2008 Fall and Winter Catalog with Backlist

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Fall/Winter 2008

An Open Letter to the Book Publishing Community

For more than 20 years, Chelsea Green has been the publishing leader forbooks on the politics and practice of sustainable living. We are a founding member ofthe 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 continuedto 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% ofour 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. Akey 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) receivehigher 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 processingand unnecessary shipping by both parties (our overall returns rate for last year was 18%), and a demonstration that doing theenvironmentally 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 housesto 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 isupon 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 nonrenewableenergy 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 hazardouswaste recovery, electrical equipment, and plastics.

There is no longer any reason to continue a practice that got its start in the Depression as away 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 wehave demonstrated with our Green Partnership Program. We welcome

other publishers and booksellers to join us in our efforts.

Margo BaldwinPresident and Publisher

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Nature & Environment 02Ethical Marketplace 19Science/Sciencewriters 26Gardening & Agriculture 29Food/Health/Travel 43Spirituality & Simple Living 49Green Building 55Renewable Energy 61Politics & Social Justice 63Chelsea Green Kids 67Other Products 69

Holy Roller 02Not One Drop 04How the Rich Are Destroying the Earth 05Exposed 06Gaviotas 07Spell of the Tiger 08Journey of the Pink Dolphins 09Green Living Handbook 10The Transition Handbook 11The Gort Cloud 19A Bee’s-Eye View of and Inquiry into the Nature of SLOW MONEY 20Finding the Sweet Spot 21Mortgage Free! 22Companies We Keep 23Thinking in Systems 26Fresh Food from Small Spaces 29Gaia’s Kitchen 43Organic Places to Stay in the UK 43The Local Foods Wheel 45Open Spaces Sacred Places 49Returning to My Mother’s House 51

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AN UNREASONABLE WOMANA True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos,Polluters, and the Fight for Seadrift, TexasDiane WilsonForeword by Kenny Ausubel

$27.50 US • HC • 9781931498883$18.00 US • PB • 97819333922716 x 9 • 391 pages

An Unreasonable Woman is a novelistic tale of heroism and skulduggery that plays out against abackdrop of colorful outlaw shrimpers and crookedpoliticians, enviro-activists and informants, grudgesand murder, betrayal and redemption. This bookheralds the arrival of a vital new literary voice andintroduces us to a daring, hopeful women’s activismthat the times demand.

HOLY ROLLERGrowing Up in the Church of Knock Down, Drag Out; or, How I Quit Loving a Blue-Eyed Jesus-A Childhood Memoir-Diane Wilson

Pub Date: October 2008$24.95 US, $27.50 CAN • HC978193339282051/2 x 81/2 • 240 pages • B&W photo insert

In this rollicking memoir, Diane Wilson—a Texas Gulf Coast shrimper and the author ofthe highly acclaimed An Unreasonable Woman—takes readers back to her childhood in ruralTexas and into her family of Holy Rollers. By night at tent revivals, Wilson gets religionfrom Brother Dynamite, an ex-con who finds Jesus in a baloney sandwich and handlesmasses 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 inthe 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 BigIndustry, and win. One of the best Southern writers of her generation, Wilson’s voicetwangs with a style and accent all its own, as true and individual as her boundless originality and wild youth.

Diane Wilson, a fourth-generationshrimper, began fishing the bays off theGulf Coast of Texas at the age of eight.By twenty-four she was a boat captain.In 1989, while running her brother’s fishhouse at the docks and mending nets,she read a newspaper article that listedher home of Calhoun County as themost polluted place in the country. Herensuing work on behalf of the peopleand aquatic life of Seadrift, Texas,

where she still lives, has won her a number of awards, including the NationalFisherman 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 fightfor social justice.

“An Unreasonable Woman will stand as one of this nation’s greatest works of nonfiction. I have never read a book quite likethis 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. Avoice like Diane Wilson’s—working-class woman with five kids—is sorare . . . And to write this well is a stunning achievement.”—Molly Ivins, award-winning columnist and best-selling author

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Holy 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 namesakesfor the real thing). Missionettes always met on Sunday eveningright before the night church service so we could get from onechurch thing to the next church thing without indulging in anyworldly 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), anda little gold pin (golden streets of glory), stamped with an M inthe middle, and pinned to our shoulder. We’d sit around a metaltable in an empty part of the church—ten little girls number-painting Jesus’s face in oil and eating vanilla wafers and drinkingred Kool-Aid until our lips were red as a horde of Jezebels. Wehad a huge responsibility on our little white shoulders. Just by sitting there we were setting good examples and winning souls toChrist and it was unfortunate that nobody could see us.

After the Jesus faces and the Kool-Aid ran out, the pastor’s wifelined us up to test our memories on books of the Bible. Mylimit 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 thedevil chapters: Deuteronomy and Revelation. Finally, I gave upwith the easiest one of all: Genesis.

My momma was a serious, serious Christian woman with twopreachers in the family, and a mother who obsessed over aradio evangelist from San Antonio, but her emphasis wascleanliness was godliness and no body part was too low to bein service, so she wasn’t much for batting books of the Biblearound with her kids. That was a huge waste of time! Shecould have two lines of wash strung out before the pastor’s

wife said Deuteronomy or Ecclesiastes. So the same girl wonevery time, and the pastor’s wife always handed her the sameprize—a scrapbook full of pictures of Christians wearingheavy coats at a revival somewhere in Alaska. We didn’t knowwho they were.

Being a Junior Missionette didn’t take up all my time. Therewas leftover time for the gypsy drawing. There was leftovertime 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. Sofar I have made it six days with nothing major happeningexcept the sun coming out from behind a cloud and blisteringme. I was a fierce little bump in the road, as any truck driverwould tell you. Anyhow, back to the hiding. I was hidingunder the kitchen table and Momma was slaving away over thestove and burning the fish when Sister Pearl shot into thekitchen and shouted, “Praise Jesus, Sister Goldie! The missionaries are comin’!”

Sister Pearl was a big German lady with a white-crepe face andneck and she had more hair than me and Momma put togetherand always wore it pinned up around her head like a crown ofthorns. She also was a big house-cleaning fool with a hugefarmhouse with lots of rooms and front and back porches andan attic that needed cleaning from top to bottom and behindboards nailed to the wall and underneath iron bathtubs and inpitch-black closets, so I was watching her shoes and hopingshe’d scoot right back to her farmhouse. But she leaned downand peeked under the table like she’d seen me just yesterdayfooling 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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“How in the world does Texas turn out so many sassy, silver-tongued agitators like AnnRichards, Molly Ivins—and now, Diane Wilson? Holy Roller helps answer that question . . .Any reader who loves Harper Lee, Carson McCullers, or Flannery O'Connor will find muchto savor and admire in this mesmerizing tale of growing up among shrimp fishermen onthe Texas bayous.”—Lisa Alther, best-selling author of Kinfolks and Kinflicks

Advance praise for Holy Roller

“This book is hothothot. Sizzling hot, hot as hellfire. Once again, Diane Wilson totallyenthralls 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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Pub Date: November 2008$21.95 US, $23.95 CAN • PB97819333925856 x 9 • 320 pages • B&W photo insert

A commercial salmon “fisherma’am,” Dr. Riki Ott (PhD in marine biology) experienced firsthand the devastatingeffects of the Exxon Valdez oil spill—andchose to do something about it. Ott retiredfrom fishing and founded three nonprofitorganizations to deal with lingering harm.Her previous book on the spill is SoundTruth and Corporate Myth$. She lives inCordova, Alaska.

“This book doesn’t just change our view of the Exxon Valdez spill; itforces us to dramatically reassess the risks from petroleum and theenormous costs that industry is imposing on our health and planet.” —Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., president, Waterkeeper Alliance

Tracing 15 years of lingering harm to humansand wildlife from the Exxon Valdez oil spill,author Riki Ott reveals how corporate greed,government shortsightedness, manipulation ofthe truth, and the media have kept the publicfrom learning the deadly nature of polycyclicaromatic hydrocarbons. Includes relevantinformation and practical recommendationsfor people and policy makers at this criticaljuncture in the history of civilization.

SOUND TRUTH AND CORPORATE MYTH$The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez Oil SpillRiki Ott Foreword by Walter Crinnion

$24.95 US • PB • 978096452266451/2 x 81/2 • 560 pages

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 extraordinarytale of ordinary lives ripped apart by disaster and of community healing through buildingrelationships of trust. This story offers critical lessons for a society traumatized by politicaldivides and facing the looming catastrophe of global climate change.

Author Riki Ott, a rare combination of commercial salmon “fisherm’am” and PhD marinebiologist, describes firsthand the impacts of oil companies’ broken promises when the ExxonValdez spills most of its cargo and despoils thousands of miles of shore. Ott illustrates in stir-ring fashion the oil industry’s 20-year trail of pollution and deception that predated the tragic1989 spill and delves deep into the disruption to the fishing community of Cordova over thefollowing 19 years. In vivid detail, she describes the human trauma coupled inextricably withthat of the sound’s wildlife and its long road to recovery.

Ott critically examines shifts in scientific understanding of oil-spill effects on ecosystems andcommunities, exposes fundamental flaws in governance and the legal system, and contrastshard won spill-prevention and spill-response measures in the sound to dangerous conditionson the Alaska pipeline. Her human story, varied background, professional training, andactivist heart lead readers to the root of the problem: a clash of human rights and corporatepower embedded in law and small-town life.

Not One Drop is as much an example of how too many corporate owners and political leadersbetray everyday citizens as it is one of the universal struggle to maintain heart, to find thecourage to overcome disaster, and to forge a new path from despair to hope.

NOT ONE DROPBetrayal and Courage in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil SpillRiki Ott

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Pub Date: September 2008$12.95 US, $14.50 CAN • PB978160358035953/8 x 83/8 • 160 pages

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, Kempfdescribes 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, Kempfmakes the following observations: First, that the planet’s ecological situation is growing everworse, 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 economicelites—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 beenorganized to impede democratic initiatives. This link explains the failure to make progressagainst the greatest emergency of our time, because in this relationship the oligarchy plays anessential and destructive role. For this reason, solving the ecological crisis depends on disrupting the power of the world’s elite.

We cannot understand the entwined ecological and social crises, Kempf argues, if we don’t seethem as the two sides of the same disaster—a disaster that comes from a system piloted by adominant 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 thescale of the challenges that await us, solutions are emerging and—faced with the sinisterprospects the oligarchs promote—the desire to remake the world is being reborn.”

Hervé Kempf has more than 20years of experience as a reporter. He is the environmental editor of LeMonde, France’s most influential dailynewspaper, and the founder ofReporterre, a Web site devoted to discussion about the environment andsocial justice. He lives in France.

“[A] bombshell book.” —Louis-Gilles Francoeur, Le Devoir (Montréal, Québec)

“An intellectually original and undeniably pugnacious endeavor.” —Patrick Piro, Politis

HOW THE RICH ARE DESTROYING THE EARTHHervé Kempf

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“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



EXPOSEDThe Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What’s at Stake for American PowerMark Schapiro

Pub Date: January 2009$22.95 US, $29.95 CAN • HC9781933392158$16.95 US, $18.50 CAN • PB97816035805886 x 9 • 224 pages

Mark Schapiro is editorial director ofthe Center for Investigative Reporting. Hehas written extensively on foreign affairsand his work has appeared in Harper’s,The Nation, Atlantic Monthly, the NewYork Times Magazine, and other publica-tions, and he has reported stories forFRONTLINE/World, NOW with BillMoyers, and public radio’s Marketplace.Schapiro lives in San Francisco, California.

“In this smart and timely new book, Mark Schapiro . . . examinesthe widening gap between American and EU chemical and environmental regulation, cogently arguing that although theUnited States used to be a leader in environmental protection, the power has shifted across the Atlantic.” —ForeWord Magazine

“A gripping new book” —The Economist

“Americans’ confidence in their government-sanctioned environmentaland consumer protections receives another blow in investigativereporter Schapiro’s exposé.” —Publishers Weekly

“[Schapiro’s] startling message is that by lagging behind on environmental innovation, American industries are jeopardizingtheir financial future.” —San Francisco Chronicle

From tainted pet food to toxic toys, Americans can thank the successful lobbying efforts of theU.S. chemical industry for the secret ingredients in everyday products that have been linked torising 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 toact. Strict consumer-safety regulations have forced multinationals to manufacture safer productsfor European consumers, while lower U.S. standards allow them to continue selling unsafeproducts to Americans. Schapiro’s exposé shows that short of strong government action, theUnited States will lose not only its ability to protect citizens from environmental hazards butalso, as economic priorities shift, whatever claim it has to commercial supremacy. Increasingly,products on American shelves are equated with serious health hazards, hazards that theEuropean Union is legislating out of existence in its powerful trading bloc, a lead that evenChina is beginning to follow. Schapiro illustrates how the blowback from weak regulation athome 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 corporateand political power, where tectonic battles are being waged that will determine the physicaland economic health of our children and ourselves.

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GAVIOTASA Village to Reinvent the WorldAlan WeismanNew afterword by the author

Pub Date: October 2008$16.95 US, $18.95 CAN • PB97816035805646 x 9 • 244 pages • Photos & diagramsPrevious edition: 9781890132286

Los Llanos—the rain-leached, eastern savannas of war-ravaged Colombia—are among themost brutal environments on Earth and an unlikely setting for one of the most hopefulenvironmental stories ever told. Here, in the late 1960s, a young Colombian developmentworker named Paolo Lugari wondered if the nearly uninhabited, infertile llanos could bemade livable for his country’s growing population. He had no idea that nearly four decadeslater, 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 mildbreezes into energy, hand pumps capable of tapping deep sources of water, and solar collectorsefficient 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 oftwo million Caribbean pines planted as a source of renewable commercial resin, a primordialrain 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.’ Wecall Gaviotas a topia, because it’s real.”

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 thepast decade.

“In the wake of the fall of so much idealism in Latin America, it is wonderful todiscover this luminous book about a luminous place in eastern Colombia. AlanWeisman takes us to Gaviotas via many stories—stories that make the pathcompletely engrossing.”—Julia Alvarez, author of In the Time of the Butterflies and A Cafecito Story

Author of the critically acclaimed NewYork Times best seller The WorldWithout Us, Alan Weisman is anaward-winning journalist whose reportshave appeared in Harper’s, the NewYork Times Magazine, Atlantic Monthly,Discover, and Orion, among others,and on National Public Radio. A formercontributing editor to the Los AngelesTimes Magazine, he is a senior radioproducer for Homelands Productionsand teaches international journalism atthe University of Arizona. He lives inwestern Massachusetts.

“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 thatremind us just how rich the human spirit and a human community can be.Weisman himself proves again that he is among the best journalist essayistsNorth 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

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SPELL OF THE TIGERThe Man-Eaters of SundarbansSy Montgomery

Pub Date: February 2009$16.95 US, $18.50 CAN • PB978160358059551/2 x 81/2 • 240 pages • Color photo insert

A book that earned Sy Montgomery her status as one of the most celebrated wildlife writersof our time, Spell of the Tiger brings readers to the Sundarbans, a vast tangle of mangroveswamp and tidal delta that lies between India and Bangladesh. It is the only spot on earthwhere tigers routinely eat people—swimming silently behind small boats at night to dragaway fishermen, snatching honey collectors and woodcutters from the forest. But, unlike inother parts of Asia where tigers are rapidly being hunted to extinction, tigers in theSundarbans are revered. With the skill of a naturalist and the spirit of a mystic, Montgomeryreveals the delicate balance of Sundarbans life, explores the mix of worship and fear thatoffers tigers unique protection there, and unlocks some surprising answers about why peopleat risk of becoming prey might consider their predator a god.

“Part Indiana Jones, part Emily Dickinson,” as the Boston Globe describes her, Sy Montgomery is an author, naturalist, doc-umentary scriptwriter, and radio commentatorwho has traveled to some of the world’s mostremote wildernesses for her work. She hasworked in a pit crawling with 18,000 snakesin Manitoba, been hunted by a tiger in India,swum with pink dolphins in the Amazon, andbeen undressed by an orangutan in Borneo.She is the author of 13 award-winning books,including her national best-selling memoir, TheGood Good Pig. Montgomery lives inHancock, New Hampshire.

“Clear, emotionally telling and always right to the point, heraccounts of the other forms of life are without peer.”—Farley Mowat, author of Never Cry Wolf

“Spell of the Tiger is a splendid, transcendental book, distilled likebrandy. Lovers of nature should love it.” —Edward Hoagland

“Sy Montgomery puts the fear of God into you with her tales of thegreat mangrove swamp of Sundarbans.” —Los Angeles Times

“In a spiritual comprehension, people of the Sundarbans know thatwithout the tiger, their human world is incomplete.” —Time

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JOURNEY OF THE PINK DOLPHINSAn Amazon QuestSy Montgomery

Pub Date: February 2009$19.95 US, $21.95 CAN • PB978160358060151/2 x 81/2 • 320 pages • Color photo insert

When Sy Montgomery ventured into the Amazon to unlock the mysteries of the little-known pink dolphins, she found ancient whales that plied the Amazon River at dawn anddusk, swam through treetops in flooded forests, and performed underwater ballets with theirflexible bodies. But she soon found out that to know the botos, as the dolphins are locallycalled, you must also know the people who live among them. And so in Journey of the PinkDolphins, Montgomery—part naturalist, part poet, part Indiana Jones—winds her waythrough watery tributaries and riverside villages, searching for botos and hearing the tales oflocals who believe these ethereal dolphins are shape-shifters—creatures that emerge from thewater as splendidly dressed men or women only to enchant their human onlookers, capturetheir souls, and then carry them away to the Encante, an underwater world. Montgomerytakes 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.

“One of the most brilliant books of our time.” —Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, author of The Tribe of Tiger

two highly acclaimed books back in print!

“I started to read this book at six in the morning and did not moveout of my chair for the rest of the day. I did not lose a day; Igained a whole world.” —Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, author of When Elephants Weep

“Montgomery’s smart, bighearted book reminds us that there arestill 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 andimpossible-to-imagine rewards lurk around the river’s bend . . .[Montgomery] writes with flair and with an ease that makes youfeel like she’s sitting next to you, telling you her stories.” —USA Today

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Now, in an expanded edition, Green Living Handbook (originally called EcoTeam) is available tothe trade for the first time. The original book has been translated into 22 languages, and withmore than 250,000 copies sold through its unique grassroots distribution model, DavidGershon’s in-depth program for sustainable living is the fulcrum of a global movement that ischanging 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-stepthrough a comprehensive lifestyle transformation program that has proven it can get results.Thousands of past participants of the program have reduced their environmental footprint by25 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 translatetheir good intentions into action and contribute to a sustainable future for us all.

LOW CARBON DIETA 30-Day Program to Lose 5000 PoundsDavid Gershon

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JOURNEY FOR THE PLANETA Kid’s Five-Week Adventure to Create an Earth-Friendly LifeDavid Gershon


Winner of the 2007 Independent Publisher “Most Likely to Save the Planet” Book Award

WATER STEWARDSHIPA 30-Day Program to Protect andConserve Our Water Resources . . .One Drop at a TimeDavid Gershon


“Green Living Handbook is the first step-by-step plan for turningenvironmental concern into action.” —The Chicago Tribune

“A movement . . . of unquestionable zeal is challenging consumptionat the grassroots . . . Local support groups called EcoTeams aremethodically helping members reduce the amount and kind of material that flows in and out of homes.” —The New York Times

Pub Date: September 2008$14.95 US • PB • 97809630327448 x 11 • 160 pagesEMPOWERMENT INSTITUTE

GREEN LIVING HANDBOOKA 6-Step Program to Create an Environmentally Sustainable LifestyleDavid Gershon

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David Gershon is the author of ninebooks, including the best-sellingEmpowerment: The Art of CreatingYour Life As You Want It. The founderand CEO of Empowerment Institute, heis one of the world’s leading authoritieson behavior change and large-scaletransformation. He has lectured atHarvard, MIT, and Duke and served asan advisor to the Clinton White Houseand the United Nations on behaviorchange and sustainability issues. Helives with his wife, Gail Straub, in theHudson River Valley of New York.

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THE TRANSITION HANDBOOKFrom Oil Dependency to Local ResilienceRob HopkinsForeword by Richard Heinberg

We live in an oil-dependent world, arriving at thislevel of dependency in a very short space of timeby treating petroleum as if it were in infinitesupply. Most of us avoid thinking about whathappens when oil runs out (or becomes prohibitively expensive), but The TransitionHandbook shows how the inevitable and profound changes ahead can have a positiveoutcome. These changes can lead to the rebirthof local communities that will grow more of theirown food, generate their own power, and buildtheir own houses using local materials. They can alsoencourage the development of local currencies to keepmoney in the local area.

There are now over 30 “transition towns” in the UK, Australia and New Zealand withmore joining as the idea takes off. They provide valuable experience and lessons-learned forthose of us on this side of the Atlantic. With little proactive thinking at the governmentallevel, communities are taking matters into their own hands and acting locally. If your townis not a transition town, this upbeat guide offers you the tools for starting the process.

Rob Hopkins is the founder of theTransition Network. Having successfully created an Energy Descent Plan for Kinsalein Ireland, which was later adopted as policy by the town council, Rob moved toTotnes in Devon and initiated TransitionTown Totnes, the first UK town to addressthe issues of life after peak oil.www.transitiontowns.org/totnes

“If your town is not yet a Transition Town, here is guidance formaking it one. We have little time, and much to accomplish.”—Richard Heinberg, from the foreword

“The book is a great guide for how we must live in a future worldwhere the limits of nature are honoured, but so are the basic comfortsand joys of communities coming together in a great common cause.There is no more important book than this one for any communityseeking change toward ecological sustainability.”—Jerry Mander, founder/director of the International Forum onGlobalization and author of In the Absence of the Sacred

Pub Date: September 2008$24.95 US, $27.50 CAN • PB97819003221889 x 9 • 240 pages • Two-colorGREEN BOOKS

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Richard Heinberg is Senior Fellow atthe Post Carbon Institute. He is the authorof several influential books on resourcedepletion including Peak Everything:Waking Up to the Century Of Declines.

