The Value and Price of Food: An excerpt from Te...

The rise of consumerism has led to a shrinking of choices, ecological devastation, and an unsustainable and immoral industrial food system.

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Pears - An Excerpt from Whole Foods Companion

"Pears" - An excerpt from Whole Foods Companion by Dianne Onstad. Chelsea Green Publishing Company. Copyright 1996, 2004.

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DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming T...

"A fascinating and provocative book." —John Merrow, Education Correspondent, PBS NewsHour, and President, Learning Matters, Inc. The price of college tuition has increased more than any other ma...

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Browse Our Spring 2010 New Releases & Bestselle...

Chelsea Green Spring/Summer 2010 contents contents Cheesemonger Terra Madre 0 Confronting Collapse The Earth’s Best Story The Biochar Debate DIY U 0 Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money 0 ...

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The Raw Milk Revolution by David Gumpert [Book ...

The Raw Milk Revolution takes readers behind the scenes of the government's tough and occasionally brutal intimidation tactics, as seen through the eyes of milk producers, government regulators, sc...

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Waiting on a Train by James McCommons [Book Pre...

During the tumultuous year of 2008—when gas prices reached $4 a gallon, Amtrak set ridership records, and a commuter train collided with a freight train in California—journalist James McCommons...

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Death & Sex (Book Preview)

On DEATH . . . What is shared by spawning Pacific salmon, towering trees, and suicidal bacteria? In his lucid and concise exploration of how and why things die, Tyler Volk explains the intriguin...

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The Organic Farmer's Business Handbook by Richa...

In The Organic Farmer’s Business Handbook, Richard Wiswall shares advice on how to make your vegetable production more efficient, better manage your employees and finances, and turn a profit. Fro...

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Marijuana is Safer (Book Preview)

Marijuana Is Safer reaches for a broad audience, including people who have never used marijuana and may be skeptical about the authors’ claims. The book includes a detailed introduction to the pl...

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Howard Dean's Prescription for Real Healthcare ...

Americans have pondered how to reform healthcare since the days of Harry Truman. But for most Americans, little has changed—except that healthcare costs have soared, health insurance companies ha...

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Chelsea Green's 2009 Fall Catalog

This is the Chelsea Green 2009 Fall book catalog. We've been publishing books about the politics and practice of sustainable living since. 1984.

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Gaia's Garden, by Toby Hemenway (Book Preview)

The first edition of Gaia’s Garden sparked the imagination of America’s home gardeners, introducing permaculture’s central message: Working with Nature, not against her, results in more beaut...

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Climate Change, by Amanda Cuthbert and Jon Clif...

You know that the ice caps are melting, the seasons are changing, sea levels are rising, storms are on the increase, but what can you do about it? Plenty! This book puts the power back into your ha...

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Winter Harvest Handbook, by Eliot Coleman (Book...

Choosing locally grown organic food is a sustainable living trend that’s taken hold throughout North America. Celebrated farming expert Eliot Coleman helped start this movement with The New Organ...

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Walking With Great Apes, by Sy Montgomery (Book...

Three astounding women scientists have in recent years penetrated the jungles of Africa and Borneo to observe, nurture, and defend humanity’s closest cousins. Jane Goodall has worked with the chi...

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Future Scenarios, by David Holmgren (Book Preview)

In Future Scenarios, permaculture co-originator and leading sustainability innovator David Holmgren outlines four scenarios that bring to life the likely cultural, political, agricultural, and econ...

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Wind Energy Basics, by Paul Gipe (Book Preview)

Wind Energy Basics offers a how-to for home-based wind applications, with advice on which wind turbines to choose and which to avoid. He guides wind-energy installers through considerations such as...

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Libation, A Bitter Alchemy, by Deirdre Heekin (...

In Libation, a Bitter Alchemy, a series of linked personal essays, Heekin explores the curious development of her nose and palate, her intuitive education and relationship with wine and spirits, an...

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Transition Timeline, by Shaun Chamberlin (Book ...

The Transition Timeline lightens the fear of our uncertain future, providing a map of what we are facing and the different pathways available to us. It describes four possible scenarios for the UK ...

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The End of Money and the Future of Civilization...

Very few people realize that the nature of money has changed profoundly over the past three centuries, or—as has been clear with the latest global financial crisis—the extent to which it has be...

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