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Eat Your Yard: Edible Trees, Shrubs, Vines, Herbs and Flowers for Your Landscape by Nan K Chase Publisher Comments Eat Your Yard has information on 35 edible plants that offer the best of both landscape and culinary uses. Edible plants provide spring blossoms, colorful fruit and flowers, lush greenery, fall foliage, and beautiful structure, but they also offer fruits,... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Locavore Way: Discovering the Delicious Pleasures of Eating Fresh, Locally Grown Food by Amy Cotler Staff Pick There's more to mindful eating than the "natural foods" aisle of the grocery store, but if that's the farthest you've ever ventured, you may not know where to begin. Not to worry. In The Locavore Way, Amy Cotler demystifies the steadily growing locavore... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Rooftop Revolution: How Solar Power Can Save Our Economy--And Our Planet--From Dirty Energy (BK Currents) by Danny Kennedy Synopsis The Biggest Untold Economic Story of Our Time Here is the truth that the powerful Dirty Energy public relations machine doesn’t want you to know: the ascent of solar energy is upon us. The production of solar-generated electricity has risen... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Lucid Food: Cooking for an Eco-Conscious Life by Louisa Shafia Publisher Comments Green Your Cuisine with Earth-Friendly Food Choices. With organic and seasonal cooking principles becoming ingrained in todays kitchens, and new buzzwords including locavore and CSA steadily gaining traction, how do we integrate food politics into daily... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Cooking from the Farmers' Market by Jodi Liano Publisher Comments The oft-heard mantra, “Eat Seasonally, Locally, and Organically” need not be daunting. Nor should eating more fresh fruits and vegetables. Williams-Sonoma Cooking from the Farmers' Market makes both notions easily achievable for today’s... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Cooking Close to Home: A Year of Seasonal Recipes by Diane Imrie Publisher Comments Cooking Close to Home: A Year of Seasonal Recipes is a collection of over 150 original recipes designed to follow the seasons. Whether you are a home gardener, a farmers' market regular, or a member of a community-supported agriculture program, this... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $24.50 Sale - Hardcover
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Green Volunteers, 8th Edition: The World Guide to Voluntary Work in Nature Conservation (Green Volunteers: The World Guide to Voluntary Work in Nature Conser) by Fabio Ausenda Publisher Comments Considered the "Bible of Conservation Volunteering," Green Volunteers highlights hundreds of volunteer projects throughout the world. Green Volunteers lists more than two hundred projects worldwide for those who want to experience active conservation... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Ready, Set, Green: Eight Weeks to Modern Eco-Living from the Experts at TreeHugger.com by Graham Hill Publisher Comments The time to save the planet is now. Ready? Set? Green! Living green means reversing climate change, but it also means protecting your kids and pets, improving your own health, and saving money. And it doesnt necessarily demand a radical overhaul of your... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Green Barbarians: Live Bravely on Your Home Planet by Ellen Sandbeck Staff Pick Ellen Sandbeck, author of Eat More Dirt and Green Housekeeping, brings us a thorough guide to living more healthfully with less stress, less money, and less impact on our planet. Green Barbarians is an amusing and refreshing handbook that includes... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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It's Easy Being Green: A Handbook for Earth-Friendly Living by Crissy Trask Publisher Comments Surveys find that over 80 percent of Americans agree with the goals of the environmental movement. Sadly, most Americans admit to doing little more than basic recycling when it comes to acting on that disposition. What is the reason for this great divide... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Ripe from Around Here: A Vegan Guide to Local and Sustainable Eating (No Matter Where You Live) by Jae Steele Publisher Comments Praise for jae steele's Get It Ripe: This book is less a cookbook than an all-in-one guide to healthy vegan living, for which steele's holistic-nutritionist training is put to good use.”VegNews Get It Ripe, jae steeles 2008 cookbook... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Revolutionary Yardscape: Ideas for Repurposing Local Materials to Create Containers, Pathways, Lighting, and More by Matthew Levesque Publisher Comments Budget-friendly, environmentally sound, and one-of-a-kind, discovering new uses for what you already have or what you discover in the salvage yard is truly living local. It reduces a garden's environmental impact, saves money, and -- most importantly... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $11.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Most Good, Least Harm: A Simple Principle for a Better World and Meaningful Life by Zoe Weil Publisher Comments With a world steeped in materialism, environmental destruction, and injustice, what can one individual possibly do to change it? While the present obstacles we face may seem overwhelming, author and humane educator Zoe Weil shows us that change doesn't... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Fair Food: Growing a Healthy, Sustainable Food System for All by Oran Hesterman Publisher Comments A host of books and films in recent years have documented the dangers of our current food system, from chemical runoff to soaring rates of diet-related illness to inhumane treatment of workers and animals. But advice on what to do about it largely begins... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Green Book: The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet One Simple Step at a Time by Elizabeth Rogers and Thomas M. Kostigen Publisher Comments Ellen DeGeneres, Robert Redford, Will Ferrell, Jennifer Aniston, Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, Martha Stewart, Tyra Banks, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Tiki Barber, Owen Wilson, and Justin Timberlake tell you how they make a difference to the environment. Inside The... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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The City Homesteader: Self-Sufficiency on Any Square Footage by Scott Meyer Publisher Comments The City Homesteader is the handbook for the world of self-sufficient living. It's about living tangibly in a virtual world. It's about being resourceful, saving money, reducing consumption, and increasing self-reliance. Join the many who are raising... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Edible: A Celebration of Local Foods by Tracey Ryder and Carol Topalian Staff Pick Much of Edible is almost a travelogue to U.S. sustainable staycations. U.S. and a bit of Canada: Hello, Granville Island, Vancouver! It's fun to read about your own area and dream of future visits away. In the meanwhile, Edible is packed with rustic and... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Real Food Revival: Aisle by Aisle, Morsel by Morsel by Sherri Brooks Vinton Publisher Comments Say good-bye to flavorless tomatoes, mealy apples, and "mystery meats." Say hello to the way food used to taste-and still can. The Real Food Revival is a book of celebration and indulgence, an ode to culinary delight, and an indispensable reference... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Giant Book of Bad Guys by Graham Harvey Publisher Comments Meet history's most evil personalities in this encyclopedia of infamy - from Vlad the Impaler to the psychopathic serial murderers of today. Find out who put 1.6 million inhabitants of a rebellious city to the sword, who kept human remains in deep freeze... (read more) Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Green Year: 365 Small Things You Can Do to Make a Big Difference by Jodi Helmer Publisher Comments Go green one day at a time. Do something every day. Most of us want to do the right thing for the environment, but making the commitment to change our fast-paced, convenience-oriented lifestyles can be more than a little daunting. What's the answer? Take... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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