“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



One hundred energy-saving tips for every-thing in your home or business. Includessuggestions on heating and cooling, lighting, cooking, appliances, and muchmore. Also provides an overview onrenewable-energy options.

ENERGY: USE LESS—SAVE MOREJon Clift & Amanda Cuthbert

9781933392721 • 80 pages • Full color

The Chelsea GREEN Guides

$7.95 US each • PB • 43/4 x 61/2 • Illustrated

One hundred simple and effective tips forsaving water inside and outdoors at yourhome or business. Packed with practicalideas for your kitchen, bath, landscaping,and water-using chores.

WATER: USE LESS—SAVE MOREJon Clift & Amanda Cuthbert

9781933392738 • 80 pages • Full color

An A-to-Z directory of how to composteverything from ash to weeds, plus expertadvice on how to compost in small spaces,bins, and wormeries and getting your community involved.

COMPOSTING: AN EASY HOUSEHOLD GUIDENicky Scott

9781933392745 • 96 pages • Full color

Answers all of your recycling questionswith a complete listing of everyday house-hold items and how to recycle them. Fromold cell phones and e-waste to expiredmedicines and motor oil, this little guideshows you where you can send yourunwanted items and how you might makea bit of money while you’re at it. Alsoincludes great ideas for reducing con-sumption and your volume of rubbish—ideal for businesses and consumers alike!

An A-to-Z guide for offices of all sizes, fromenergy use and better supply purchases to recycling and reusing materials, plussummaries of a range of renewable-energyoptions, commuting techniques, and more.These tips help your workplace save moneywhile reducing environmental impacts andcan boost employee morale in the process.

GREENING YOUR OFFICE: FROM CUPBOARD TOCORPORATION, AN A–Z GUIDEJon Clift & Amanda Cuthbert

9781933392998 • 96 pages • Full color For those who live within biking distance ofwork, this book offers simple safety, bike-buying, gear-buying, and basic maintenancetips, as well as ways to best plan your routeto and from the office. By biking to work,you can improve your physical and mentalhealth, save money, avoid creating pollution,and contribute to friendlier cities. In theface of rush-hour traffic, biking is oftenfaster than driving too!

BIKING TO WORKRory McMullan

9781933392981 • 96 pages • Full color

REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE: AN EASY HOUSEHOLD GUIDENicky Scott

9781933392752 • 96 pages • Full color

Attention Businesses, Energy Providers, Waste Managers, and Municipalities: Ever dreamed of providing a premium guide to your clients, residents, or businesspartners that underscores your commitment to the environment and is a benefit to your patrons? Chelsea Green is pleased to offer you the ability to customize ouracclaimed Chelsea Green Guides with your logo and personalized message at an incredible value. Call and receive your custom quote today.

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 promotemore environmental awareness (and cost-saving habits) among employees.

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Millions of Americans are demanding that all levels of government—local, state, and federal—take immediateand effective action to fight climate change. But there’s a big problem. Hundreds of policy ideas are floatingabout, and many of them aren’t very good. It’s quite possible that bad climate policy will result, and that manyyears 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’sbehind the policies, who’d pay for them, and who’d profit. It strips away the spin and tells you the keyfacts you need to know.

“Peter Barnes is right. The best and most efficient way to reduce globalwarming [is a] a cap-and-auction with dividends to all Americans. Read thisuseful 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 activerole in forming it. We can’t wait any longer, and we can’t get it wrong.” —Bill McKibben, from the foreword

CLIMATE SOLUTIONSA Citizen’s Guide: What Works, What Doesn’t, and WhyPeter Barnes Foreword by Bill McKibben

$25.00 US • PB • 97816035800456 x 9 • 376 pages • 8 B&W photos

First published in 1974, Strangers Devour the Land has become recognized as the magnum opus amongthe 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 northernQuebec—a hunting and trapping people—to defend the territories they have occupied since time imme-morial, came to international attention in 1972 when they tried by legal action to stop the immensehydroelectric 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 theauthorities 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 incourt with his own interviews with Cree hunters, and experiences in gathering information and shootingfilms, 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 compensationfor the loss of their lands—appear to be doing well, and to be in the process of joining modern, technologicalculture, while retaining the spiritual base of their traditional lives.

STRANGERS DEVOUR THE LANDBoyce Richardson Foreword by Winona LaDukeRevised Edition

“Richardson delivers a stunning parable of dissimilar societies on a collision course . . . It must not be ignored.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer

With a new introduction by the author

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Not a political or environmental polemic,A Cafecito Story is instead a poetic, modern fable about human beings attheir best. The challenge of producingcoffee is a remarkable test of our abilityto live more sustainably, caring for theland, growers, and consumers in anenlightened and just way.

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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 AnnieDillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, the book forms an eloquent bridgebetween ecology and memory, science and art. Traver alternatesbetween remembrances of the Cape Cod salt marsh where he spent hisboyhood summers and the history of Sippewissett, a place that hasbeen studied by many of America’s great biologists, from Louis Agassizto Rachel Carson.

SIPPEWISSETTOr, Life on a Salt MarshTim Traver Illustrations by Bobbi Angell

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Jean Giono’s extraordinary fable brings to life a shepherd who plants onehundred acorns a day for thirty years. The shepherd’s tireless efforts transform the countryside, revitalize his community, and teach us abouthope, humanity, and our own ability to create change in the world.

This special twentieth-anniversary edition of The Man Who Planted Treesincludes an inspiring foreword by Nobel Peace Prize laureate WangariMaathai, whose Green Belt Movement has planted millions of trees andbrought new hope to women and families in Kenya. The afterword byTreePeople founder Andy Lipkis tells his own true story of planting trees inthe unlikely ecosystems of Los Angeles and provides practical resources fortaking action in our communities. This edition is printed on 100 percentrecycled paper.

THE MAN WHO PLANTED TREESA story by Jean GionoWood engravings by Michael McCurdyNew foreword by Wangari MaathaiNew afterword by Andy Lipkis

Also Available in HardcoverReleased on National Arbor Day,April 29, 2005, our best-sellingtwentieth-anniversary hardcoveredition of The Man Who PlantedTrees, with a foreword by WangariMaathai, winner of the 2004 NobelPeace Prize and founder of theAfrican 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

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LISTENING TO THE LANDConversations about Nature, Culture, and ErosDerrick Jensen

$20.00 US • PB • 97819314985626 x 9 • 336 pages

In this far-ranging and heartening collection, Derrick Jensen gathers conversations with environmentalists, theologians, Native Americans, psychologists, and feminists, engagingsome of our best minds in an explorationof more peaceful ways to live on Earth.

THE CULTURE OF MAKE BELIEVE

Derrick Jensen

$25.00 US • PB • 97819314985796 x 9 • 720 pages

A LANGUAGE OLDER THAN WORDS

Derrick Jensen

$20.00 US • PB • 97819314985556 x 9 • 412 pages

WALKING ON WATERReading, Writing, and RevolutionDerrick Jensen

$15.00 US • PB • 978193149878451/2 x 81/2 • 232 pages

Walking on Water is a startling andprovocative look at teaching, writing, creativity, and life by a writer increasinglyrecognized for his passionate and articulate critique of modern civilization.

WELCOME TO THE MACHINEScience, Surveillance, and the Culture of ControlDerrick Jensen and George Draffan

$18.00 US • PB • 978193149852453/8 x 83/8 • 304 pages

A hard-hitting look at the way technologyis used as a machine to control us and ourenvironment.

What begins as an exploration of thelines of thought and experience that runbetween the massive lynchings in earlytwentieth-century America to today’sdeath squads in South America soonexplodes into an examination of the veryheart of our civilization.

At once a beautifully poetic memoir andan exploration of the various ways welive in the world, A Language OlderThan Words explains violence as apathology that touches every aspect ofour lives and indeed affects all aspects oflife on Earth.

Great Books by Derrick Jensen

THE OTHER SIDE OF DARKNESS

Derrick Jensen

$25.00 US • CD-Audio • 9781931498593

Here for the first time is Derrick Jensenlive, recorded at several of his standing-room-only performances.

“Derrick Jensen tears our illusions from us with hisshocking yet graceful prose.”—Francis Moore Lappé

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CONSERVATION FINANCE HANDBOOKHow Communities Are Paying for Parksand Land ConservationKim Hopper and Ernest Cook

$21.95 US • PB • 97809672806466 x 9 • 156 pages

The essential and trusted guide for anyconservation organization for planningand winning public finance campaigns.The Conservation Finance Handbookcarefully illustrates all parts of the process,including how to analyze and measurepublic opinion, design a winning ballotmeasure, and run a successful campaign.

THE GREAT REMEMBERING

Peter Forbes

$14.95 US • PB • 978096728061551/2 x 81/2 • 112 pages • B&W photographs

COMING TO LAND IN A TROUBLED WORLD

Peter Forbes, Kathleen Dean Moore, and Scott R. Sanders

$16.95 US • PB • 978096728069151/2 x 81/4 • 144 pages

GROUNDSWELLStories of Saving Places, Finding CommunityAlix W. Hopkins

$20.00 US • PB • 978193280704275/8 x 10 • 208 pages

Written from a practitioner’s perspective,Groundswell examines a diverse set ofcommunity-supported environmentalprojects ranging from New York City’sBronx to Portland, Oregon. This bookwill inspire you, especially if you havethe passion and energy to make a difference in your community.

OUR LAND, OURSELVESReadings on People and Place Edited by Peter Forbes, Ann Ambrecht Forbes, and Helen Whybrow

$16.95 US • PB • 97809672806085 x 7 • 240 pages

A collection of diverse readings on themeaning of people and place—themessuch as the protection of wilderness andthe idea of the wild, the nature of home,the purpose of work, and the meaning ofcommunity. These voices suggest a newway of viewing land conservation as theprocess of building values and positivelyshaping human lives.

An activist’s exploration of the meaningof land to our culture. It is a also a callto land conservationists to redefine thepromise of their work as the building ofrelationships between land and people.

The work of conserving land, species, andways of life is more urgent and vital thanever before. In three powerful essays, threeinfluential writers and thinkers explore the meaning of land conservation and community life and reflect upon the vitalimportance of healing divisions in culture,consumption, and the fate of our earth.

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THE STORY HANDBOOKLanguage and Storytelling for Land ConservationistsEdited by Helen Whybrow

$14.95 US • PB • 978096728062251/2 x 81/4 • 112 pages • B&W photos

Contributors Tim Ahern, WilliamCronon, John Elder, Peter Forbes, BarryLopez, and Scott Russell Sanders presentus with the power of stories, narrativesof people and places, and how those stories can advance the work of landconservation toward creating meaningfulchange in our culture.



THRILLCRAFTThe Environmental Consequences ofMotorized RecreationEdited by George Wuerthner

$60.00 US • HC • 9781933392660113/4 x 131/4 • 312 pages • Full color

Thrillcraft exposes the lasting damagedone to our land, water, and air from thegrowing plague of jet skis, quads, dirtbikes, dune buggies, snowmobiles, andother motorized recreational craft that arepenetrating the last bastions of wildAmerica. In stark detail the book describeshow offroad vehicle use is responsible forwildlife habitat fragmentation, disturbanceof sensitive wildlife, soil erosion, spread ofinvasive weeds, loss of silence, and waterand air pollution.

EDENS LOST & FOUNDHow Ordinary Citizens Are RestoringOur Great American CitiesHarry Wiland and Dale Bell with Joe D’Agnese

$40.00 US • HC • 9781931498890$25.00 US • PB • 97819333922648 x 10 • 304 pages • Full color

PINHOOKFinding Wholeness in a Fragmented LandJanisse Ray

$12.00 US • PB • 978193149874653/8 x 83/8 • 168 pages

In lyrical, down-home prose, Ray drawstogether Pinhook Swamp’s need forrestoration and the human desire forwholeness and wildness in our own livesand landscapes. An evocative paean towildness and wilderness restoration withan extraordinary journey into southernGeorgia’s Pinhook Swamp.

Focusing on Chicago, Los Angeles,Philadelphia, and Seattle, four cities thatface vastly different challenges, EdensLost & Found highlights the remarkablepower of hope, pride, ingenuity, andchutzpah that characterize a new era ofcollaboration between progressive citygovernments and their citizens.

VOICES OF THE LANDEdited by Jamie Purinton Photographs by Charles Lindsay Foreword by Michael Pollan

$25.00 US • HC • 978193149850010 x 10 • 84 pages

With evocative photographs that detailthe intricacies of nature, Voices of theLand encourages homeowners to beresponsive to the existing character andecology of the land as it becomes a home.

WHAT CAN I DO?An Alphabet for LivingLisa Harrow Introduction by Roger Payne

$7.95 US • PB • 978193149866141/4 x 7 • 144 pages

The quintessential resource and referenceguide for anyone concerned about theenvironment and interested in learninghow to make a positive impact.

Visit Lisa Harrow’s Sea Change Instituteto learn more about responsible livingwww.seachangeinstitute.org

This essential guide to Lyme infection andits treatment examines the leading researchand tests and outlines the most potentherbal medicines and supplements thatoffer help—either alone or in combinationwith antibiotics.

HEALING LYMENatural Healing and Prevention ofLyme Borreliosis and Its CoinfectionsStephen Harrod Buhner

$19.95 US • PB • 97809708696306 x 9 • 288 pages

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CASTAWAYSThe Penikese Island Experiment George Cadwalader Foreword by Robert Coles

$25.00 US • PB • 97819333922026 x 9 • 208 pages

“The story of Penikese Island is a convincing antidote to TV-inspirednotions about miraculous cures for troubled children. It has the ring of truth. . . There’s a lot of old-fashioned virtue init, and I imagine most readers will feelglad, as I did, that there are people like Mr. Cadwalader around.”—Tracy Kidder, author of House

A SHADOW AND A SONGThe Struggle to Save an Endangered SpeciesMark Jerome Walters

$25.00 US • PB • 97819333925616 x 9 • 240 pages

BACKTRACKINGThe Way of a Naturalist Ted LevinForeword by John HayIllustrated by Jean Waltermire

$25.00 US • PB • 97819333925476 x 9 • 240 pages

“This wise and careful book is about twothings. First, one small and engaging partof God’s creation, the dusky seaside spar-row. Second, our desire for ‘development,’for vacation homes without mosquitoes,for ducks to hunt, and even for a trip tothe moon. The bird is no more, butthanks to Mark Walters it leaves behind apowerful testimony.”—Bill McKibben, author of

The End of Nature

“Backtracking breathes with the sort ofnature writing that awakens the reader tothe world around him.” —The Washington Post

In this collection of 16 short essays Levinintertwines biological facts, historicaldata, regional information, personalexperience, and a dash of humor, alongwith a strong conservation message.

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THE SAFARI COMPANIONA Guide to Watching African MammalsRichard D. Estes Illustrated by Daniel Otte

$30.00 US • PB • 97818901324466 x 9 • 480 pages

Since its original publication in 1993, TheSafari Companion has been the best fieldguide to observing and understanding thebehavior of African mammals. An indis-pensable tool for naturalists traveling toAfrica, this new edition has been revised toacknowledge the enthusiasm for thosewatching these magnificent animals at zoosand wildlife parks and on film.

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THE GORT CLOUDThe Invisible Force Powering Today’s Most Visible Green BrandsRichard Seireeni

Pub Date: October 2008$24.95 US, $27.50 CAN • HC97816035806186 x 9 • 240 pages

“Green” has gone mainstream, and for many companies caring for the environment is notjust 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 rangeof industries—home improvement, transportation, household products, food and beverage,energy, real estate, finance, and fashion. The collective experience of leaders such as GaryHirschberg of Stonyfield Farms, Jeffrey Hollander of Seventh Generation, and the grandsonsof Dr. Bronner, as well as other green experts, are a rich source of wisdom for green businessesgetting 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 thatdescribes the vast and largely invisible network of NGOs, trendspotters, advocacy groups,social networks, business alliances, certifying organizations, and other members of the greencommunity that have the power to make or break new green brands.

Integrating the Gort Cloud into brand development and marketing strategies is critical to thesuccess 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 theword out quickly and inexpensively. Creating a cause, building credibility, developing a sim-ple and compelling message, identifying core customers and sales channels, deftly playing thegreen alternative media, and fending off second-to-market competitors are all required tobuild a green brand. How these skills are put into practice will vary for each business, butSeireeni’s research points toward a set of shared characteristics and basic tenets that every busi-ness can use to build a credible and successful green brand.

Richard Seireeni is a 30-year veteran inbrand consulting and marketing. He hasbeen art director of Rolling Stone magazine, creative director of WarnerBros. Records, and cocreative director ofEnterpriseIG, New York. He has managedhis own consulting business, The BrandArchitect Group (www.brandarchitect.com),in Los Angeles since 1984, with affiliatedoffices in Tokyo and Shanghai. Seireenigraduated from the University ofWashington School of Architecture and is amember of the US Green Building Council.Seireeni lives in Los Angeles, California,with his wife and two children.

The invisible green network

Millions of people connecting to green messagesthrough thousands of green portals

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Slow Money is a revolutionary view of the world of entrepreneurship, capital markets, andsustainability. In a joyous, evocative blend of poetry, fiction, and business analysis, WoodyTasch explores the disappearance of honey bees as both disturbing symptom of and perfectmetaphor 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 ofglobal markets. Our dollars, and the businesses they finance, lose their connection to place. Ourimaginations, 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 ofventure capital financing a few thousand high-tech companies each year, this era of wealth-now/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 capitalmarkets. We need to embrace the task of managing the transition from a commerce of extractionand 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 philanthropistwho lies awake at night worried about where your endowment is invested, or merely a seekerafter the secrets of Roulette Pajama’s FUNNY MONEY HONEY, you will find here not onlyfood 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 weever find our way back home?

The answers are buzzing right outside your window, right inside your heart, and on the pages ofthis extraordinary foraging expedition across the boundaries of nature, imagination, and finance.

Woody Tasch is chairman of Investors’Circle, a nonprofit network of investors that,since 1992, has facilitated the flow of $121million to 192 sustainability-minded, early-stage companies and venture funds. Woodywas formerly treasurer of the Jessie SmithNoyes Foundation. He is an experiencedventure-capital investor and entrepreneur andhas served on numerous for-profit and non-profit boards. He was founding chairman ofthe Community Development Venture CapitalAlliance, which supports venture investing ineconomically disadvantaged regions. He lives in Truchas, New Mexico, andBerkeley, California.

“A brilliant and indispensable guide to the crypto-ecology of funny money.”—Gregory Whitehead, treasurer, the Whitehead Foundation

“Tom Robbins meets Warren Buffett.” —Jay Cohen Gilbert, former CEO of AND 1

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A Bee’s-Eye View of and Inquiry into the Nature ofSLOW MONEYWoody TaschForeword by Carlo Petrini

Pub Date: November 2008$21.95 US, $23.95 CAN • HC97816035800695 x 8 • 208 pages • B&W illustrations

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.



FINDING THE SWEET SPOTThe Natural Entrepreneur’s Guide to Responsible, Sustainable, Joyful WorkDave PollardForeword by Dave Smith

Pub Date: September 2008$17.95 US, $19.95 CAN • PB97819333929056 x 9 • 240 pages • Illustrations

“Now what am I going to do?” is a question many people ask—and leave unanswered—atcritical 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 bigcorporation, you wish you could start your own sustainable and responsible business. Ormaybe you’ve been stuck in a job you hate for a few years, but you still dream of doing thething you love and that you’re actually good at. Or maybe you’re a boomer and you’re readyfor a second career, a personal venture that will represent a total change from what you’vespent most of your work life doing.

Whatever your situation, this is the book to help you get started. Finding the Sweet Spotexplains 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 tofind partners who will help make your venture successful, how to do world-class marketresearch, how to innovate, how to build resilience into your enterprise, and how to avoid theland 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 theeducational system that feeds into it have let us down and are destroying our planet. We needa blossoming of natural enterprises—connected, collaborating, and supporting ventures—toform a dynamic new natural economy.

Is such a thing possible? Inventor, entrepreneur, and humanist Buckminster Fuller said: “Younever change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new modelthat makes the existing model obsolete.” Finding the Sweet Spot presents a new model. Use itto find the work you were meant to do, thereby helping to create the world we’re meant tolive—and make a living—in.

Dave Pollard spent twenty-seven years withErnst & Young LLP as practice leader and advisorto entrepreneurs and then as chief knowledgeofficer and member of the firm’s Strategy andInnovation Group. He recently became vice president of the Canadian Institute of CharteredAccountants (the counterpart of the US AICPA),with responsibility for research and professionalguidance 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 ofTo Be of Use: The Seven Seeds of Meaningful Work.

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MORTGAGE FREE!Innovative Strategies for Debt-freeHome OwnershipRob Roy

Pub Date: November 2008$24.95 US, $27.50 CAN • PB97816035806566 x 9 • 368 pages • IllustrationsPrevious edition: 9780930031985

Rob Roy knows what it means to live mortgage free. As director of EarthwoodBuilding School since 1981, he hasinstructed many in the arts of natural building, and renewable energy. He is also the author of Earth-Sheltered Houses,Cordwood Building, Timber Framing forthe Rest of Us, The Sauna, and StoneCircles. Rob and his family live in WestChazy, New York.

As a wave of foreclosures sweeps the country, many people are giving up hope for owning ahome of their own. They have good reason to turn their backs on the banks, but not on theirdreams. In this revised edition of Mortgage Free!, Rob Roy offers a series of escape routes fromenslavement to financial institutions, underscored by true stories of intrepid homeowners whohave put their principles into action.

