • PB 272 pages • 9781856230094
•GROWING UNUSUAL VEGETABLES:
Weird and Wonderful Vegetables and How to Grow Them Simon Hickmott • 90 B&W illustrations $31.95 US • 61/2 x 73/4 • PB 268 pages • 9781899233113
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NATURAL BEEKEEPING
Organic Approaches to Modern Apiculture Ross Conrad Foreword by Gar y Paul Nabhan
$35.00 US • PB • 9781933392080 8 x 10 • 256 pages • B&W illustrations
Long-term solutions for healthy beehives
Beekeepers today face unprecedented challenges. Newly introduced pests like the destructive varroa mite have made chemical treatment of hives standard practice, but pest resistance is building, which in turn creates demand for new and ever-more-toxic chemicals. In fact, there is evidence that chemical treatments are making the problem worse. In 2006 some large beekeepers found that many of their colonies had simply “collapsed,” with no indication as to why the bees had died or disappeared. Natural Beekeeping offers a holistic, sensible alternative to conventional practices by proposing a program of natural hive management. Author Ross Conrad brings together the best “do no harm” strategies to keeping honeybees healthy and productive. Readers will learn about nontoxic methods of controlling mites, eliminating American foulbrood disease (without the use of antibiotics), selective breeding for naturally resistant bees, and many other tips and techniques for maintaining healthy hives. Specific concepts and detailed management techniques are covered in a thoughtful, matter-of-fact way.
THE APPLE GROWER A Guide for the Organic Orchardist Revised and Expanded Michael Phillips
$40.00 US • PB • 9781931498913 8 x 10 • 320 pages • Full color This new edition of wide acclaim delves deep into the mysteries of growing good fruit with minimal inputs. Cutting-edge topics include the use of kaolin clay against curculio and borers and creating a diverse and healthy orchard ecosystem through understory management.
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THE GRAPE GROWER A Guide to Organic Viticulture Lon Rombough
$35.00 US • PB • 9781890132828 8 x 10 • 304 pages • B&W and color photos Presents a radical alternative to conventional woodland management that creates biodiverse, healthy environments, yields a great variety of value-added products, provides a secure livelihood for woodland workers and farmers, and benefits the local community.
THE BACKYARD ORCHARDIST A Complete Guide to Growing Fruit Trees in the Home Garden Stella Otto
MAD SHEEP The True Story behind the USDA’s War on a Family Farm Linda Faillace Foreword by Ronnie Cummins
$15.95 US • PB • 9780963452030 6 x 9 • 250 pages
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THE BACKYARD BERRY BOOK A Hands-On Guide to Growing Berries, Brambles, and Vine Fruit in the Home Garden Stella Otto
$25.00 US • HC • 9781933392097 $17.95 US • PB • 9781933392769 51/2 x 81/2 • 336 pages SACRIFICIAL LAMBS DVD; see page 69. In the mid-1990s Linda and Larry Faillace had a dream to breed sheep and make cheese on their Vermont farm. They did the research, worked hard, and followed the rules, but just like that, their dream turned into a nightmare.
$16.95 US • PB • 9780963452061 6 x 9 • 288 pages
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HOLY COWS & HOG HEAVEN The Food Buyer’s Guide to Farm Friendly Food Joel F. Salatin YOU CAN FARM The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Start and Succeed in a Farming Enterprise Joel F. Salatin
EVERYTHING I WANT TO DO IS ILLEGAL War Stories from the Local Food Front Joel F. Salatin
$23.95 US • PB • 9780963810953 6 x 9 • 352 pages Drawing upon 40 years of experience as an ecological farmer and marketer, Joel Salatin explains with humor and passion why Americans do not have the freedom to choose the food they purchase and eat. From child labor regulations to food inspection, bureaucrats provide themselves sole discretion over what food is available in the local marketplace.
$17.95 US • PB • 9780963810946 6 x 9 • 160 pages Tackling issues from farmer integrity to consumer kitchens to cultural cheap food policies, Salatin puts producers and patrons on the same team to create a farm-friendly food landscape, encouraging every food buyer to embrace the notion that menus are a conscious decision.
$35.00 US • PB • 9780963810922 6 x 9 • 480 pages A motivational and revealing look into making your dream of starting and operating a small-scale farm a reality. Assesses the true pros and cons and enables readers to decide if the agrientrepreneur lifestyle is right for them.
“One of the greatest assets of a farm is the sheer ecstasy of life.”
—Joel Salatin, as quoted by Michael Pollan in The Omnivore’s Dilemma
PASTURED POULTRY PROFIT$ Joel F. Salatin
SALAD BAR BEEF Joel F. Salatin
$35.00 US • PB • 9780963810908 6 x 9 • 334 pages A unique guide detailing all aspects of starting, operating, and profiting in smallscale, pasture-based poultry farming, one of the only types of small farming that continually shows strong economic results.
$35.00 US • PB • 9780963810915 6 x 9 • 334 pages A survey of a new entrepreneurial cattleraising business model that offers hope to rural communities, to struggling row-crop farmers, and to frustrated beef eaters who do not want to encourage desertification, air and water pollution, environmental degradation, and inhumane animal treatment.
FAMILY FRIENDLY FARMING A Multigenerational Home-Based Business Testament Joel F. Salatin
$35.00 US • PB • 9780963810939 6 x 9 • 350 pages A unique perspective on starting and operating a family farm or business, coupled with reflections on traditional family values.
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“I know of no other person . . . who can produce better results on the land with an economy of effort and means than Eliot.” —Paul Hawken
FOUR-SEASON HARVEST Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long Eliot Coleman Illustrated by Kathy Bray Foreword by Barbara Damrosch
THE NEW ORGANIC GROWER A Master’s Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener Eliot Coleman Illustrated by Sheri Amsel and Molly Cook Field
$24.95 US • PB • 9781890132279 8 x 10 • 236 pages
$24.95 US • PB • 9780930031756 8 x 10 • 512 pages
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If you love the joys of eating home-garden vegetables but always thought those joys had to stop at the end of summer, this book is for you. Eliot Coleman introduces the surprising fact that most of the United States has more winter sunshine than the south of France, and he shows how North American gardeners can successfully use that sun to raise a wide variety of traditional winter vegetables in backyard cold frames and plastic-covered tunnel greenhouses without supplementary heat. Four-Season Harvest will have you feasting on fresh produce from your garden all through the winter.
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Master grower Eliot Coleman presents the simplest and most sustainable ways of growing top-quality organic vegetables with practical information on marketing the harvest, equipment, and techniques for the long-term health of the soil. With more than 45,000 copies sold since 1988, The New Organic Grower has become a modern classic. Written for the serious gardener or small market farmer, this book proves that, in terms of both efficiency and profitability, smaller can be better.
ORGANIC GARDENING The Natural No-Dig Way Charles Dowding
GROWING GREEN Animal-Free Organic Techniques Jenny Hall and Iain Tolhurst
$22.00 US • PB • 9781903998915 6 x 9 • 224 pages • B&W illustrations Based on his experience of a system of permanent, slightly raised beds, author Charles Dowding takes you through a delicious variety of fruits and vegetables: what to choose, when to plant and harvest, and how best to avoid pests and diseases. Organic Gardening includes recipes to inspire you to culinary heights with your fresh-picked produce.
$35.00 US • PB • 9781933392493 8 x 10 • 320 pages The essential guide to stock-free organic farming, perfect for absolute beginners as well as experienced professionals. Details how growers can abandon the use of animal by-products and be rewarded with healthier crops and fewer pests.
THIS ORGANIC LIFE Confessions of a Suburban Homesteader Joan Dye Gussow
$19.95 US • PB • 9781931498241 6 x 9 • 240 pages Joan Dye Gussow is a suburbanite with a green thumb, a feisty, defiant spirit, and a relentlessly positive outlook. Join her as she shares her ponderings and sets a delightful example for those of us who seek the healthiest, most pleasurable lifestyle within an environment determined to propel us in the opposite direction.
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BREED YOUR OWN VEGETABLE VARIETIES The Gardener’s and Farmer’s Guide to Plant Breeding and Seed Saving Carol Deppe
GARDEN SEED INVENTORY Inventory of Seed Catalogs Listing All Non-Hybrid Vegetable Seeds Available in the United States and Canada Edited by Kent Whealy
SEED TO SEED, 2nd edition Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners Suzanne Ashworth Foreword by Kent Whealy
$27.95 US • PB • 9781890132729 71/2 x 91/4 • 384 pages Authoritative and easy to understand, this is the only guide to plant breeding and seed saving for the serious home gardener and the small-scale farmer or commercial grower. Delves into breeding techniques, seed saving, variety trails, and organic performance.
$26.00 US • PB • 9781882424603 81/2 x 11 • 504 pages An invitation to rediscover our nation’s rich vegetable legacy brought to this country by immigrants or developed here by farmers and breeders for superior taste, regional adaptability, disease resistance, and other virtues.
$24.95 US • PB • 9781882424580 8 x 11 • 228 pages A complete seed-saving guide that describes specific techniques for saving the seeds of 160 different vegetables. Contains detailed information, including botanical classification, flower structure and means of pollination, required population size, isolation distance, and techniques for caging or hand-pollination, and also the proper methods for harvesting, drying, cleaning, and storing seeds.
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THE HUMANURE HANDBOOK A Guide to Composting Human Manure Joseph C. Jenkins
$25.00 US • PB • 9780964425835 6 x 9 • 256 pages There are almost seven billion defecating people on Earth, but few have any clue about how to constructively handle the burgeoning mountain of crap. The Humanure Handbook will amuse you, educate you, and possibly offend you, but it will certainly pertain to you.
