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The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century
by James Howard Kunstler  
Powells.com Staff Pick In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long...
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Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beauty to the World
by Paul Hawken
Powells.com Staff Pick Feeling crushed beneath the weight of ominous news, borderline-apocalyptic statistics, and global warming alerts that offer no recourse but panic? Paul Hawken's Blessed Unrest is the book you've been waiting for. Here is a call to arms with concrete...
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.)
by Barbara Kingsolver and Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver
Powells.com Staff Pick After 25 years in the Arizona desert, in 2004, Kentucky-bred Barbara Kingsolver moved back to the Appalachians, to a Virginia farm just hours from her childhood home. Family called. "Returning," she explains in Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, "would allow my...
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by Michael Pollan
Powells.com Staff Pick I talked about this book every morning at the water cooler and every evening at dinner. Pollan takes a possibly dry subject — agriculture — and makes it epic. Recommended by Beth, Powells.com (See all of our Staff Top 5s of 2006)...
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
by Barbara Kingsolver and Camille Kingsolver and Steven L. Hopp
Powells.com Staff Pick After 25 years in the Arizona desert, in 2004, Kentucky-bred Barbara Kingsolver moved back to the Appalachians, to a Virginia farm just hours from her childhood home. Family called. "Returning," she explains in Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, "would allow my...
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The World without Us
by Alan Weisman
Powells.com Staff Pick "Let us try a creative experiment," Alan Weisman proposes on page three: If humans disappeared from earth, what would happen? To your home, for example. To our cities, farms, and oceans. To the animals that remain. Or to the billion tons of plastic we'd...
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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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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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Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators
by William Stolzenburg
Powells.com Staff Pick What would our world look like without without wolves, giant cats, and other preying animals? William Stolzenburg examines the absence of once-prominent predators and how that affects our global ecosystem. There are a lot of alarmist books coming out...
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Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change
by Elizabeth Kolbert
Powells.com Staff Pick Field Notes from a Catastrophe, a refreshingly slim and concise volume, grew out of Elizabeth Kolbert's remarkable series on global warming in the New Yorker. Kolbert spans the globe, from examining ice samples in Greenland to mosquitoes in a lab in...
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Walking on Water : Reading, Writing, and Revolution (04 Edition)
by Derrick Jensen
Powells.com Staff Pick Both a critique of the current educational system and an excellent look at the writing and communication, Walking on Water is based on Jensen's own experiences teaching writing classes at Eastern Washington University and Pelican Bay state prison in...
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Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
by Bill McKibben
Powells.com Staff Pick "Timely and useful. This valuable benchmark is a substantial contribution to the rethinking of unlimited economic expansion." Recommended by Ted, Powells.com...
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Silent Spring : 40TH Anniversary Edition ((Rev)02 Edition)
by Rachel Carson
Powells.com Staff Pick Silent Spring changed the way we thought about the environment and shaped today's environmental movement, calling us to action to protect our surroundings before we destroyed them. Today our impact on the environment is more harmful than ever, and Carson'...
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The Assault on Reason
by Albert Gore
Powells.com Staff Pick More astute and timely observations from my favorite candidate who isn't running for President. Recommended by Ted, Powells.com...
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Field Notes from a Catastrophe
by Elizabeth Kolbert
Powells.com Staff Pick Field Notes from a Catastrophe, a refreshingly slim and concise volume, grew out of Elizabeth Kolbert's remarkable series on global warming in the New Yorker. Kolbert spans the globe, from examining ice samples in Greenland to mosquitoes in a lab in...
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Green Remodeling: Changing the World One Room at a Time
by David R Johnston
Powells.com Staff Pick This book is an inspired encyclopedic guide for the environmentally conscious builder, broken down into three parts "Getting Started," "Changing the World One Room at a Time," and "Everything You Need to Know (and More)." From simple "green" remodeling...
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Biodiesel America
by Joshua Tickell and Meghan Murphy and Claudia Graziano
Powells.com Staff Pick Tickell, an expert on biodiesel, explains how biodiesel is the best alternative to gasoline in today's age of peak oil. America, with its insatiable appetite for fast food, uses more vegetable oil for frying than any other nation. Why not turn that fat...
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The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth
by Tim Flannery
Powells.com Staff Pick Not only is paleontologist Flannery's urgent call to arms about global climate change fascinating and terrifying, it is also the most accessible book on the topic around. Flannery writes beautifully, clearly examining every angle of the debate...
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Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
Powells.com Staff Pick Silent Spring changed the way we thought about the environment and shaped today's environmental movement, calling us to action to protect our surroundings before we destroyed them. Today our impact on the environment is more harmful than ever, and Carson'...
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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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