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A Solar Buyer's Guide for the Home and Office: Navigating the Maze of Solar Options, Incentives, and Installers (Book)

Stephen Hren

ISBN:9781603582612

Solar power, once a fringe effort limited to DIY enthusiasts, is now fast becoming mainstream, and strong tax credits ensure continued growth even in a sluggish economy. Many home and business owners are curious about solar electric and solar thermal systems...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:176

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Believing Cassandra: An Optimist Looks at a Pessimist's World (Book)

Alan Atkisson

ISBN:9781890132163

The Story of Cassandra
Cassandra was the young and beautiful daughter of Priam, the last king of Troy. Apollo bestowed upon Cassandra a special giftthe ability to see the future. But when she refused his favors...more details
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Cheesemonger: A Life on the Wedge (Book)

Gordon Edgar

ISBN:9781603582377

Witty and irreverent, informative and provocative, "Cheesemonger: A Life on the Wedge" is the highly readable story of Gordon Edgaras unlikely career as a cheesemonger at San Franciscoas worker-owned Rainbow Grocery Cooperative. A former punk-rock political activist...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:236

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Climate Change: Simple Things You Can Do to Make a Difference (Book)

Jon Clift

ISBN:9781603581066

You know that the ice caps are melting, the seasons are changing, sea levels are rising, storms are on the increase, but what can you do about it? Plenty This book puts the power back into your hands in the face of the doom and gloom of climate change. You donat have to wait for someone else to sort it out; rather than worry and feel helpless...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:91

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Confronting Collapse: The Crisis of Energy and Money in a Post Peak Oil World (Book)

Michael C Ruppert

ISBN:9781603582650

The book that inspired the movie COLLAPSE.The world is running short of energy-especially cheap, easy-to-find oil. Shortages, along with resulting price increases...more details

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Death & Sex (Book)

Tyler Volk

ISBN:9781603581431

On DEATH . . .What does death have to do with life? In his short, intriguing look at how and why things die, Tyler Volk explains that death is not simply the end of life. Rather...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:224

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Devil in the Milk: Illness, Health and the Politics of A1 and A2 Milk (Book)

Keith Woodford

ISBN:9781603581028

This groundbreaking work is the first internationally published book to examine the link between a protein in the milk we drink and a range of serious illnesses...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:249

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DIY U: Edupunks and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education (Book)

Anya Kamenetz

ISBN:9781603582346

The price of college tuition has increased more than any other major good or service for the last twenty years. Nine out of ten American high school seniors aspire to go to college...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:208

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Earth-Sheltered House: An Architect's Sketchbook (Book)

Malcolm Wells

ISBN:9781603581073

"The Earth-Sheltered House" is a classic in the annals of sustainable building books, written by a legend in the field of environmentally responsible architecture. Malcolm Wells has a fundamentally different way of looking at the design and building process...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:189

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End of America (Book & DVD)

Naomi Wolf

ISBN:9781603581974

This DVD/book package is essential for anyone concerned with preserving the Constitution.

In a stunning indictment of the Bush administration and Congress...more details
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Field Days: An Anthology of Poetry (Book)

Angela King;Adam Clifford SusannahNicolson

ISBN:9781890132255

Meadows and fields exist at the boundary where human endeavors meet the natural world. The poems in this collection are drawn from across centuries of a literary tradition that uses the pastoral landscape as setting for exploring complex and timeless questions about that encounter between human and non-human existence...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:160

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Future Scenarios: How Communities Can Adapt to Peak Oil and Climate Change (Book)

David Holmgren

ISBN:9781603580892

In "Future Scenarios," permaculture co-originator and leading sustainability innovator David Holmgren outlines four scenarios that bring to life the likely cultural...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:126

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Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture (Book)

Toby Hemenway

ISBN:9781603580298

The first edition of Gaia’s Garden sparked the imagination of America’s home gardeners, introducing permaculture’s central message: Working with Nature...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:313

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Going to Green: A Standards-Based Environmental Education Curriculum for Schools, Colleges, and Communities (Book)

Harry Wiland

ISBN:9781933392882

Based on the PBS Series Edens Lost & Found, this unique learning resource combines an integrated, detailed academic curriculum with service-based learning activities to educate...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:337

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Going to Green: Student Workbook (Book)

Harry Wiland

ISBN:9781603582629

This unique learning resource combines an integrated, detailed academic curriculum with service-based learning activities to educate, inspire...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:210

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Growing, Older: A Chronicle of Death, Life, and Vegetables (Book)

Joan Dye Gussow

ISBN:9781603582926

Sequel to her previous book, This Organic Life, this literary memoir will be embraced by women curious about aging, gardeners curious about contending with increasingly intense weather...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:234

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Howard Dean's Prescription for Real Healthcare Reform: How We Can Achieve Affordable Medical Care for Every American and Make Our Jobs Safer (Book)

Howard Dean

ISBN:9781603582285

What would real healthcare reform look like? And how can everyday Americans trump big money and put healthcare back on track? Howard Dean speaks out."The success of healthcare reform legislation rises and falls on whether the American public is allowed to opt into a universally available public healthcare program...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:137