WORMS EAT MY GARBAGE, 2nd edition How to Set Up and Maintain a Worm Composting System Mar y Appelhof
•WORMS EAT OUR GARBAGE:
Classroom Activities for a Better Environment Mary Appelhof and Mary Frances Fenton • $22.95 US 81/2 x 11 • PB • 9780977804504
$12.95 US • PB • 9780977804511 51/2 x 8 • 162 pages A complete illustrated guide to setting up and maintaining small-scale worm composting systems. Topics include bin types, worm species, reproduction, care and feeding of worms, harvesting, and making finished organic potting soil.
•THE WORM CAFE: Mid-Scale
Vermicomposting of Lunchroom Wastes
Binet Payne • Line art • Technical illustrations
$29.95 US • 81/2 x 11 • PB • 200 pages 9780942256116
•THE TOILET PAPERS: Recycling Waste and
Conserving Water • Sim Van Der Ryn B&W photos, diagrams, and plans $14.00 US • 6 x 9 • PB • 124 pages 9781890132583
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THE HERBALIST’S WAY The Art and Practice of Healing with Plant Medicines Nancy Phillips & Michael Phillips Foreword by Rosemar y Gladstar
THE LOST LANGUAGE OF PLANTS The Ecological Importance of Plant Medicines to Life on Earth Stephen Harrod Buhner
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THE USES OF WILD PLANTS Using and Growing the Wild Plants of the United States and Canada Frank Tozer
$30.00 US • PB • 9781931498760 8 x 10 • 352 pages A complete guide to the art and practice of herbalism, as well as an introduction to the herbalist’s role in family and community life. Includes inspirational profiles of practicing herbalists from across the country.
$19.95 US • PB • 9781890132880 6 x 9 • 336 pages Author, teacher, lecturer, and herbalist Stephen Harrod Buhner has produced a book that is certain to generate controversy. It consists of three parts: A critique of technological medicine, and especially the dangers to the environment posed by pharmaceuticals, a new look at Gaia Theory, and extensive documentation of how plants communicate their healing qualities to humans and other animals.
$24.95 US • PB • 9780977348909 81/2 x 11 • 264 pages • B&W illustrations A must-have for foragers, botanists, herbalists, gardeners, permaculturists, and anyone who wants to learn more about wild plants, this insightful guide provides interesting and valuable uses for more than 1,200 species in 500 genera of wild plants found throughout North America and beyond.
SOLAR GARDENING Growing Vegetables Year-Round the American Intensive Way Leandre Poisson and Gretchen Vogel Poisson
GROWING GREAT GARLIC The Definitive Guide for Organic Gardeners and Small Farmers Ron L. Engeland
SOLVIVA How to Grow $500,000 on One Acre & Peace on Earth Anna Edey
$39.95 US • PB • 9780930031695 81/4 x 11 • 288 pages Illustrations, photos, and charts Solar Gardening shows how to maximize your garden’s year-round productivity through the use of solar “mini-greenhouses.” Includes instructions for building a variety of solar appliances. Described by Jeff Cox, host of PBS’s Your Organic Garden, as “The best book on season extending I’ve ever seen.”
$16.95 US • PB • 9780963085016 6 x 9 • 228 pages A definitive grower’s guide to over 200 strains of garlic for the hobbyist and commercial grower. Provides expert classification information, growing advice, and propagation techniques.
$35.00 US • PB • 9780966234909 81/2 x 10 • 232 pages • B&W illustrations 20 page color signature Solviva offers convincing proof that we can, with today’s technology and knowledge, live in ways that reduce pollution and depletion of resources by 80 percent or more, and at the same time reduce the cost of living and improve the quality of life in urban and rural locations.
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LANDSCAPING EARTH PONDS The Complete Guide Tim Matson
THE CONTRARY FARMER Gene Logsdon
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$30.00 US • PB • 9781933392028 8 x 10 • 161 pages • Full color Dozens of inspirational color photographs complement proven methods and design techniques, offering the homeowner expert tips on how to enliven his landscape and the environment through the installation of a pond.
$19.95 US • PB • 9780930031749 6 x 9 • 256 pages Gene Logsdon has become something of a rabble-rouser in progressive farm circles, stirring up debates and controversies with his popular New Farm magazine column, “The Contrary Farmer.” This tried-andtrue, practical advice manual for the cottage farmer is interspersed with personal and often humorous meditations on life and agriculture.
LIVING AT NATURE’S PACE Farming and the American Dream Gene Logsdon
$25.00 US • PB • 9781890132569 6 x 9 • 250 pages Nature knows how to grow plants and raise animals; it is human beings who are in danger of losing this age-old expertise, substituting chemical additives and artificial technologies for the traditional virtues of fertility, artistry, and knowledge of natural processes. This edition of Logsdon’s important collection of essays and articles (first published by Pantheon in 1993) contains six new chapters taking stock of American farm life as this new century begins.
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•COMMON SENSE FORESTRY • Hans W. Morsbach • Illustrated by Robert W. Hutchinson
$34.95 US • 8 x 10 • PB • 256 pages • 9781931498210 ORGANIC FUTURES A Case for Organic Farming Adrian Myers
•LOW-IMPACT FORESTRY: Forestry as if the Future Mattered • Mitch Lansky
B&W photos • $20.00 US • 81/2 x 11 • PB • 178 pages • 9780971996205
$22.50 US • PB • 9781903998694 6 x 9 • 256 pages Organic Futures presents an overwhelming argument for replacing modern farming methods with organic techniques. Exploring the history, politics, and practicalities of organic farming, Adrian Myers shows how the current techniques of agriculture inevitably bring about the deterioration of soil and cannot provide a long-term sustainable future for humankind.
•A WOOD OF OUR OWN • Julian Evans • Illustrated by John White and Stephen Evans
20 B&W illustrations • $25.00 US • 63/4 x 95/8 • PB • 160 pages • 9781856230223
•THE GOOD WOODCUTTER’S GUIDE: Chain Saws, Portable Sawmills, and Woodlots
Dave Johnson • B&W illustrations and photos • $25.00 US • 6 x 9 • PB • 224 pages
9781890132156
•THE SOUL OF SOIL: A Soil-Building Guide for Master Gardeners and Farmers • Joseph Smillie
and Grace Gershuny • B&W illustrations • $25.00 US • 6 x 9 • PB • 160 pages
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•GOOD SPIRITS: A New Look at Ol’ Demon Alcohol • Gene Logsdon • $14.95 US • 6 x 9 • PB
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GAIA’S KITCHEN
Julie Ponsonby
Vegetarian Recipes for Community and Family, Second Edition
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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.
Pub Date: September 2008
$25.95 US, $28.50 CAN • PB 9781900322256 9 x 9 • 224 pages • Full color GREEN BOOKS
“I can say honestly that this book should have an honored place in your kitchen and that your kitchen should be the most honored room in your house.” —Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul and Original Self
Julia Ponsonby has been actively involved with Schumacher College in England since attending its first course on Gaia theory in 1991. For seven years, she worked as catering manager for the college, during which time she wrote and compiled Gaia’s Kitchen.
ORGANIC PLACES TO STAY IN THE UK
Second Edition
Linda Moss
New Release
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.” It includes: • Small hotels, guest houses, and B&Bs offering organic, local, and sometimes homegrown produce; • Self-catering accommodation on organic farms, many with Soil Association certification, where you can often buy the farm’s produce or order local organic produce; and • Campsites on organic farms. The majority of places use at least 50 percent organic produce over the year; many offer a much higher percentage. Quite a few of them grow their own produce. Some use wild or natural foods, and most will aim to use local produce, rather than imported food. This new edition includes symbols that let readers know whether there is public transport nearby and whether children and/or dogs are welcomed.
Linda Moss created www.organicplacestostay.com nine years ago, and in 2004 her Web site won an Environmentally Friendly Website Award. She lives in England.
Pub Date: September 2008
$22.00 US, $23.95 CAN • PB 9781900322195 6 x 9 • 304 pages • Full color GREEN BOOKS
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THE FARMER AND THE GRILL
A Guide to Grilling, Barbecuing and Spit-Roasting Grassfed Meat . . . and for Saving the Planet One Bite at a Time Shannon Hayes Foreword by Joel Salatin
THE BEST OF BLOODROOT
Selma Miriam and Noel Furie
ANOMALY PRESS
VOLUME ONE: VEGETARIAN RECIPES
$21.95 US • PB • 9780979439100 6 x 9 • 168 pages • B&W illustrations LEFT TO WRITE PRESS
$27.50 US • PB • 9780977854905 • 6 x 9 384 pages • B&W photos & color signature
VOLUME TWO: VEGAN RECIPES
$27.50 US • PB • 9780977854912 • 6 x 9 464 pages • B&W photos & color signature
The key to getting the most out of pasture-raised meats 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.
The New York Times calls Bloodroot “legendary,” and Vegetarian Times has listed it as one of the ten best vegetarian restaurants in the nation. Opened in 1977, Bloodroot is a wonderfully unique neighborhood restaurant and bookstore with great views of the Long Island Sound. Now everyone can taste the legend with The Best of Bloodroot—two juicy cookbooks filled with timetested recipes, gorgeous photographs, and fiery essays detailing the authors’ cooking and living philosophies. A thorough glossary includes discussion of the ethnic ingredients on which the cuisine of Bloodroot relies. Personal essays describe the owners’ experiences with feminism in a changing world as well as discussions of work ethics, community, and economic success and, of course, an examination of the political and moral aspects of vegetarianism and veganism.
ITALIAN CHEESE A Guide to Its Discovery and Appreciation
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$25.00 US • PB • 9788884991119 5 x 9 • 400 pages Two hundred and one traditional Italian farmhouse cheeses are lovingly described in this book from Slow Food International. Organized by region, each description covers how the cheese is made and matured, along with historical and geographic nuggets.
