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Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America's Most Hopeful Landscape By Bill McKibben Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9781627790208
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Published: St. Martin's Griffin - April 1st, 2014

"[McKibben is] a marvelous writer who has thought deeply about the environment, loves this part of the country, and knows how to be a first-class traveling companion."—Entertainment Weekly


Thinking in Systems: International Bestseller By Donella Meadows, Diana Wright (Editor) Cover Image
$22.95
ISBN: 9781603580557
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Published: Chelsea Green Publishing Company - December 3rd, 2008

The classic book on systems thinking--with more than half a million copies sold worldwide

"This is a fabulous book... This book opened my mind and reshaped the way I think about investing."--Forbes


Elemental: How Five Elements Changed Earth's Past and Will Shape Our Future By Stephen Porder Cover Image
$27.95
ISBN: 9780691177298
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Published: Princeton University Press - September 12th, 2023

An ecologist explores how life itself shapes Earth using the elemental constituents we all share


The Reindeer Chronicles: And Other Inspiring Stories of Working with Nature to Heal the Earth By Judith D. Schwartz Cover Image
$22.95
ISBN: 9781603588652
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Published: Chelsea Green Publishing Company - August 19th, 2020

"Compelling, Fascinating, sometimes unexpectedly moving, this vitally important book is, above all, a springboard for hope and transformation."--Isabella Tree

"A lucid and compelling look at the global movement of ecological rehabilitation."-- The Boston Globe


The Local Economy Solution: How Innovative, Self-Financing Pollinator Enterprises Can Grow Jobs and Prosperity By Michael Shuman Cover Image
$19.95
ISBN: 9781603585750
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Published: Chelsea Green Publishing Company - June 11th, 2015

Reinventing economic development as if small business mattered


Letters to a Young Farmer: On Food, Farming, and Our Future By Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture (Compiled by), Martha Hodgkins (Editor) Cover Image
$21.95
ISBN: 9781616895303
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Published: Princeton Architectural Press - March 7th, 2017

Letters to a Young Farmer is for everyone who appreciates good food grown with respect for the earth, people, animals, and community. Three dozen esteemed writers, farmers, chefs, activists, and visionaries address the highs and lows of farming life—as well as larger questions of how our food is produced and consumed—in vivid and personal detail.


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The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food By Dan Barber Cover Image
$19.00
ISBN: 9780143127154
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Published: Penguin Books - April 7th, 2015

“Not since Michael Pollan has such a powerful storyteller emerged to reform American food.” —The Washington Post


Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal: A Food Science Nutrition History Book By Mark Bittman Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9780358645528
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Published: Harvest - April 26th, 2022

From hunting and gathering to GMOs and ultra-processed foods, this expansive tour of human history rewrites the story of our species and points the way to a better future.

The history of Homo sapiens is usually told as a story of technology or economics. But there is a more fundamental driver: food. How we hunted and gathered explains our emergence as a new species and


The New Corporate Climate Leadership (Routledge Research in Sustainability and Business) By Edward Cameron, Emilie Prattico Cover Image
$44.95
ISBN: 9780367458850
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Published: Routledge - December 6th, 2021

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the role of the private sector in accelerating the transition to a low-carbon, climate-resilient, and inclusive world.


Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities By Veronica Davis, tamika l. butler (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Veronica Davis, tamika l. butler (Foreword by)
$32.00
ISBN: 9781642832099
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Published: Island Press - July 13th, 2023

Transportation planners, engineers, and policymakers in the US face the monumental task of righting the wrongs of their predecessors while charting the course for the next generation. This task requires empathy while pushing against forces in the industry that are resistant to change. How do you change a system that was never designed to be equitable?


River Notes: Drought and the Twilight of the American West -- A Natural and Human History of the Colorado By Wade Davis Cover Image
$17.95
ISBN: 9781778401428
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Published: Greystone Books - September 19th, 2023

At a time when the Colorado River and all those who depend on it are in peril, this urgent book offers "both a love song and a paean of regret to America's most spectacular river" (Denver Post) and "a plea to save it] before it's too late" (The Wall Street Journal).


The Self-Sufficiency Bible: 100s of Ways to Live More Sustainably  Wherever You Are By Simon Dawson Cover Image
$19.95
ISBN: 9781786784834
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Published: Watkins Publishing - February 9th, 2021

A fully revised and updated edition of the self-sufficiency classic. Packed with practical information and expert advice on everything from gardening to cooking, and from health and beauty to raising livestock, this is the indispensable guide to living more sustainably, whether you live in a city apartment block or on a rural smallholding.