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In a Pig's Eye (Book)

Karl Schwenke

ISBN:9780930031008

Karl Schwenke, a transplanted urbanite, tells stories, sometimes uproariously funny, sometimes sad, about his encounters with pigs, neighbors and newcomers in a small country town. The author has a sharp ear for dialogue...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:160

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In Late Winter We Ate Pears: A Year of Hunger and Love--Seasonal Recipes and Stories from an Italian Kitchen (Book)

Deirdre Heekin

ISBN:9781603581011

More than a cookbook, "In Late Winter We Ate Pears" is a love affair with a culture and a way of life. In vignettes taken from their year in Italy...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:291

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Libation, a Bitter Alchemy (Book)

Deirdre Heekin

ISBN:9781603580861

For many years, Deirdre Heekin has been creating an unusual, revitalist wine archive of rare and traditional Italian varietals at Osteria Pane e Salute...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:237

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Living Above the Store: Building a Business That Creates Value, Inspires Change, and Restores Land and Community--How One Family Business Tran (Book)

Martin Melaver

ISBN:9781603580854

The economic crash of late 2008 is just the latest evidence of the truth that many have known for so long: that too much of our modern economy is based on a house of cards...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:317

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Marijuana Is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People to Drink? (Book)

Paul Armentano

ISBN:9781603581448

Nationally recognized marijuana-policy experts Steve Fox, Paul Armentano, and Mason Tvert compare and contrast the relative harms and legal status of the two most popular recreational substances in the world--marijuana and alcohol. Through an objective examination of the two drugs and the laws and social practices that steer people toward alcohol...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:209

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Nontoxic Housecleaning (Book)

Amy Kolb Noyes

ISBN:9781603582032

When it comes to cleaning products, society often values convenience over personal and planetary health, thanks to decades of advertising propaganda from the chemical companies that market overpriced and dangerous concoctions. But awareness is changing: Not only are homemade and nontoxic cleaners strong enough for the toughest grunge...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:96

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Not One Drop & Black Wave (Book/DVD Set)

Riki Ott

ISBN:9781603581929

This DVD/book package should be read and viewed by everyone concerned with crimes against man and nature; about corporate lies and the value of community.Betrayed by oilmenas promises in the 1970s...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:352

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Obama's Challenge: America's Economic Crisis and the Power of a Transformative Presidency (Book)

Robert Kuttner

ISBN:9781603580885

Barack Obama approaches the Presidency at a critical moment in American history, facing simultaneous crises of war, the environment, health care...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:290

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Old Southern Apples, Revised & Expanded (Book)

Jr Calhoun

ISBN:9781603582940

Old Southern Apples is an indispensable reference for fruit lovers everywhere, especially those who live in the southern U.S. Out of print for several years...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:331

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Passive Solar Architecture: Heating, Cooling, Ventilation and Daylighting Using Natural Flows (Book)

David Bainbridge

ISBN:9781603582681

In a comprehensive overview of passive solar designthe resurrected solar strategy that is sweeping through Germany and rapidly regaining popularity in the United Statestwo of the nations solar pioneers give homeowners...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:300

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Search for the Golden Moon Bear: Science and Adventure in Pursuit of a New Species (Book)

Sy Montgomery

ISBN:9781603580632

Sy Montgomery has already shared with readers her amazing encounters with great apes, man-eating tigers, and pink river dolphins, but her latest muse is an animal whose name and appearance evoke another world altogether. Southeast Asiaas golden moon bear...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:321

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Secede!: Neighborhood Patriots, Backcountry Rebels, and Their Underdog Crusades to Change America's Political Map (Book)

Bill Kauffman

ISBN:9781933392806

Itas been almost a century and a half since a critical mass of Americans believed that secession was an American birthright. But breakaway movements large and small are rising up across the nation. From Vermont to Alaska...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:285

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Small-Scale Grain Raising: An Organic Guide to Growing, Processing, and Using Nutritious Whole Grains, for Home Gardeners and Local Farmers (Book)

Gene Logsdon

ISBN:9781603580779

First published in 1977, this bookafrom one of Americaas most famous and prolific agricultural writersabecame an almost instant classic among homestead gardeners and small farmers. Now fully updated and available once more...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:308

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Sustainable Food: How to Buy Right and Spend Less (Book)

Elise McDonough

ISBN:9781603581417

Wondering whether itas worth it to splurge on the locally raised beef? What about those organic carrots? New in the Chelsea Green Guides series...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:96

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Terra Madre: Book and DVD Set (Book)

Carlo Petrini

ISBN:9781603582841

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Terra Madre: How to Keep Our Food from Consuming Us (Book)

Carlo Petrini

ISBN:9781603582636

More than twenty years ago, when Italian Carlo Petrini learned that McDonald's wanted to erect its golden arches next to the Spanish Steps in Rome...more details
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The Biochar Debate: Charcoal's Potential to Build Soil, Produce Energy, and Reverse Climate Change (Book)

James Bruges

ISBN:9781603582551

"The Biochar Debate" is the first book to introduce both the promise and concerns surrounding biochar (fine-grained charcoal used as a soil supplement) to nonspecialists...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:120