AMERICAN FARMSTEAD CHEESE The Complete Guide to Making and Selling Artisan Cheeses Paul Kindstedt
$35.00 US • PB • 9781933392349 7 x 10 • 464 pages • Full color • 350 illustrations This atlas is the first reference book of its kind and a must-have for every foodie’s library. Jeffrey P. Roberts lavishes loving attention on the growing local food and farmstead movement that is fast becoming a national trend. This fully illustrated atlas is destined to become a classic reference and it will be the source of many fabulous food adventures.
$40.00 US • HC • 9781931498777 7 x 10 • 300 pages This comprehensive guide to farmstead cheese explains the diversity of cheeses in terms of historical animal husbandry, pastures, climate, preservation, and transport—all of which still contribute to the uniqueness of farm cheese today.
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THE LOCAL FOODS WHEEL
12-inch diameter • Card stock • Rotating dial • Full color • Illustrated Single copy: $12.95 US, $14.50 CAN • 10-copy prepack: $129.95 US, $145.00 CAN
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Introducing the Local Foods Wheels
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 top wheel of each dial shows the foods that are available year-round, and the bottom shows foods that are available only seasonally. As you turn the top wheel, it exposes one season of the bottom wheel at a time, so that you can see what seasonal foods are available in addition to the year-round local foods. At any time of year, the dial shows at a glance the incredible bounty available in the San Francisco Bay or New York City area. Turn the wheel over, and you will find seasonality references, arranged alphabetically. This list gives greater detail about when local foods are harvested and available. SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Single copy: 9781603580663 10-copy prepack: 9781603580670 NEW YORK CITY AREA Single copy: 9781603580687 10-copy prepack: 9781603580694 The combination of beauty and functionality makes the Local Foods Wheel an ideal gift item and perfect for mounting on the refrigerator with magnets as an appealing reminder of the abundance that comes from local fields. Both children and adults will find the wheel a fun and inspirational educational tool, and it is invaluable aid for seasonal menu planning and in preparing a shopping list for the local farmers’ market!
About the creators
Jessica Prentice is a professional chef and author of Full Moon Feast: Food and the Hunger for Connection. Jessica coined the term “locavore” and helps sponsor an annual Eat Local Challenge (www.locavores.com). She is one of the founding worker-owners of Three Stone Hearth, a community-supported kitchen in West Berkeley (www.threestonehearth.com) and speaks nationally on building sustainable food systems. Sarah Klein is an artist who has exhibited her work widely across the country and around the globe in galleries, in museums, on television, and in film festivals. She uses her line drawings in original animation work, much of which combines her love of food with her love of art. She has collaborated with the musical group Orange Sherbet to create a series of children’s music videos. Her Web site is www.sarahklein.com. Jessica and Sarah live in the San Francisco Bay area. Maggie Gosselin is an educator in the field of sustainable food systems. She has worked for several environmental organizations including the Center for Urban Agriculture at Fairview Gardens and the Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture (sponsor of the Ferry Plaza Farmers’ Market in San Francisco). She is currently pursuing an M.S. in agriculture, food, and environment at Tufts University in Boston. Gabrielle Langholtz, content editor for the New York City area Local Foods Wheel, is the editor of Edible Brooklyn and Edible Manhattan magazines and is the manager of publicity and special projects for New York’s Greenmarket, the nation’s largest network of farmers’ markets. She has also worked on local farms and taught about local food systems at New York University’s Food Studies department.
•••Also by JESSICA PRENTICE•••
FULL MOON FEAST Food and the Hunger for Connection Jessica Prentice Foreword by Deborah Madison
$25.00 US • PB 9781933392004 7 x 10 • 374 pages
In Full Moon Feast, accomplished chef and food activist Jessica Prentice champions locally grown, humanely raised, nutrient-rich foods and traditional cooking methods. The book follows the thirteen lunar cycles of an agrarian year, from the midwinter Hunger Moon and the springtime sweetness of the Sap Moon to the bounty of the Moon When Salmon Return to Earth in autumn, with recipes that display the richly satisfying flavors tied to the ancient rhythm of the seasons.
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Slow Food Titles
TERRA MADRE 1,600 Food Communities Slow Food Editore
A WORLD OF PRESIDIA Food, Culture & Community Slow Food Editore
$40.00 US • PB • 9788884991188 81/4 x 81/4 • 768 pages • Full-color illustrations Terra Madre describes 1,600 food communities in 150 countries, from the hatahata fishermen of Kitaura, Japan, to the raisin producers of Herat, Afghanistan; from Ethiopian forest coffee pickers to Mexican vanilla growers. Farmers, shepherds, fishermen, butchers, vine-dressers—all people pursuing the idea of agriculture based on taste, quality, sustainability, and social justice.
$20.00 US • PB • 9788884990853 81/2 x 91/4 • 180 pages Vibrant stories of 65 Slow Food Presidia—groups of traditional food artisans—from 30 different countries and the unique and delicious foods they are working to preserve.
SLOW FOOD Collected Thoughts on Taste, Tradition, and the Honest Pleasures of Food Edited by Carlo Petrini and Benjamin Watson
$24.95 US • PB • 9781931498012 7 x 10 • 280 pages Drawn from five years of the journal Slow, this book is an anthology of more than 100 articles covering a range of eclectic topics, offering an armchair tour of the exotic and bizarre.
CHOCOLATE, TRUFFLES & OTHER TREASURES OF ITALY’S PIEDMONT CUISINE Sally Spector THE SLOW FOOD GUIDE TO CHICAGO Restaurants, Markets, Bars Kelly Gibson and Portia Belloc Lowndes THE SLOW FOOD GUIDE TO NEW YORK CITY Restaurants, Markets, Bars Patrick Martins and Ben Watson THE SLOW FOOD GUIDE TO SAN FRANCISCO AND THE BAY AREA Restaurants, Markets, Bars Edited by Sylvan Brackett, Sue Moore, and Wendy Downing
$45.00 US • PB • 9788878891739 81/4 x 113/4 • 192 pages • Full color DANIELA PIAZZA EDITORE Internationally famous for its wine and white truffles, the Piedmont region of Italy provides numerous culinary delights, including handmade breadsticks, quality beef, and the world’s best filberts. Using much more than recipes, author Sally Spector provides an insider’s view of gastronomic culture and local traditions, as well as social and agricultural history.
$20.00 US • PB • 9781931498616 5 x 81/2 • 384 pages
$20.00 US • PB • 9781931498272 5 x 81/2 • 375 pages
$20.00 US • PB • 9781931498753 5 x 81/2 • 376 pages
A series of guides for “eco-gastronomic” travelers—those who seek quality, tradition, and seasonal and locally grown ingredients in exploring the restaurants, markets, and bars of a city.
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PRESERVING FOOD WITHOUT FREEZING OR CANNING Traditional Techniques Using Salt, Oil, Sugar, Alcohol, Vinegar, Drying, Cold Storage, and Lactic Fermentation The Gardeners and Farmers of Terre Vivante Forewords by Deborah Madison and Eliot Coleman
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WILD FERMENTATION The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods Sandor Ellix Katz
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$25.00 US • PB • 9781931498234 7 x 10 • 275 pages Bread. Cheese. Wine. Beer. Coffee. Chocolate. Most people consume fermented foods and drinks every day. For thousands of years, humans have enjoyed the distinctive flavors and nutrition resulting from the transformative power of microscopic bacteria and fungi. This is the first cookbook to widely explore the culinary magic of fermentation.
THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE MICROWAVED Inside America’s Underground Food Movements Sandor Ellix Katz
$20.00 US • PB • 9781933392110 6 x 9 • 400 pages From community-supported agriculture, farmers, community gardeners, and seed-saving activists to underground distribution networks of contraband foods rescued from the waste stream, this book shows how ordinary people can resist the dominant system, revive community-based food production, and take direct responsibility for their own health and nutrition.
$25.00 US • PB • 9781933392592 6 x 9 • 224 pages Preserving Food without Freezing or Canning (originally published as Keeping Food Fresh) offers more than 250 easy and enjoyable recipes featuring locally grown and minimally refined ingredients. It is an essential guide for those who seek healthy food for a healthy world.
WHOLE FOODS COMPANION A Guide for Adventurous Cooks, Curious Shoppers, and Lovers of Natural Foods Dianne Onstad
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THE BREAD BUILDERS Hearth Loaves and Masonry Ovens Alan Scott and Daniel Wing
BUILD YOUR OWN EARTH OVEN Kiko Denzer and Hannah Field
$35.00 US • PB • 9781931498623 8 x 10 • 344 pages • Full color This is the definitive resource guide to the rapidly expanding world of whole foods. Revised and expanded, this edition updates key nutritional information, making it an invaluable guide to natural foods.
$35.00 US • PB • 9781890132057 8 x 10 • 250 pages The Bread Builders appeals to a range of bakers, from home bakers to those who already run small-scale commercial operations and seek up-to-date knowledge about the baking process. Providing instructions on constructing masonry ovens and how to bake with them, The Bread Builders is the essential resource for the artisan bread revolution.
$17.95 US • PB • 9780967984674 7 x 10 • 132 pages • B&W photos HAND PRINT PRESS Authors Kiko Denzer and Hannah Field invite you into the artisan tradition in this newly revised and expanded edition of Build Your Own Earth Oven. For less than the cost of a baking stone, Denzer and Field will guide you through the simple process of building a masonry oven from earthen materials and firing your first loaf of delicious artisan bread.
