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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
by William McDonough and Michael Braungart  
Powells.com Staff Pick "An eco-sustainable manifesto. The next Industrial Revolution will be Green!" Scott Smith, Powells.com...
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Farewell, My Subaru: An Epic Adventure in Local Living
by Doug Fine
Publisher Comments Advance praise for Farewell, My Subaru Fine is Bryson Funny. ----Santa Cruz Sentinel Fine is an amiable and self-deprecating storyteller in the mold of Douglas Adams. If you're a fan of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy-style humor -- and also looking to...
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The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It: The Complete Back-To-Basics Guide
by John Seymour
Powells.com Staff Pick This book reminds me of those Laura Ingalls books I read as a kid. Laura's family lived by the seasons. In the summer they harvested hay, canned preserves and tended to livestock. In the fall, they butchered pigs and stored food in the attic for...
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Wake Up and Smell the Planet: The Non-Pompous Non Preachy Grist Guide to Greening Your Day
by Grist Magazine Publisher Comments Sustainability is the new "bling," and Grist knows how to wear it. Not a guide about guilt, but about making little choices throughout the day that improve the planet. Grist is the hottest online magazine covering sustainability and popular culture....
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The Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices
by Michael Brower Publisher Comments From one of the most prestigious nonprofit organizations devoted to environmental issues comes a clear, practical, and rational overview of the relationship between consumers and the environment. Paper or plastic? Bus or car? Old house or new? Cloth...
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50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save the Earth: Completely New and Updated for the 21st Century
by John Javna and Sophie Javna and Jesse Javna Publisher Comments Today's environmental problems may seem too overwhelming for one person to tackle... but you don't have to do it alone. Now you have partners: 50 of them. 50 Simple Things, the revolutionary 1990 bestseller, is back in a completely revised, updated...
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Living Like Ed: A Guide to the Eco-Friendly Life
by Ed Begley Jr. Publisher Comments From the pioneer of eco-conscious living... A committed environmentalist for more than thirty years, Ed Begley, Jr., has always tried to "live simply so others may simply live." Now, as more and more of us are looking for ways to reduce our impact on...
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The Carbon-Free Home: Thirty-Six Remodeling Projects to Help Kick the Fossil-Fuel Habit
by Stephen Hren and Rebekah Hren Publisher Comments You've read the stories and watched the documentaries. So you're convinced — burning fossil fuels leads to global climate change; supplies of fossil fuels are diminishing in quantity and increasing in price. You've fretted and worried, but still go...
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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 doesn't necessarily demand a radical overhaul of your...
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Stuff: The Secret Lives of Everyday Things
by John C. Ryan and Alan T. Durning Publisher Comments If you don't know your stuff, you don't know your world. Stuff: The Secret Lives of Everyday Things takes you to the places and people you touch every day-when you sip your coffee, tie your shoes, click your mouse, or step on the gas. Once you follow a...
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The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-Sufficient Living in the Heart of the City
by Kelly Coyne Publisher Comments The Urban Homesteadis the essential handbook for a fast-growing new movement: urbanites are becoming gardeners and farmers. Rejecting both end-times hand wringing and dewy-eyed faith that technology will save us from ourselves, urban homesteaders choose...
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Big Green Purse: Use Your Spending Power to Create a Cleaner, Greener World
by Diane Maceachern
Publisher Comments Protecting our environment is one of the biggest issues facing our planet today. But how do we solve a problem that can seem overwhelming — even hopeless? As Diane MacEachern argues in Big Green Purse, the best way to fight the industries that...
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The Good Deed Guide: Simple Ways to Make the World a Better Place
by James Grace Publisher Comments You ve heard it all before: people should be nice to one another, treat others with respect, and be good to neighbors. But does any of that still apply to our hectic, harried, post twentieth-century lifestyles? James and Lisa Grace think so, and in The...
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Clean House Clean Planet
by Karen Noonan Logan
Powells.com Staff Pick Karen Logan, a professional house cleaner for years, invented her own alternatives to toxic and expensive household cleaning products. This book shares her recipes for every cleaning situation one may possibly encounter in a domestic existence...
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Green House: Eco-Friendly Disposal and Recycling at Home
by Norm Crampton Synopsis Crampton provides informative, comprehensive, and practical information for adopting greener and more Earth-friendly habits by promoting recycling and living a little lighter....
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365 Ways to Save Gas: Everyday Tips to Stretch Your Dollar
by Ronald M. Weiers Publisher Comments Whether one is commuting to work or driving cross-country, in the market for a new car or shopping for new tires, a Hybrid-driver or an SUV-owner, this unique and timely guide will help conserve gas and save money, all while helping out the environment,...
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Humanure Handbook: A Guide To Composting Human Manure 3RD Edition
by Joseph Jenkins
Publisher Comments There are almost seven billion defecating people on planet Earth, but few who have any clue about how to constructively handle the burgeoning mountain of human crap. "The Humanure Handbook," third edition, will amuse you, educate you, and possibly offend...
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Divorce Your Car!: Ending the Love Affair with the Automobile
by Katie Alvord
Publisher Comments Alvord's perceptive gloss of the late, great, 20th century's pitiful auto intoxication is a fascinating read and a stunning contradiction of the fatuity that technology is neutral. Her gathering of stories illuminates the existence of a vital planet-wide,...
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How to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint: 500 Simple Ways to Save Energy, Resources, and Money
by Joanna Yarrow Publisher Comments How to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint is the world citizen's guide to pushing back the advance of global warming. This colorful handbook offers 500 practical, easily achievable ideas that conserve energy, prevent pollution, and save money. Did you know...
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Country Wisdom Almanac: 373 Tips, Crafts, Home Improvements, Recipes, and Homemade Remedies
by Storey Publishings Publisher Comments A follow-up to Black Dog's bestselling Country Wisdom and Know-How, the Country Wisdom Almanacprovides hundreds of ideas and methods for living the good and simple life, plus information on weather, gardening, buying produce and cooking by season...
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