By Samuel Alexander, Brendan Gleeson, Palgrave Macmillan
This book addresses a central dilemma of the urban age: how to make the vast suburban landscapes that ring the globe safe and sustainable in the face of planetary ecological crisis.
By Emanuele Coccia, Polity Books
In this book, philosopher Emanuele Coccia argues that, as the very creator of atmosphere, plants occupy the fundamental position from which we should analyze all elements of life.
RARE
During the UN-led Convention on Biological Diversity - Conference of the Parties (CBD COP) in 2018, a new report was released of 338 community-based solutions to help farmers and other agricultural practitioners adopt ecologically-friendly practices that protect biodiversity.
By Gabe Brown, Chelsea Green Publishing
In Dirt to Soil Gabe Brown tells the story of that amazing journey and offers a wealth of innovative solutions to our most pressing and complex contemporary agricultural challenge—restoring the soil.
Presencing Institute
The September 2018 live session dove into detail about awareness-based systems change: an approach to leading profound change in social systems, that focuses on creating new outcomes by facilitating shifts in consciousness for the stakeholders in a system.
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.
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.
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.
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.
By Michael Phillips, Chelsea Green Publishing
Regenerative practices for the farm, garden, orchard, forest, and landscape
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.