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GENETIC ROULETTE The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods Jeffrey M. Smith
$27.95 US • HC • 9780972966528 8.5 x 11 • 326 pages
SEEDS OF DECEPTION Exposing Industry and Government Lies about the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Foods You’re Eating Jeffrey M. Smith
$27.95 US • HC • 9780972966573 $17.95 US • PB • 9780972966580 6 x 9 • 240 pages Without knowing it, Americans eat genetically modified (GM) food every day. Food and chemical industries claim that GM food is safe, but growing evidence shows otherwise. Smith’s stories of health dangers, corporate influence, and government cover-up read like a mystery novel.
The biotech industry’s claim that genetically modified (GM) foods are safe is shattered in this groundbreaking book. Nearly sixty-five health risks associated with the foods Americans eat daily are presented in an easy-to-read and accessible style, along with information about why children are most at risk, how to avoid GM foods, false claims by biotech advocates, how industry research is rigged to avoid finding problems, why GM crops are not needed to feed the world, the economic losses associated with these crops, and more. This is the most complete reference to the health risks of GM foods on the market. Jeffrey M. Smith is the director of the Institute for Responsible Technology and is one of the world’s leading advocates against GM foods. His book Seeds of Deception is rated the number-one book on the subject and has had a substantial influence on public perception and even legislation.
Also Available . . .
THE GMO TRILOGY: SEEDS OF DECEPTION
DVD, CD, PB • $27.95 US • 9780972966535
HIDDEN DANGERS IN KIDS’ MEALS DVD only: $19.95 US • 9780972966559 DVD & Book (Seeds of Deception) Set: Hidden Dangers in Kids’ Meals DVD
Recently Released
$34.95 US • 9780972966504
VHS only: $19.95 US • 9780972966566 VHS & Book (Seeds of Deception) Set:
Recently Released
FUTURE FASHION WHITE PAPERS
Introduction by Leslie Hoffman Preface by Diane von Furstenberg
SUSTAINABLE CUISINE WHITE PAPERS Earth Pledge Foundation
Hidden Dangers in Kids’ Meals VHS $34.95 US • 9780972966511
$15.00 US • PB • 41/2 x 73/4 • 190 pages 9780967509907
SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE WHITE PAPERS Edited by David E. Brown, Mindy Fox, and Mar y Rickel Pelletier
This VHS/DVD book set includes an interview with author Jeffrey M. Smith, footage of scientists, and a look at the miraculous improvement in student behavior that accompanied a change in diet at a Wisconsin school.
$23.00 US • PB • 9780967509921 41/2 x 73/4 • 288 pages • Illustrations
$17.00 US • PB • 41/2 x 73/4 • 324 pages 9780967509914
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OPEN SPACES SACRED PLACES
Stories of How Nature Heals and Unifies
Tom Stoner and Carolyn Rapp Foreword by G. Martin Moeller, Jr.
New Release
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. The book depicts a wide variety of sacred places, including a meditation garden inside the walls of a prison, a sculpture garden built by at-risk youth in the inner city, and a therapeutic healing garden at a rehabilitation hospital. These public green spaces are places of peace and refreshment, where people can tap into their own deep wisdom and find an antidote for the stressful, divisive, and isolating effects of life in today’s complex world. While each of the profiled spaces has its own unique focus and character, they all have one common element—a bench with a journal attached where each visitor has the opportunity to anonymously reveal private thoughts and feelings. The journal entries, collected over 12 years, reinforce the essential human need to take time out in nature. Open Spaces Sacred Places also contains more than 200 beautifully photographed images that bring these spaces to life.
Pub Date: September 2008
$30.00 US, $32.95 CAN • PB with flaps 9780981565606 9 x 10 • 208 pages • Full color • 200 photos TKF FOUNDATION
About the Authors Tom Stoner is a cofounder of the TKF Foundation. He has served as chairman of the board of trustees of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and as cofounder of the Conflict Resolution Clinic associated with George Mason University. He also cofounded American Radio Systems. Tom lives in Annapolis, Maryland and Stowe, Vermont. Carolyn Rapp is a writer, storyteller, and avid gardener. She is author of Garden Voices: Stories of Women and Their Gardens (2005). Carolyn lives in McLean, Virginia and Frisco, Colorado. G. Martin Moeller, Jr., is the senior vice president and curator of the National Building Museum.
With a foreword by G. Martin Moeller, Jr., Open Spaces Sacred Places provides helpful information for those who have the desire to become active firesouls by spearheading community efforts to create public green spaces.
“The healing power of nature—so important to physical, mental, and spiritual well-being and so undervalued in contemporary medicine— is the central theme of this wonderful book. The authors show us how people everywhere can work to create public green spaces that soothe and refresh and help heal communities and the world. Open Spaces Sacred Places is an inspired call to action.” —Dr. Andrew Weil
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THE RHYTHM OF COMPASSION
Caring for Self, Connecting with Society Gail Straub
Recently Published
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.
Learn to balance soul and society, to heal each through healing of the other.
$14.95 US • PB • 9780963032737 5 x 8 • 240 pages
“A book that addresses with great insight one of the central spiritual questions of our time—how do we care for others while still caring for ourselves? A must for everyone seeking answers.” —Caroline Myss, author of Anatomy of the Spirit
EMPOWERMENT
The Art of Creating Your Life as You Want It David Gershon & Gail Straub
Now in its eleventh 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-bystep 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.
The classic book for personal empowerment and transformation.
$17.95 US • PB • 9780967237404 7 x 10 • 234 pages • B&W illustrations
“For over two decades, David Gershon and Gail Straub have inspired and empowered thousands of people to transform their lives and contribute to the preservation of our planet. This book makes their knowledge and techniques available to all.” —Roger Walsh, MD, PhD, author of Staying Alive: The Psychology of Human Survival
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RETURNING TO MY MOTHER’S HOUSE
Taking Back the Wisdom of the Feminine
Gail Straub Foreword by Christiane Northrup, M.D.
New Release
This is the story of how I returned to my mother’s house and reclaimed my own female wisdom, taking back what both Mom and I had betrayed. I see now how my story is so many of our stories. It is the story of both men and women who have abandoned their inner lives, leaving behind their hearts where deep dark feelings reside; putting aside their intuitive imagination where dreams flourish; ignoring the invisible worlds where the irrational and the mysterious offer their incomparable gifts; and disowning the realms of silence, simplicity, and solitude where the interior matures. Modern life rarely acknowledges or even allows space for such things. But we ignore these things at our peril, both as a human and as an earth family. —From the introduction 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. Her search took her around the globe—to Africa, Bali, Russia, China, and Ireland—where she encountered the longing to retrieve sacred female wisdom among the women she met. Finding her way back to her innate female wisdom restored a sense of balance between external and internal worlds, activism and contemplation, and public and private realms and gave her a sense of equanimity that had eluded her for decades. Gail’s poetic and heartfelt story is for anyone who has ever struggled to build and sustain an interior life in our driven and fast-paced society—and for mothers and daughters everywhere.
Pub Date: October 2008
$21.95 US, $23.95 CAN • HC 9780963032751 51/2 x 81/2 • 264 pages HIGH POINT
Gail Straub is coauthor of the best-selling Empowerment: The Art of Creating Your Life as You Want It and the author of the critically acclaimed The Rhythm of Compassion: Caring for Self, Connecting with Society, as well as Circle of Compassion, a book of meditations. Considered a leading authority on empowerment, she codirects the Empowerment Institute, a school for transformative leadership. Over the past thirty years she has trained thousands of people worldwide in empowerment, engaged spirituality, and the wisdom of the feminine. Straub lives with her husband, David Gershon, in the Hudson River Valley in New York.
LEIF ZURMUHLEN
“There isn’t a woman alive who won’t be able to relate to this lyrical, poignant, and beautifully written story. Like Elizabeth Glbert’s Eat, Pray, Love, Gail’s story will help women gain insight and wisdom that not only will help heal their relationship with their mothers but could, quite frankly, help save their lives! Bless you, Gail, for doing work that heals all of us.” —From the foreword by Christiane Northrup, M.D., author of Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom and Mother-Daughter Wisdom
“Returning to My Mother’s House is Gail Straub’s poetic, heartfelt, and very personal journey story, but it is also my story, your story, and the story of a culture in desperate need of ‘taking back the wisdom of the feminine.’ I came away from the adventure of reading this book full of hope for the restoration of the feminine in each of us, and our world.” —Elizabeth Lesser, cofounder of the Omega Institute and author of Broken Open and The Seekers Guide
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FARM FRIENDS
From the Late Sixties to the West Seventies and Beyond Tom Fels Foreword by Carl Oglesby
Recently Published
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. Back-to-the-land communards of the late 1960s and early 1970s made their way in a new and unfamiliar world. Later, relocated in cities and towns across the country, they used what they had learned to continue to explore and to influence life as they found it in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
“Farm Friends serves as a valuable contribution to countercultural history, enhanced by profiles of visionaries from that era who have lived their alternative philosophy and values.” —Paul Krassner, founder and editor of The Realist “[Fels] writes beautifully because he thinks with powerful clarity. This book— a journey, an elegy, an investigation—touches the soul of an era and, at day’s end, the aching, searching American heart.” —Ron Suskind, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist
$19.95 US • PB • 9781603580038 5 x 8 • 400 pages • B&W photos
Other Books on the GOOD LIFE
Fifty years before the phrase simple living became fashionable, Helen and Scott Nearing were living their celebrated “Good Life” on homesteads first in Vermont, then in Maine. All the way to their ninth decade, the Nearings grew their own food, built their own buildings, and fought an eloquent combat against the silliness of America’s infatuation with consumer goods and refined foods.
