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The Ecology of Commerce

by Paul Hawken

A visionary new program that businesses can follow to help restore the planet.

Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble

Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble

In this new edition, Lester Brown outlines a survival strategy for our early twenty-first civilization. The world faces numerous environmental trends of disruption and decline such as rising temperatures, falling water tables, shrinking forests, melting glaciers, collapsing fisheries, and rising sea levels. In Plan B , Lester R. Brown notes that in ignoring nature's deadlines for dealing with these... (more)

Inside the Not So Big House: Discovering the Details that Bring a Home to Life (Susanka)

Inside the Not So Big House: Discovering the Details that Bring a Home to Life (Susanka)

by Sarah Susanka, Ken Gutmaker, Marc Vassallo

In her latest book, best-selling author of The Not So Big House Sarah Susanka teams up with architectural design writer Marc Vassallo to expand upon the message that has resonated with over a million homeowners and builders across the country: opting for personalized, well-crafted, thoughtfully designed spaces over superfluous square footage results in a home that comforts and nourishes those who live there. In... (more)

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things

by William McDonough

A manifesto for a radically different philosophy and practice of manufacture and environmentalism "Reduce, reuse, recycle" urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. As William McDonough and Michael Braungart argue in their provocative, visionary book, however, this approach perpetuates a one-way, "cradle to grave" manufacturing model that dates to the Industrial... (more)

The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural & Agricultural

The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural & Agricultural

by Wendell Berry

In the twenty-four essays of this collection, Well Berry stresses the carefully modulated harmonics of indivisibility in culture and agriculture, the interdepence, the wholeness, the oneness, of man, animals, the land, the weather, and the family. To touch one, he shows, is to tamper with them all.Here he continues issues first raised in The Unsettling of America; the problems addressed there are still with us... (more)

Living Green: A Practical Guide to Simple Sustainability

Living Green: A Practical Guide to Simple Sustainability

by Greg Horn

Over 85% of Americans today express concern about health and the environment, but only a small fraction say they know where to begin. Whether you are concerned about climate change, personal health, or just want to live more lightly on the planet, this book is for you. It helps you get past the worry and take positive action to improve both your health and the health of our environment. Based on a... (more)

Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden And Your Neighborhood into a Community

Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden And Your Neighborhood into a Community

by H. C. Flores

Gardening can be a political act. Creativity, fulfillment, connection, revolution—it all begins when we get our hands in the dirt. Food Not Lawns 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... (more)

Green Living: The E Magazine Handbook for Living Lightly on the Earth

Green Living: The E Magazine Handbook for Living Lightly on the Earth

by E Magazine

The Whole Earth Catalog for the next generation. Experts suggest that by 2005, 40 percent of American homes will buy organic, yet a large majority have only a limited knowledge of how to actually make informed, green choices. Green Living , from the editors of E/The Environmental Magazine offers a thorough, step-by-step plan for every aspect of your life, from the laundry room to the kitchen: ... (more)

Good Green Kitchens

by Jennifer Roberts

With more than 150 color photographs, comprehensive text, and extensive resource lists of recommended products, manufacturers, and retailers, Good Green Kitchens is a must-have—whether taking small steps to a green kitchen, or planning a thorough remodel. This newest book from green living advocate, Jennifer Roberts, is loaded with inspiration and information for creating a dream green kitchen. What makes a... (more)

Turning Point Science Society and the Risi

Turning Point Science Society and the Risi

by Fritjof Capra

American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau

American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau

As America and the world grapple with the consequences of global environmental change, writer and activist Bill McKibben offers this unprecedented, provocative, and timely anthology, gathering the best and most significant American environmental writing from the last two centuries. Classics of the environmental imagination—the essays of Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and John Burroughs; Aldo Leopold’s A Sand... (more)

The Carbon-Free Home: 36 Remodeling Projects to Help Kick the Fossil-Fuel Habit

The Carbon-Free Home: 36 Remodeling Projects to Help Kick the Fossil-Fuel Habit

by Stephen Hren

You've read the stories and watched the documentaries. So you're convinced--burning fossil fuels leads to global climate change; supplies of fossil fuels are diminishing in quantity and increasing in price. You've fretted and worried, but still go through your day consuming some quantity of non-renewable fossil fuels to accomplish nearly every task (and you may not even realize it). You want to do something... (more)

The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience

The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience

by Rob Hopkins

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... (more)

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