From back-to-the-land homesteads to country homes, here is a complete guide to strategiesthat allow you to own your land and home, free and clear, without the bank. Included isdetailed 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.

“Rob Roy challenges another of life’s ‘givens’—that your mortgage,like your job, will last almost as long as you do. This useful bookwill entertain even armchair explorers of alternatives to the standard consumer life.” —Vicki Robin, coauthor of Your Money or Your Life

mort•gage (mor´-gij) n. from Old French morgage, mort gage, literally “death pledge”

“Yes! It’s about time somebody put together a how-to book forshedding those chains of a 30-year mortgage. We don’t have toslump through life in bondage. We can live well AND have ourfreedom, and Rob Roy shows us how in this entertaining, detailed,and well-illustrated book.”—Janet Luhrs, author of The Simple Living Guide and editor andpublisher of The Simple Living Journal

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COMPANIES WE KEEPEmployee Ownership and the Business of Community and PlaceJohn AbramsForeword by William Greider

Pub Date: November 2008$17.95 US, $19.95 CAN • PB97816035800076 x 9 • 340 pages • Photo insertPrevious edition: 9781933392196

Part memoir and part examination of a new business model, the 2005 release of TheCompany We Keep marked the debut of an important new voice in the literature of Americanbusiness. 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 ofinterdependence, 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 theresponsibility for the decisions they make, better decisions result. This is an especially timelytopic. 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 asbusinesses 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 hecofounded South Mountain Company on the island of Martha’s Vineyard. Together, theseprinciples reveal communities of enterprise as a potent force of change that can—and will—improve the way Americans do business.

John Abrams is cofounder and CEO ofSouth Mountain Company, a 32-year-oldemployee-owned design, building, andrenewable-energy company on the island ofMartha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. BusinessEthics magazine awarded South Mountainits 2005 National Award for WorkplaceDemocracy. He and his wife Chris live in acohousing neighborhood designed and builtby South Mountain on Martha’s Vineyard.

“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

“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

“Abrams’ work is a compelling and celebratory reminder that companies like South Mountain are desperately needed in a time ofreal estate boom and inevitable bust and the ruins left in their wake.”—Jeff Biggers, The Bloomsbury Review

“An exceptional, insightful guide for socially conscious business.”—Midwest Book Review

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THE CHALLENGE TO POWERMoney, Investing, and Democracy John C. Harrington

$40.00 US • HC • 9781931498968$22.50 US • PB • 97819314989756 x 9 • 376 pages

In a brilliant synthesis of thirty years ofexperience, John C. Harrington givesinvestors the strategies to thwart corporate domination of the earth’sresources, decentralize our economy,restore democracy, tame corruption, and regain community control of ourfinancial resources.

MID-COURSE CORRECTIONToward a Sustainable Enterprise: The Interface ModelRay Anderson

$19.95 US • PB • 978096459535451/2 x 81/2 • 204 pages

The personal story of Ray Anderson’srealization that businesses need toembrace principles of sustainability, andof his efforts, often frustrating, to applythese principles within a billion-dollarcorporation that is still measured by thestandard scorecards of the business world.

BUSINESS AS UNUSUAL

Anita Roddick

$12.95 US • PB • 97809543959575 x 7 • 340 pages

Anita Roddick is one of the world’s mostoutspoken, controversial, and successful entrepreneurs of this age. Inthis autobiography, Roddick charts herpersonal story and that of her company,the Body Shop, through all the highsand lows since 1990, examining the parallel growth of vigilante consumerismand predicting how businesses can evolvein this millennium.

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•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 • B&W illustrations$22.95 US • 73/4 x 10 • PB • 320 pages • 9781890132682

•MONEY: Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender • Thomas Greco • B&W diagrams$19.95 US • 6 x 9 • PB • 320 pages • 9781890132378

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ethical marketplace 25JAVATREKKERDispatches from the World of Fair Trade CoffeeDean Cycon

$19.95 US • PB • 97819333927076 x 9 • 272 pages • B&W and color photos

Second only to oil in terms of its value, the coffee trade is complex, with several levels ofmiddlemen removing the 28 million growers in 50 distant countries far from you andyour morning cup. Cycon changes that in this compelling book, taking the reader on atour of ten countries in nine chapters with his passionate eye and unique perspective.Cycon, who is himself an amalgam—equal parts entrepreneur, activist, and mischievousexplorer—has traveled extensively throughout the world’s tropical coffee lands and showsreaders places and people that few if any outsiders have ever seen.

“Javatrekker is a great book for anyone who wants to know whatis really going on in their morning cup.”—Rigoberta Menchu, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

ETHICAL MARKETSGrowing the Green EconomyHazel Henderson with Simran Sethi Foreword by L. Hunter Lovins

$30.00 US • PB • 97819333922337 x 10 • 300 pages

With insight, clarity, warmth, and enthusiasm, HazelHenderson announces the mature presence of thegreen economy. Throughout Ethical Markets,Henderson weaves statistics and analysis with profilesof entrepreneurs, environmentalists, scientists, andprofessionals. Based on interviews conducted on herlongstanding public television series, her profiles celebrate those who have led the highly successfulgrowth 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 ofCapital and cofounder of Business Ethics magazine

To learn more about Dean’s Beans visitwww.deansbeans.com

“Who would have thought that a cup of coffee contained World Bankschemes, indigenous rights, third-world women’s empowerment anda wide range of globalization issues? Dean Cycon reveals the worldswithin worlds of coffee that have to make us think about the choiceswe make at the supermarket or café.”—Susan Sarandon, actress and activist

“Coffee is god to many of us in the morning, and yet, we know solittle about its history and present issues. Linking coffee drinkers tothe communities is the work of Dean Cycon in an animated, vital andforever engaging manner.” —Winona LaDuke, indigenous rights activist, author of All Our Relations:Native Struggles for Land and Life and Recovering the Sacred


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LIMITS TO GROWTHThe 30-Year UpdateDonella H. Meadows, JorgenRanders, and Dennis Meadows

$22.50 US • PB • 97819314985866 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 analyzedglobal resource consumption and production. Their results shocked theworld and created stirring conversation about global “overshoot,” orresource use beyond the carrying capacity of the planet. Now, preeminentenvironmental scientists Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and DennisMeadows 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-anticipatedrevival of some of the original voices in the growing chorus of sustainability.Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update is a work of stunning intelligencethat will expose for humanity the hazy but critical line between humangrowth and human development.

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THINKING IN SYSTEMSA PrimerDonella MeadowsEdited by Diana Wright, Sustainability Institute

Pub Date: December 2008$19.95 US, $21.95 CAN • PB97816035805576 x 9 • 240 pages • Diagrams

In the years following her role as the lead author of the international bestseller, Limits toGrowth—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 untimelydeath in 2001.

Meadows’ newly released manuscript, Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial bookoffering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Editedby the Sustainability Institute’s Diana Wright, this essential primer brings systems thinkingout of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world, showing readershow to develop the systems-thinking skills that thought leaders across the globe considercritical for 21st-century life.

Some of the biggest problems facing the world—war, hunger, poverty, and environmentaldegradation—are essentially system failures. They cannot be solved by fixing one piece inisolation from the others, because even seemingly minor details have enormous power toundermine the best efforts of too-narrow thinking.

While readers will learn the conceptual tools and methods of systems thinking, the heart ofthe book is grander than methodology. Donella Meadows was known as much for nurturingpositive outcomes as she was for delving into the science behind global dilemmas. Shereminds readers to pay attention to what is important, not just what is quantifiable, to stayhumble, and to stay a learner.

In a world growing ever more complicated, crowded, and interdependent, Thinking inSystems helps readers avoid confusion and helplessness, the first step toward finding proactiveand effective solutions.

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“Thinking in Systems is required reading for anyone hoping to run a successfulcompany, community, or country. Learning how to think in systems is now partof change-agent literacy. And this is the best book of its kind.”—Hunter Lovins, founder and President of Natural Capital Solutions and co-author ofNatural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution


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Awoman whose pioneering work in the1970s still makes front-page news, Donella

Meadows was a scientist, author, teacher, andfarmer widely considered ahead of her time. Shewas one of the world’s foremost systems analystsand lead author of the influential Limits toGrowth—the 1972 book on global trends inpopulation, economics, and the environmentthat was translated into 28 languages andbecame an international bestseller. That booklaunched a worldwide debate on the earth’scapacity to withstand constant human develop-ment and expansion. Twenty years later, she andco-authors Dennis Meadows and JørgenRanders reported on their follow-up study inBeyond the Limits and a final revision of theirresearch, Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update,was published in 2004.

Meadows’ work as a scientist, communicator,and leader in the sustainability movementearned her a MacArthur Foundation “genius”award, recognition as a Pew Scholar inConservation and the Environment, and many

other top honors from organizations like theSwiss Federal Institute of Technology and theConservation Law Foundation. To many,Meadows is most remembered for her weekly,nationally syndicated column, “The GlobalCitizen,” which ran for 16 years and was nomi-nated for a Pulitzer Prize.

Dana, as she was known to friends, was also aninspired teacher of environmental systems,ethics, and journalism at Dartmouth College,not far from the small town where she lived onand managed an organic farm.

She was the founder of the SustainabilityInstitute, cofounder of the InternationalNetwork of Resource Information Centers(INRIC, also called the Balaton Group), and agenerally recognized leader in getting people atall levels of society, government, and business tothink differently, understand systems, and strivefor sustainability.

She died unexpectedly in 2001 while she wasfinishing Thinking in Systems.

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NOTES FROM THE HOLOCENEA Brief History of the FutureDorion Sagan $14.95 US • PB • 978193339232551/2 x 81/2 • 224 pages

THE HAPPINESS TRIPEduardo Punset Foreword by Antonio Damasio$12.95 US • PB • 978193339244851/2 x 81/2 • 160 pages

ANIMATE EARTHScience, Intuition, and GaiaStephan HardingForeword by Lynn Margulis$25.00 US • PB • 97819333922956 x 9 • 256 pages

DAZZLE GRADUALLYReflections on the Nature of NatureLynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan$25.00 US • PB • 97819333923186 x 9 • 260 pages

MIND, LIFE, AND UNIVERSEConversations with Great Scientists of Our TimeEdited by Lynn Margulis and Eduardo Punset Foreword by David Suzuki $35.00 US • HC • 9781933392615$21.95 US • PB • 97819333924316 x 9 • 358 pages

Luminous FishTales of Science and LoveLynn Margulis$21.95 US • PB • 978193339233251/4 x 8 • 180 pages

Sagan uses his knowledge of philosophy,science, sleight-of-hand magic, and thefantastical writings of Philip K. Dick toexplore some of the deepest questions weface on Earth.

Two of today’s most creative minds inscience and science writing collect theirmost intriguing essays, covering a widerange of topics.

•THE LOST TAPES OF IAN MCHARG: Collaboration with Nature, Ecological Planning LectureIan McHarg • Edited by Lynn Margulis, Adam MacConnell, and James MacAllister • $30.00 US • CD-Audio 74 Min • 14 Tracks • 9781933392301

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A lucid and passionate approach to themost recent discoveries in the science ofhappiness and its conditioning factors.

“A book full of nuggets of wisdom.”

—David Baltimore, Nobel Laureate andpresident of the American Association forthe Advancement of Science

Linked stories reveal science from theinside—its thrills, disappointments, andtriumphs—portraying the poor judgment,exhaustion, and life-threatening dedicationof scientists.

Sciencewriter’s Books is an exciting new imprint aimedat developing outstanding works of science for the generalpublic. It is codirected by Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan,founders of Sciencewriters, an educational partnershipdevoted to advancing science through enchantment in theform of the finest possible books, videos, and media.

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Harding incorporates formal philosophy,spirituality, and hard science and providesa lively introduction to carbon cycles, bio-diversity, microbial life, and other planetary ecology concepts.

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FRESH FOOD FROMSMALL SPACESThe Square-Inch Gardener’s Guide to Year-Round Growing, Fermenting, and Sprouting R. J. Ruppenthal

Pub Date: November 2008$24.95 US, $27.50 CAN • PB97816035802817 x 10 • 240 pages • Illustrations

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 theabsence of open land. Fresh Food from Small Spaces fills the gap as a practical, comprehensive, anddownright fun guide to growing food in small spaces. It provides readers with the knowledge andskills necessary to produce their own fresh vegetables, mushrooms, sprouts, and fermented foodsas well as to raise bees and chickens—all without reliance on energy-intensive systems like indoorlighting 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 gardenermight be no more than a cramped patio, balcony, rooftop, windowsill, hanging rafter, darkcabinet, 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, andsingle-family homes will be able to grow up to 20 percent of their own fresh food using acombination of traditional gardening methods and space-saving techniques such as reflectedlighting and container “terracing.” Those with access to yards can produce even more.

Author R. J. Ruppenthal worked on an organic vegetable farm in his youth, but his expertisein 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 somehomegrown 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 onhis gardening passion, even when his dayjobs led him to a more urban life. He currently teaches at Evergreen ValleyCollege in San Jose, California, and livesand gardens in the San Francisco Bay area.

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$35.00 US • PB • 97819333924629 x 9 • 298 pages • Two-color throughout

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 companiesdeclared war on the vile, profit-sucking, output-wrecking, archenemy of the average Americanfarmer—bugs. Pesticide manufacturers delivered a “shock and awe” media campaign: bugs were amortal 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 100,000,000Guinea 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 relentlessefforts to promote its products and the recurring waves of outrage and resistance by generationsof consumers and activists struggling against toxic food, a struggle highlighted in today’s headlinesbut with deep roots in the long rise of corporate agriculture.

THE WAR ON BUGSWill Allen

“The War on Bugs is must reading for organic consumers and everyconcerned citizen.” —Ronnie Cummins, national director, Organic Consumers Association

$35.00 US • PB • 97819333921038 x 10 • 320 pages • Illustrations

To an increasing number of American families, the CSA (community-supported agriculture) isthe answer to the globalization of our food supply. The premise is simple: create a partnershipbetween local farmers and nearby consumers, who become members or subscribers in support ofthe farm. In exchange for paying in advance—at the beginning of the growing season, when thefarm 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 andexpanded edition of a Chelsea Green classic, authors Henderson and Van En provide new insightinto making CSA not only a viable economic model, but the right choice for food lovers andfarmers alike. Sharing the Harvest continues to lead the way toward a revitalized agriculture.

SHARING THE HARVESTA Citizen’s Guide to Community Supported AgricultureElizabeth Henderson with Robyn Van En Foreword by Joan Dye Gussow

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“Community Supported Agriculture has the possibility, even the likelihood, oftransforming community, farming, eating, and economics in the U.S. ElizabethHenderson’s update of Sharing the Harvest offers timely tools for keeping thisevolutionary movement on track.” —“Farmer John” Peterson, Angelic Organics

“In 1984, when the gas leak from Union Carbide’s pesticide plant in Bhopal killed thousands, I asked myself whyagriculture had become like war. In The War on Bugs, Will Allen tells us why. Whether you care about the bugs or thefood you grow or eat, this is a book you must read. It will help us all move from violent agriculture to a non-violentagriculture which protects all life and our health.” —Dr. Vandana Shiva, author of Stolen Harvest and Biopiracy

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$35.00 US • PB • 97819333928999 x 9 • 320 pages • Color illustrations

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 distinctiveculinary 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 plantsand animals in North America. In doing so, it reminds us that what we choose to eat caneither conserve or deplete the cornucopia of our continent.

While offering a eulogy to a once-common game food that has gone extinct—the passengerpigeon—the book doesn’t dwell on tragic losses. Instead, it highlights the success stories offood recovery, habitat restoration, and market revitalization that chefs, farmers, ranchers,fishermen, and foresters have recently achieved. Through such “food parables,” editor GaryPaul 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 athousand), 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’smost iconic foods, from crab cakes to maple syrup and filé gumbo. Organized by “foodnations” named for the ecological and cultural keystone foods of each region—SalmonNation, Bison Nation, and Chile Pepper Nation, among others—this book offers an altogether fresh perspective on the culinary traditions of North America.

RENEWING AMERICA’S FOOD TRADITIONSSaving and Savoring the Continent’s Most Endangered FoodsEdited by Gary Paul Nabhan Foreword by Deborah Madison

Gary Paul Nabhan, Ph.D., is a writer, lecturer,and world-renowned conservation scientist. He isthe outgoing director of the Center for SustainableEnvironments at Northern Arizona University andthe author of more than ten books, includingComing 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 theSlow Foods ARK and Presidia Committee and onthe board of the Slow Food Foundation for Bio-Diversity. Her writing has appeared in numerouspublications, including Cooking Light, Williams-Sonoma Taste, Vegetarian Times, Gourmet, Foodand Wine, Bon Appetit, Orion, and others. Shelives in the village of Galisteo, New Mexico,with her husband, painter Patrick McFarlin.

“If you’re going to buy a single book about American food, buy thisone. Knowledge is everything. I’m grateful to the authors and publishersof this vital book for making knowing, saving and savoring one and thesame action.” —Betty Fussell, author of The Story of Corn and Raising Steaks

“We are threatened with the loss of productive agricultural lands andfarmers, and the productive species that feed our bodies and souls. Thisbook shows the importance of food as the essential bond between whatwe eat and who we are. A must read for everyone who cares aboutfood 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 senseof 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 domestic cut-flower business has experienced a renaissance in the past decade, thanks in largepart to the first edition of The Flower Farmer: An Organic Grower’s Guide to Raising and Selling CutFlowers, which helped thousands of small growers start successful businesses. This newly expandedand 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 growersto 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 NorthAmerica 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 productionunder 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, TheFlower 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 ofsuccessful growers, offering behind-the-scenes insight into the operation of some of the cutting-edgeflower farmers in the country.

$35.00 US • PB • 97819333926538 x 10 • 284 pages • Full color

THE FLOWER FARMERAn Organic Grower’s Guide to Raising and Selling Cut Flowers,Revised and ExpandedLynn Byczynski

In this groundbreaking and ground-healing new book, author and plant specialist Eric Toensmeier (Edible ForestGardens) introduces gardeners to a worldof little-known and wholly under-appreciated vegetable plants that requirelittle maintenance yet produce in abundance season after season.

PERENNIAL VEGETABLESFrom Artichokes to ‘Zuiki’ Taro, a Gardener’s Guide to Over 100Delicious and Easy-to-Grow EdiblesEric Toensmeier

$35.00 US • PB • 97819314984018 x 10 • 256 pages • 80 illustrations • Full color

RAINWATER HARVESTING FOR DRYLANDSVol. I: Guiding Principles to WelcomeRain into Your Life and LandscapeVol. II: Water-Harvesting EarthworksBrad Lancaster

Vol. I • $24.95 US • PB • 978097724640381/2 x 11 • 200 pagesVol. II • $32.95 US • PB • 978097724641081/2 x 11 • 336 pages

These guides enable you to assess youron-site resources, give you a diverse arrayof strategies to maximize their potential,and empower you with guiding principlesto create an integrated, multifunctionalwater-harvesting plan.

Combines practical wisdom on ecologicaldesign and community building with afresh, green perspective on an age-oldsubject. Activist and urban gardenerHeather Flores shares her nine-step permaculture design to help farmsteadersand city dwellers alike build fertile soil,promote biodiversity, and increase naturalhabitat in their own “paradise gardens.”

FOOD NOT LAWNSHow to Turn Your Yard into a Garden and Your Neighboorhood into a CommunityHeather C. Flores


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SALAD LEAVES FOR ALL SEASONSOrganic Growing from Pot to PlotCharles Dowding

Pub Date: July 2008$22.00 US • PB • 97819003222016 x 9 • 234 pages • 32-page color signatureGREEN BOOKS

Small is beautiful, less is more; a salad a day—but not thesupermarket way. This compendium of practical methodsfor growing a wide variety of salads throughout the year willinspire you to grow your own, whether on a windowsill orin a garden. Here is all the information you need for pro-ductive, healthy, and tasty salads.

HOW TO STORE YOUR GARDEN PRODUCEThe Key to Self-SufficiencyRevised EditionPiers Warren

Pub Date: July 2008$14.95 US • PB • 97819003221718 x 10 • 128 pages • 8-page color signatureGREEN BOOKS

How to Store Your Garden Produce: The Key to Self-Sufficiencyhas been completely revised and is the modern guide tostoring and preserving your garden produce, enabling youto eat homegrown goodness all year round. Learn simpleand enjoyable techniques for storing your produce andembrace the wonderful world of self-sufficiency.

THE VEGETABLE GROWERS HANDBOOK

Frank Tozer

Pub Date: July 2008$22.95 US • PB • 97809773489308 x 11 • 192 pages • B&W illustrationsGREEN MAN

This highly practical book contains all the information youneed to successfully grow more than 50 common vegetables.There are specific step-by-step instructions for each crop: soilrequirements, variety selection, raising transplants, direct sowing, protection, harvesting, seed saving, and storage. Abook with imagination, it also discusses many unusual crops,culinary herbs, and more. The Vegetable Growers Handbook isthe companion to The Organic Gardeners Handbook.

THE ORGANIC GARDENERS HANDBOOK

Frank Tozer

Pub Date: July 2008$24.95 US • PB • 97809773489168 x 11 • 280 pages • B&W illustrationsGREEN MAN

Combining European tradition with American creativity, The Organic Gardeners Handbook covers the art and scienceof organic gardening with a depth that is rarely seen in con-temporary books. There are chapters on every aspect oforganic vegetable gardening, including soil dynamics, soilmanagement, cultivation, composting, crop planning, raisingseedlings, watering, harvesting, seed saving, greenhouses, andmuch more. A book that will soon be covered in dirty finger-prints, The Organic Gardeners Handbook is a companion toThe Vegetable Growers Handbook.

