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Designing and Maintaining Your Edible Landscape Naturally by Robert Kourik Publisher Comments First published in 1986, this classic is back in print by popular demand. It is the authoritative text on edible landscaping, featuring a step-by-step guide to designing a productive environment using vegetables, fruits, flowers, and herbs for a... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $25.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience by Rob Hopkins Publisher Comments We live in an oil-dependent world, arriving at this level of dependency in a very short space of time by treating petroleum as if it were in infinite supply. Most of us avoid thinking about what happens when oil runs out (or becomes prohibitively... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front by Joel Salatin Publisher Comments Drawing upon 40 years' experience as an ecological farmer and marketer, Joel Salatin explains with humor and passion why Americans do not have the freedom to choose the food they purchase and eat. From child labor regulations to food inspection... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $16.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Fresh Food from Small Spaces: The Square-Inch Gardener's Guide to Year-Round Growing, Fermenting, and Sprouting by R J Ruppenthal Publisher Comments Books on container gardening have been wildly popular with urban and suburban readers, but until now, there has been no comprehensive "how-to" guide for growing fresh food in the absence of open land. Fresh Food from Small Spaces fills the gap as a... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Hand-Sculpted House: A Practical and Philosophical Guide to Building a Cob Cottage by Ianto Evans 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... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $23.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Four-Season Harvest: How to Harvest Fresh Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long by Eliot Coleman Publisher Comments If you love the joys of eating home-garden vegetables but always thought those joys had to stop at the end of summer, this book is for you. Eliot Coleman introduces the surprising fact that most of the United States has more winter sunshine than the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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. Food Not Lawns combines practical wisdom on ecological design and community-building with a fresh, green perspective on an... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Worms Eat My Garbage by Mary Appelhof Staff Pick Composting is a dirty job, but if you've ever tried growing something without the aid of all that nutrient-rich organic matter, you know it's a necessary one. Thankfully, there exists in nature a creature who actually enjoys wading through your kitchen... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Backyard Berry Book: A Hands-On Guide to Growing Berries, Brambles, and Vine Fruit in the Home Garden by Stella Otto Publisher Comments Here's hands-on advice from a professional horticulturist and experienced fruit grower to help gardeners create an edible landscape. The Backyard Berry Book provided all the information that backyard gardeners need to grow strawberries, rhubarb... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Preserving Food Without Freezing or Canning: Old World Techniques and Recipes by Terre Vivante Publisher Comments Typical books about preserving garden produce nearly always assume that modern "kitchen gardeners" will boil or freeze their vegetables and fruits. Yet here is a book that goes back to the future—celebrating traditional but little-known French... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity, and Courage in a World Gone Mad by Frances Moore Lappe Publisher Comments Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity and Courage in a World Gone Mad is a little book with a big message. Frances Moore Lappe author of sixteen books, including three-million-copy bestseller Diet for a Small Planet distills her world... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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American Farmstead Cheese: The Complete Guide to Making and Selling Artisan Cheeses by Paul Kindstedt Publisher Comments This comprehensive guide to farmstead cheese explains the diversity of cheeses in terms of historical animal husbandry, pastures, climate, preservation, and transport-all of which still contribute to the uniqueness of farm cheeses today. Discover the... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $27.50 Used - 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: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Permaculture in a Nutshell by Patrick Whitefield Publisher Comments Permaculture is a creative approach to abundant and fulfilling lifestyles. It is for everyone wishing to live sustainable and tread more lightly on the Earth. Permaculture is an ecologically sound approach to providing for our needs, including our food... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Mind, Life and Universe: Conversations with Great Scientists of Our Time by Lynn Margulis Publisher Comments National Review Attention, Radio Satellite Tour, Off-the-Book-Page Coverage, Academic Advertising, Library Marketing Campaign, Author Lecture Tie-in, Outside Publicist.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Guantanamo: What the World Should Know (Politics of the Living) by Michael Ratner Publisher Comments In the months following its initial release, Guant¡namo: What the World Should Know has proved to be a disturbingly accurate account of the Bush administration's tangle with civil liberties and torture. Written by Michael Ratner (Center for... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot by Naomi Wolf Staff Pick The End of America should be required reading for every American. Rather than giving us a partisan 600-page tome on the crimes of the Bush administration, Naomi Wolf lays out clearly and concisely how we as a people have allowed our government to move... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Challenge to Power: Money, Investing, and Democracy by John C Harrington Publisher Comments Our only chance to save the planet and take back control of our economy and political system lies in our ability to control our dollars. In a brilliant synthesis of thirty years of experience, John C. Harrington gives investors the strategies to thwart... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $5.98 Used - Hardcover
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The New Ecological Home: A Complete Guide to Green Building Options by Daniel D Chiras Publisher Comments For anyone interested in building for a sustainable future, Chiras provides a wealth of up-to-date and practical information on green building techniques, materials, products and cutting-edge technologies.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Slow Food Guide To San Francisco and the Bay Area: Restaurants, Markets, and Bars (Slow Food Guides) by Sylvan Brackett Synopsis With more than 500 recommended restaurants, this is the third in a series of destination city guides for "eco-gastronomic" travelers--adventurous people who seek out quality, tradition, and fresh, seasonal, and locally grown ingredients when they explore... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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