•••Other GOOD LIFE CENTER Titles•••
LOVING AND LEAVING THE GOOD LIFE Helen Nearing
•THE MAKING OF A RADICAL: A Political Autobiography • Scott Nearing
$25.00 US • 5 x 8 • PB • 320 pages • 9781890132590
$25.00 US • PB • 9780930031633 6 x 9 • 224 pages This is Helen Nearing’s vivid self-portrait of an independent, committed, and gifted woman, and an eloquent statement of what it means to grow old and to face death quietly, peacefully, and in control.
•THE MAPLE SUGAR BOOK • Helen Nearing and Scott Nearing • B&W photos
$25.00 US • 6 x 9 • PB • 320 pages • 9781890132637
•SIMPLE FOOD FOR THE GOOD LIFE: Random Acts of Cooking and Pithy Quotations
Helen Nearing • $25.00 US • 6 x 9 • PB • 309 pages • 9781890132293
•WISE WORDS FOR THE GOOD LIFE • Helen Nearing
$14.95 US • 6 x 9 • PB • 192 pages • 9781890132415
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WHEN TECHNOLOGY FAILS
A Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability, and Surviving the Long Emergency Matthew Stein Foreword by Richard Heinberg
Previously Announced
There’s never been a better time to be prepared. Matthew Stein’s comprehensive primer on sustainable living skills prepares you to embark on the path toward sustainability. But unlike any other book, Stein shows you not only how to live “green” in seemingly stable times, but how to live in the face of potential disasters, lasting days or years, coming in the form of social upheaval, economic meltdown, or environmental catastrophe. The chapters cover a survey of the risks to the status quo; supplies and preparation for shortand long-term emergencies; emergency measures for survival; water; food; shelter; clothing; first aid, low-tech medicine, and healing; energy, heat, and power; metalworking; utensils and storage; low-tech chemistry; and engineering, machines, and materials. Each offers the same approach, describing skills for self-reliance in good times and bad. Fully revised and expanded—the first edition was written pre-9/11 and pre-Katrina, when few Americans took the risk of social disruption seriously—When Technology Fails ends on a positive, proactive note with a new chapter on joining and building sustainable, resilient communities.
Pub Date: August 2008
$35.00 US, $32.95 CAN • PB 9781933392455 8 x 11 • 524 pages • B&W illustrations
“The depth of this book, covering everything from building materials to spiritual healing, is astounding . . . I highly recommend it.” —Robyn Griggs Lawrence, editor-in-chief, Natural Home
VISIONARIES The 20th Century’s 100 Most Important Inspirational Leaders Edited by Satish Kumar and Freddie Whitefield
A HANDMADE LIFE In Search of Simplicity William Coperthwaite Photography by Peter Forbes
COTTAGE ECONOMY William Cobbett Foreword by Verlyn Klinkenborg
$25.00 US • PB • 9781933392530 8 x 10 • 224 pages • Full color The twentieth century was marked by wars, dictatorships, and environmental destruction, yet many individuals kept alive the hope of a sane and sustainable future through their example, ideas, and vision. Their influence helped bring to an end colonialism and imperialism, apartheid, and authoritarian regimes, and they also helped foster the resurgence of an ecological, holistic, and spiritual vision that increasingly resonates in the world today.
$25.00 US • PB • 9781933392479 9 x 9 • 144 pages • Full color A Handmade Life carries Coperthwaite’s ongoing experiments with hand tools, hand-grown and hand-gathered food, and handmade shelter, clothing, and furnishings out into the world to challenge and inspire. His writing is both philosophical and practical, exploring themes of beauty, work, education, and design while giving instruction on the hand-crafting of the necessities of life.
$25.00 US • PB • 9781933392257 6 x 9 • 232 pages This book has lost none of its relevance or inspiration in its 180 years in print. With wit and bulldog curmudgeonliness, it deserves its reputation as one of the greatest rural reads available.
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RUMI Dancing the Flame Nader Khalili
$16.95 US • PB 9781889625041 51/2 x 81/2 • 255 pages
QUEST FOR THE ZODIAC The Cosmic Code beyond Astrology John Lash
$29.95 US • PB • 9781933392936 6 x 9 • 228 pages 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 recovers the visible star patterns observed in ancient times.
NOT IN HIS IMAGE Gnostic Vision, Sacred Ecology, and the Future of Belief John Lamb Lash Afterword by Derrick Jensen
$21.95 US • PB • 9781931498920 6 x 9 • 350 pages Not in His Image delves deep into the shadows of ancient Gnostic writings to reconstruct the story early Christians tried to scrub from the pages of history, exploring the richness of the ancient European Pagan spirituality—the Pagan Mysteries, the Great Goddess, Gnosis, the myths of Sophia and Gaia—and chronicling the annihilation of this Pagan European culture at the hands of Christianity.
Here are 75 poems (ghazals) translated from the original Persian. Rumi’s unblinking directness and extraordinary ability to employ images drawn from everyday life make these ancient poems feel modern and alive.
•••Other RUMI Titles•••
•RUMI: Fountain of Fire
Nader Khalili • $12.95 US
41/2 x 7 • PB • 143 pages 9781889625034
•THE STORY OF MY HEART:
My Autobiography
Richard Jefferies • $10.95 US
51/4 x 71/4 • PB • 126 pages 9781903998199
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•JUDEVINE • David Budbill • $17.95 US • 6 x 9 • PB • 320 pages • 9781890132224 •FAST LANE ON A DIRT ROAD: A Contemporary History of Vermont
Joe Sherman • $25.00 US • 6 x 9 • PB • 256 pages • 9781890132743
•TIMELESS BEAUTY: In the Arts and Everyday Life • John Lane • 14 B&W photos • $20.00 US • 6 x 9 • PB • 176 pages
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•THE BEAUTY OF CRAFT: A Resurgence Anthology • Edited by Sandy Brown and Maya Kumar Mitchell • $40.00 US • 8 /
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•ROUND-TRIP TO DEADSVILLE: A Year in the Funeral Underground • Tim Matson • $14.95 US • 6 x 9 • PB • 148 pages • 9781890132910 •SUSTAINABLE EDUCATION: Re-Visioning Learning and Change • Stephen R. Sterling • $10.95 US • 7 x 9 / • PB • 94 pages
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•IN A PIG’S EYE • Karl Schwenke • $9.95 US • 5 / x 8 / • PB •160 pages • 9780930031008 •THROUGH THE EYE OF THE STORM: A Book Dedicated to Rebuilding What Katrina Washed Away • Cholene Espinoza • $14.00 US
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THE CARBON-FREE HOME
36 Remodeling Projects to Help Kick the Fossil-Fuel Habit Stephen and Rebekah Hren
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You probably know that energy used in your home produces more global-warming pollution than your car, but what can you do to reduce your reliance on fossil fuels? How can your house simultaneously save you money on utilities and insulate you from the possible shocks of Peak Oil? Having weaned themselves completely from fossil fuels in their conventional 1930s urban house, Stephen and Rebekah Hren provide a map for others to do the same. Their book shows first how to reduce energy consumption, then how to retrofit existing homes to obtain all heating, cooling, cooking, refrigeration, hot water, and electricity from renewable sources. These practical approaches fit anyone’s budget and can be implemented over time to progressively liberate a home from fossil-fuel dependency. “This book is essential reading, giving a full spectrum of invaluable advice on how to adapt to the new conditions imposed by Nature.” —Colin J. Campbell, chairman of ASPO (Association for the Study of Peak Oil) “It’s hard to imagine a more comprehensive, and comprehensible, guide to making your home work for you and for the planet, inside and out. It’s frugal, it’s sensible, and it will help!” —Bill McKibben
Pub Date: July 2008
$35.00 US, $38.50 CAN • PB 9781933392622 8 x 10 • 320 pages • Illustrations
Using Natural Finishes
A Step-by-Step Guide Adam Weismann and Katy Bryce
Building with Cob A Step-by-Step Guide Adam Weismann and Katy Bryce
Pub Date: July 2008 $40.00 US, $43.95 CAN • PB 9781900322164 8 x 10 • 264 pages • Color illustrations
$45.00 US • PB • 9781903998724 8 x 10 • 256 pages • Full color
With the increasing awareness of eco-building techniques alongside the desire to make our homes healthier, the historical benefits of using natural renders and paints are being rediscovered. Using Natural Finishes is an in-depth guide to the selection, mixing, and application of lime- and clay-based plasters, renders, paints, and washes. Providing step-by-step instructions with detailed illustrations to show the practical elements of working with lime- and clay-based finishes, the authors demonstrate how these natural “breathable” plasters and paints can be used on a wide variety of wall surfaces. Easy-to-follow do-it-yourself projects guide the reader through all aspects of using these natural finishes, with beautiful photographs of techniques and examples from around the world.
A lavishly illustrated guide with more than 300 color photographs covering the centuries-old building technique of cob construction. Topics include everything from design, planning, and siting to roofs, insulation, and floors. The authors also provide advice on how to ensure compliance with modern building standards. “This has got to be the most practical and beautifully illustrated book on earth building ever published!” —Keith Hall, editor, Building for a Future magazine
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GOING SOLAR
Understanding and Using the Warmth in Sunlight Tomm Stanley Illustrated by Tomm Stanley THE PASSIVE SOLAR HOUSE The Complete Guide to Heating and Cooling Your Home James Kachadorian
$29.95 US • PB • 9780476010826 10 x 7 • 211 pages Written in easy-to-understand language for everyday people and the scientifically challenged, and peppered with a delightful blend of humor, fact, and function, Going Solar leads readers back to the purpose of its making: understanding and effectively using the warmth found in sunlight for our day-to-day lives.
$40.00 US • HC • 9781933392035 8 x 10 • 240 pages The building book for a world of climbing energy costs. Applicable to diverse regions, climates, budgets, and styles of architecture, Kachadorian’s techniques translate the essentials of timeless solar design into wisdom for today’s solar builders. Includes a CD-ROM with custom solar design software.