“This is the number one book for anyone who loves salads.”—Anna Pavord

“Every serious organic gardenershould have a copy.”—Organic Gardening

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gardening & agriculture34ROOTS DEMYSTIFIEDChange Your Gardening Habits to Help Roots ThriveRobert Kourik

$25.00 US • PB • 97809615848328 x 11 • 176 pages • B&W illustrationsMETAMORPHIC PRESS

Roots Demystified explains simple solutions for growing healthy roots and, thereby, healthierplants. The book explores the subterranean part of every gardener’s world, revealing howroots actually grow while correcting common errors in the application of water, mulch, andfertilizer or compost. This is the first and only gardening book in print about what happensunderground, and it contains an extensive number of illustrations of garden and orchardroots. The roots discussed underlie lawns, prairies, shrubs, vegetables, fruit trees, and nativeand ornamental trees. Practical tips for how a gardener can use this information to createmore abundant vegetables, better lawns, and sturdier trees and shrubs are offered with each ofthe 70 illustrations.

“A rare combination of firsthand observation, research, humor, and theauthor’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

The authoritative text on edible land-scaping, featuring a step-by-step guide todesigning a productive environmentusing vegetables, fruits, flowers, andherbs for a combination of ornamentaland culinary purposes.

DESIGNING AND MAINTAININGYOUR EDIBLE LANDSCAPENATURALLY

Robert Kourik Foreword by Rosalind Creasy Edited by Mark Kane

$49.95 US • PB • 978185623026181/4 x 11 • 382 pages

THE PERMACULTURE GARDENGraham BellIllustrated by Sarah Bunker

$25.00 US • PB • 97818562302786 x 9 • 172 pages

Working entirely in harmony with nature,this practical guide shows you how to turna bare plot into a beautiful and productivegarden. Illustrates how to plan your gar-den, save time and effort weeding, recyclematerials, and create year-round harvests,all within an organic framework.

Illustrates how to consciously design alifestyle that is low in environmentalimpact and highly productive by makingthe most of resources, minimizing theirwaste and maximizing their potential.

THE PERMACULTURE WAYPractical Steps to Create a Self-Sustaining WorldGraham Bell Introduction by Bill MollisonForeword by David Belamy

$29.95 US • PB • 97818562302856 x 9 • 240 pages

“Everyone needs a better sense of his or her roots, and Roots Demystifiedwill help a lot.” —John Jeavons, author of How to Grow More Vegetables

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Edible Forest Gardens is a groundbreakingtwo-volume tome that explores the keyconcepts of forest ecology and appliesthem to the needs of natural gardeners intemperate climates. Volume 1 develops thevision of the forest garden and explainsthe basic ecological principles that make itwork. Volume 2 moves forward with concrete ways to design, establish, andmaintain your own forest garden.

Case studies and examples appearthroughout, as well as tables, illustrations, and a uniquely valuable“plant matrix” that lists hundreds of thebest edible and useful species.

Taken together, the two volumes ofEdible Forest Gardens offer an advancedcourse in ecological gardening—one thatwill forever change the way you look atplants and your environment.

EDIBLE FOREST GARDENS, VOL. ONEEcological Vision and Theory forTemperate Climate Permaculture

$75.00 US • HC • 97819314987918 x 10 • 396 pages • Full color

EDIBLE FOREST GARDENS, VOL. TWOEcological Design and Practice forTemperate Climate Permaculture

$75.00 US • HC • 97819314988078 x 10 • 672 pages

Dave Jacke with Eric Toensmeier

EDIBLE FOREST GARDENS TWO-VOLUME SET

$150.00 US • 9781890132606

For anyone seriously interested in understand-ing the foundations of sustainable design andculture, this book is essential reading. Morefundamental and distilled than Mollison’sencyclopedic A Designers’ Manual and withrefreshing perspectives on a range of environmental issues.

PERMACULTUREPrinciples & Pathways Beyond SustainabilityDavid Holmgren

$30.00 US • PB • 97806464184457 x 91/2 • 320 pages

HOW TO MAKE A FOREST GARDEN

Patrick Whitefield

$29.95 US • PB • 97818562300878 x 11 • 184 pages

This highly practical and inspiring book givesyou the knowledge to create a beautiful, highlysustainable, and productive forest garden,including layout, plant selection, step-by-stepinstallation guide, and numerous resource lists.

FOREST GARDENINGCultivating an Edible LandscapeRobert Hart

$25.00 US • PB • 97809300318486 x 9 • 256 pages

Robert Hart blends history, philosophy, anthro-pology, and seasonal gardening wisdom in alucid sequence of essays, which together com-prise a remarkable testament to the pleasures ofhands-off as well as hands-on gardening.

•HEPBURN PERMACULTURE GARDENS:Ten Years of Sustainable Living David Holmgren • B&W photos & illustrations $39.00 US • 17 x 12 • PB • 61 pages 9780646269900

•PERMACULTURE PLANTS: A Selection Jeff Nugent and Julia Boniface • $29.95 US 81/4 x 113/4 • PB • 160 pages 9781856230292

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GAIA’S GARDENA Guide to Home-Scale PermacultureToby Hemenway Foreword by John Todd

$24.95 US • PB • 97818901325218 x 10 • 240 pages

A wonderful addition to any gardener’s library;details how to create a low-maintenance, nearlyself-sustaining permaculture garden, completewith plant selection, requirements, and mainte-nance guidelines. Illustrated with beautifulcolor photos.

THE BASICS OF PERMACULTURE DESIGN

Ross MarsIllustrated by Martin Ducker

$25.00 US • PB • 978185623023065/8 x 95/8 • 200 pages

A useful guide for designers and gardeningenthusiasts, packed with tips, clear illustra-tions, and a wealth of experience to guide youthrough designs for gardens, urban and ruralproperties, water-harvesting systems, animalsystems, and space challenges from patios toecovillages.

Permaculture experts Ross and Jenny Marsoutline the steps to transform your gardeninto a productive living system. Modeledupon the development of Candlelight Farmand illustrated with photographs, this guideencourages the reader to make postive stepstoward reconciling human impact withnature—following the permaculture ideal.

GETTING STARTED IN PERMACULTURE

Ross and Jenny Mars

$14.95 US • PB • 97818562303537 x 10 • 96 pages • B&W photos

The long-awaited exploration of permaculturespecifically for cooler Northern Hemisphereclimates, accessible to the curious novice andessential for the knowledgeable practitioner.Expanded to include many aspects of perma-culture, from community design to energy useand all that is sustainable.

THE EARTH CARE MANUALA Permaculture Handbook for Britain& Other Temperate ClimatesPatrick Whitefield

$75.00 US • HC • 978185623021681/4 x 115/8 • 482 pages

Offers a design framework for successful, self-sustaining ecological aquaculture in all but themost extreme climates and regions. A ground-breaking work of ideas and practices for thoseinterested in environmental management andaquatic ecosystem enhancement and repair.

ECOLOGICAL AQUACULTUREA Sustainable SolutionLaurence Hutchinson

$45.00 US • HC • 978185623032281/4 x 113/4 • 160 pages

•THE WOODLAND WAY:A Permaculture Approach to Sustainable Woodland ManagementBen 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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This new edition of wide acclaim delvesdeep into the mysteries of growing goodfruit with minimal inputs. Cutting-edgetopics include the use of kaolin clayagainst curculio and borers and creatinga diverse and healthy orchard ecosystemthrough understory management.

THE GRAPE GROWERA Guide to Organic ViticultureLon Rombough


Presents a radical alternative to conventional woodland management thatcreates biodiverse, healthy environments,yields a great variety of value-added products, provides a secure livelihood forwoodland workers and farmers, and benefits the local community.

THE APPLE GROWERA Guide for the Organic Orchardist Revised and ExpandedMichael Phillips

$40.00 US • PB • 97819314989138 x 10 • 320 pages • Full colorBeekeepers today face unprecedented challenges. Newly introduced pests like the destructive

varroa mite have made chemical treatment of hives standard practice, but pest resistance isbuilding, which in turn creates demand for new and ever-more-toxic chemicals. In fact, thereis 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 towhy the bees had died or disappeared.

Natural Beekeeping offers a holistic, sensible alternative to conventional practices by proposinga program of natural hive management. Author Ross Conrad brings together the best “do noharm” strategies to keeping honeybees healthy and productive. Readers will learn about nontoxic methods of controlling mites, eliminating American foulbrood disease (without theuse of antibiotics), selective breeding for naturally resistant bees, and many other tips andtechniques for maintaining healthy hives. Specific concepts and detailed management techniques are covered in a thoughtful, matter-of-fact way.

NATURAL BEEKEEPINGOrganic Approaches to Modern ApicultureRoss Conrad Foreword by Gary Paul Nabhan


Long-term solutions for healthy beehives

In the mid-1990s Linda and Larry Faillacehad a dream to breed sheep and makecheese on their Vermont farm. They didthe research, worked hard, and followedthe rules, but just like that, their dreamturned into a nightmare.

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THE BACKYARD BERRY BOOKA Hands-On Guide to GrowingBerries, Brambles, and Vine Fruit inthe Home GardenStella Otto

$16.95 US • PB • 97809634520616 x 9 • 288 pages

THE BACKYARD ORCHARDISTA Complete Guide to Growing FruitTrees in the Home GardenStella Otto

$15.95 US • PB • 97809634520306 x 9 • 250 pages

MAD SHEEPThe True Story behind the USDA’s War on a Family FarmLinda Faillace Foreword by Ronnie Cummins

$25.00 US • HC • 9781933392097$17.95 US • PB • 978193339276951/2 x 81/2 • 336 pagesSACRIFICIAL LAMBS DVD; see page 69.



Drawing upon 40 years of experience asan ecological farmer and marketer, JoelSalatin explains with humor and passionwhy Americans do not have the freedomto choose the food they purchase andeat. From child labor regulations to foodinspection, bureaucrats provide them-selves sole discretion over what food isavailable in the local marketplace.

YOU CAN FARMThe Entrepreneur’s Guide to Start and Succeed in a Farming EnterpriseJoel F. Salatin

$35.00 US • PB • 97809638109226 x 9 • 480 pages

PASTURED POULTRY PROFIT$

Joel F. Salatin

$35.00 US • PB • 97809638109086 x 9 • 334 pages

A unique guide detailing all aspects ofstarting, operating, and profiting in small-scale, pasture-based poultry farming, oneof the only types of small farming thatcontinually shows strong economic results.

Tackling issues from farmer integrity toconsumer kitchens to cultural cheap foodpolicies, Salatin puts producers andpatrons on the same team to create afarm-friendly food landscape, encouragingevery food buyer to embrace the notionthat menus are a conscious decision.

A motivational and revealing look intomaking your dream of starting and operating a small-scale farm a reality.Assesses the true pros and cons andenables readers to decide if the agri-entrepreneur lifestyle is right for them.

HOLY COWS & HOG HEAVENThe Food Buyer’s Guide to Farm Friendly FoodJoel F. Salatin

$17.95 US • PB • 97809638109466 x 9 • 160 pages

EVERYTHING I WANT TO DO IS ILLEGALWar Stories from the Local Food FrontJoel F. Salatin

$23.95 US • PB • 97809638109536 x 9 • 352 pages

FAMILY FRIENDLY FARMINGA Multigenerational Home-BasedBusiness TestamentJoel F. Salatin

$35.00 US • PB • 97809638109396 x 9 • 350 pages

A unique perspective on starting andoperating a family farm or business, coupled with reflections on traditionalfamily values.

A survey of a new entrepreneurial cattle-raising business model that offers hopeto rural communities, to struggling row-crop farmers, and to frustrated beefeaters who do not want to encouragedesertification, air and water pollution,environmental degradation, and inhumane animal treatment.

SALAD BAR BEEF

Joel F. Salatin

$35.00 US • PB • 97809638109156 x 9 • 334 pages

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“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



Joan Dye Gussow is a suburbanite with agreen thumb, a feisty, defiant spirit, and arelentlessly positive outlook. Join her as sheshares her ponderings and sets a delightfulexample for those of us who seek thehealthiest, most pleasurable lifestyle withinan environment determined to propel usin the opposite direction.

THIS ORGANIC LIFEConfessions of a Suburban HomesteaderJoan Dye Gussow

$19.95 US • PB • 97819314982416 x 9 • 240 pages

Based on his experience of a system ofpermanent, slightly raised beds, authorCharles Dowding takes you through adelicious variety of fruits and vegetables:what to choose, when to plant and harvest, and how best to avoid pests anddiseases. Organic Gardening includesrecipes to inspire you to culinary heightswith your fresh-picked produce.

ORGANIC GARDENINGThe Natural No-Dig WayCharles Dowding


GROWING GREENAnimal-Free Organic TechniquesJenny Hall and Iain Tolhurst

$35.00 US • PB • 97819333924938 x 10 • 320 pages

The essential guide to stock-free organicfarming, perfect for absolute beginners aswell as experienced professionals. Detailshow growers can abandon the use of animal by-products and be rewardedwith healthier crops and fewer pests.

FOUR-SEASON HARVEST Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year LongEliot Coleman

Illustrated by Kathy Bray Foreword by BarbaraDamrosch

$24.95 US • PB • 97818901322798 x 10 • 236 pages

If you love the joys of eating home-garden vegetablesbut always thought those joys had to stop at the end ofsummer, this book is for you. Eliot Coleman introducesthe surprising fact that most of the United States hasmore winter sunshine than the south of France, and heshows how North American gardeners can successfullyuse that sun to raise a wide variety of traditional wintervegetables in backyard cold frames and plastic-coveredtunnel greenhouses without supplementary heat. Four-Season Harvest will have you feasting on fresh produce from your garden all through the winter.

THE NEW ORGANIC GROWERA Master’s Manual of Tools andTechniques for the Home and Market GardenerEliot Coleman

Illustrated by Sheri Amsel and Molly Cook Field

$24.95 US • PB • 97809300317568 x 10 • 512 pages

Master grower Eliot Coleman presents the simplest andmost sustainable ways of growing top-quality organicvegetables with practical information on marketing theharvest, equipment, and techniques for the long-termhealth of the soil. With more than 45,000 copies soldsince 1988, The New Organic Grower has become amodern classic. Written for the serious gardener or smallmarket farmer, this book proves that, in terms of bothefficiency and profitability, smaller can be better.

“I know of no other person . . . who can produce better results on the land with an economy ofeffort and means than Eliot.” —Paul Hawken

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A complete illustrated guide to settingup and maintaining small-scale worm composting systems. Topics include bintypes, worm species, reproduction, careand feeding of worms, harvesting, andmaking finished organic potting soil.

SEED TO SEED, 2nd editionSeed Saving and Growing Techniquesfor Vegetable GardenersSuzanne Ashworth Foreword by Kent Whealy

$24.95 US • PB • 97818824245808 x 11 • 228 pages

A complete seed-saving guide thatdescribes specific techniques for saving theseeds of 160 different vegetables. Containsdetailed information, including botanicalclassification, flower structure and meansof pollination, required population size,isolation distance, and techniques forcaging or hand-pollination, and also theproper methods for harvesting, drying,cleaning, and storing seeds.


•WORMS EAT OUR GARBAGE: Classroom Activities for a Better EnvironmentMary Appelhof and Mary Frances Fenton • $22.95 US 81/2 x 11 • PB • 9780977804504

•THE WORM CAFE: Mid-ScaleVermicomposting of Lunchroom WastesBinet Payne • Line art • Technical illustrations $29.95 US • 81/2 x 11 • PB • 200 pages 9780942256116

•THE TOILET PAPERS: Recycling Waste andConserving Water • Sim Van Der RynB&W photos, diagrams, and plans $14.00 US • 6 x 9 • PB • 124 pages 9781890132583

WORMS EAT MY GARBAGE, 2nd editionHow to Set Up and Maintain a Worm Composting SystemMary Appelhof

$12.95 US • PB • 978097780451151/2 x 8 • 162 pages

BREED YOUR OWN VEGETABLE VARIETIESThe Gardener’s and Farmer’s Guide to Plant Breeding and Seed SavingCarol Deppe

$27.95 US • PB • 978189013272971/2 x 91/4 • 384 pages

Authoritative and easy to understand,this is the only guide to plant breedingand seed saving for the serious homegardener and the small-scale farmer orcommercial grower. Delves into breedingtechniques, seed saving, variety trails,and organic performance.

GARDEN SEED INVENTORYInventory of Seed Catalogs Listing AllNon-Hybrid Vegetable Seeds Availablein the United States and CanadaEdited by Kent Whealy

$26.00 US • PB • 978188242460381/2 x 11 • 504 pages

An invitation to rediscover our nation’srich vegetable legacy brought to thiscountry by immigrants or developed hereby farmers and breeders for superior taste,regional adaptability, disease resistance,and other virtues.

There are almost seven billion defecating people on Earth, but fewhave any clue about how to con-structively handle the burgeoningmountain of crap. The HumanureHandbook will amuse you, educateyou, and possibly offend you, but itwill certainly pertain to you.

THE HUMANURE HANDBOOKA Guide to Composting Human ManureJoseph C. Jenkins

$25.00 US • PB • 97809644258356 x 9 • 256 pages

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A definitive grower’s guide to over 200strains of garlic for the hobbyist and commercial grower. Provides expert classification information, growing advice,and propagation techniques.

GROWING GREAT GARLICThe Definitive Guide for OrganicGardeners and Small FarmersRon L. Engeland

$16.95 US • PB • 97809630850166 x 9 • 228 pages

THE HERBALIST’S WAYThe Art and Practice of Healing with Plant MedicinesNancy Phillips & Michael PhillipsForeword by Rosemary Gladstar

$30.00 US • PB • 97819314987608 x 10 • 352 pages

A complete guide to the art and practiceof herbalism, as well as an introductionto the herbalist’s role in family and community life. Includes inspirationalprofiles of practicing herbalists fromacross the country.

SOLAR GARDENINGGrowing Vegetables Year-Round theAmerican Intensive WayLeandre Poisson and Gretchen Vogel Poisson

$39.95 US • PB • 978093003169581/4 x 11 • 288 pages Illustrations, photos, and charts

A must-have for foragers, botanists,herbalists, gardeners, permaculturists,and anyone who wants to learn moreabout wild plants, this insightful guideprovides interesting and valuable uses formore than 1,200 species in 500 generaof wild plants found throughout NorthAmerica and beyond.

THE USES OF WILD PLANTSUsing and Growing the Wild Plants of the United States and CanadaFrank Tozer

$24.95 US • PB • 978097734890981/2 x 11 • 264 pages • B&W illustrations

THE LOST LANGUAGE OF PLANTSThe Ecological Importance of PlantMedicines to Life on EarthStephen Harrod Buhner

$19.95 US • PB • 97818901328806 x 9 • 336 pages

Author, teacher, lecturer, and herbalistStephen Harrod Buhner has produced abook that is certain to generate contro-versy. It consists of three parts: A critiqueof technological medicine, and especiallythe dangers to the environment posed bypharmaceuticals, a new look at GaiaTheory, and extensive documentation ofhow plants communicate their healingqualities to humans and other animals.

Solar Gardening shows how to maximizeyour garden’s year-round productivitythrough the use of solar “mini-green-houses.” Includes instructions for building a variety of solar appliances.Described by Jeff Cox, host of PBS’s Your Organic Garden, as “The best bookon season extending I’ve ever seen.”

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SOLVIVAHow to Grow $500,000 on OneAcre & Peace on EarthAnna Edey

$35.00 US • PB • 978096623490981/2 x 10 • 232 pages • B&W illustrations 20 page color signature

Solviva offers convincing proof that wecan, with today’s technology and knowl-edge, live in ways that reduce pollutionand depletion of resources by 80 percentor more, and at the same time reduce thecost of living and improve the quality oflife in urban and rural locations.



Dozens of inspirational color photo-graphs complement proven methods anddesign techniques, offering the home-owner expert tips on how to enliven hislandscape and the environment throughthe installation of a pond.

LANDSCAPING EARTH PONDSThe Complete GuideTim Matson


THE CONTRARY FARMER

Gene Logsdon

$19.95 US • PB • 97809300317496 x 9 • 256 pages

Gene Logsdon has become something ofa rabble-rouser in progressive farm circles,stirring up debates and controversies withhis popular New Farm magazine column,“The Contrary Farmer.” This tried-and-true, practical advice manual for the cottage farmer is interspersed with personal and often humorous meditationson life and agriculture.

LIVING AT NATURE’S PACEFarming and the American DreamGene Logsdon

$25.00 US • PB • 97818901325696 x 9 • 250 pages

ORGANIC FUTURESA Case for Organic FarmingAdrian Myers

$22.50 US • PB • 97819039986946 x 9 • 256 pages


•COMMON SENSE FORESTRY • Hans W. Morsbach • Illustrated by Robert W. Hutchinson$34.95 US • 8 x 10 • PB • 256 pages • 9781931498210

•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

•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 WoodlotsDave 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 9781890132316

•GOOD SPIRITS: A New Look at Ol’ Demon Alcohol • Gene Logsdon • $14.95 US • 6 x 9 • PB 205 pages • 9781890132668

Nature knows how to grow plants andraise animals; it is human beings who arein danger of losing this age-old expertise,substituting chemical additives and artificial technologies for the traditionalvirtues of fertility, artistry, and knowl-edge of natural processes. This edition ofLogsdon’s important collection of essaysand articles (first published by Pantheonin 1993) contains six new chapters taking stock of American farm life as thisnew century begins.

Organic Futures presents an over-whelming argument for replacing modern farming methods with organictechniques. Exploring the history, politics, and practicalities of organicfarming, Adrian Myers shows how thecurrent techniques of agricultureinevitably bring about the deteriorationof soil and cannot provide a long-termsustainable future for humankind.

