Sustainable Living
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Unbowed: A Memoir (Vintage)
by  Publisher Comments From the first African woman--and the first environmentalist--to win the Noble Peace Prize comes her powerfully inspiring memoir. Founder of the Green Belt Movement Maathai recounts the obstacles and motivations that have guided her to lead a singularly...
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How to Convert Wood into Charcoal and Electricity
by Richard H. Buxton Publisher Comments If you put wood into a pipe and heat it, gas, tar and water vapor will be driven off. You can pipe this gas around into the fire that is heating the pipe. When the whole unit cools, you can extract high grade charcoal. And we're talking about charcoal...
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Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
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Publisher Comments As Utah-born naturalist Terry Tempest Williams records the simultaneous tragedies of her mother's death of cancer and the flooding of the Bear River Migratory Bird Sanctuary, she creates a document of renewal and spiritual grace destined to become a...
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Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally
by Alisa Smith and J. B. MacKinnon
Publisher Comments The remarkable, amusing and inspiring adventures of a Canadian couple who make a year-long attempt to eat foods grown and produced within a 100-mile radius of their apartment. When Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon learned that the average ingredient in a...
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The Hand-Sculpted House: A Practical and Philosophical Guide to Building a Cob Cottage
by Publisher Comments Are you ready for the Cob Cottage? This is a building method so old and so simple that it has been all but forgotten in the rush to synthetics. A cob cottage,cobb, however, might be the ultimate expression of ecological design, a structure so attuned to...
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Eco-Chic Weddings: Simple Tips to Plan an Environmentally Friendly, Socially Responsible, Affordable, and Stylish Celebration
by Synopsis Add Style to Your Wedding and Stay True to Your Beliefs Planning your wedding can be the best time to be eco-friendly. The wedding industry has a huge impact on the global economy and the environment, as wedding parties spend over $125 billion a year in...
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The Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices
by 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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Medicine for the Earth: How To Transform Personal and Environmental Toxins
by Sandra Ingerman Publisher Comments From cross-cultural legends recounting shamanic cures to the biblical accounts of the parting of the Red Sea and Jesus multiplying the loaves and fishes, many spiritual traditions are rich in stories about seemingly inexplicable transformations of the...
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The Good Life: Helen and Scott Nearing's Sixty Years of Self-Sufficient Living
by 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....
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A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder
by Publisher Comments At a critical time in his life, Michael Pollan, the author of the award-winning "Second Nature: A Gardener's Education", decided he wanted to build a small wooden hut in the woods near his Connecticut home. This absorbing narrative recounts Pollan's...
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Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape
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Powells.com Staff Pick "Barry Lopez won the 1986 National Book Award for Arctic Dreams. A more accurate test, though, for the true quality of a book is how well it wears over time. And though it may yet be too soon to conclude, Arctic Dreams appears to have taken its place as...
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Building Green: A Complete How-To Guide to Alternative Building Methods: Earth Plaster, Straw Bale, Cordwood, Cob, Living Roofs
by Clarke Snell Publisher Comments Clarke Snell and Timothy L. Callahan, whose popular "Good House Book" helped environmentally-minded readers create an earth-friendly home, have returned with a photo-packed, amazingly complete, start-to-finish guide to "green" housebuilding. <BR>...
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The New Create an Oasis With Greywater
by Art Ludwig Publisher Comments Create an Oasis with Greywater describes how to quickly and easily choose, build, and use a simple greywater system. Some can be completed in an afternoon for under $30. It also provides complete instructions for more complex installations, how to...
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The Renewable Energy Handbook: A Guide to Rural Energy Independence, Off-Grid and Sustainable Living
by William H. Kemp Publisher Comments As oil prices continue to rise, many people are starting to think about how to unhook from the electric grid. The Renewable Energy Handbook focuses completely on off-grid, sustainable living and energy independence in a rural setting. Author William...
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The Future of Life
by Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references and index....
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The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
by Richard Preston
Publisher Comments Hidden away in foggy, uncharted rain forest valleys in Northern California are the largest and tallest organisms the world has ever sustained — the coast redwood trees, Sequoia sempervirens. Ninety-six percent of the ancient redwood forests have...
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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...
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A Sand County Almanac: With Essays on Conservation from Round River (Outdoor Essays & Reflections)
by Publisher Comments " We can place this book on the shelf that holds the writings of Thoreau and John Muir." San Francisco Chronicle These astonishing portraits of the natural world explore the breathtaking diversity of the unspoiled American landscape...
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The Not So Big Life: Making Room for What Really Matters
by Sarah Susanka
Powells.com Staff Pick One of the world's most respected domestic architects, University of Oregon graduate Sarah Susanka is known to readers as the author of a The Not So Big House books, which teach how to get the most out of a home's square footage in order to enjoy the...
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The Meadowlands: Wilderness Adventures at the Edge of a City
by Publisher Comments Imagine a grunge north Jersey version of John McPhee's classic The Pine Barrens and you'll get some idea of the idiosyncratic, fact-filled, and highly original work that is Robert Sullivan's The Meadowlands. Just five miles west of New York City, this...
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