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  Get Real: What Kind of World are YOU Buying?

  by Mara Rockliff

  Can you change the world with your wallet? You already do. In this frank, teen-friendly manifesto, Mara Rockliff reveals what you’re really buying when you spend your money on a cell phone, a cheap t-shirt, or fast food—and shows the way to better choices, both for people and the planet. Start seeing the world for real, and discover how you can make a difference. You’ve got buying power—now let’s see you... (more)
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  Harvest for Hope

  A Guide to Mindful Eating

  by Jane Goodall, Gerry McAvoy, Gail Hudson

  The renowned scientist who fundamentally changed the way we view primates and our relationship with the animal kingdom now turns her attention to an incredibly important and deeply personal issue-taking a stand for a more sustainable world. In this provocative and encouraging book, Jane Goodall sounds a clarion call to Western society, urging us to take a hard look at the food we produce and consume-and showing us... (more)
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  Ecoholic

  Your Guide to the Most Environmentally Friendly Information, Products and Services in Canada

  by Adria Vasil

  When the world’s environmental woes get you down, turn to Ecoholic – Canada’s best resource for practical tips and products that help you do your part for the earth. You’ll get the dirt on what not to buy and why, and the dish on great gifts, clothes, home supplies and more. Based on the popular and authoritative "Ecoholic" column that appears weekly in NOW , Ecoholic is a cheeky and eye-opening guide to all... (more)
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  Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

  A Year of Food Life

  by Barbara Kingsolver

  Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver returns with her first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat. "As the U.S. population made an unprecedented mad dash for the Sun Belt, one carload of us paddled against the tide, heading for the Promised Land where water falls from the sky and green stuff grows all around. We were about to begin the... (more)
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  Max Havelaar

  Or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company

  by Multatuli

  Max Havelaar - a Dutch civil servant in Java - burns with an insatiable desire to end the ill treatment and oppression inflicted on the native peoples by the colonial administration. Max is an inspirational figure, but he is also a flawed idealist whose vow to protect the Javanese from cruelty ends in his own downfall. In Max Havelaar, Multatuli (the pseudonym for Eduard Douwes Dekker) vividly recreated his own... (more)
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  The No-Nonsense Guide to

  The No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade

  by David Ransom

  Meeting the people who grow our bananas and cocoa and make our clothes, this No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade tells the human story behind what we consume. Examin-ing the global contest between "free" and "fair" trade, David Ransom argues that the key question is not whether trade should be regulated or deregulated, but whether it is to be the master or servant of the people. And as fair trade products are... (more)
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  Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee

  by Dean Cycon

  In each cup of coffee we drink the major issues of the twenty-first century-globalization, immigration, women's rights, pollution, indigenous rights, and self-determination-are played out in villages and remote areas around the world. In Javatrekker: Dispatches from the World of Fair Trade Coffee , a unique hybrid of Fair Trade business, adventure travel, and cultural anthropology, author Dean Cycon brings... (more)
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  Business Unusual

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  The Secret Series: Book 3

  This Book Is Not Good For You

  by Pseudonymous Bosch

  Between the pages of this book lies the secret to the best-tasting chocolate in all the world. I promise, your taste buds will tingle. Your palette will sing! Oh no, have I accidentally tempted you to read this book? I will warm you, however, the most delicious things are never good for you...and this story is particularly scrumptious! In this tooth-rotting adventure, Cass's mom has been kidnapped by the... (more)
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  manuale per un consumo responsabile- manual for responsible consumers

  by francesco gesualdi

  fair trading, wise choice of products, history and facts about what we buy, how to exercise a wise consume
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  A Cafecito Story

  by Julia Alvarez

  Julia Alvarez is the co-owner of a small, organic coffee farm. Her firsthand experience with the difficulties of bringing delicious, nontoxic, shade-grown coffee to market have inspired "A Cafecito Story", a lyrical account of how a North American’s eyes (and taste buds) are opened to the global impacts of our love affair with java. "A Cafecito Story" is not a political or environmental polemic. Instead it is... (more)
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  Take It Personally

  How to Make Conscious Choices to Change the World

  by Anita Roddick

  Humanitarian consumers have been outraged to learn of the Gap's sweatshops, the young children who assemble Nike running shoes, and the deplorable demands put on agricultural workers by Starbucks Coffee. This book is a call to action to change business practices that hurt workers, children, animals, and the environment. Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop, a phenomenally successful alternative corporation,... (more)