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food/health/travel 43GAIA’S KITCHENVegetarian Recipes for Community and Family, Second EditionJulie Ponsonby

Updating the first edition—winner of the Gourmand World Cookbook award for bestvegetarian cookbook of 2001—the cuisine featured in Gaia’s Kitchen calls upon the bestof Mediterranean, Californian, Indian, and Mexican vegetarian cooking. It celebrates oldfavorites rich in cheese and eggs and offers a variety of tempting new vegan dishes usingingredients 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 Kitchenalso explores the issues of nutrition, special diets, and the ecological dimension of foodproduction. 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 hasbeen brewing up a unique potpourri of human connections, raising ecological awareness, and stimulating taste buds.

“I can say honestly that this book should have an honored place inyour kitchen and that your kitchen should be the most honored roomin your house.”—Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul and Original Self

ORGANIC PLACES TO STAY IN THE UKSecond EditionLinda Moss

Are you looking for a hotel or bed-and-breakfast that serves organic food? Would you like tostay at a campsite and have organic vegetables delivered? Do you like to have organic foodavailable 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 amuch higher percentage. Quite a few of them grow their own produce. Some use wild ornatural foods, and most will aim to use local produce, rather than imported food. This newedition includes symbols that let readers know whether there is public transport nearby andwhether children and/or dogs are welcomed.

Linda Moss created www.organicplacestostay.com nine years ago, and in 2004 her Website won an Environmentally Friendly Website Award. She lives in England.

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Julia Ponsonby has been actively involved with Schumacher College in England since attending itsfirst 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.

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THE FARMER AND THE GRILLA Guide to Grilling, Barbecuing and Spit-Roasting Grassfed Meat . . . andfor Saving the Planet One Bite at a TimeShannon HayesForeword by Joel Salatin

$21.95 US • PB • 97809794391006 x 9 • 168 pages • B&W illustrationsLEFT TO WRITE PRESS

The key to getting the most out of pasture-raised meats isunderstanding how to cook them properly. In The Farmerand 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 recipesprovide all the basic cooking instructions, plus directions onhow to make a variety of herb rubs, marinades, and barbecuesauces to accompany the meats. Traditional techniques suchas Southern barbecue and Argentine-style asado cooking willhelp readers grill like the pros. And specific notes from pasture-based farmers on dealing with natural variations ingrassfed meats will ensure success every time.

THE BEST OF BLOODROOTSelma Miriam and Noel FurieANOMALY PRESS

The New York Times calls Bloodroot “legendary,” and VegetarianTimes has listed it as one of the ten best vegetarian restaurants inthe nation. Opened in 1977, Bloodroot is a wonderfully uniqueneighborhood restaurant and bookstore with great views of theLong Island Sound. Now everyone can taste the legend withThe Best of Bloodroot—two juicy cookbooks filled with time-tested recipes, gorgeous photographs, and fiery essays detailingthe authors’ cooking and living philosophies. A thorough glossary includes discussion of the ethnic ingredients on whichthe cuisine of Bloodroot relies. Personal essays describe the owners’ experiences with feminism in a changing world as wellas discussions of work ethics, community, and economic successand, of course, an examination of the political and moral aspectsof vegetarianism and veganism.

VOLUME ONE: VEGETARIAN RECIPES$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

This atlas is the first reference book of itskind and a must-have for every foodie’slibrary. Jeffrey P. Roberts lavishes lovingattention on the growing local food andfarmstead movement that is fast becominga national trend. This fully illustrated atlasis destined to become a classic referenceand it will be the source of many fabulousfood adventures.

ITALIAN CHEESEA Guide to Its Discoveryand Appreciation

$25.00 US • PB • 97888849911195 x 9 • 400 pages

This comprehensive guide to farmsteadcheese explains the diversity of cheeses interms of historical animal husbandry,pastures, climate, preservation, andtransport—all of which still contributeto the uniqueness of farm cheese today.

Two hundred and one traditional Italianfarmhouse cheeses are lovingly describedin this book from Slow FoodInternational. Organized by region, each description covers how the cheese ismade and matured, along with historicaland geographic nuggets.

THE ATLAS OF AMERICAN ARTISAN CHEESE

Jeffrey P. Roberts Forewords by Carlo Petrini and Allison Hooper

$35.00 US • PB • 97819333923497 x 10 • 464 pages • Full color • 350 illustrations

AMERICAN FARMSTEAD CHEESEThe Complete Guide to Making andSelling Artisan CheesesPaul Kindstedt

$40.00 US • HC • 97819314987777 x 10 • 300 pages

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Introducing the Local Foods Wheels

•••Also by JESSICA PRENTICE•••

In Full Moon Feast, accomplished chef and foodactivist Jessica Prentice champions locally grown,humanely raised, nutrient-rich foods and traditional cooking methods. The book follows thethirteen lunar cycles of an agrarian year, from themidwinter Hunger Moon and the springtimesweetness of the Sap Moon to the bounty of theMoon When Salmon Return to Earth in autumn,with recipes that display the richly satisfying flavors tied to the ancient rhythm of the seasons.

FULL MOON FEASTFood and the Hunger for ConnectionJessica Prentice Foreword by Deborah Madison

$25.00 US • PB97819333920047 x 10 • 374 pages

The Local Foods Wheels are beautifully designed, full-color dials showing which foods aregrown locally and when they are in season. The first two dials in the new series cover theSan Francisco Bay area and the New York City area. Each is 12 inches in diameter andfeatures 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 bottomshows 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 availablein 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 wheelover, and you will find seasonality references, arranged alphabetically. This list gives greater detailabout when local foods are harvested and available.

The combination of beauty and functionality makes the Local Foods Wheel an ideal gift item andperfect for mounting on the refrigerator with magnets as an appealing reminder of the abundancethat comes from local fields. Both children and adults will find the wheel a fun and inspirationaleducational tool, and it is invaluable aid for seasonal menu planning and in preparing a shoppinglist for the local farmers’ market!

About the creators

Jessica Prentice is a professional chef and author of Full Moon Feast: Foodand the Hunger for Connection. Jessica coined the term “locavore” and helpssponsor an annual Eat Local Challenge (www.locavores.com). She is one of thefounding worker-owners of Three Stone Hearth, a community-supported kitchen inWest 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 usesher line drawings in original animation work, much of which combines her love of foodwith her love of art. She has collaborated with the musical group Orange Sherbet tocreate 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 hasworked for several environmental organizations including the Center for UrbanAgriculture at Fairview Gardens and the Center for Urban Education aboutSustainable Agriculture (sponsor of the Ferry Plaza Farmers’ Market in San Francisco).She is currently pursuing an M.S. in agriculture, food, and environment at TuftsUniversity 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 managerof publicity and special projects for New York’s Greenmarket, the nation’s largest net-work of farmers’ markets. She has also worked on local farms and taught about localfood systems at New York University’s Food Studies department.

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THE LOCAL FOODS WHEEL12-inch diameter • Card stock • Rotating dial • Full color • IllustratedSingle copy: $12.95 US, $14.50 CAN • 10-copy prepack: $129.95 US, $145.00 CAN Pub Date: September 2008



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 coffeepickers to Mexican vanilla growers.Farmers, shepherds, fishermen, butchers,vine-dressers—all people pursuing theidea of agriculture based on taste, quality,sustainability, and social justice.

A WORLD OF PRESIDIAFood, Culture & CommunitySlow Food Editore

$20.00 US • PB • 978888499085381/2 x 91/4 • 180 pages

Vibrant stories of 65 Slow FoodPresidia—groups of traditional food artisans—from 30 different countriesand the unique and delicious foods theyare working to preserve.

TERRA MADRE1,600 Food CommunitiesSlow Food Editore

$40.00 US • PB • 978888499118881/4 x 81/4 • 768 pages • Full-color illustrations

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.

THE SLOW FOOD GUIDE TO SAN FRANCISCO AND THE BAY AREARestaurants, Markets, BarsEdited by Sylvan Brackett, Sue Moore, and Wendy Downing

$20.00 US • PB • 97819314987535 x 81/2 • 376 pages

Drawn from five years of the journalSlow, this book is an anthology of morethan 100 articles covering a range ofeclectic topics, offering an armchair tourof the exotic and bizarre.

SLOW FOODCollected Thoughts on Taste, Tradition,and the Honest Pleasures of FoodEdited by Carlo Petriniand Benjamin Watson

$24.95 US • PB • 97819314980127 x 10 • 280 pages

THE SLOW FOOD GUIDE TO CHICAGORestaurants, Markets, BarsKelly Gibson and Portia Belloc Lowndes

$20.00 US • PB • 97819314986165 x 81/2 • 384 pages

THE SLOW FOOD GUIDE TO NEW YORK CITYRestaurants, Markets, BarsPatrick Martins and Ben Watson

$20.00 US • PB • 97819314982725 x 81/2 • 375 pages

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CHOCOLATE, TRUFFLES & OTHERTREASURES OF ITALY’S PIEDMONT CUISINE

Sally Spector

$45.00 US • PB • 978887889173981/4 x 113/4 • 192 pages • Full colorDANIELA PIAZZA EDITORE

Internationally famous for its wine andwhite truffles, the Piedmont region ofItaly provides numerous culinary delights,including handmade breadsticks, qualitybeef, and the world’s best filberts. Usingmuch more than recipes, author SallySpector provides an insider’s view of gastronomic culture and local traditions,as well as social and agricultural history.


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This is the definitive resource guide to therapidly expanding world of whole foods.Revised and expanded, this edition updateskey nutritional information, making it aninvaluable guide to natural foods.

WHOLE FOODS COMPANIONA Guide for Adventurous Cooks, CuriousShoppers, and Lovers of Natural FoodsDianne Onstad


The Bread Builders appeals to a range ofbakers, from home bakers to those whoalready run small-scale commercial operations and seek up-to-date knowledge about the baking process.Providing instructions on constructingmasonry ovens and how to bake withthem, The Bread Builders is the essentialresource for the artisan bread revolution.

THE BREAD BUILDERSHearth Loaves and Masonry OvensAlan Scott and Daniel Wing

$35.00 US • PB • 97818901320578 x 10 • 250 pages

Authors Kiko Denzer and Hannah Fieldinvite you into the artisan tradition inthis newly revised and expanded editionof Build Your Own Earth Oven. For lessthan the cost of a baking stone, Denzerand Field will guide you through thesimple process of building a masonryoven from earthen materials and firingyour first loaf of delicious artisan bread.

BUILD YOUR OWN EARTH OVEN

Kiko Denzer and Hannah Field

$17.95 US • PB • 97809679846747 x 10 • 132 pages • B&W photosHAND PRINT PRESS

PRESERVING FOOD WITHOUTFREEZING OR CANNINGTraditional Techniques Using Salt, Oil,Sugar, Alcohol, Vinegar, Drying, ColdStorage, and Lactic FermentationThe Gardeners and Farmers of Terre Vivante

Forewords by Deborah Madison and Eliot Coleman

$25.00 US • PB • 97819333925926 x 9 • 224 pages

Preserving Food without Freezing orCanning (originally published as KeepingFood Fresh) offers more than 250 easyand enjoyable recipes featuring locallygrown and minimally refined ingredients.It is an essential guide for those who seekhealthy food for a healthy world.

Bread. Cheese. Wine. Beer. Coffee.Chocolate. Most people consume fermented foods and drinks every day. For thousands of years, humans haveenjoyed the distinctive flavors and nutri-tion resulting from the transformativepower of microscopic bacteria and fungi.This is the first cookbook to widelyexplore the culinary magic of fermentation.

WILD FERMENTATIONThe Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture FoodsSandor Ellix Katz

$25.00 US • PB • 97819314982347 x 10 • 275 pages

THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE MICROWAVEDInside America’s Underground Food MovementsSandor Ellix Katz

$20.00 US • PB • 97819333921106 x 9 • 400 pages

From community-supported agriculture,farmers, community gardeners, andseed-saving activists to underground distribution networks of contrabandfoods rescued from the waste stream,this book shows how ordinary peoplecan resist the dominant system, revivecommunity-based food production, andtake direct responsibility for their ownhealth and nutrition.

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FUTURE FASHION WHITE PAPERSIntroduction by Leslie HoffmanPreface by Diane von Furstenberg

$23.00 US • PB • 978096750992141/2 x 73/4 • 288 pages • Illustrations

SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE WHITE PAPERS

Edited by David E. Brown, Mindy Fox, and Mary Rickel Pelletier

$17.00 US • PB • 41/2 x 73/4 • 324 pages 9780967509914

SUSTAINABLE CUISINE WHITE PAPERS

Earth Pledge Foundation

$15.00 US • PB • 41/2 x 73/4 • 190 pages 9780967509907

Without knowing it, Americans eat genetically modified (GM) food every day.Food and chemical industries claim thatGM food is safe, but growing evidenceshows otherwise. Smith’s stories of healthdangers, corporate influence, and govern-ment cover-up read like a mystery novel.

SEEDS OF DECEPTIONExposing Industry and Government Liesabout the Safety of the GeneticallyEngineered Foods You’re EatingJeffrey M. Smith

$27.95 US • HC • 9780972966573$17.95 US • PB • 97809729665806 x 9 • 240 pages

DVD only: $19.95 US • 9780972966559DVD & Book (Seeds of Deception) Set: Hidden Dangers in Kids’ Meals DVD$34.95 US • 9780972966504

VHS only: $19.95 US • 9780972966566VHS & Book (Seeds of Deception) Set: Hidden Dangers in Kids’ Meals VHS$34.95 US • 9780972966511

The biotech industry’s claim that genetically modified (GM) foods are safe is shattered in this groundbreaking book. Nearly sixty-five health risks associatedwith the foods Americans eat daily are presented in an easy-to-read and accessiblestyle, along with information about why children are most at risk, how to avoidGM foods, false claims by biotech advocates, how industry research is rigged toavoid finding problems, why GM crops are not needed to feed the world, theeconomic losses associated with these crops, and more. This is the most completereference to the health risks of GM foods on the market.

GENETIC ROULETTEThe Documented Health Risks ofGenetically Engineered FoodsJeffrey M. Smith

$27.95 US • HC • 97809729665288.5 x 11 • 326 pages

Jeffrey M. Smith is the director of the Institute for ResponsibleTechnology and is one of the world’s leading advocates against GMfoods. His book Seeds of Deception is rated the number-one book onthe subject and has had a substantial influence on public perceptionand even legislation.

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Also Available . . .THE GMO TRILOGY: SEEDS OF DECEPTIONDVD, CD, PB • $27.95 US • 9780972966535

HIDDEN DANGERS IN KIDS’ MEALS

This VHS/DVD book set includes aninterview with author Jeffrey M. Smith,footage of scientists, and a look at themiraculous improvement in studentbehavior that accompanied a change indiet at a Wisconsin school.

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OPEN SPACES SACRED PLACESStories of How Nature Heals and UnifiesTom Stoner and Carolyn Rapp Foreword by G. Martin Moeller, Jr.

Pub Date: September 2008$30.00 US, $32.95 CAN • PB with flaps97809815656069 x 10 • 208 pages • Full color • 200 photosTKF FOUNDATION

Tom Stoner is a cofounder of the TKFFoundation. He has served as chairmanof the board of trustees of theChesapeake Bay Foundation and ascofounder of the Conflict ResolutionClinic associated with George MasonUniversity. He also cofounded AmericanRadio Systems. Tom lives in Annapolis,Maryland and Stowe, Vermont.

Carolyn Rapp is a writer, story-teller, and avid gardener. She isauthor of Garden Voices: Stories ofWomen and Their Gardens (2005).Carolyn lives in McLean, Virginiaand Frisco, Colorado.

G. Martin Moeller, Jr., is the seniorvice president and curator of theNational Building Museum.

“The healing power of nature—so important to physical, mental, andspiritual well-being and so undervalued in contemporary medicine—is the central theme of this wonderful book. The authors show us howpeople everywhere can work to create public green spaces thatsoothe and refresh and help heal communities and the world. Open Spaces Sacred Places is an inspired call to action.” —Dr. Andrew Weil

Open Spaces Sacred Places is a book that dramatically demonstrates how nature has the powerto heal and unify in our increasingly frenetic 21st-century world. It is a series of inspirationalstories told through the voices of “firesouls,” those passionate and persistent people who havebrought communities together to create public areas of respite.

The book depicts a wide variety of sacred places, including a meditation garden inside thewalls of a prison, a sculpture garden built by at-risk youth in the inner city, and a therapeutichealing garden at a rehabilitation hospital. These public green spaces are places of peace andrefreshment, where people can tap into their own deep wisdom and find an antidote for thestressful, 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 onecommon element—a bench with a journal attached where each visitor has the opportunity toanonymously 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 alsocontains more than 200 beautifully photographed images that bring these spaces to life.

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.

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$14.95 US • PB • 97809630327375 x 8 • 240 pages

The Rhythm of Compassion addresses one of the central spiritual questions of our time: Can we heal our-selves and society simultaneously? The core premise of this book is that the health of the human psycheand the health of the world are inextricably related, and we cannot truly heal one without healing theother. The book is written to help readers balance soul and society, offering a seamless set of values thatunites the inner and the outer. Providing real answers, inspiration, and practical exercises, this is a bookfor those who long to make a difference and search for a way to balance self-care with service to theworld. Using the profound metaphor of in- and out-breath meditation, Straub compellingly invites thereader 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, andour planet.

“A book that addresses with great insight one of the centralspiritual questions of our time—how do we care for others whilestill caring for ourselves? A must for everyone seeking answers.”—Caroline Myss, author of Anatomy of the Spirit

THE RHYTHM OF COMPASSIONCaring for Self, Connecting with SocietyGail Straub


Now in its eleventh printing, and translated into eight languages, Empowerment: The Art of CreatingYour Life as You Want It is widely considered to be a classic in the field of personal empowerment andtransformation. Much more than a collection of inspiring principles, the book guides readers step-by-step 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’ twodecades of work helping thousands of people create the life of their dreams. Its simple premise—thatour thoughts and beliefs create the conditions of our life—is illustrated with anecdotes from each of theseven areas.

“For over two decades, David Gershon and Gail Straub haveinspired and empowered thousands of people to transform theirlives and contribute to the preservation of our planet. This bookmakes their knowledge and techniques available to all.”—Roger Walsh, MD, PhD, author of Staying Alive: The Psychology ofHuman Survival

EMPOWERMENTThe Art of Creating Your Life as You Want ItDavid Gershon & Gail Straub

Learn to balance soul and society, to heal each through healing of the other.

The classic book for personal empowerment and transformation.

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RETURNING TO MY MOTHER’S HOUSETaking Back the Wisdom of the FeminineGail Straub Foreword by Christiane Northrup, M.D.

Pub Date: October 2008$21.95 US, $23.95 CAN • HC978096303275151/2 x 81/2 • 264 pagesHIGH POINT

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 isthe story of both men and women who have abandoned their inner lives, leaving behind their heartswhere 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; anddisowning the realms of silence, simplicity, and solitude where the interior matures. Modern life rarelyacknowledges or even allows space for such things. But we ignore these things at our peril, both as ahuman and as an earth family. —From the introduction

Gail Straub, a leader in the human potential field, had helped thousands around the worldfind meaning and purpose in their lives, all the while sensing that something fundamentalwithin her was missing. Many years after the premature death of her mother, she undertooka period of soul searching and came to believe that, like her mother and so many women ofour time, she had overcorrected in the direction of the masculine, her “successful” life ofouter accomplishment and committed social activism having come at the expense of a richand satisfying inner life.

Her search took her around the globe—to Africa, Bali, Russia, China, and Ireland—whereshe 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 betweenexternal and internal worlds, activism and contemplation, and public and private realms andgave her a sense of equanimity that had eluded her for decades. Gail’s poetic and heartfeltstory is for anyone who has ever struggled to build and sustain an interior life in our drivenand fast-paced society—and for mothers and daughters everywhere.

Gail Straub is coauthor of the best-sellingEmpowerment: The Art of Creating Your Life asYou Want It and the author of the criticallyacclaimed The Rhythm of Compassion: Caringfor Self, Connecting with Society, as well asCircle of Compassion, a book of meditations.Considered a leading authority on empower-ment, she codirects the Empowerment Institute,a school for transformative leadership. Over thepast thirty years she has trained thousands ofpeople worldwide in empowerment, engagedspirituality, and the wisdom of the feminine.Straub lives with her husband, David Gershon,in the Hudson River Valley in New York.

“Returning to My Mother’s House is Gail Straub’s poetic,heartfelt, and very personal journey story, but it is also mystory, your story, and the story of a culture in desperate needof ‘taking back the wisdom of the feminine.’ I came awayfrom the adventure of reading this book full of hope for therestoration of the feminine in each of us, and our world.”—Elizabeth Lesser, cofounder of the Omega Institute and author ofBroken Open and The Seekers Guide

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•THE MAKING OF A RADICAL: A Political Autobiography • Scott Nearing$25.00 US • 5 x 8 • PB • 320 pages • 9781890132590

•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 QuotationsHelen 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

FARM FRIENDSFrom the Late Sixties to the West Seventies and BeyondTom Fels Foreword by Carl Oglesby

$19.95 US • PB • 97816035800385 x 8 • 400 pages • B&W photos

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 extendedfamily up to the present day. Back-to-the-land communards of the late 1960s and early1970s made their way in a new and unfamiliar world. Later, relocated in cities and townsacross the country, they used what they had learned to continue to explore and to influencelife 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’send, the aching, searching American heart.”—Ron Suskind, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist

This is Helen Nearing’s vivid self-portraitof an independent, committed, and giftedwoman, and an eloquent statement ofwhat it means to grow old and to facedeath quietly, peacefully, and in control.