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The End of Money and the Future of Civilization (Book)

Thomas H Greco Jr

ISBN:9781603580786

Like the proverbial fish who doesn’t know what water is, we swim in an economy built on money that few of us comprehend, and, most definitely...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:268

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The Farmstead Creamery Advisor: The Complete Guide to Building and Running a Small, Farm-Based Cheese Business (Book)

Gianaclis Caldwell

ISBN:9781603582216

There has never been a better time to be making and selling great cheese. People worldwide are consuming more high-quality, handmade cheese than ever before. The number of artisan cheesemakers has doubled in recent years...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:226

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The Looting of America: How Wall Street's Game of Fantasy Finance Destroyed Our Jobs, Pensions, and Prosperity--And What We Can Do about It (Book)

Les Leopold

ISBN:9781603582056

"I loved this book. A worms'-eye dissection of the Wall Street crisis from a very sharp and very knowledgeable labor economist. Here's hoping that before the Washington consensus gets set in stone...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:219

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The Man Who Planted Trees (Book)

Jean Giono;Michael McCurdy

ISBN:9780930031787

The hero of the story, Elzeard Bouffier, spent his life planting one hundred acorns a day in a desolate, barren section of Provence, France. The result was a total transformation of the landscape -- from one devoid of life...more details
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The Northern Forest (Book)

David Dobbs;Richard Ober

ISBN:9780930031817

Dobbs and Ober closely focus on the lives of Northern Forest residents -- a mill worker, a forester, several loggers, a fishing guide, and a Christmas tree-farming family -- and discover an extraordinary sense of place that arises in those who have a continuous...more details
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The Organic Farmeras Business Handbook: A Complete Guide to Managing Finances, Crops, and Staffaand Making a Profit (Book)

Richard Wiswall

ISBN:9781603581424

Contrary to popular belief, a good living can be made on an organic farm. What's required is farming smarter, not harder.In "The Organic Farmer's Business Handbook...more details
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The People V. Bush: One Lawyeras Campaign to Bring the President to Justice and the National Grassroots Movement She Encountered Along the (Book)

Charlotte Dennett

ISBN:9781603582094

When journalist-turned-lawyer Charlotte Dennett became outraged that Bush White House officials were acting above the law, she did something that surprised even herself. She ran for a state attorney general seat on a platform to prosecute George W. Bush for murder. She lost the race...more details
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The Progressive's Guide to Raising Hell: How to Wage Winning Campaigns, Pass Ballot Box Laws, and Get the Change We Voted For-- A Direct Democracy Too (Book)

Jamie Court

ISBN:9781603582933

Change is no simple matter in American politicsa fact that Americans have recently learned well. Elections rarely produce the change they promise....more details
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The Raw Milk Revolution: Behind America's Emerging Battle Over Food Rights (Book)

David Gumpert

ISBN:9781603582193

Beginning in 2006, the agriculture departments of several large states-with backing from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration-launched a major crackdown on small dairies producing raw milk. Replete with undercover agents...more details
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The Transition Timeline: For a Local, Resilient Future (Book)

Shaun Chamberlin

ISBN:9781603582001

"The Transition Timeline" lightens the fear of our uncertain future, providing a map of
what we are facing and the different pathways available to us. It describes four possible scenarios for the UK and world over the next twenty years...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:190

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Up Tunket Road: The Mud and Love Chronicles of a Modern Homestead (Book)

Philip Ackerman-Leist

ISBN:9781603580335

Ever since Thoreauas "Walden," the image of the American homesteader has been of someone getting away from civilization, of forging an independent life in the country. Yet if this were ever true...more details
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Waiting on a Train: The Embattled Future of Passenger Rail Service--A Year Spent Riding Across America (Book)

James McCommons

ISBN:9781603580649

During the tumultuous year of 2008awhen gas prices reached $4 a gallon, Amtrak set ridership records, and a commuter train collided with a freight train in Californiaajournalist James McCommons spent a year on Americaas trains...more details
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Walking with the Great Apes (Book)

Sy Montgomery

ISBN:9781603580625

Three astounding women scientists have in recent years penetrated the jungles of Africa and Borneo to observe, nurture, and defend humanity's closest cousins...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:246

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Wind Energy Basics: A Guide to Home- And Community-Scale Wind-Energy Systems (Book)

Paul Gipe

ISBN:9781603580304

The availability of clean, renewable power is without question going to be the defining challenge and goal of the 21st century, and wind will lead the way...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:166

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Passive Solar Architecture: Heating, Cooling, Ventilation and Daylighting Using Natural Flows (Book)

David Bainbridge

ISBN:9781603582964

New buildings can be designed to be solar oriented, naturally heated and cooled, naturally lit and ventilated, and made with renewable, sustainable materials - no matter the location or climate. In this comprehensive overview of passive solar design...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:304

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The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times (Book)

Carol Deppe

ISBN:9781603580311

In an age of erratic weather and instability, people's interest in growing their own food is skyrocketing. The Resilient Gardener presents gardening techniques that stand up to challenges ranging from health problems...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:384

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