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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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In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
by Michael Pollan Publisher Comments What to eat, what not to eat, and how to think about health: a manifesto for our times. "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food, the well-considered answers he provides to the...
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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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Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World
by Alan Weisman Publisher Comments The eastern savannas of war-ravaged Colombia, known as the llanos, are among the most brutal environments on Earth, an unlikely setting for one of the most hopeful environmental stories ever told. Here, more than twenty-five years ago, an intrepid...
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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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Mycelium Running
by Paul Stamets Publisher Comments - A manual for healing the earth and creating sustainable forests through mushroom cultivation, featuring mycelial solutions to water pollution, toxic spills, and other ecological challenges.- Mycotechnology is part of a larger trend toward using living...
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A Slice of Organic Life
by Sheherazade (edt) Goldsmith Publisher Comments Featuring over 90 self-contained projects, from growing your own food organically, cooking home-grown produce, keeping selected livestock, and leading a more sustainable lifestyle, this down-to-earth, yet practical guide is the perfect start for someone...
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Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills (Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills)
by Abigail R. Gehring Publisher Comments Over 100,000 sold! Now newly revised and up to date, with over 2,000 color photographs and illustrations. Anyone who wants to learn basic living skillsthe kind employed by our forefathersand adapt them for a better life in the twenty-first...
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Plenty: Eating Locally on the 100-Mile Diet
by Alisa Smith 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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When Technology Fails: A Manual for Self-Reliance & Planetary Survival
by Matthew Stein Publisher Comments When Technology Fails is the first to offer, under one cover, basic instructions and recommended resources for the wide range of skills and technologies necessary for self-reliant living and achieving mastery of all kinds of emergency conditions.A user...
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The Northwest Green Home Primer: Hundreds of Ideas for Building, Remodeling and Buying Green
by Kathleen O'Brien and Kathleen Smith Publisher Comments Everyone can make green home decisions on a budget with this inspiring, information-packed guide. Whether you are building, remodeling, buying, or just curious, here are real-world strategies for getting the greenest results from your budget, with...
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Home Work: Handbuilt Shelter
by Lloyd Kahn Publisher Comments Building on the enormous success of his book Shelter, Lloyd Kahn continues his odyssey of finding and exploring the most magnificent and unusual hand-built houses in existence. Among the intriguing domiciles described in Home Work are a Japanese-styles...
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Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard Into a Garden and Your Neighborhood Into a Community
by H C Flores Publisher Comments Gardening can be a political act. Creativity, fulfillment, connection, revolution?it all begins when we get our hands in the dirt....
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The Cob Builders Handbook
by Becky Bee Publisher Comments Cob (an old English word for lump) is old-fashioned concrete, made out of a mixture of clay, sand, and straw. Becky Bee's manual is a friendly guide to making your own earth structure, with chapters on design, foundations, floors, windows and doors...
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Real Goods Solar Living Source Book: Your Complete Guide to Renewable Energy Technologies and Sustainable Living, Special 30th Anniversary Edition
by John Schaeffer Publisher Comments Concerns over dwindling resources and environmental degradation are driving many to seek alternatives to our wasteful, polluting lifestyle. Clean technologies such as solar power, wind power, and biodiesel fuel are soaring in popularity. Real Goods Solar...
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