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THE SUN-INSPIRED HOUSE House Designs Warmed and Brightened by the Sun Debra Rucker Coleman
THE SOLAR ELECTRIC HOUSE Energy for the Environmentally Responsive, Energy-Independent Home Steven J. Strong
$29.95 US • PB • 9780976731801 81/2 x 11 • 256 pages Fifty home plans adorned with numerous examples, photos, and testimonials from homeowners complement this survey of sun-inspired home design concepts. Packed with details on passive solar heating, cooling, energy-efficient construction, green building, and sustainability.
$21.95 US • PB • 9780963738325 71/2 x 91/4 • 276 pages A comprehensive guide for deciding whether photovoltaics are right for you and your home. Covers a diverse range of factors, from economics and types of systems to calculating electricity requirements and design.
YOU CAN MAKE THE BEST HOT TUB EVER! Relax! Warm Your Bones! Get to Know the Sky! Becky Bee
$14.95 US • PB • 9780965908214 71/2 x 83/4 • 64 pages • B&W photos/illustrations Unless you have an outdoor bath, there is no way your imagination can see how absolutely divine it is. Written in simple language with lots of easy-to-follow pictures and drawings, this book guides you through the steps of making a cob firebox under a metal tub.
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From best-selling author Dan Chiras
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THE NATURAL HOUSE A Complete Guide to Healthy, EnergyEfficient, Environmental Homes Daniel D. Chiras
THE SOLAR HOUSE Passive Heating and Cooling Daniel D. Chiras
$29.95 US • PB • 9781931498128 8 x 10 • 288 pages A thorough review and guide to state-ofthe-art passive solar heating and cooling, combining age-old truths with cuttingedge technology. Chiras highlights important considerations in construction and details how today’s homebuilders can succeed with solar designs.
THE NEW ECOLOGICAL HOME A Complete Guide to Green Building Options Daniel D. Chiras
$35.00 US • PB • 9781890132576 8 x 10 • 480 pages A tour of the construction, costs, and pros and cons of fourteen natural building methods. This comprehensive sourcebook offers in-depth information that will guide your search for the perfect sustainable dream home, a must for homebuilders, contractors, and architects.
$35.00 US • PB • 9781931498166 8 x 10 • 336 pages A comprehensive analysis of green building techniques, materials, products, and technologies that either are currently available or will be in the near future for home buyers, builders, and anyone interested in building for a sustainable future.
THE BOOK OF MASONRY STOVES Rediscovering an Old Way of Warming David Lyle
$35.00 US • PB • 9781890132095 11 x 81/2 • 208 pages The first comprehensive survey ever published detailing all major types of masonry heating systems, ancient and modern, with detailed plans and building information. As a complete introduction to masonry stoves, it will help many people rediscover this ancient sustainable heating technique.
THE SAUNA A Complete Guide to the Construction, Use, and Benefits of the Finnish Bath Rob Roy
NATURAL HOME HEATING The Complete Guide to Renewable Energy Options Greg Pahl
$30.00 US • PB • 9781931498630 7 x 10 • 240 pages This completely revised and expanded edition of The Sauna combines history, tradition, and health benefits with beautiful color photographs and detailed step-by-step instructions for building and maintaining your own Finnish bath.
$30.00 US • PB • 9781931498227 8 x 10 • 304 pages A well-organized, easy-to-understand tour of all available renewable homeheating options, including wood, pellet, corn, and grain-fired stoves, fireplaces, furnaces, and boilers, as well as masonry heaters, active and passive solar systems, and heat pumps. Perfect for homeowners everywhere considering more sustainable heating options.
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THE RAMMED EARTH HOUSE
Revised Edition David Easton
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$40.00 US • PB • 9781933392370 8 x 10 • 274 pages • Full color An eye-opening example of how the most dramatic innovations in home design and construction frequently have their origins in the distant past. By rediscovering the most ancient of all building materials— earth—forward-thinking homebuilders can create structures that set new standards for beauty, durability, and efficient use of natural resources.
THE HAND-SCULPTED HOUSE A Philosophical and Practical Guide to Building a Cob Cottage Ianto Evans, Michael G. Smith, and Linda Smiley
THE COB BUILDERS HANDBOOK You Can Hand-Sculpt Your Own Home Becky Bee
$23.95 US • PB • 9780965908207 81/2 x 11 • 176 pages A user-friendly guide to making your own earth structure from cob (a mixture of clay, sand and straw), with chapters on design, foundations, floors, windows and doors, finishes, and, of course, making glorious cob.
$35.00 US • PB • 9781890132347 8 x 10 • 384 pages The Hand-Sculpted House is a theoretical and philosophical, but intensely practical, guide to the centuries-old building technique of cob architecture. Packed with the how-to information necessary to undertake your own building project.
•••Other GREEN BUILDING Titles•••
•STONE HOUSE: A Guide to Self-Building with Slipforms • Tomm Stanley
MAKING BETTER CONCRETE Guidelines for Using Fly Ash for Higher Quality, Eco-Friendly Structures Bruce King $33.00 US • 81/4 x 115/8 • PB • 208 pages • 9780473099701
•THE COMPLETE YURT HANDBOOK • Paul King • B&W photos • $25.00 US
6.5 x 8 • PB • 121 pages • 9781899233083
$20.00 US • PB • 9780976491101 8.5 x 11 • 58 pages Why a book about concrete? Because we use so much of it—far more than any other building material. We can use this ubiquitous building material without undue damage to the life and landscapes that surround us. Fly ash is an eco-friendly alternative to using portland cement in concrete, but until now there has been no easy guide to how it makes superior concrete, or to how to use it.
•FREEWHEELING HOMES • David Pearson
• Color photos & B&W illustrations $16.95 US • 8 x 8 • HC • 96 pages • 9781931498036
B&W illustrations • $16.95 US • 8 x 8 • HC • 96 pages • 9781890132866
•CIRCLE HOUSES: Yurts, Tipis, and Benders • David Pearson • Color photos & •CERAMIC HOUSES AND EARTH ARCHITECTURE: How to Build Your Own • Nader Khalili
B&W photos • $26.95 US • 81/2 x 11 • PB • 233 pages • 9781889625010
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THE STRAW BALE HOUSE Athena Swentzell Steen, Bill Steen, David Bainbridge, and David Eisenberg
THE BEAUTY OF STRAW BALE HOMES Athena Swentzell Steen and Bill Steen
DESIGN OF STRAW BALE BUILDINGS The State of the Art Bruce King
$30.00 US • PB • 9780930031718 8 x 10 • 320 pages • B&W and color photos A Chelsea Green best seller and pioneering book on the subject, The Straw Bale House is a comprehensive guide to the why and how of building with straw. Authors Athena Swentzell Steen and Bill Steen founded the Canelo Project, which promotes innovative building; David Bainbridge is a California restoration ecologist; and David Eisenberg is an alternative-materials builder who pioneered straw bale wall testing.
$24.95 US • PB • 9781890132774 8 x 8 • 128 pages • Full color The Beauty of Straw Bale Homes celebrates, in gorgeous color photographs, the tactile, sensuous beauty of straw bale dwellings and how far this architecture has developed in a very short period of time.
$40.00 US • PB • 9780976491118 83/8 x 107/8 • 288 pages 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. This book provides truly useful information to architects, engineers, building officials, and builders who want to design intelligently with plastered straw bales.
BUILDING WITH STRAW BALES A Practical Guide for the UK and Ireland Barbara Jones
$18.95 US • PB • 9781903998137 71/2 x 91/4 • 125 pages Designed for the UK, but useful for homeowners in the United States, this simple guide provides an overview of straw bale construction and its environmental and economic benefits and addresses common questions and concerns.
SERIOUS STRAW BALE A Home Construction Guide for All Climates Paul Lacinski and Michel Bergeron
$30.00 US • PB • 9781890132644 8 x 10 • 384 pages A second-generation straw bale book that delves into specific design considerations critical to success with straw bale building in more extreme climates, where seasonal changes in temperature, precipitation, and humidity create special stresses that builders must understand and address.
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THE GREEN SELF-BUILD BOOK
How to Design and Build Your Own Eco-Home Jon Broome
THE SLATE ROOF BIBLE Joseph Jenkins
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DIARY OF AN ECO-BUILDER Will Anderson
$50.00 US • PB • 9781903998731 8 x 10 • 256 pages Whether you want a turf roof, solarpowered hot water, a straw bale home, or a superinsulated (and cost-efficient) house, you need to know the essentials. The Green Self-Build Book provides an overview of the different methods of sustainable and eco-friendly construction techniques for homeowners.
$40.00 US • PB • 9780964425811 81/2 x 11 • 320 pages This completely revised, greatly expanded and updated version of the award-winning Slate Roof Bible covers slate roofing history, culture, and geology. Along with complete descriptions and sources of tools, equipment, and types and colors of slate, Jenkins provides comprehensive, step-by-step instructions on every aspect of slate roof installation, repair, restoration, and recycling.
$30.00 US • PB • 9781903998793 57/8 x 81/4 • 256 pages Readers follow Will Anderson’s progress from finding a plot, getting planning permission, and building himself a stunning contemporary eco-home, which mirrors the fine-tuned ecology of a tree. Drawing on monthly columns he writes for The Independent, Anderson has created a diary that will be invaluable to anyone contemplating building their own eco-house.
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INDEPENDENT BUILDER Designing & Building a House Your Own Way Sam Clark
A TIMBER FRAMER’S WORKSHOP Joinery, Design & Construction of Traditional Timber Frames Steve K. Chappell
THE WOODLAND HOUSE Ben Law
$40.00 US • PB • 9780930031855 71/2 x 10 • 528 pages A pragmatic approach to general home construction, combining the latest technologies with traditional, time-tested methods. This tome is chock-full of information on all aspects of construction and is an ideal companion for even the most seasoned do-it-yourselfer.
