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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
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    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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    A Concerned Citizen: Civics in Action

    By Susan Utell, Bo Boudart, Bullfrog Films

    Marine toxicologist Dr. Riki Ott, who helped fishing communities hit by the Exxon Valdez and Deepwater Horizon spills, creates a civics course to help young activists become effective.

    • May 13, 2019
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    Seven Ways to Build Resilience

    By Chris Johnstone, Little, Brown Book Group

    This engaging, practical book draws together scientific understanding, real life examples and proven methods in describing how you can develop seven essential skills that help your resilience grow.

    • May 10, 2019
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    Falter

    By Bill McKibben, Palgrave Macmillan

    Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out.

    • April 23, 2019
    Insane Trade

    Insane Trade!

    Local Futures

    This short film introduces the issue to a broad audience in a catchy, humorous way, and a detailed factsheet  covers the extent and harm of insane trade in greater depth and encourages people to take positive action towards supporting local economies.

    • March 28, 2019
    Growing a Revolution

    Growing a Revolution with Soil

    By David R. Montgomery, W.W. Norton

    In Growing a Revolution, geologist David R. Montgomery travels the world, meeting farmers at the forefront of an agricultural movement to restore soil health.

    • March 26, 2019
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    The Future is Rural

    By Jason Bradford, Post Carbon Institute

    The Future is Rural challenges the conventional wisdom about the future of food in our modern, globalized world.

    • March 5, 2019
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    Food from the Radical Center

    By Gary Paul Nabhan, Island Press

    In Food from the Radical Center, Gary Nabhan tells the stories of diverse communities who are getting their hands dirty and bringing back North America's unique fare: bison, sturgeon, camas lilies, ancient grains, turkeys, and more.

    • March 5, 2019
    Managing without growth

    Managing without Growth, Second Edition

    By Peter A. Victor, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Ten years after the publication of the first edition of this influential book, the evidence is even stronger that human economies are overwhelming the regenerative capacity of the planet.

    • February 20, 2019
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    Nourishment

    By Fred Provenza, Chelsea Green

    In Nourishment Provenza presents his thesis of the wisdom body, a wisdom that links flavor-feedback relationships at a cellular level with biochemically rich foods to meet the body’s nutritional and medicinal needs.

    • January 16, 2019
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    The New Organic Grower, 3rd Edition

    By Eliot Coleman, Chelsea Green

    Eliot Coleman’s books and innovative methods have helped innumerable organic farmers build successful farms in deep accordance with nature.

    • January 8, 2019
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