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Everything for Everyone

By Nathan Schneider, Hachette Books

The origins of the next radical economy is rooted in a tradition that has empowered people for centuries and is now making a comeback.

    • September 20, 2018
    Making Massive Small Change

    Making Massive Small Change

    By Kelvin Campbell, Chelsea Green Publishing

    The key to fixing our broken patterns of urban development does not lie in grand plans or giant projects; rather, it lies in the collective wisdom and energy of people harnessing the power of many small ideas and actions to make a big difference. We call this making “Massive Small” change.

    • September 14, 2018
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    Warehousing Wealth

    By Chuck Collins, Helen Flannery, Josh Hoxie, Institute for Policy Studies

    At a time of staggering inequality, wealthy individuals are using donor-advised funds, or DAFs, to claim substantial tax benefits, while often failing to move funds in a timely manor to independent nonprofits addressing urgent social needs.

    • September 5, 2018
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    The Production of Money

    By Ann Pettifor, Verso Books

    In this accessible, brilliantly argued book, leading political economist Ann Pettifor explains in straightforward terms history’s most misunderstood invention: the money system.

    • August 24, 2018
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    Mycorrhizal Planet

    By Michael Phillips, Chelsea Green Publishing

    Regenerative practices for the farm, garden, orchard, forest, and landscape

    • August 7, 2018
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    Emissions Impossible: Report

    By Staff, IATP, GRAIN Staff, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy

    In direct contradiction to JBS’s outlook for strong growth, the imperatives of climate change necessitate a significant scaling back of production from the world’s largest meat and dairy companies without delay.

    • July 26, 2018

    Canada’s Energy Outlook

    By David Hughes, Canada's Energy Outlook

    This study analyses Canada’s energy system, and provides an objective assessment of future options to maintain energy security and meet climate commitments. 

    • May 9, 2018

    It Will Be Green Again

    UNHCR and Land Life Company

    Can we rethink how to shelter the world‘s refugees safely and sustainably? It Will Be Green Against is a short documentary through the eyes of a refugee family living on a Green Refugee Camp in Menawoa Camp Cameroon.

    • April 24, 2018

    Climate-Wise Landscaping

    By Sue Reed, Ginny Stibolt, New Society Publishers

    individuals at a loss, wondering what, if anything, can be done. Sue Reed and Ginny Stibolt offer a rallying cry in response — instead of wringing our hands, let's roll up our sleeves. Based on decades of experience, this book is packed with simple, practical steps anyone can take to beautify any landscape or garden, while helping protect the planet and the species that call it home.

    • April 24, 2018

    Is Inequality in America Irreversible?

    By Chuck Collins, Polity Books

    In this book, leading US scholar and activist Chuck Collins succinctly diagnoses the causes and drivers of rampant inequality, and demolishes simplistic theories that hold that current inequalities are primarily the result of technological change and globalization or differences in merit.

    • April 23, 2018

    Radical Regenerative Gardening and Farming

    By Frank Holzman, Rowman & Littlefield

    Radical Regenerative Gardening and Farming informs and inspires gardeners, and farmers, who wish to bring quality and integrity into their work with the land. It is about developing close relationships with land that produces our food.

    • March 28, 2018

    Fruitful Labor

    By Mike Madison, Chelsea Green Publishing

    As the average age of America’s farmers continues to rise, we face serious questions about what farming will look like in the near future, and who will be growing our food. Many younger people are interested in going into agriculture, especially organic farming, but cannot find affordable land, or lack the conceptual framework and practical information they need to succeed in a job that can be both difficult and deeply fulfilling.

    • March 23, 2018

    The New Carbon Architecture

    By Bruce King, New Society Publishers

    Like never before in history, buildings can become part of the climate solution. With biomimicry and innovation, we can pull huge amounts of carbon out of the atmosphere and lock it up as walls, roofs, foundations, and insulation. We can literally make buildings out of the sky with a massive positive impact.

    • March 12, 2018

    Framing the Economy

    By PIRC staff, Public Interest Research Centre

    Our Framing the Economy report outlines how the British public think about the economy and offers two new story strategies to bring about change. 

    • February 23, 2018

    Shale Reality Check

    Shale gas and tight oil from low permeability reservoirs have provided a new lease on life for U.S. oil and gas production. The question is, how sustainable is shale production in the long term given optimistic forecasts of robust production through 2050 and beyond?

    • February 7, 2018

    Triple Divide [REDACTED]

    By Joshua Pribanic, Melissa Troutman, Bullfrog Films

    This award-winning "bombshell" documentary covers the impact of fracking in one of the country's most pristine watersheds. With exclusive interviews from oil and gas industry leaders, independent experts and impacted residents, TRIPLE DIVIDE [REDACTED] covers five years (2011 - 2016) of cradle-to-grave investigations that reveal how regulators and industry keep water contamination covered up.

    • January 24, 2018

    The Minimalist Gardener: A Tribute to the Life of Patrick Whitefield

    By Patrick Whitefield, Permanent Publications

    This is low input, year round No Dig gardening that provides your kitchen with delicious fresh food, whilst not breaking your back. Written by an acknowledged expert, this friendly guide will help you grow food in whatever space you have – large or small, rural or urban – with minimal bought in inputs, and maximum satisfaction.

    • January 8, 2018

    Evolution of Organic

    By Mark Kitchell, Bullfrog Films

    Evolution of Organic tells the story of organic agriculture, told by those in California who built the movement.

    • December 20, 2017

    The Permaculture Earthworks Handbook

    By Douglas Barnes, New Society Publishers

    In the face of drought and desertification, well-designed water harvesting earthworks such as swales, ponds, and dams are the most effective way to channel water into productive use. The result can be increased food production, higher groundwater levels, reduced irrigation needs, and enhanced ecosystem resilience.

    • November 30, 2017

    Carbon Pricing: A Critical Perspective for Community Resistance

    By Tamra Gilbertson, Climate Justice Alliance

    While city, state, and national leaders gather at the UN Climate Talks to launch and implement platforms and agendas that promote carbon trading, carbon offsets, and REDD+, the Indigenous Environmental Network and the Climate Justice Alliance take a bold stance to reject and challenge these so-called innovative solutions by releasing the “Carbon Pricing Report: A Critical Perspective for Community Resistance.”

    • November 28, 2017

    A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things

    By Raj Patel, University of California

    Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap, modern commerce has transformed, governed, and devastated Earth. In A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore present a new approach to analyzing today’s planetary emergencies.

    • November 8, 2017
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