LOVING AND LEAVING THE GOOD LIFE

Helen Nearing

$25.00 US • PB • 97809300316336 x 9 • 224 pages

Fifty years before the phrase simple living became fashionable, Helen andScott Nearing were living their celebrated “Good Life” on homesteads first inVermont, then in Maine. All the way to their ninth decade, the Nearings grewtheir own food, built their own buildings, and fought an eloquent combat againstthe silliness of America’s infatuation with consumer goods and refined foods.

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WHEN TECHNOLOGY FAILSA Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability, and Surviving the Long EmergencyMatthew Stein Foreword by Richard Heinberg

Pub Date: August 2008$35.00 US, $32.95 CAN • PB97819333924558 x 11 • 524 pages • B&W illustrations

“The depth of this book, covering everything from building materialsto spiritual healing, is astounding . . . I highly recommend it.”—Robyn Griggs Lawrence, editor-in-chief, Natural Home

A Handmade Life carries Coperthwaite’songoing experiments with hand tools,hand-grown and hand-gathered food,and handmade shelter, clothing, andfurnishings out into the world to chal-lenge and inspire. His writing is bothphilosophical and practical, exploringthemes of beauty, work, education, anddesign while giving instruction on thehand-crafting of the necessities of life.

A HANDMADE LIFEIn Search of SimplicityWilliam CoperthwaitePhotography by Peter Forbes


This book has lost none of its relevanceor inspiration in its 180 years in print.With wit and bulldog curmudgeonliness,it deserves its reputation as one of thegreatest rural reads available.

COTTAGE ECONOMY

William Cobbett Foreword by Verlyn Klinkenborg

$25.00 US • PB • 97819333922576 x 9 • 232 pages

The twentieth century was marked bywars, dictatorships, and environmentaldestruction, yet many individuals keptalive the hope of a sane and sustainablefuture through their example, ideas, andvision. Their influence helped bring to anend colonialism and imperialism,apartheid, and authoritarian regimes, andthey also helped foster the resurgence of anecological, holistic, and spiritual vision thatincreasingly resonates in the world today.

VISIONARIESThe 20th Century’s 100 Most Important Inspirational LeadersEdited by Satish Kumar and Freddie Whitefield


There’s never been a better time to be prepared. Matthew Stein’s comprehensive primer onsustainable living skills prepares you to embark on the path toward sustainability. But unlikeany other book, Stein shows you not only how to live “green” in seemingly stable times, buthow to live in the face of potential disasters, lasting days or years, coming in the form ofsocial upheaval, economic meltdown, or environmental catastrophe.

The chapters cover a survey of the risks to the status quo; supplies and preparation for short-and 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.

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QUEST FOR THE ZODIACThe Cosmic Code beyond AstrologyJohn Lash

$29.95 US • PB • 97819333929366 x 9 • 228 pages

Not in His Image delves deep into theshadows of ancient Gnostic writings toreconstruct the story early Christians triedto scrub from the pages of history, explor-ing the richness of the ancient EuropeanPagan spirituality—the Pagan Mysteries,the Great Goddess, Gnosis, the myths ofSophia and Gaia—and chronicling theannihilation of this Pagan European culture at the hands of Christianity.

NOT IN HIS IMAGEGnostic Vision, Sacred Ecology, and the Future of BeliefJohn Lamb Lash Afterword by Derrick Jensen

$21.95 US • PB • 97819314989206 x 9 • 350 pages

Here are 75 poems (ghazals) translatedfrom the original Persian. Rumi’sunblinking directness and extraordinaryability to employ images drawn fromeveryday life make these ancient poemsfeel modern and alive.

RUMIDancing the FlameNader Khalili

$16.95 US • PB978188962504151/2 x 81/2 • 255 pages

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•RUMI: Fountain of Fire Nader Khalili • $12.95 US41/2 x 7 • PB • 143 pages 9781889625034

•THE STORY OF MY HEART: My Autobiography

Richard Jefferies • $10.95 US51/4 x 71/4 • PB • 126 pages 9781903998199

•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 9781903998335

•THE BEAUTY OF CRAFT: A Resurgence Anthology • Edited by Sandy Brown and Maya Kumar Mitchell • $40.00 US • 81/2 x 11 • HC • 192 pages 9781903998427

•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 91/4 • PB • 94 pages 9781870098991

•IN A PIG’S EYE • Karl Schwenke • $9.95 US • 51/2 x 81/4 • PB •160 pages • 9780930031008

•THROUGH THE EYE OF THE STORM: A Book Dedicated to Rebuilding What Katrina Washed Away • Cholene Espinoza • $14.00 US 53/8 x 83/8 • PB • 224 pages • 9781933392189

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Unsuspected by the world at large, astrologyuses a model that ignores the stars. Many whopractice it do not know that there is a lost,star-based zodiac, entirely distinct from thewell-known circle of twelve sun signs. Questfor the Zodiac recovers the visible star patternsobserved in ancient times.


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You probably know that energy used in your home produces more global-warming pollutionthan your car, but what can you do to reduce your reliance on fossil fuels? How can yourhouse simultaneously save you money on utilities and insulate you from the possible shocksof Peak Oil?

Having weaned themselves completely from fossil fuels in their conventional 1930s urbanhouse, Stephen and Rebekah Hren provide a map for others to do the same. Their bookshows first how to reduce energy consumption, then how to retrofit existing homes toobtain all heating, cooling, cooking, refrigeration, hot water, and electricity from renewablesources. These practical approaches fit anyone’s budget and can be implemented over time to progressively liberate a home from fossil-fuel dependency.

“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

Using Natural FinishesA Step-by-Step GuideAdam Weismann and Katy Bryce

Pub Date: July 2008$40.00 US, $43.95 CAN • PB97819003221648 x 10 • 264 pages • Color illustrations

THE CARBON-FREE HOME36 Remodeling Projects to Help Kick the Fossil-Fuel HabitStephen and Rebekah Hren

Building with CobA Step-by-Step GuideAdam Weismann and Katy Bryce


A lavishly illustrated guide with more than 300 color photographscovering 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 toensure compliance with modern building standards.

“This has got to be the most practical and beautifully illustratedbook on earth building ever published!” —Keith Hall, editor, Building for a Future magazine

Pub Date: July 2008$35.00 US, $38.50 CAN • PB97819333926228 x 10 • 320 pages • Illustrations

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With the increasing awareness of eco-building techniques alongsidethe desire to make our homes healthier, the historical benefits ofusing natural renders and paints are being rediscovered. UsingNatural Finishes is an in-depth guide to the selection, mixing, andapplication of lime- and clay-based plasters, renders, paints, andwashes. Providing step-by-step instructions with detailed illustrationsto show the practical elements of working with lime- and clay-basedfinishes, 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 allaspects of using these natural finishes, with beautiful photographs oftechniques and examples from around the world.

“This book is essential reading, giving a full spectrum of invaluable adviceon how to adapt to the new conditions imposed by Nature.”—Colin J. Campbell, chairman of ASPO (Association for the Study of Peak Oil)


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GOING SOLARUnderstanding and Using the Warmth in Sunlight Tomm Stanley Illustrated by Tomm Stanley

$29.95 US • PB • 978047601082610 x 7 • 211 pages

Written in easy-to-understand languagefor everyday people and the scientificallychallenged, and peppered with a delightfulblend of humor, fact, and function, GoingSolar leads readers back to the purpose ofits making: understanding and effectivelyusing the warmth found in sunlight forour day-to-day lives.

THE PASSIVE SOLAR HOUSEThe Complete Guide to Heating and Cooling Your HomeJames Kachadorian

$40.00 US • HC • 97819333920358 x 10 • 240 pages

The building book for a world of climbing energy costs. Applicable todiverse regions, climates, budgets, andstyles of architecture, Kachadorian’s tech-niques translate the essentials of timelesssolar design into wisdom for today’s solarbuilders. Includes a CD-ROM with custom solar design software.

YOU CAN MAKE THE BEST HOT TUB EVER!Relax! Warm Your Bones! Get to Know the Sky! Becky Bee

$14.95 US • PB • 978096590821471/2 x 83/4 • 64 pages • B&W photos/illustrations

THE SUN-INSPIRED HOUSEHouse Designs Warmed and Brightened by the SunDebra Rucker Coleman

$29.95 US • PB • 978097673180181/2 x 11 • 256 pages

Fifty home plans adorned with numerousexamples, photos, and testimonials fromhomeowners complement this survey ofsun-inspired home design concepts.Packed with details on passive solar heat-ing, cooling, energy-efficient construc-tion, green building, and sustainability.

THE SOLAR ELECTRIC HOUSEEnergy for the EnvironmentallyResponsive, Energy-Independent HomeSteven J. Strong

$21.95 US • PB • 978096373832571/2 x 91/4 • 276 pages

A comprehensive guide for decidingwhether photovoltaics are right for youand your home. Covers a diverse rangeof factors, from economics and types of systems to calculating electricity requirements and design.

Unless you have an outdoor bath, thereis no way your imagination can see howabsolutely divine it is. Written in simplelanguage with lots of easy-to-followpictures and drawings, this book guidesyou through the steps of making a cobfirebox under a metal tub.

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A thorough review and guide to state-of-the-art passive solar heating and cooling,combining age-old truths with cutting-edge technology. Chiras highlightsimportant considerations in constructionand details how today’s homebuilderscan succeed with solar designs.

THE NEW ECOLOGICAL HOMEA Complete Guide to Green Building OptionsDaniel D. Chiras

$35.00 US • PB • 97819314981668 x 10 • 336 pages

THE BOOK OF MASONRY STOVESRediscovering an Old Way of WarmingDavid Lyle

$35.00 US • PB • 978189013209511 x 81/2 • 208 pages

The first comprehensive survey everpublished detailing all major types ofmasonry heating systems, ancient andmodern, with detailed plans and building information. As a completeintroduction to masonry stoves, it willhelp many people rediscover this ancientsustainable heating technique.

THE SAUNAA Complete Guide to the Construction,Use, and Benefits of the Finnish BathRob Roy

$30.00 US • PB • 97819314986307 x 10 • 240 pages

This completely revised and expandededition of The Sauna combines history,tradition, and health benefits withbeautiful color photographs anddetailed step-by-step instructions forbuilding and maintaining your ownFinnish bath.

A tour of the construction, costs, and prosand cons of fourteen natural buildingmethods. This comprehensive sourcebookoffers in-depth information that will guideyour search for the perfect sustainabledream home, a must for homebuilders,contractors, and architects.

A comprehensive analysis of greenbuilding techniques, materials, products, and technologies that eitherare currently available or will be in thenear future for home buyers, builders,and anyone interested in building for asustainable future.

THE NATURAL HOUSEA Complete Guide to Healthy, Energy-Efficient, Environmental HomesDaniel D. Chiras

$35.00 US • PB • 97818901325768 x 10 • 480 pages

THE SOLAR HOUSEPassive Heating and CoolingDaniel D. Chiras

$29.95 US • PB • 97819314981288 x 10 • 288 pages

NATURAL HOME HEATINGThe Complete Guide to RenewableEnergy OptionsGreg Pahl

$30.00 US • PB • 97819314982278 x 10 • 304 pages

A well-organized, easy-to-understandtour of all available renewable home-heating options, including wood, pellet,corn, and grain-fired stoves, fireplaces,furnaces, and boilers, as well as masonryheaters, active and passive solar systems,and heat pumps. Perfect for homeownerseverywhere considering more sustainableheating options.

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THE RAMMED EARTH HOUSERevised EditionDavid Easton


An eye-opening example of how the mostdramatic innovations in home design andconstruction frequently have their originsin the distant past. By rediscovering themost ancient of all building materials—earth—forward-thinking homebuilderscan create structures that set new standards for beauty, durability, and efficient use of natural resources.

THE COB BUILDERS HANDBOOKYou Can Hand-Sculpt Your Own HomeBecky Bee

$23.95 US • PB • 978096590820781/2 x 11 • 176 pages

A user-friendly guide to making yourown earth structure from cob (a mixtureof clay, sand and straw), with chapters ondesign, foundations, floors, windows anddoors, finishes, and, of course, makingglorious cob.

THE HAND-SCULPTED HOUSEA Philosophical and Practical Guideto Building a Cob CottageIanto Evans, Michael G. Smith, and Linda Smiley

$35.00 US • PB • 97818901323478 x 10 • 384 pages

The Hand-Sculpted House is a theoreticaland philosophical, but intensely practical,guide to the centuries-old building technique of cob architecture. Packed with the how-to information necessary toundertake your own building project.

MAKING BETTER CONCRETEGuidelines for Using Fly Ash forHigher Quality, Eco-Friendly StructuresBruce King

$20.00 US • PB • 97809764911018.5 x 11 • 58 pages

•STONE HOUSE: A Guide to Self-Building with Slipforms • Tomm Stanley $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

•FREEWHEELING HOMES • David Pearson • Color photos & B&W illustrations$16.95 US • 8 x 8 • HC • 96 pages • 9781931498036

•CIRCLE HOUSES: Yurts, Tipis, and Benders • David Pearson • Color photos & B&W illustrations • $16.95 US • 8 x 8 • HC • 96 pages • 9781890132866

•CERAMIC HOUSES AND EARTH ARCHITECTURE: How to Build Your Own • Nader KhaliliB&W photos • $26.95 US • 81/2 x 11 • PB • 233 pages • 9781889625010

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Why a book about concrete? Because weuse so much of it—far more than anyother building material. We can use thisubiquitous building material withoutundue damage to the life and landscapesthat surround us. Fly ash is an eco-friendlyalternative to using portland cement inconcrete, but until now there has been noeasy guide to how it makes superior concrete, or to how to use it.

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THE STRAW BALE HOUSE

Athena Swentzell Steen, Bill Steen, David Bainbridge, and David Eisenberg


A Chelsea Green best seller and pioneer-ing book on the subject, The Straw BaleHouse is a comprehensive guide to thewhy and how of building with straw.Authors Athena Swentzell Steen and BillSteen founded the Canelo Project, whichpromotes innovative building; DavidBainbridge is a California restorationecologist; and David Eisenberg is an alternative-materials builder who pioneered straw bale wall testing.

THE BEAUTY OF STRAW BALE HOMES

Athena Swentzell Steen and Bill Steen


DESIGN OF STRAW BALE BUILDINGSThe State of the ArtBruce King

$40.00 US • PB • 978097649111883/8 x 107/8 • 288 pages

BUILDING WITH STRAW BALESA Practical Guide for the UK and IrelandBarbara Jones

$18.95 US • PB • 978190399813771/2 x 91/4 • 125 pages

Designed for the UK, but useful for home-owners in the United States, this simpleguide provides an overview of straw baleconstruction and its environmental andeconomic benefits and addresses commonquestions and concerns.

SERIOUS STRAW BALEA Home Construction Guide for All ClimatesPaul Lacinski and Michel Bergeron

$30.00 US • PB • 97818901326448 x 10 • 384 pages

A second-generation straw bale bookthat delves into specific design consid-erations critical to success with strawbale building in more extreme climates, where seasonal changes intemperature, precipitation, and humidity create special stresses thatbuilders must understand and address.

The Beauty of Straw Bale Homescelebrates, in gorgeous color photo-graphs, the tactile, sensuous beauty ofstraw bale dwellings and how far thisarchitecture has developed in a veryshort period of time.

For the first time, a design manual forpracticing professionals, drawing on thecollective experience of the most seniorand respected figures in the rapidlyemerging field of straw bale construction.This book provides truly useful informa-tion to architects, engineers, buildingofficials, and builders who want to designintelligently with plastered straw bales.

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THE GREEN SELF-BUILD BOOKHow to Design and Build Your Own Eco-Home Jon Broome

$50.00 US • PB • 97819039987318 x 10 • 256 pages

Whether you want a turf roof, solar-powered 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 anoverview of the different methods of sustainable and eco-friendly constructiontechniques for homeowners.

THE SLATE ROOF BIBLE

Joseph Jenkins

$40.00 US • PB • 978096442581181/2 x 11 • 320 pages

This completely revised, greatlyexpanded and updated version of theaward-winning Slate Roof Bible coversslate roofing history, culture, and geology. Along with complete descriptions and sources of tools,equipment, and types and colors ofslate, Jenkins provides comprehensive, step-by-step instructions on everyaspect of slate roof installation, repair,restoration, and recycling.

DIARY OF AN ECO-BUILDER

Will Anderson

$30.00 US • PB • 978190399879357/8 x 81/4 • 256 pages

INDEPENDENT BUILDERDesigning & Building a House Your Own WaySam Clark

$40.00 US • PB • 978093003185571/2 x 10 • 528 pages

A pragmatic approach to general homeconstruction, combining the latesttechnologies with traditional, time-tested methods. This tome ischock-full of information on all aspects of construction and is an ideal companion for even the most seasoneddo-it-yourselfer.

A TIMBER FRAMER’S WORKSHOP Joinery, Design & Construction ofTraditional Timber Frames Steve K. Chappell

$30.00 US • PB • 978188926900981/2 x 11 • 271 pages

Required reading for any designer, home-owner, or contractor working with timberframe construction. This passionateguide, from a 30-year veteran and teacherof the craft, provides expert advice on allphases of construction and design.

THE WOODLAND HOUSE

Ben Law

$25.00 US • HC • 978185623031583/4 x 10 • 208 pages

Readers follow Will Anderson’s progressfrom finding a plot, getting planningpermission, and building himself a stunning contemporary eco-home,which mirrors the fine-tuned ecology ofa tree. Drawing on monthly columns hewrites for The Independent, Anderson has created a diary that will be invaluable toanyone contemplating building theirown eco-house.

Full of stunning color photographs, thisbook is a visual guide to how Ben Lawbuilt an amazing chestnut timber-framedhouse hewn from his own woodland. Itis a practical manual and the story ofone man realizing his lifelong dream tobuild one of the most sustainable andbeautiful homes in Britain.

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Pub Date: July 2008$18.00 US • PB • 97819333929676 x 9 • 296 pages Photographs, charts, graphs

For anyone who is trying to keep up with the extremely rapid developments in the biodiesel industry, thesecond edition of Biodiesel: Growing a New Energy Economy is an invaluable aid. The breathtaking speedwith which biodiesel has gained acceptance in the marketplace in the past few years has been exceeded onlyby the proliferation of biodiesel production facilities around the United States—and the world. However, ithas 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 shiftsin the fortunes of the industry that have taken place in some of these nations. The chapters that cover theindustry in the United States have also been substantially rewritten to keep abreast of the many new develop-ments and explosive domestic growth. An expanded section on small-scale, local biodiesel production hasbeen added to better represent this small but growing part of the industry. Another new section has beenadded to explore more fully the increasingly controversial issues in biodiesel production of deforestation andthe food-versus-fuel debate, as well as the use of GMO crops. The second edition concludes with updatedviews on where the industry is headed in the years to come from some of its key players.

“Finally, the book we’ve been looking for. Greg Pahl’s new biodiesel bookoffers a comprehensive review of all things veggie oil powered. From thehistory of the diesel engine to the development of the biodiesel industry,past, current, and future. This is the ultimate primer.”—Rob Elam, Propel Project

BIODIESELGrowing a New Energy EconomyGreg PahlForeword by Bill McKibben

The Citizen-Powered Energy Handbook is a clear-eyed view of the critical situation weface and offers a way out. Pahl examines energy technologies currently available andhomes in on renewable-energy strategies for individuals and communities.

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“This book is for pioneers in the great project of the new century. It willremain a touchstone informational resource for many years to come. Maywe all engage deliberately, proactively and enthusiastically in the energytransition, and learn to enjoy life without fossil fuels.” —Richard Heinberg, from the foreword

“As the world passes through Peak Oil and society begins to Powerdownand Relocalize, this handbook should be on the work-desk of anyoneplanning for a Post-Carbon world.” —Julian Darley, founder and director ofthe Post Carbon Institute, author of High Noon for Natural Gas

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$21.95 US • PB • 97819333921276 x 9 • 376 pages

THE CITIZEN-POWEREDENERGY HANDBOOKCommunity Solutions to a Global CrisisGreg Pahl


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WIND POWERRenewable Energy for Home, Farm, and BusinessPaul Gipe

$50.00 US • PB • 9781931498142Full color • 25 B&W charts8 x 10 • 512 pages

Wind energy today is a booming world-wide industry. The technology has trulycome of age, with better, more reliablemachinery and a greater understandingof how and where wind power makessense—from the independent home-stead to a grid-connected utility-wideperspective. Heightened concerns aboutour environment mean that this resur-gence of interest in wind—a natural andabundant power source—is here to stay.

INDEPENDENT ENERGY GUIDEElectrical Power for Home, Boat, & RV Kevin Jeffrey

$19.95 US • PB • 97809644112037 x 9 • 288 pages

This comprehensive guide will aid inyour planning the ideal independentpower system for your boat, home, orRV. You’ll understand how a systemworks, be able to talk intelligently withequipment suppliers about your needs,and have the necessary tools to makeand manage your own electricity.

PRACTICAL PHOTOVOLTAICSElectricity from Solar CellsRichard J. Komp

$18.95 US • PB • 97809379481186 x 9 • 216 pages

The now-classic reference on solarelectricity offers a unique combinationof technical discussion and practicaladvice. Explains the “how” and the“how-to” of PV, while providing valuable information on the industry,new developments, and the future.

WIND ENERGY BASICSA Guide to Small and Micro Wind Systems Paul Gipe

$25.00 US • PB • 97818901320718 x 10 • 136 pages

An invaluable source of informationcovering everything consumers need toknow when considering a small windturbine for their residence. Includes theunique “standard small wind turbinerating” developed by the author, whichis designed to help readers wade throughconflicting performance claims by manufacturers in the U.S. and overseas.