$30.00 US • PB • 9781889269009 81/2 x 11 • 271 pages Required reading for any designer, homeowner, or contractor working with timber frame construction. This passionate guide, from a 30-year veteran and teacher of the craft, provides expert advice on all phases of construction and design.
$25.00 US • HC • 9781856230315 83/4 x 10 • 208 pages Full of stunning color photographs, this book is a visual guide to how Ben Law built an amazing chestnut timber-framed house hewn from his own woodland. It is a practical manual and the story of one man realizing his lifelong dream to build one of the most sustainable and beautiful homes in Britain.
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renewable energy
BIODIESEL
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Growing a New Energy Economy Greg Pahl Foreword by Bill McKibben
Previously Announced
Second Edition
For anyone who is trying to keep up with the extremely rapid developments in the biodiesel industry, the second edition of Biodiesel: Growing a New Energy Economy is an invaluable aid. The breathtaking speed with which biodiesel has gained acceptance in the marketplace in the past few years has been exceeded only by the proliferation of biodiesel production facilities around the United States—and the world. However, it has in turn been confronted by new social and environmental challenges and criticisms. The international survey of the biodiesel industry has been expanded from 40 to more than 80 countries, reflecting the spectacular growth of the industry around the world. This section also tracks the dramatic shifts in the fortunes of the industry that have taken place in some of these nations. The chapters that cover the industry in the United States have also been substantially rewritten to keep abreast of the many new developments and explosive domestic growth. An expanded section on small-scale, local biodiesel production has been added to better represent this small but growing part of the industry. Another new section has been added to explore more fully the increasingly controversial issues in biodiesel production of deforestation and the food-versus-fuel debate, as well as the use of GMO crops. The second edition concludes with updated views on where the industry is headed in the years to come from some of its key players.
Pub Date: July 2008
$18.00 US • PB • 9781933392967 6 x 9 • 296 pages Photographs, charts, graphs
“Finally, the book we’ve been looking for. Greg Pahl’s new biodiesel book offers a comprehensive review of all things veggie oil powered. From the history of the diesel engine to the development of the biodiesel industry, past, current, and future. This is the ultimate primer.” —Rob Elam, Propel Project
T HE C ITIZEN -P OWERED E NERGY H ANDBOOK
Also by Greg Pahl: Natural Home Heating
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Community Solutions to a Global Crisis Greg Pahl
The Citizen-Powered Energy Handbook is a clear-eyed view of the critical situation we face and offers a way out. Pahl examines energy technologies currently available and homes in on renewable-energy strategies for individuals and communities.
“This book is for pioneers in the great project of the new century. It will remain a touchstone informational resource for many years to come. May we all engage deliberately, proactively and enthusiastically in the energy transition, and learn to enjoy life without fossil fuels.” —Richard Heinberg, from the foreword “As the world passes through Peak Oil and society begins to Powerdown and Relocalize, this handbook should be on the work-desk of anyone planning for a Post-Carbon world.” —Julian Darley, founder and director of the Post Carbon Institute, author of High Noon for Natural Gas
$21.95 US • PB • 9781933392127 6 x 9 • 376 pages
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WIND POWER
Renewable Energy for Home, Farm, and Business Paul Gipe
WIND ENERGY BASICS A Guide to Small and Micro Wind Systems Paul Gipe
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HIGH NOON FOR NATURAL GAS The New Energy Crisis Julian Darley
$50.00 US • PB • 9781931498142 Full color • 25 B&W charts 8 x 10 • 512 pages Wind energy today is a booming worldwide industry. The technology has truly come of age, with better, more reliable machinery and a greater understanding of how and where wind power makes sense—from the independent homestead to a grid-connected utility-wide perspective. Heightened concerns about our environment mean that this resurgence of interest in wind—a natural and abundant power source—is here to stay.
$25.00 US • PB • 9781890132071 8 x 10 • 136 pages An invaluable source of information covering everything consumers need to know when considering a small wind turbine for their residence. Includes the unique “standard small wind turbine rating” developed by the author, which is designed to help readers wade through conflicting performance claims by manufacturers in the U.S. and overseas.
$30.00 US • HC • 9781931498678 $18.00 US • PB • 9781931498531 6 x 9 • 280 pages In this timely exposé, readers can expect to find a critical analysis of government policy on energy, as well as a meticulously researched warning about our next potentially catastrophic energy crisis.
INDEPENDENT ENERGY GUIDE Electrical Power for Home, Boat, & RV Kevin Jeffrey
PRACTICAL PHOTOVOLTAICS Electricity from Solar Cells Richard J. Komp
$19.95 US • PB • 9780964411203 7 x 9 • 288 pages This comprehensive guide will aid in your planning the ideal independent power system for your boat, home, or RV. You’ll understand how a system works, be able to talk intelligently with equipment suppliers about your needs, and have the necessary tools to make and manage your own electricity.
$18.95 US • PB • 9780937948118 6 x 9 • 216 pages The now-classic reference on solar electricity offers a unique combination of technical discussion and practical advice. Explains the “how” and the “how-to” of PV, while providing valuable information on the industry, new developments, and the future.
WHO OWNS THE SUN? People, Politics, and the Struggle for a Solar Economy Daniel M. Berman and John T. O’Connor
$17.95 US • PB • 9781890132088 6 x 9 • 356 pages America’s most powerful corporations, utilities, and environmental organizations are in league with government to protect a dirty little secret: solar power is a better way of meeting this nation’s future electrical needs. But even though we already have the technology to turn sunlight into clean, reliable power, they want to keep us in the dark.
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THE MAN WHO HATED WORK AND LOVED LABOR
The Life and Times of Tony Mazzocchi Les Leopold
Recently Published
A CIA-connected labor union, an assassination attempt, a mysterious car crash, listening devices, and stolen documents—everything you’d expect from the latest thriller. Yet these were part and parcel of the life of Tony Mazzocchi, the Rachel Carson of the U.S. workplace—a dynamic labor leader whose legacy lives on in today’s workplaces in the ongoing alliances between labor activists and environmentalists, and in those who believe in the promise of America.
“Balancing a wealth of firsthand interviews with astute judgments, Leopold delivers a vivid picture of Mazzocchi as a practical visionary whose milestones include passage of 1970’s Occupational Safety and Health Act . . . [A book] of practical lessons as well as an excellent introduction to American left and labor history.” —Publisher’s Weekly (starred review) “Les Leopold has vividly brought to life an extraordinary man—an incorruptible fighter for the rights of labor—an historic figure who should never be forgotten . . . This is an important work in the annals of labor history.” —Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian
$40.00 US • HC • 9781933392639 $24.95 US • PB • 9781933392646 6 x 9 • 544 pages • Photo insert
GETTING A GRIP
Clarity, Creativity, and Courage in a World Gone Mad Frances Moore Lappé $14.95 US • PB • 9780979414244 53/8 x 8 • 144 pages
SURVIVING AMERICA’S DEPRESSION EPIDEMIC
How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy Bruce E. Levine, PhD $16.95 US • PB • 9781933392714 6 x 9 • 224 pages
Winner of the 2008 James Beard Humanitarian Award and 2008 Nautilus Book Awards Gold Winner
Frances Moore Lappé—author of fifteen books, including three-million-copy best seller Diet for a Small Planet— flouts conventional right-versus-left divisions and affirms readers’ basic sanity—their intuitive knowledge that it is possible to grasp the real roots of today’s crises, from hunger and poverty to climate change and terrorism. “There is a small number of people in every generation who are forerunners, in thought, action, spirit, who swerve past the barriers of greed and power to hold a torch for the rest of us. Frances Moore Lappé is one of those.”
The rate of clinical depression in the United States has increased more than tenfold in the last 50 years. Is this epidemic being properly addressed by the insurance, pharmaceutical, and governmental powers that be, or is it being exacerbated by a failing medical system focused on instant results and high profit margins? Dr. Bruce Levine argues the latter and provides a compelling alternative approach to treating depression. “A thoughtful, compassionate and refreshingly humble look at what we call depression.”
—Robert Whitaker, winner of the George Polk Award for Medical Writing and author of Mad in America
—Howard Zinn ChelseaGreen.com • 802.295.6300
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The 2008 Elections!
DON’T THINK OF AN ELEPHANT!
Know Your Values and Frame the Debate George Lakoff Foreword by Howard Dean Introduction by Don Hazen $10.00 US • PB • 9781931498715 53/8 x 83/8 • 144 pages
•••Other EDITIONS•••
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A National Best Seller! Over 300,000 copies in print.
In 2006 the Democratic Party took back control of Congress by articulating the issues at stake and framing the national debate. With the 2008 presidential campaign accelerated and underway, now is the time to brush up on how conservatives think and how to counter their arguments. Lakoff outlines in detail the traditional American values that progressives hold but are often unable to articulate and provides examples of how they can reframe the debate to their advantage.
•DON’T THINK OF AN ELEPHANT!
and HOW DEMOCRATS AND PROGRESSIVES CAN WIN Set George Lakoff • $22.50 US PB and DVD • 9781931498821
•HOW DEMOCRATS AND
PROGRESSIVES CAN WIN
George Lakoff • DVD • 25 min.
“One of the most influential political thinkers of the progressive movement.” —Howard Dean $15.00 • 9781931498821
Crashing the Gate
Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics Jerome Armstrong and Markos Moulitsas Foreword by Simon Rosenberg
Ready, Set, Talk! A Guide to Getting Your Message Heard by Millions on Talk Radio, Talk Television, and Talk Internet Ellen Ratner and Kathie Scarrah
America, Fascism, and God Sermons from a Heretical Preacher Davidson Loehr
$25.00 US • HC • 9781931498999 $12.95 US • PB • 9781933392417 51/2 x 81/4 • 216 pages Crashing the Gate is an incisive and provocative book from two writers on the front lines, engaged in the battle to take back politics from entitled, entrenched interests. A must-read for anyone with an interest in the future of American democracy.
