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Sitopia

By Carolyn Steel, Penguin Press

We live in a world shaped by food, a Sitopia (sitos - food; topos - place). Food, and how we search for and consume it, has defined our human journey.

    • October 15, 2020
    The Reindeer Chronicles

    The Reindeer Chronicles

    By Judith D. Schwartz, Chelsea Green Publishing

    In a time of uncertainty about our environmental future—an eye-opening global tour of some of the most wounded places on earth, and stories of how a passionate group of eco-restorers is leading the way to their revitalization.

    • September 23, 2020
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    Wilding: Returning Nature to Our Farm

    By Isabella Tree, New York Review Books

    At a time of looming environmental disaster, Wilding is an inspiring story of a farm, a couple, and a community transformed. Isabella Tree’s wonderful book brings together science, natural history, a fair bit of drama, and—ultimately—hope.

    • September 8, 2020
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    The Regenerative Grower’s Guide to Garden Amendments

    By Nigel Palmer

    Revitalize your garden—and go beyond compost—by making your own biologically diverse inoculants and mineral-rich amendments using leaf mold, weeds, eggshells, bones, and other materials available for little or no cost!

    • August 11, 2020
    Mesquite

    Mesquite

    By Gary Paul Nabhan, Chelsea Green Publishing

    In his latest book, Mesquite, Gary Paul Nabhan employs humor and contemplative reflection to convince readers that they have never really glimpsed the essence of what he calls “arboreality.”

    • July 9, 2020

    The Green New Deal and Beyond

    By Stan Cox, City Lights

    The prospect of a Green New Deal is providing millions of people with a sense of hope. If the legislation passes into law, enacting its plan will begin a national mobilization on a scale not seen in the U.S. since World War II. But will it be enough to prevent climate disaster?

    • May 20, 2020
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    Cooked: Survival by Zip Code

    In COOKED, Helfand challenges herself and others to truly see and respond to the invisible man-made disasters taking place in towns and cities across the country before the next "natural" disaster hits.

    • April 30, 2020
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    Grassroots Rising

    By Ronnie Cummins, Chelsea Green

    Grassroots Rising is a passionate call to action for the global body politic, providing practical solutions for how to survive—and thrive—in catastrophic times. Author Ronnie Cummins aims to educate and inspire citizens worldwide to organize and become active participants in preventing ecological collapse.

    • February 12, 2020
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    Overload

    Bullfrog Films

    OVERLOAD reveals the increasing toxic burden on human health from chemicals in our environment. Before starting a family, Soozie Eastman, daughter of an industrial chemical distributor, embarks on a journey to find out the levels of toxins in her body and explores if there is anything she or anyone else can do to change them.

    • January 28, 2020
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    Climate Futures: Re-imagining Global Climate Justice

    By John Foran, Kum-Kum Bhavnani, Priya Anna Kurian, Debashish Munshi, Zed Books

    Approaching the issues of climate change and climate justice from a range of diverse perspectives including those of culture, gender, indigeneity, race, and sexuality, as well as challenging colonial histories and capitalist presents, Climate Futures boldly addresses the apparent inevitability of climate chaos.

    • January 3, 2020
    Fibershed

    Fibershed: Growing a Movement of Farmers, Fashion Activists, and Makers for a New Textile Economy

    Chelsea Green

    There is a major disconnect between what we wear and our knowledge of its impact on land, air, water, labor, and human health. Even those who value access to safe, local, nutritious food have largely overlooked the production of fiber, dyes, and the chemistry that forms the backbone of modern textile production. While humans are 100 percent reliant on their second skin, it’s common to think little about the biological and human cultural context from which our clothing derives.

    • November 22, 2019
    From What Is to What If?

    From What Is to What If

    By Rob Hopkins, Chelsea Green

    The founder of the international Transition Towns movement asks why true creative, positive thinking is in decline, asserts that it’s more important now than ever, and suggests ways our communities can revive and reclaim it.

    • October 31, 2019
    Farming on the Wild Side

    Farming on the Wild Side

    By Nancy Hayden, John Hayden, Chelsea Green

    Northern Vermont’s Nancy and John Hayden have spent the last 25 years transforming their draft horse–powered, organic vegetable and livestock operation into an agroecological, regenerative, biodiverse, organic fruit farm, fruit nursery, and pollinator sanctuary.

    • October 23, 2019
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    Eating Tomorrow

    By Timothy A. Wise, The New Press

    A major new book that shows the world already has the tools to feed itself, without expanding industrial agriculture or adopting genetically modified seeds, from the Small Planet Institute expert

    • September 10, 2019

    The Agroforestry Handbook

    By Ben Raskin, The Soil Association

    Written for farmers and advisors this book will help you assess the potential business benefits of agroforestry for your farm or client and to understand the possible benefits to the wider environment.

    • August 16, 2019

    Our Future in the Land

    Food, Farming, and Countryside Commission

    The actions we take in the next ten years, to stop ecosystems collapse, to recover and regenerate nature and to restore people’s health and wellbeing are now critical. In this final report, the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission sets out radical and practical ways for policymakers, business and communities to respond to the challenges.

    • August 7, 2019
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    Call of the Reed Warbler

    By Charles Massy, Chelsea Green

    It is the story of how a grassroots revolution—a true underground insurgency—can save the planet, help reduce and reverse climate change, and build healthy people and healthy communities, pivoting significantly on our relationship with growing and consuming food.

    • July 22, 2019
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    Road Map to a Green New Deal: From Extraction to Stewardship

    By Mathew Lawrence, Common Wealth

    Tinkering at the margins of an economic model driving environmental breakdown is guaranteed to deepen the climate emergency. To thrive, only a systemic response to a systems crisis will do. We need a UK Green New Deal to rapidly and justly decarbonise our society.

    • July 16, 2019

    Local is Our Future

    By Helena Norberg-Hodge

    Distilling the wisdom gleaned from four decades of activism and direct experience in both the global North and South, Helena lucidly deconstructs the old narrative of ‘progress’ through technological advance and corporate growth, while presenting a concise and compelling case for economic localization.

    • July 9, 2019

    Fibershed Clothing Guide: Second Edition

    Fibershed

    Our clothes shouldn’t come at the cost of people or planet. By connecting with your fibershed, you are invited to get to know a geographic designation that provides your natural fiber and dye resources and therefore presents a consumption boundary too.

    • June 18, 2019
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