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Better World Shopping Guide (3RD 10 Edition) by Ellis Jones Publisher Comments Many companies claim to be good corporate citizens. So how does a responsible shopper separate the truly green from the greenwashers? Now in its third edition, The Better World Shopping Guide is the only comprehensive guide for socially and... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them by Wayne Pacelle Publisher Comments In countless fascinating ways, our relationship with animals is an essential part of the human experience. Now, one of the world's leading champions of animal welfare offers a dramatic examination of our age-old bond to all creatures. Wayne Pacelle... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.) by Barbara Kingsolver and Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver 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... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place by Terry Tempest Williams 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... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Endgame, Volume 2 Resistance (06 Edition) by Derrick Jensen Publisher Comments Whereas Volume 1 of Endgame presents the problem of civilization, Volume 2 of this pivotal work illustrates our means of resistance. Incensed and hopeful, impassioned and lucid, Endgame leap-frogs the environmental movement's deadlock over our... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Native to Nowhere: Sustaining Home and Community in a Global Age by Timothy Beatley Publisher Comments Meaningful places offer a vital counterbalance to the forces of globalization and sameness that are overtaking our world, and are an essential element in the search for solutions to current sustainability challenges. In Native to Nowhere, author Tim... (read more) List Price $42.50 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table by Tracie Mcmillan Publisher Comments What if you cant afford nine-dollar tomatoes? That was the question award-winning journalist Tracie McMillan couldnt escape as she watched the debate about Americas meals unfold, one that urges us to pay foods true cost—which is to say, pay... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan Publisher Comments The bestselling author of The Botany of Desire explores the ecology of eating to unveil why we consume what we consume in the twenty-first century. "What should we have for dinner?" To one degree or another this simple question assails any creature... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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Ecomind: Changing the Way We Think, to Create the World We Want by Frances Moore Lappe Publisher Comments In EcoMind, Frances Moore Lappe — a giant of the environmental movement—confronts accepted wisdom of environmentalism. Drawing on the latest research from anthropology to neuroscience and her own field experience, she argues that the biggest... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Silent Spring by Rachel Carson 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'... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature by David George Haskell Publisher Comments A biologist reveals the secret world hidden in a single square meter of forest. In this wholly original book, biologist David Haskell uses a one- square-meter patch of old-growth Tennessee forest as a window onto the entire natural world. Visiting it... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough and Michael Braungart Staff Pick "An eco-sustainable manifesto. The next Industrial Revolution will be Green!"... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan Staff Pick True or false: One out of every four items for sale in the average American supermarket contains corn? (Think, think, think...) Believe it or not, it's true. If this unsettles you — or just plain doesn't make sense — pick up a copy of Michael Pollan... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.25 Used - Trade Paper
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An Air That Kills: How the Asbestos Poisoning of Libby, Montana, Uncovered a National Scandal by Andrew Schneider Publisher Comments An Air That Kills is the horrifying true story of the decades-long poisoning of a small town and the definitive exposé of asbestos in America-all told by the prize-winning journalists who broke it. This is the story of miners who were unaware of... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Environmentalism by Da Peterson Del Mar Publisher Comments Are current global conservation efforts enough to save the environment? This is the essential introduction to the debates, the movements, the successes and failures of the environmentalism.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Urban Food Revolution: Changing the Way We Feed Cities by Peter Ladner Publisher Comments Our reliance on industrial agriculture has resulted in a food supply riddled with hidden environmental, economic, and health care costs and beset by rising food prices. With only a handful of corporations responsible for the lions share of the food on... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Zoo Story: Life in the Garden of Captives by Thomas French Publisher Comments Welcome to the savage and surprising world of Zoo Story, an unprecedented account of the secret life of a zoo and its inhabitants, both animal and human. Based on six years of research, the book follows a handful of unforgettable characters at Tampa... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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Bottled Lightning: Superbatteries, Electric Cars, and the New Lithium Economy by Seth Fletcher Publisher Comments Lithium batteries may hold the key to an environmentally sustainable, oil-independent future. From electric cars to a “smart” power grid that can actually store electricity, letting us harness the powers of the sun and the wind and use them... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Fate of the Species: Why the Human Race May Cause Its Own Extinction and How We Can Stop It by Fred Guterl Publisher Comments The sixth "mass extinction event" in the history of planet Earth is currently under way, with over two hundred species dying off every day. The cause of this seismic event is also the source of the single biggest threat to human life: our own inventions.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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