$20.00 US • PB • 9781933392219 6 x 9 • 240 pages 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 opportunities and show readers how to develop media events for maximum attention.
$12.00 US • PB • 9781931498937 53/8 x 83/8 • 200 pages “This extraordinary book by one of America’s most thoughtful religious leaders reviews religion’s special mission in American history and heralds the return of religion to its natural place in the moral high ground of our national politics.” —Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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PEARLS, POLITICS & POWER
How Women Can Win and Lead Madeleine M. Kunin
Recently Published
The next generation of women is ready and eager to lead, but not always sure how to turn a sense of purpose into reality. Pearls, Politics & Power will help ensure that this inspiration and idealism is not lost but channeled into successful candidacies by America’s leaders of tomorrow—an infusion of new leadership that is sorely needed to address the major problems of our time.
“A natural storyteller, Kunin combines her personal journey in politics with the stories of dozens of female politicians. Writing with wisdom, intelligence, and warmth, she provides a guide for women at all levels who might seek to enter public life. The timing of this excellent book could not be better.”
—Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and biographer
“Madeleine Kunin had to imagine herself as a woman leader when those two words rarely came together. Now she teaches us from her experience, and helps us imagine the next leap into the future.” —Gloria Steinem, feminist and founder of Ms. magazine “Pearls, Politics & Power: How Women Can Win and Lead incisively analyzes the challenges women face in their bids for elected office. Drawing on her extensive political experience as one of our nation’s finest governors, Madeleine Kunin offers clear and practical advice on how women can pursue careers in politics. This book is a must for any woman interested in becoming one of tomorrow’s leaders.” —President Bill Clinton
$24.95 US • HC • 9781603580106 $14.95 US • PB • 9781933392929 6 x 9 • 240 pages
THE END OF AMERICA
Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot Naomi Wolf
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER!
In a stunning indictment of the Bush administration and Congress, best-selling author Naomi Wolf lays out her case for saving American democracy. With authoritative research and documentation, The End of America explains how events of the last six years parallel steps taken in the early years of the twentieth century’s worst dictatorships, such as those of Germany, Russia, China, and Chile. In this timely call to arms, Wolf compels us to face the way our American freedoms are under assault. She warns us—with the straight-to-fellow-citizens urgency of one of Thomas Paine’s revolutionary pamphlets—that we have little time to lose if our children are to live in real freedom. The End of America will shock, enrage, and motivate, spurring us to act, as the Founders would have counted on us to do in a time such as this, as rebels and patriots, to save our liberty and defend our nation.
2008 Nautilus Book Awards Silver Winner
“One of the most important books that’s been written, certainly in the last decade or two, and perhaps in my lifetime.” —Thom Hartmann, best-selling author and host of The Thom Hartmann Radio Program “Most Valuable Political Book [of 2007].” —John Nichols in The Nation’s “The Online Beat” blog
$13.95 US • PB • 9781933392790 53/8 x 83/8 • 192 pages
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MISSION REJECTED U.S. Soldiers Who Say No to Iraq Peter Laufer Foreword by Norman Solomon
$14.00 US • PB • 9781933392042 53/8 x 83/8 • 240 pages A shattering journey of revelation, pain, and betrayal, Mission Rejected takes the reader deep into the turmoil of U.S. troops confronting the Iraq War. Journalist Peter Laufer tells the stories of soldiers who are transformed from trained warriors to activists in the struggle to end the Iraq War. Mission Rejected probes the universal issue of resistance to war by the very men who chose to defend the nation.
UNEMBEDDED Four Independent Photojournalists on the War in Iraq Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, Kael Alford, Thorne Anderson, Rita Leistner
GUANTÁNAMO What the World Should Know Including “A President Beyond the Law” by Anthony Lewis Michael Ratner and Ellen Ray
$50.00 US • HC • 9781931498951 $29.95 US • PB • 9781931498982 10 x 10 • 176 pages • Full color “Much of what is shown in Unembedded will probably disturb many Americans who have generally watched a sanitized version of the war and occupation unfold on their TV screens. Unembedded captures the whole range of Iraqi life under U.S. occupation from joyful wedding scenes to the carnage of civilian casualties. It’s a stunning book.” —Peter Bergen, author of Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden
$15.00 US • PB • 9781931498647 53/8 x 83/8 • 184 pages A must-read for anyone concerned with the rule of law, liberty, democracy, and the right to dissent, Guantánamo is the most authoritative documentation on President Bush’s moves toward a network of detention centers that flout U.S. and international law.
SINCE SLICED BREAD Common Sense Ideas from America’s Working Families Edited by Don Stillman
$12.95 US • PB • 9781933392608 6 x 9 • 160 pages • Full color The Service Employees International Union, known as the most aggressive voice for working Americans, went to regular people from coast to coast and all walks of life to find out what’s wrong and what can be right in our economy and politics. The result is this collection of smart, concise, and achievable ideas for solving the big problems that face society at home and around the world.
THE VERMONT PAPERS Recreating Democracy on a Human Scale Frank Br yan and John McClaughr y
REHEARSING WITH GODS Photographs and Essays on the Bread & Puppet Theater Ronald T. Simon and Marc Estrin
$25.00 US • PB • 9780930031312 6 x 9 • 320 pages • Full color With its tradition of strong, local town government buttressed by the growth of information technology, Vermont is ready to make a breakthrough toward a postmodern, human-scale democracy. And the authors argue that Vermont can show the rest of the nation how to govern itself democratically in the next century.
$35.00 US • HC • 9781931498197 10 x 10 • 256 pages A photographic and literary tribute to the majesty of New York’s Bread and Puppet Theater. Estrin draws on his decades of experience with the theater to compose dramatic essays on eight themes: Death, Fiend, Beast, Human, World, Gift, Bread, and Hope.
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JOURNEY FOR THE PLANET A Kid’s Five Week Adventure to Create an Earth-friendly Life David Gershon
BAYBERRY & BEAU Nita Choukas Illustrated by Gillian Tyler
NOBODY PARTICULAR One Woman’s Fight to Save the Bays Molly Bang
$12.95 US • PB • 9780964437302 8 x 11 • 72 pages EMPOWERMENT PRESS Journey for the Planet: A Kid’s Five Week Adventure to Create an Earth-friendly Life is a fun, engaging workbook for every child who wants to make a difference for the world. Drawing on his successful EcoTeam workbook, which sold over 250,000 copies through a unique grassroots distribution model, environmental-change pioneer David Gershon guides children through a series of action steps that can impact both climate and the environment as a whole.
$15.95 US • HC • 9781933392356 7 x 9 • 112 pages Bayberry & Beau is an original tale inspired by a real horse and cat who mysteriously became inseparable friends. “My class thoroughly enjoyed Bayberry & Beau. I will always remember the delight in my students’ eyes and the affection on their faces as Bayberry and Beau became a part of their lives.” —Betsy Draper, first-grade teacher
$10.00 US • PB • 9781931498944 9 x 11 • 48 pages This is the inspiring true story of how one woman succeeded in forcing a huge corporation to change its plans, adopt more environmental safeguards, and agree to protect her precious bays. From acclaimed graphic artist Molly Bang, Diane Wilson’s story comes to life in striking pictures.
•••Other CHELSEA GREEN KIDS Titles•••
National Outdoor Book Award IParenting Book Award
2008 Nautilus Book Awards Gold Winner
•COMPOST, BY GOSH! • Michelle Eva Portman
$16.95 US • 61/2 x 83/4 • HC 42 pages • 9780942256161
•THE BEST OF MAKING THINGS:
GAIA GIRLS Enter the Earth Lee Welles Illustrated by Ann Hameister GAIA GIRLS Way of Water Lee Welles Illustrated by Carol Coogan
A Hand Book of Creative Discovery
Ann Sayre Wiseman • $8.95 US • 6 x 9 PB • 168 pages • 9780967984612
$12.95 US • PB • 9781933609010 51/2 x 81/4 • 336 pages • 38 drawings Elizabeth Angier thought her summer on the family farm would be full of work, play, and fun; however, she didn’t anticipate Harmony Farms Corporation moving to her town. Even more shocking, Gaia, the living spirit of Earth, calls out to Elizabeth to help humanity live in harmony with the planet.
$12.95 US • PB • 9781933609034 51/2 x 81/4 • 336 pages • 25 illustrations More adventure in the second book of the series with the story of Miho’s love of the sea and all its creatures and her unexpected move to Japan, where she meets an old man who becomes her sensei. Soon, she befriends Gaia and gains amazing powers to connect with the “minds in the water.”
•DIG YOUR HANDS IN THE DIRT:
A Manual for Making Art Out of Earth
Kiko Denzer • $12.95 US • 51/2 x 81/2 • PB
128 pages • 9780967984667
•THE BIG TREE AT GEORGE
AND CHARLOTTE’S HOUSE
Tomm Stanley • Illustrated by Paul Richardson and Tomm Stanley
$11.95 US • 81/4 x 11 PB • 32 pages 9780473116118
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ZERI Fables are beautifully illustrated, bilingual Spanish/English children’s books that use Gunter Pauli’s ZERI Education model to teach children science. Each one includes a teacher’s and parent’s guide, with hands-on activities that help children apply what they have learned. These wonderful fables help children, adolescents, and young adults develop a profound academic understanding, emotional intelligence, and eco-literacy and cultivate their creativity.
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