HIGH NOON FOR NATURAL GASThe New Energy CrisisJulian Darley

$30.00 US • HC • 9781931498678$18.00 US • PB • 97819314985316 x 9 • 280 pages

WHO OWNS THE SUN?People, Politics, and the Struggle for a Solar EconomyDaniel M. Berman and John T. O’Connor

$17.95 US • PB • 97818901320886 x 9 • 356 pages

In this timely exposé, readers can expectto find a critical analysis of governmentpolicy on energy, as well as a meticulouslyresearched warning about our next potentially catastrophic energy crisis.

America’s most powerful corporations,utilities, and environmental organizationsare in league with government to protecta dirty little secret: solar power is a betterway of meeting this nation’s future electrical needs. But even though wealready have the technology to turn sunlight into clean, reliable power, theywant to keep us in the dark.

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$40.00 US • HC • 9781933392639$24.95 US • PB • 97819333926466 x 9 • 544 pages • Photo insert

A CIA-connected labor union, an assassination attempt, a mysterious car crash, listening devices, andstolen documents—everything you’d expect from the latest thriller. Yet these were part and parcel of thelife of Tony Mazzocchi, the Rachel Carson of the U.S. workplace—a dynamic labor leader whose legacylives 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, Leopolddelivers a vivid picture of Mazzocchi as a practical visionary whose mile-stones include passage of 1970’s Occupational Safety and Health Act . . . [A book] of practical lessons as well as an excellent introduction toAmerican left and labor history.” —Publisher’s Weekly (starred review)

THE MAN WHO HATED WORK AND LOVED LABORThe Life and Times of Tony MazzocchiLes Leopold

“Les Leopold has vividly brought to life an extraordinary man—an incorrupt-ible fighter for the rights of labor—an historic figure who should never be for-gotten . . . This is an important work in the annals of labor history.”—Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian

GETTING A GRIPClarity, Creativity, and Courage in a World Gone MadFrances Moore Lappé

$14.95 US • PB • 978097941424453/8 x 8 • 144 pages

Frances Moore Lappé—author of fifteen books, includingthree-million-copy best seller Diet for a Small Planet—flouts conventional right-versus-left divisions and affirmsreaders’ basic sanity—their intuitive knowledge that it ispossible to grasp the real roots of today’s crises, fromhunger and poverty to climate change and terrorism.

$16.95 US • PB • 97819333927146 x 9 • 224 pages

The rate of clinical depression in the United States hasincreased more than tenfold in the last 50 years. Is this epidemicbeing properly addressed by the insurance, pharmaceutical, andgovernmental powers that be, or is it being exacerbated by afailing medical system focused on instant results and high profit margins? Dr. Bruce Levine argues the latter and providesa compelling alternative approach to treating depression.

SURVIVING AMERICA’S DEPRESSION EPIDEMICHow to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy Bruce E. Levine, PhD

“There is a small number of people in everygeneration who are forerunners, in thought, action,spirit, who swerve past the barriers of greed andpower to hold a torch for the rest of us. FrancesMoore Lappé is one of those.”—Howard Zinn

“A thoughtful, compassionate and refreshingly humblelook at what we call depression.”—Robert Whitaker, winner of the George Polk Awardfor Medical Writing and author of Mad in America

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Crashing the GateNetroots, Grassroots, and the Rise ofPeople-Powered PoliticsJerome Armstrong and Markos Moulitsas Foreword by Simon Rosenberg

$25.00 US • HC • 9781931498999$12.95 US • PB • 978193339241751/2 x 81/4 • 216 pages

Crashing the Gate is an incisive andprovocative book from two writers onthe front lines, engaged in the battle totake back politics from entitled,entrenched interests. A must-read foranyone with an interest in the future ofAmerican democracy.

Ready, Set, Talk! A Guide to Getting Your MessageHeard by Millions on Talk Radio, TalkTelevision, and Talk Internet Ellen Ratner and Kathie Scarrah

$20.00 US • PB • 97819333922196 x 9 • 240 pages

America, Fascism, and GodSermons from a Heretical PreacherDavidson Loehr

$12.00 US • PB • 978193149893753/8 x 83/8 • 200 pages

“This extraordinary book by one ofAmerica’s most thoughtful religious leadersreviews religion’s special mission inAmerican history and heralds the return ofreligion to its natural place in the moralhigh ground of our national politics.” —Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

DON’T THINK OF AN ELEPHANT!Know Your Values and Frame the Debate George LakoffForeword by Howard Dean Introduction by Don Hazen

$10.00 US • PB • 978193149871553/8 x 83/8 • 144 pages

In 2006 the Democratic Party took back control of Congress by articulating the issues atstake and framing the national debate. With the 2008 presidential campaign accelerated andunderway, now is the time to brush up on how conservatives think and how to counter theirarguments. Lakoff outlines in detail the traditional American values that progressives holdbut are often unable to articulate and provides examples of how they can reframe the debateto their advantage.

Ready, Set, Talk! will help anyone—fromthe novice activist to the sophisticatedpublic relations professional—develop atalk media message, prepare a campaign,and roll it out. The authors demystifythe process of identifying and analyzingpotential media opportunities and showreaders how to develop media events formaximum attention.

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The 2008 Elections!

A National Best Seller!Over 300,000copies in print.

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$13.95 US • PB • 978193339279053/8 x 83/8 • 192 pages

In a stunning indictment of the Bush administration and Congress, best-selling author Naomi Wolf laysout her case for saving American democracy. With authoritative research and documentation, The End ofAmerica 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 toarms, Wolf compels us to face the way our American freedoms are under assault. She warns us—with thestraight-to-fellow-citizens urgency of one of Thomas Paine’s revolutionary pamphlets—that we have littletime 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 wouldhave counted on us to do in a time such as this, as rebels and patriots, to save our liberty anddefend our nation.

“Most Valuable Political Book [of 2007].”—John Nichols in The Nation’s “The Online Beat” blog

THE END OF AMERICALetter of Warning to a Young PatriotNaomi Wolf NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER!

“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

$24.95 US • HC • 9781603580106$14.95 US • PB • 97819333929296 x 9 • 240 pages

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 notlost but channeled into successful candidacies by America’s leaders of tomorrow—an infusion of newleadership that is sorely needed to address the major problems of our time.

PEARLS, POLITICS & POWERHow Women Can Win and LeadMadeleine M. Kunin

“A natural storyteller, Kunin combines her personal journey in politics with the stories ofdozens of female politicians. Writing with wisdom, intelligence, and warmth, she provides aguide for women at all levels who might seek to enter public life. The timing of this excellentbook 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 rarelycame together. Now she teaches us from her experience, and helps us imagine the nextleap into the future.” —Gloria Steinem, feminist and founder of Ms. magazine

“Pearls, Politics & Power: How Women Can Win and Lead incisively analyzes the challengeswomen face in their bids for elected office. Drawing on her extensive political experience asone of our nation’s finest governors, Madeleine Kunin offers clear and practical advice onhow women can pursue careers in politics. This book is a must for any woman interested inbecoming one of tomorrow’s leaders.” —President Bill Clinton

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MISSION REJECTED U.S. Soldiers Who Say No to IraqPeter Laufer Foreword by Norman Solomon

$14.00 US • PB • 978193339204253/8 x 83/8 • 240 pages

UNEMBEDDED Four Independent Photojournalists onthe War in IraqGhaith Abdul-Ahad, Kael Alford, Thorne Anderson, Rita Leistner

$50.00 US • HC • 9781931498951$29.95 US • PB • 978193149898210 x 10 • 176 pages • Full color

“Much of what is shown in Unembeddedwill probably disturb many Americanswho have generally watched a sanitizedversion of the war and occupationunfold on their TV screens. Unembeddedcaptures the whole range of Iraqi lifeunder U.S. occupation from joyful wedding scenes to the carnage of civiliancasualties. It’s a stunning book.”—Peter Bergen, author of Holy War, Inc.:Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden

GUANTÁNAMOWhat the World Should Know Including “A President Beyond the Law”by Anthony LewisMichael Ratner and Ellen Ray

$15.00 US • PB • 978193149864753/8 x 83/8 • 184 pages

A must-read for anyone concerned withthe rule of law, liberty, democracy, andthe right to dissent, Guantánamo is themost authoritative documentation onPresident Bush’s moves toward a networkof detention centers that flout U.S. andinternational law.

SINCE SLICED BREADCommon Sense Ideas from America’sWorking Families Edited by Don Stillman


The Service Employees InternationalUnion, known as the most aggressivevoice for working Americans, went toregular people from coast to coast and allwalks of life to find out what’s wrongand what can be right in our economyand politics. The result is this collectionof smart, concise, and achievable ideasfor solving the big problems that facesociety at home and around the world.

REHEARSING WITH GODSPhotographs and Essays on the Bread& Puppet Theater Ronald T. Simon and Marc Estrin

$35.00 US • HC • 978193149819710 x 10 • 256 pages

A photographic and literary tribute tothe majesty of New York’s Bread andPuppet Theater. Estrin draws on hisdecades of experience with the theater tocompose dramatic essays on eightthemes: Death, Fiend, Beast, Human,World, Gift, Bread, and Hope.

THE VERMONT PAPERSRecreating Democracy on a Human ScaleFrank Bryan and John McClaughry


A shattering journey of revelation, pain,and betrayal, Mission Rejected takes thereader deep into the turmoil of U.S.troops confronting the Iraq War.Journalist Peter Laufer tells the stories ofsoldiers who are transformed from trainedwarriors to activists in the struggle to endthe Iraq War. Mission Rejected probes theuniversal issue of resistance to war by thevery men who chose to defend the nation.

With its tradition of strong, local towngovernment buttressed by the growth ofinformation technology, Vermont is readyto make a breakthrough toward a post-modern, human-scale democracy. Andthe authors argue that Vermont can showthe rest of the nation how to govern itselfdemocratically in the next century.


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Journey for the Planet: A Kid’s Five WeekAdventure to Create an Earth-friendly Lifeis a fun, engaging workbook for every childwho wants to make a difference for theworld. Drawing on his successful EcoTeamworkbook, which sold over 250,000 copiesthrough a unique grassroots distributionmodel, environmental-change pioneerDavid Gershon guides children through aseries of action steps that can impact bothclimate and the environment as a whole.

JOURNEY FOR THE PLANETA Kid’s Five Week Adventure toCreate an Earth-friendly LifeDavid Gershon

$12.95 US • PB • 97809644373028 x 11 • 72 pagesEMPOWERMENT PRESS This is the inspiring true story of how

one woman succeeded in forcing a hugecorporation to change its plans, adoptmore environmental safeguards, and agreeto protect her precious bays. Fromacclaimed graphic artist Molly Bang,Diane Wilson’s story comes to life instriking pictures.

NOBODY PARTICULAROne Woman’s Fight to Save the BaysMolly Bang

$10.00 US • PB • 97819314989449 x 11 • 48 pages

Bayberry & Beau is an original taleinspired by a real horse and cat whomysteriously became inseparable friends.

BAYBERRY & BEAU

Nita ChoukasIllustrated by Gillian Tyler

$15.95 US • HC • 97819333923567 x 9 • 112 pages

•COMPOST, BY GOSH! • Michelle Eva Portman$16.95 US • 61/2 x 83/4 • HC 42 pages • 9780942256161

•THE BEST OF MAKING THINGS:A Hand Book of Creative DiscoveryAnn Sayre Wiseman • $8.95 US • 6 x 9 PB • 168 pages • 9780967984612

•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 HOUSETomm Stanley • Illustrated by Paul Richardson and Tomm Stanley$11.95 US • 81/4 x 11 PB • 32 pages 9780473116118

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Elizabeth Angier thought her summeron the family farm would be full ofwork, play, and fun; however, she didn’tanticipate Harmony Farms Corporationmoving to her town. Even more shocking, Gaia, the living spirit of Earth,calls out to Elizabeth to help humanitylive in harmony with the planet.

GAIA GIRLSEnter the EarthLee Welles Illustrated by Ann Hameister

$12.95 US • PB • 978193360901051/2 x 81/4 • 336 pages • 38 drawings

GAIA GIRLSWay of WaterLee Welles Illustrated by Carol Coogan

$12.95 US • PB • 978193360903451/2 x 81/4 • 336 pages • 25 illustrations

More adventure in the second book ofthe series with the story of Miho’s love of the sea and all its creatures and her unexpected move to Japan, where shemeets an old man who becomes her sensei. Soon, she befriends Gaia andgains amazing powers to connect withthe “minds in the water.”

“My class thoroughly enjoyed Bayberry& Beau. I will always remember thedelight in my students’ eyes and theaffection on their faces as Bayberry andBeau became a part of their lives.”—Betsy Draper, first-grade teacher

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ZERI Fables are beautifully illustrated, bilingual Spanish/English children’s books that use Gunter Pauli’s ZERI Educationmodel to teach children science. Each one includes a teacher’s and parent’s guide, with hands-on activities that help childrenapply 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.

Illustrated by Pamela Salazar$9.95 US • PB • 61/2 x 93/8

ZERI FABLES • Gunter Pauli

5 KINGDOMS OF NATURE, THE: Los 5 Reinos de la Naturaleza • 9789588233833 New Release

ANIMAL MEDICINE: Medicina Animal • 9789588233802 New Release

ANT FARMER, THE: La Hormiga Agricultora • 9789586928472

BEAR AND THE FOX, THE: El Oso y el Zorro • 9789586928403

CAN APPLES FLY?: ¿Manzanas Voladoras? • 9789586928540

COLD FEET: Pies Frios • 9789586928618

COLOMBIAN MUSHROOMS: Champiñones Colombianos • 9789586928274

DESERT WITCH, THE: La Bruja del Desierto • 9789586928441 New Release

DON’T EAT ME ALIVE!: ¡No Me Comas Vivo! • 9789588233741 New Release

DON’T LEAVE ME ALONE!: ¡No Me Dejes Solo! • 9789588233796 New Release

FOREST DRINKING WATER: Agua Potable del Bosque • 9789586927789

GOING AGAINST THE CURRENT: Contra la Corriente • 9789588233727 New Release

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GREEN HAIR AND FOUR EYES: Cuatro Ojos, Pelo Verde • 9789588233819 New Release

GROW A HOUSE: Cultiva una Casa • 9789586927734

HIPPO BEAUTY PARLOR, THE: Salon de Belleza para Hipopotamos • 9789588233765 New Release

HOW TO TAKE IT APART: Como Desbaratarlo • 9789588233697 New Release

KING OF HEARTS, THE: El Rey de Corazones • 9789586927703

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NOSES AND EARS TO SEE: Narices y Oidos Que Ven • 9789588233789 New Release

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PLEASE PLAY WITH ME!: ¡Por Favor Juega Conmigo! • 9789588233857 New Release

RED RICE: Arroces Rojos • 9789586928311

SCRATCH MY BACK!: ¡Rasca Mi Espalda! • 9789588233703 New Release

SHIITAKE LOVE CAFFEINE: Los Shiitake Aman la Caffeina • 9789586928335

SMART MUSHROOM, THE: El Hongo Sabiondo • 9789586927710

STRONGEST TREE, THE: El Árbol Más Fuerte • 9789586928380

TREE CANDY: Dulce de Árbol • 9789586928366

WALKING ON WATER: Caminando sobre el Agua • 9789586927819

WHERE IS HOME?: ¿Donde Esta Mi Casa? • 9789588233840 New Release

WHO IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL?: ¿Quien Es el Mas Bello? • 9789588233734 New Release

WHY CAN’T I STEAL LESS?: ¿Por Qué No Puedo Robar Menos? • 9789586927680

WHY DON’T THEY LIKE ME?: ¿Por Qué No Me Quieren? • 9789586928281

ZEBRA AIRCON, THE: El Ventilador de las Cebras • 9789588233772 New Release


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EARTH PONDS$29.95 US • DVD • 48 min. 9781933392844

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SACRIFICIAL LAMBS$19.95 US • DVD • 67 min. 9781603580090

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indexAMERICA, FASCISM, AND GOD • pb 12.00 9781931498937 64AMERICAN FARMSTEAD CHEESE • hc 40.00 9781931498777 44ANIMATE EARTH • pb 25.00 9781933392295 28APPLE GROWER, THE, 2ND EDITION • pb 40.00 9781931498913 37ATLAS OF AMERICAN ARTISAN CHEESE, THE • pb 35.00 9781933392349 44

BACKTRACKING • pb 25.00 9781933392547 18BACKYARD BERRY BOOK, THE • pb 16.95 9780963452061 37BACKYARD ORCHARDIST, THE • pb 15.95 9780963452030 37BASICS OF PERMACULTURE DESIGN, THE • pb 25.00 9781856230230 36BAYBERRY & BEAU • hc 15.95 9781933392356 67BEAUTY OF CRAFT, THE • hc 40.00 9781903998427 54BEAUTY OF STRAW BALE HOMES, THE • pb 24.95 9781890132774 59BEE’S-EYE VIEW OF AND INQUIRY INTO THE

NATURE OF SLOW MONEY, A • hc 35.00 9781603580069 20BELIEVING CASSANDRA • pb 16.95 9781890132163 18BELIEVING CASSANDRA • cd 12.95 9781890132705 18BEST OF BLOODROOT, THE • pb 44

VOLUME ONE: VEGETARIAN RECIPES 27.50 9780977854905VOLUME TWO: VEGAN RECIPES 27.50 9780977854912

BEST OF MAKING THINGS, THE • pb 8.95 9780967984612 67BIG TREE AT GEORGE AND

CHARLOTTE’S HOUSE, THE • pb 11.95 9780473116118 67BIODIESEL • pb 18.00 9781933392967 61BIONEERS, THE • pb 25.00 9781890132767 18BOOK OF MASONRY STOVES, THE • pb 35.00 9781890132095 57BREAD BUILDERS, THE • pb 35.00 9781890132057 47BREED YOUR OWN VEGETABLE VARIETIES • pb 27.95 9781890132729 40BUILD YOUR OWN EARTH OVEN • pb 17.95 9780967984674 47BUILDING WITH COB • pb 45.00 9781903998724 55BUILDING WITH STRAW BALES • pb 18.95 9781903998137 59BUSINESS AS UNUSUAL • pb 12.95 9780954395957 24

CAFECITO STORY, A, BILINGUAL EDITION • pb 10.00 9781931498067 14CAFECITO STORY, A, ENGLISH EDITION • pb 10.00 9781931498548 14CAFECITO STORY, A, ENGLISH EDITION • hc 14.95 9781931498005 14CARBON-FREE HOME, THE • pb 35.00 9781933392622 55CASTAWAYS • pb 25.00 9781933392202 18CERAMIC HOUSES AND EARTH ARCHITECTURE • pb 26.95 9781889625010 58CHALLENGE TO POWER, THE • pb 22.50 9781931498975 24CHALLENGE TO POWER, THE • hc 40.00 9781931498968 24CHELSEA GREEN GUIDES, THE • pb 12

BIKING TO WORK 7.95 9781933392981COMPOSTING 7.95 9781933392745ENERGY 7.95 9781933392721GREENING YOUR OFFICE 7.95 9781933392998REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE 7.95 9781933392752WATER 7.95 9781933392738

CHOCOLATE, TRUFFLES & OTHER TREASURES OF ITALY’S PIEDMONT CUISINE • PB 45.00 9788878891739 46

CIRCLE HOUSES • hc 16.95 9781890132866 58CITIZEN-POWERED ENERGY HANDBOOK, THE • pb 21.95 9781933392127 61CLIMATE SOLUTIONS • pb 9.95 9781603580052 13COB BUILDERS HANDBOOK, THE • pb 23.95 9780965908207 58COMING TO LAND • pb 16.95 9780967280691 16COMMON SENSE FORESTRY • pb 34.95 9781931498210 42COMPANIES WE KEEP • pb 17.95 9781603580007 23COMPLETE YURT HANDBOOK, THE • pb 25.00 9781899233083 58COMPOST, BY GOSH! • hc 16.95 9780942256161 67CONSERVATION FINANCE HANDBOOK, THE • pb 21.95 9780967280646 16CONTRARY FARMER, THE • pb 19.95 9780930031749 42COTTAGE ECONOMY • pb 25.00 9781933392257 53CRASHING THE GATE • pb 12.95 9781933392417 64CRASHING THE GATE • hc 25.00 9781931498999 64CULTURE OF MAKE BELIEVE, THE • pb 25.00 9781931498579 15

DAZZLE GRADUALLY • pb 25.00 9781933392318 28DESIGN OF STRAW BALE BUILDINGS • pb 40.00 9780976491118 59DESIGN OUTLAWS • pb 21.95 9780965030625 14DESIGNING AND . . . NATURALLY • pb 49.95 9781856230261 34DIARY OF AN ECO-BUILDER • pb 30.00 9781903998793 60

DIG YOUR HANDS IN THE DIRT • pb 12.95 9780967984667 67DON’T THINK OF AN ELEPHANT! • pb 10.00 9781931498715 64DON’T THINK OF AN ELEPHANT! • pb &

HOW DEMOCRATS . . . CAN WIN • dvd 22.50 9781931498821 64

EARTH CARE MANUAL, THE • hc 75.00 9781856230216 36EARTH PONDS • dvd 29.95 9781933392844 69EARTH SONGS • pb 16.95 9781903998175 14ECOLOGICAL AQUACULTURE • hc 45.00 9781856230322 36ECOLOGICAL DESIGN • dvd 35.00 9780965030687 69ECOLOGICAL DESIGN • vhs 34.95 9780965030694 69ECOVILLAGE LIVING • pb 24.95 9781903998168 14EDENS LOST & FOUND • hc 40.00 9781931498890 17EDENS LOST & FOUND • pb 25.00 9781933392264 17EDIBLE FOREST GARDENS: VOLUME I • hc 75.00 9781931498791 35EDIBLE FOREST GARDENS: VOLUME II • hc 75.00 9781931498807 35EDIBLE FOREST GARDENS: VOLUMES I & II • hc 150.00 9781890132606 35EMPOWERMENT • pb 17.95 9780967237404 50END OF AMERICA, THE • pb 13.95 9781933392790 65ETHICAL MARKETS • pb 30.00 9781933392233 25EVERYTHING I WANT TO DO IS ILLEGAL • pb 23.95 9780963810953 38EXPOSED • pb 16.95 9781603580588 06EXPOSED • hc 22.95 9781933392158 06

