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Mycelium Running by Paul Stamets Publisher Comments More mushrooms, less pollution! Yes, you heard right: growing more mushrooms may be the best thing we can do to save the environment and mushroom expert Paul Stamets explains how in MYCELIUM RUNNING, a groundbreaking manual for saving the world through... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Trade Paper 
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Greenhorns: 50 Dispatches from the New Farmers' Movement by Zoe Ida Bradbury Publisher Comments Meet America's New Farmers. Resourceful and hard-working, Greenhorns are passionate about improving the food we eat through sustainable and humane farming practices. Their inspirational stories speak to the challenges and rewards of earning a living off... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Homesteading Handbook: A Back to Basics Guide to Growing Your Own Food, Canning, Keeping Chickens, Generating Your Own Energy, Crafting, Herb (Back to Basics Guides) by Abigail R Gehring Publisher Comments With the rapid depletion of our planet's natural resources, we would all like to live a more self-sufficient lifestyle. But in the midst of an economic crisis, it's just as important to save money as it is to go green. As Gehring shows in this thorough... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Encyclopedia of Country Living by Carla Emery Publisher Comments The bible of sustainable living, food gardening, and living green, no home is complete without this one-of-a-kind encyclopedia! For more than thirty years, people have relied on the thousands of recipes, detailed how-to instructions, and personal advice... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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Made from Scratch: Discovering the Pleasures of a Handmade Life by Jenna Woginrich Staff Pick Jenna Woginrich's Made from Scratch is charming, practical, eye-opening, and empowering. From beekeeping to butter churning, it's a wonderful primer, and Woginrich's enthusiasm and humor are inspiring. Plus, she's definitely convinced me to get some... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $5.50 Sale - Hardcover
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Ecomind: Changing the Way We Think, to Create the World We Want by Frances Moore Lappe Publisher Comments In EcoMind, Frances Moore Lappe — a giant of the environmental movement—confronts accepted wisdom of environmentalism. Drawing on the latest research from anthropology to neuroscience and her own field experience, she argues that the biggest... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Back to Basics Handbook: A Guide to Buying and Working Land, Raising Livestock, Enjoying Your Harvest, Household Skills and Crafts, and More (Back to Basics Guides) by Abigail R Gehring Publisher Comments Anyone who wants to learn basic living skills--the kind employed by our forefathers--and adapt them for a better life in the twenty-first century need look no further than this eminently useful, full-color guide. With hundreds of projects, step-by-step... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Making It by Kelly Coyne Publisher Comments If you have ever wondered how to grow vegetables in an apartment, build a chicken coop, homebrew beer, or make your own soap from scratchthis book is for you. The essential guide to becoming a producer instead of a consumer, Making It is full of... (read more) Your price: $19.99 New - Trade Paper
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Urban Homesteading: Heirloom Skills for Sustainable Living by Rachel Kaplan Publisher Comments The urban homesteading movement is spreading rapidly across the nation. Urban Homesteading is the perfect "back-to-the-land" guide for urbanites who want to reduce their impact on the environment. Full of practical information, as well as inspiring... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Good Life: Helen and Scott Nearing's Sixty Years of Self-Sufficient Living by Helen Nearing Publisher Comments This one volume edition of Living the Good Life and Continuing the Good Life brings these classics on rural homesteading together. This couple abandoned the city for a rural life with minimal cash and the knowledge of self reliance and good health.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future by Bill McKibben Publisher Comments "Masterfully crafted, deeply thoughtful and mind-expanding."--Los Angeles Times In this powerful and provocative manifesto, Bill McKibben offers the biggest challenge in a generation to the prevailing view of our economy. Deep Economy makes the... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It by John Seymour Synopsis From harnessing natural forms of energy to raising crops, keeping livestock, preserving food to making beer and wine, basketry, carpentry, and weaving, "The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It" is more relevant than ever and is the ultimate practical... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover
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Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World by Alan Weisman Publisher Comments Los Llanos--the rain-leached, eastern savannas of war-ravaged Colombia--are among the most brutal environments on Earth and an unlikely setting for one of the most hopeful environmental stories ever told. Here, in the late 1960s, a young Colombian... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Farm Anatomy: The Curious Parts and Pieces of Country Life by Julia Rothman Publisher Comments Bantams and Buckwheat, Hackles and HarrowsTalk the talk of the country with Julia Rothman's entertaining and informative visual tour of life on the farm. Her drawings, diagrams, step-by-step sequences, and dissections reveal everything from the parts of... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Urban Farm Handbook: City-Slicker Resources for Growing, Raising, Sourcing, Trading, and Preparing What You Eat by Annette Cottrell Publisher Comments Is that...a goat in your garage? It might be if you've been reading The Urban Farm Handbook: City-Slicker Resources for Growing, Raising, Sourcing, Trading, and Preparing What You Eat. In this comprehensive guide for city-dwellers on how to wean... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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Homegrown & Handmade: A Practical Guide to More Self-Reliant Living by Deborah Niemann Publisher Comments Our food system is dominated by industrial agriculture and has become economically and environmentally unsustainable. The incidence of diet-related diseases, including obesity, diabetes, hypertension, cancer, and heart disease, has skyrocketed to... (read more) Your price: $22.95 New - Trade Paper
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Your Farm in the City: An Urban-Dweller's Guide to Growing Food and Raising Animals by Lisa Taylor Publisher Comments The most complete book on urban farming, covering everything from growing organic produce and raising chickens, to running a small farm on a city lot or in a suburban backyard. Eating locally and growing one's own food is a rapidly evolving movement in... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Green Guide: The Complete Reference for Consuming Wisely by National Geographic Publisher Comments Paper or plastic? Organic or conventional? In a world that is rapidly going "green," how does the average person make decisions that are smart for the family—and good for the planet? The Green Guide is here to help, with the concepts and choices for... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet (10 Edition) by Bill Mckibben Publisher Comments "Read it, please. Straight through to the end. Whatever else you were planning to do next, nothing could be more important." —Barbara Kingsolver Twenty years ago, with The End of Nature, Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough and Michael Braungart Staff Pick "An eco-sustainable manifesto. The next Industrial Revolution will be Green!"... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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