FAMILY FRIENDLY FARMING • pb 35.00 9780963810939 38FARM FRIENDS • pb 19.95 9781603580038 52FARMER AND THE GRILL, THE • pb 21.95 9780979439100 44FAST LANE ON A DIRT ROAD • pb 25.00 9781890132743 54FED UP! • dvd 15.00 9781931498838 69FIELD DAYS • pb 14.95 9781890132255 14FINDING THE SWEET SPOT • pb 17.95 9781933392905 21FLOWER FARMER, THE • pb 35.00 9781933392653 32FOOD NOT LAWNS • pb 25.00 9781933392073 32FOREST GARDENING • pb 25.00 9780930031848 35FOUR-SEASON HARVEST • pb 24.95 9781890132279 39FREEWHEELING HOMES • hc 16.95 9781931498036 58FRESH FOOD FROM SMALL SPACES • pb 24.95 9781603580281 29FULL MOON FEAST • pb 25.00 9781933392004 45FUTURE FASHION WHITE PAPERS • pb 23.00 9780967509921 48

GAIA GIRLS: ENTER THE EARTH • pb 12.95 9781933609010 67GAIA GIRLS: WAY OF WATER • pb 12.95 9781933609034 67GAIA’S GARDEN • pb 24.95 9781890132521 36GAIA’S KITCHEN • pb 25.95 9781900322256 43GAIAN DEMOCRACIES • pb 14.95 9781903998281 14GARDEN SEED INVENTORY, 6TH EDITION • pb 26.00 9781882424603 40GAVIOTAS • pb 16.95 9781603580564 07GENETIC ROULETTE • hc 27.95 9780972966528 48GETTING A GRIP • pb with flaps 14.95 9780979414244 63GETTING STARTED IN PERMACULTURE • pb 14.95 9781856230353 36GMO TRILOGY, . . . DECEPTION • dvd, cd, pb 27.95 9780972966535 48GOING SOLAR • pb 29.95 9780476010826 56GOOD SPIRITS • pb 14.95 9781890132668 42GOOD WOODCUTTER’S GUIDE, THE • pb 25.00 9781890132156 42GORT CLOUD, THE • hc 24.95 9781603580618 19GRAPE GROWER, THE • pb 35.00 9781890132828 37GRASSROOTS MARKETING • pb 22.95 9781890132682 24GREAT REMEMBERING, THE • pb 14.95 9780967280615 16GREEN LIVING HANDBOOK • pb 14.95 9780963032744 10GREEN SELF-BUILD BOOK, THE • pb 50.00 9781903998731 60GROUNDSWELL • pb 20.00 9781932807042 16GROWING GREAT GARLIC • pb 16.95 9780963085016 41GROWING GREEN • pb 35.00 9781933392493 39GROWING UNUSUAL VEGETABLES • pb 31.95 9781899233113 36GUANTÁNAMO • pb 15.00 9781931498647 66

HANDMADE LIFE, A • pb 25.00 9781933392479 53HAND-SCULPTED HOUSE, THE • pb 35.00 9781890132347 58HAPPINESS TRIP, THE • pb 12.95 9781933392448 28HEALING LYME • pb 19.95 9780970869630 17HEPBURN PERMACULTURE GARDENS • pb 39.00 9780646269900 35

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SEEDS OF DECEPTION • pb 34.95 9780972966504 48HIDDEN DANGERS IN KIDS’ MEALS • vhs &

SEEDS OF DECEPTION • pb 34.95 9780972966511 48HIGH NOON FOR NATURAL GAS • pb 18.00 9781931498531 62HIGH NOON FOR NATURAL GAS • hc 30.00 9781931498678 62HOLY COWS & HOG HEAVEN • pb 17.95 9780963810946 38HOLY ROLLER • hc 24.95 9781933392820 02HOW DEMOCRATS . . . CAN WIN • dvd 15.00 9781931498876 64HOW THE RICH ARE DESTROYING THE EARTH • pb 12.95 9781603580359 05HOW TO MAKE A FOREST GARDEN • pb 29.95 9781856230087 35HOW TO STORE YOUR GARDEN PRODUCE • pb 14.95 9781900322171 33HUMANURE HANDBOOK, THE, 3RD EDITION • pb 25.00 9780964425835 40

IN A PIG’S EYE • pb 9.95 9780930031008 54INDEPENDENT BUILDER • pb 40.00 9780930031855 60INDEPENDENT ENERGY GUIDE • pb 19.95 9780964411203 62ITALIAN CHEESE, 2ND EDITION • pb 25.00 9788884991119 44

JAVATREKKER • pb 19.95 9781933392707 25JOURNEY FOR THE PLANET • pb 12.95 9780964437302 10JOURNEY OF THE PINK DOLPHINS • pb 19.95 9781603580601 09JUDEVINE • pb 17.95 9781890132224 54

LANDSCAPING EARTH PONDS • pb 30.00 9781933392028 42LANGUAGE OLDER THAN WORDS, A • pb 20.00 9781931498555 15LIMITS TO GROWTH • pb 22.50 9781931498586 26LIMITS TO GROWTH • cd 20.00 9781931498852 26LIMITS TO GROWTH • pb & cd 42.50 9781931498869 26LISTENING TO THE LAND • pb 20.00 9781931498562 15LIVING AT NATURE’S PACE • pb 25.00 9781890132569 42LOCAL FOODS WHEEL, THE • rotating dial 45

SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA 12.95 9781603580663SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA • 10-copy 129.95 9781603580670NEW YORK CITY AREA 12.95 9781603580687NEW YORK CITY AREA • 10-copy 129.95 9781603580694

LOST LANGUAGE OF PLANTS, THE • pb 19.95 9781890132880 41LOST TAPES OF IAN MCHARG, THE • cd 30.00 9781933392301 28LOVING AND LEAVING THE GOOD LIFE • pb 25.00 9780930031633 52LOW CARBON DIET • pb 12.95 9780963032720 10LOW-IMPACT FORESTRY • pb 20.00 9780971996205 42LUMINOUS FISH • pb 21.95 9781933392332 28

MAD SHEEP • pb 17.95 9781933392769 37MAD SHEEP • hc 25.00 9781933392097 37MAKING BETTER CONCRETE • pb 20.00 9780976491101 58MAKING OF A RADICAL, THE • pb 25.00 9781890132590 52MAN WHO HATED WORK

AND LOVED LABOR, THE • pb 24.95 9781933392646 63MAN WHO HATED WORK

AND LOVED LABOR, THE • hc 40.00 9781933392639 63MAN WHO PLANTED TREES, THE • pb 10.00 9781933392813 14MAN WHO PLANTED TREES, THE • hc 17.50 9781931498722 14MAN WHO PLANTED TREES, THE • cd 16.00 9780930031763 14MAN WHO PLANTED TREES, THE • cd & hc 25.00 9781931498814 14MAN WHO PLANTED TREES, THE • vhs 49.95 7598395229 69MAPLE SUGAR BOOK, THE • pb 25.00 9781890132637 52MID-COURSE CORRECTION • pb 19.95 9780964595354 24MIND, LIFE, AND UNIVERSE • pb 21.95 9781933392431 28MIND, LIFE, AND UNIVERSE • hc 35.00 9781933392615 28MISSION REJECTED • pb 14.00 9781933392042 66MONEY • pb 19.95 9781890132378 24MORTGAGE FREE!, REVISED EDITION • pb 24.95 9781603580656 22

NATURAL BEEKEEPING • pb 35.00 9781933392080 37NATURAL HOME HEATING • pb 30.00 9781931498227 57NATURAL HOUSE, THE • pb 35.00 9781890132576 57NEW ECOLOGICAL HOME, THE • pb 35.00 9781931498166 57

NEW ORGANIC GROWER, THE • pb 24.95 9780930031756 39NOBODY PARTICULAR • pb 10.00 9781931498944 67NORTHERN FOREST, THE • pb 19.95 9780930031817 18NOT IN HIS IMAGE • pb 21.95 9781931498920 54NOT ONE DROP • pb 21.95 9781933392585 04NOTES FROM THE HOLOCENE • pb 14.95 9781933392325 28

OPEN SPACES SACRED PLACES • pb 30.00 9780981565606 49ORGANIC FUTURES • pb 22.50 9781903998694 42ORGANIC GARDENERS HANDBOOK, THE • pb 24.95 9780977348916 33ORGANIC GARDENING • pb 22.00 9781903998915 39ORGANIC PLACES TO STAY IN THE UK • pb 22.00 9781900322195 43OTHER SIDE OF DARKNESS, THE • cd 25.00 9781931498593 15OUR LAND, OURSELVES • pb 16.95 9780967280608 16OUT OF THE BOX • pb 30.00 9781920019402 24

PASSIVE SOLAR HOUSE, THE, 2ND EDITION • hc 40.00 9781933392035 56PASTURED POULTRY PROFIT$ • pb 35.00 9780963810908 38PEARLS, POLITICS & POWER • pb 14.95 9781933392929 65PEARLS, POLITICS & POWER • hc 24.95 9781603580106 65PERENNIAL VEGETABLES • pb 35.00 9781931498401 32PERMACULTURE • pb 30.00 9780646418445 35PERMACULTURE GARDEN, THE • pb 25.00 9781856230278 34PERMACULTURE PLANTS • pb 29.95 9781856230292 35PERMACULTURE WAY, THE • pb 29.95 9781856230285 34PINHOOK • pb 12.00 9781931498746 17PRACTICAL PHOTOVOLTAICS • pb 18.95 9780937948118 62PRESERVING FOOD WITHOUT

FREEZING OR CANNING • pb 25.00 9781933392592 47

QUEST FOR THE ZODIAC • pb 29.95 9781933392936 54

RAINWATER . . . DRYLANDS, VOL. 1 • pb 24.95 9780977246403 32RAINWATER . . . DRYLANDS, VOL. 2 • pb 32.95 9780977246410 32RAMMED EARTH HOUSE, THE • pb 40.00 9781933392370 58RAMMED EARTH RENAISSANCE, THE • vhs 39.95 9780965233507 69READY, SET, TALK! • pb 20.00 9781933392219 64REHEARSING WITH GODS • hc 35.00 9781931498197 66RENEWING AMERICA’S FOOD TRADITIONS • pb 35.00 9781933392899 31RETURNING TO MY MOTHER’S HOUSE • cloth 21.95 9780963032751 51REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE MICROWAVED, THE • pb 20.00 9781933392110 47RHYTHM OF COMPASSION, THE • pb 14.95 9780963032737 50RIVER’S VOICE, THE • pb 16.95 9781890132699 14ROOTS DEMYSTIFIED • pb 25.00 9780961584832 34ROUND-TRIP TO DEADSVILLE • pb 14.95 9781890132910 54RUMI: DANCING THE FLAME • pb 16.95 9781889625041 54RUMI: FOUNTAIN OF FIRE • pb 12.95 9781889625034 54

SACRIFICIAL LAMBS • dvd 19.95 9781603580090 69SAFARI COMPANION, THE • pb 30.00 9781890132446 18SALAD BAR BEEF • pb 35.00 9780963810915 38SALAD LEAVES FOR ALL SEASONS • pb 22.00 9781900322201 33SAUNA, THE, 2ND EDITION • pb 30.00 9781931498630 57SEED TO SEED, 2ND EDITION • pb 24.95 9781882424580 40SEEDS OF DECEPTION • pb 17.95 9780972966580 48SEEDS OF DECEPTION • hc 27.95 9780972966573 48SEEING NATURE • pb 15.95 9781890132422 18SERIOUS STRAW BALE • pb 30.00 9781890132644 59SHADOW AND A SONG, A • pb 25.00 9781933392561 18SHARING THE HARVEST, REVISED & EXPANDED • pb 35.00 9781933392103 30SIMPLE FOOD FOR THE GOOD LIFE • pb 25.00 9781890132293 52SINCE SLICED BREAD • pb 12.95 9781933392608 66SIPPEWISSETT • pb 16.95 9781933392783 14SIPPEWISSETT • hc 22.50 9781933392141 14SLATE ROOF BIBLE, THE, 2ND EDITION • pb 40.00 9780964425811 60SLOW FOOD • pb 24.95 9781931498012 46SLOW FOOD GUIDE TO CHICAGO, THE • pb 20.00 9781931498616 46SLOW FOOD GUIDE TO NYC, THE • pb 20.00 9781931498272 46SLOW FOOD GUIDE TO SAN FRANCISCO, THE • pb 20.00 9781931498753 46SOLAR ELECTRIC HOUSE, THE • pb 21.95 9780963738325 56

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SOLAR GARDENING • pb 39.95 9780930031695 41SOLAR HOUSE, THE • pb 29.95 9781931498128 57SOLVIVA • pb 35.00 9780966234909 41SOUL OF SOIL, THE • pb 25.00 9781890132316 42SOUND TRUTH AND CORPORATE MYTH$ • pb 24.95 9780964522664 04SPELL OF THE TIGER • pb 16.95 9781603580595 08STONE HOUSE • pb 33.00 9780473099701 58STORY HANDBOOK, THE • pb 14.95 9780967280622 16STORY OF MY HEART, THE • pb 10.95 9781903998199 54STRANGERS DEVOUR THE LAND • pb 25.00 9781603580045 13STRAW BALE HOUSE, THE • pb 30.00 9780930031718 59SUN-INSPIRED HOUSE, THE • pb 29.95 9780976731801 56SURVIVING AMERICA’S DEPRESSION EPIDEMIC • pb 16.95 9781933392714 63SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE WHITE PAPERS • pb 17.00 9780967509914 48SUSTAINABLE CUISINE WHITE PAPERS • pb 15.00 9780967509907 48SUSTAINABLE EDUCATION • pb 10.95 9781870098991 54

TERRA MADRE • pb 40.00 9788884991188 46THINKING IN SYSTEMS • pb 19.95 9781603580557 26THIS ORGANIC LIFE • pb 19.95 9781931498241 39THRILLCRAFT • hc 60.00 9781933392660 17THROUGH THE EYE OF THE STORM • pb 14.00 9781933392189 54TIMBER FRAMER’S WORKSHOP, A • pb 30.00 9781889269009 60TIMELESS BEAUTY • pb 20.00 9781903998335 54TOILET PAPERS, THE • pb 14.00 9781890132583 40TRANSITION HANDBOOK, THE • pb 24.95 9781900322188 11TROUBLED WATER • pb 17.95 9780954395933 18

UNEMBEDDED • pb 29.95 9781931498982 66UNEMBEDDED • hc 50.00 9781931498951 66UNREASONABLE WOMAN, AN • hc 27.50 9781931498883 02UNREASONABLE WOMAN, AN • pb 18.00 9781933392271 02UPSIZING • pb 16.95 9781874719182 24USES OF WILD PLANTS, THE • pb 24.95 9780977348909 41USING NATURAL FINISHES • pb 40.00 9781900322164 55

VEGETABLE GROWERS HANDBOOK, THE • pb 22.95 9780977348930 33VERMONT PAPERS, THE • pb 25.00 9780930031312 66VISIONARIES • pb 25.00 9781933392530 53VOICES OF THE LAND • hc 25.00 9781931498500 17

WALKING ON WATER • pb 15.00 9781931498784 15WAR ON BUGS, THE • pb 35.00 9781933392462 30WATER STEWARDSHIP • pb 12.95 9780964437371 10WELCOME TO THE MACHINE • pb 18.00 9781931498524 15WHAT CAN I DO? • pb 7.95 9781931498661 17WHEN TECHNOLOGY FAILS • pb 35.00 9781933392455 53WHO OWNS THE SUN? • pb 17.95 9781890132088 62WHOLE FOODS COMPANION • pb 35.00 9781931498623 47WILD FERMENTATION • pb 25.00 9781931498234 47WIND ENERGY BASICS • pb 25.00 9781890132071 62WIND POWER • pb 50.00 9781931498142 62WISE WORDS FOR THE GOOD LIFE • pb 14.95 9781890132415 52WOOD OF OUR OWN, A • pb 25.00 9781856230223 42WOODLAND HOUSE, THE • hc 25.00 9781856230315 60WOODLAND WAY, THE • pb 30.00 9781856230094 36WORLD OF PRESIDIA, A • pb 20.00 9788884990853 46WORM CAFE, THE • pb 29.95 9780942256116 40WORMANIA! • vhs & teaching guide 34.90 9780942256079 69WORMS EAT MY GARBAGE • pb 12.95 9780977804511 40WORMS EAT OUR GARBAGE • pb 22.95 9780977804504 40

YOU CAN FARM • pb 35.00 9780963810922 38YOU CAN MAKE THE BEST HOT TUB EVER! • pb 14.95 9780965908214 56

ZERI FABLES • pb 685 KINGDOMS OF NATURE, THE:

LOS 5 REINOS DE LA NATURALEZA 9.95 9789588233833ANIMAL MEDICINE: MEDICINA ANIMAL 9.95 9789588233802ANT FARMER, THE: LA HORMIGA AGRICULTORA 9.95 9789586928472BEAR AND THE FOX, THE: EL OSO Y EL ZORRO 9.95 9789586928403CAN APPLES FLY?: ¿MANZANAS VOLADORAS? 9.95 9789586928540COLD FEET: PIES FRIOS 9.95 9789586928618COLOMBIAN MUSHROOMS:

CHAMPIÑONES COLOMBIANOS 9.95 9789586928274DESERT WITCH, THE: LA BRUJA DEL DESIERTO 9.95 9789586928441DON’T EAT ME ALIVE!: ¡NO ME COMAS VIVO! 9.95 9789588233741DON’T LEAVE ME ALONE!: ¡NO ME DEJES SOLO! 9.95 9789588233796FOREST DRINKING WATER:

AGUA POTABLE DEL BOSQUE 9.95 9789586927789GOING AGAINST THE CURRENT:

CONTRA LA CORRIENTE 9.95 9789588233727GRANDMA BISON’S GARDEN:

EL JARDIN DE LA ABUELA BISTONTE 9.95 9789588233826GREEN HAIR AND FOUR EYES:

CUATRO OJOS, PELO VERDE 9.95 9789588233819GROW A HOUSE: CULTIVA UNA CASA 9.95 9789586927734HIPPO BEAUTY PARLOR, THE:

SALON DE BELLEZA PARA HIPOPOTAMOS 9.95 9789588233765HOW TO TAKE IT APART: COMO DESBARATARLO 9.95 9789588233697KING OF HEARTS, THE: EL REY DE CORAZONES 9.95 9789586927703MAGIC HAT, THE: EL SOMBRERO MAGICO 9.95 9789588233758MALES ONLY: SOLO MACHOS 9.95 9789588233710MOUNTAIN GOAT, THE: LA CABRA MONTAÑERA 9.95 9789588233680NOSES AND EARS TO SEE:

NARICES Y OIDOS QUE VEN 9.95 9789588233789ORANGES FROM SOAP: JABÓN DE NARANJAS 9.95 9789586928434PLEASE PLAY WITH ME!:

¡POR FAVOR JUEGA CONMIGO! 9.95 9789588233857RED RICE: ARROCES ROJOS 9.95 9789586928311SCRATCH MY BACK!: ¡RASCA MI ESPALDA! 9.95 9789588233703SHIITAKE LOVE CAFFEINE:

LOS SHIITAKE AMAN LA CAFFEINA 9.95 9789586928335SMART MUSHROOM, THE: EL HONGO SABIONDO 9.95 9789586927710STRONGEST TREE, THE: EL ÁRBOL MÁS FUERTE 9.95 9789586928380TREE CANDY: DULCE DE ÁRBOL 9.95 9789586928366WALKING ON WATER: CAMINANDO SOBRE EL AGUA 9.95 9789586927819WHERE IS HOME?: ¿DONDE ESTA MI CASA? 9.95 9789588233840WHO IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL?:

¿QUIEN ES EL MAS BELLO? 9.95 9789588233734WHY CAN’T I STEAL LESS?:

¿POR QUÉ NO PUEDO ROBAR MENOS? 9.95 9789586927680WHY DON’T THEY LIKE ME?:

¿POR QUÉ NO ME QUIEREN? 9.95 9789586928281ZEBRA AIRCON, THE: EL VENTILADOR DE LAS CEBRAS 9.95 9789588233772

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To stop the destruction of the natural world by challenging the beliefsand practices that are enabling this destruction and by providing inspi-rational and practical alternatives that promote sustainable living.

We seek to promote better understanding of natural systems as a globalcommons. We seek to empower citizens to participate in reclaiming thecommons, to serve as its effective stewards, and to help mitigate world-wide social and environmental disruptions.

We seek to build a community of new voices that will empower andinspire individuals to reduce their ecological impact and to participatein the restoration of healthy local communities, bioregional ecosytems,and a diversity of cultures.


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Examination Copy PolicyChelsea Green is pleased to send examination copies of its books to qualified instructors of appropriate courses. For details contact Jessica Saturley [email protected].

Submit your request via fax on your departmental or institutional letterhead. Include title of book, name of course, project enrollment, start date, department/institutional e-mail address, office and/or home telephone number, VISA or MC card information with billing address, and shipping address. Please notify us if you plan to use one or more of our titles in your course. We welcome your comments regarding the suitability of the title you have requested for possible adoption.

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