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Albert, Michael—Parecon: Life After Capitalism
"What do you want?" is a constant query put to economic and globalization activists decrying current poverty, alienation and degradation. In this highly praised new work, destined to attract worldwide attention and support, Michael Albert provides an answer: Participatory Economics, "Parecon" for short—a new economy, an alternative to capitalism, built on familiar values including solidarity, equity, diversity and people democratically controlling their own lives, but utilizing original institutions fully described and defended in the book.
Alexander, Christopher—A Pattern of Language
This classic handbook presents a language which ordinary people can use to express themselves in their own communities or homes, and to better communicate with each other.
Alvord, Katie—Divorce Your Car!: Ending the Love Affair with the Automobile
Car-dependency is a serious problem, but Divorce Your Car! is leavened with love-affair and self-help analogies in the text as well as cartoon illustrations. From commuters crazed by congestion and soccer moms sick of chauffeuring, to environmentalists looking for auto alternatives Divorce Your Car! provides all the reasons not to drive and the many alternative ways we can all get around without our cars.
Berry, Wendell—Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food
Berry is the author of 50 books of fiction, poetry, and essays and has received numerous awards for his work. He has been the inspiration for such luminaries as Michael Pollan, Barbara Kingsolver, and Alice Waters. Wendell Berry, the grandfather of the Slow Food movement, reminds us all to take the time to understand the basics of what we ingest. “Eating is an agricultural act,” he writes. For the last five decades, Berry has embodied mindful eating through his land practices and his writing. Bringing It to the Table essays address such concerns as: How does organic measure up against locally grown? What are the differences between small and large farms, and how does that affect what you put on your dinner table? What can you do to support sustainable agriculture? Bringing It to the Table is poised to become a favorite of old fans, as well as new readers who are passionate about food and are discovering Berry for the first time. Buy local at BookPeople!
Brown, Lester—Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization
In this updated edition of the landmark book, Brown outlines a survival strategy for the early 21st-century civilization. He warns that the only effective response to the world-wide environmental disruption is a World War II-type mobilization like that in the U.S. after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Bruno, Kenny & Joshua Karliner—earthsummit.biz: The Corporate Takeover of Sustainable Development
A muckraking expose of corporate greenwashing and of the disturbing trend toward U.N.-corporate "partnerships" that give corporations good PR without requiring them to improve their behavior.
Commoner, Barry—The Closing Circle (Bantam Books)
Great ecology from the 1950s.
Cristian, Diana Leafe—Creating a Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities
Creating a Life Together provides step-by-step, practical "how-to" information on how to launch and sustain a successful ecovillage or intentional community. Through anecdotes, stories, and cautionary tales about real communities, and by profiling seven successful communities in depth, the book examines "the successful 10 percent" and why 90 percent fail. Locally available at Monkey Wrench Books.
Day, Christopher—Places of the Soul: Architecture and Environmental Design as a Healing Art
This new edition reminds readers that true sustainable design does not simply mean energy efficient building. Sustainable buildings must provide for the soul.
Edey, Anna—Solviva
The story of an extremely profitable, working sustainable farm.
Faillace, Linda—Mad Sheep
Mad Sheep is the account of one familys struggle against a bullying and corrupt government agency that long ago abandoned the family farmer to serve the needs of corporate agriculture and the industrialization of our food supply.
Friend, Catherine—The Compassionate Carnivore
Tackles the carnivore's dilemma, exploring the contradictions and questions surrounding the bewildering choices facing today's more conscientious meat eaters.
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Fromartz, Samual—Organic, INC.
Organic, Inc. tells how an $11 billion industry arose out of an alternative food movement, bringing backwoods idealists into the age of the organic tortilla chip. A juggernaut in the otherwise sluggish food industry, organic food is now a consumer phenomenon growing at 20 percent a year. But what is organic food? Is it really better for you? Where did it come from and why so many of us buying it?
Fukuoka, Masanoba—One Straw Revolution
Inspiring look at how not to mess around with Mother Nature.
Garbee, Jenn—Secret Suppers: Rogue Chefs & Underground Restaurants in Warehouses, Townhouses, Open Fields, and Everywhere in Between
In attics, garages, living rooms, warehouses, and wine cellars across America, underground chefs are taking the food scene by storm. They're throwing dinner parties at the drop of a hat, evading the cops, enticing the food-obsessed, and making headlines.
Gayeton, Douglas—Slow: Life in a Tuscan Town
In the spirit of The Oxford Project and American Farmer, Welcome Books brings you SLOW: LIFE IN A TUSCAN TOWN, by Douglas Gayeton, a magical and utterly unique portrayal of rural Italian life, and a tribute to the region's kaleidoscope of charming local characters whose livelihoods and shared culture center on the growing, preparing, eating, and everyday pleasures of food. SLOW is an enchanting celebration of a precious and increasingly rare way of life that leaves you longing to pack your bags and buy a one-way ticket to Tuscany. Buy local at BookPeople!
Goodall, Jane—Harvest for Hope
Renowned scientist and bestselling author Goodall delivers an eye-opening and empowering book that explores the social and personal significance of the food people produce and consume.
Grossman, Elizabeth—High Tech Trash: Digital Devices, Hidden Toxics, and Human Health
An environmental journalist reveals that digital may be sleek, but it's anything but clean. Deep within every electronic device lie toxic materials that make up the bits and bytes, a complex thicket of lead, mercury, cadmium, plastics, and a host of other often harmful ingredients. Buy local at BookPeople!
Gumpert, David E.—The Raw Milk Revolution: Behind America's Emerging Battle Over Food Rights
David Gumpert has chronicled the Raw Milk War with insight and humor. He provides an important record of systematic government bias against Nature's perfect food. Must reading for raw milk fans and government officials alike.
Halweil, Brian—Eat Here: Reclaiming Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket
Author Brian Halweil points to a surging local food movement that is rediscovering homegrown pleasures and changing the way we eat.
Hamilton, Lisa M.—Deeply Rooted: Unconventional Farmers in the Age of Agribusiness
A century of industrialization has left our food system riddled with problems, yet for solutions we look to nutritionists and government agencies, scientists and chefs. Lisa M. Hamilton asks: why not look to the people who grow our food? In an age of environmental consciousness, Deeply Rooted adds a critical perspective to the national discussion about where our food comes from.
Hammel, Laury & Gun Denhart—Growing Local Value: how to build business partnerships that strengthen your community
Growing a successful business is about meeting the needs of customers--and, by extension, the needs of the entire community. Turn your business into a good citizen and you can help ensure its success and contribute to making your community a great place to live and work. Growing Local Value shows how to build a values-driven business that is deeply embedded in local life.
Hawken, Paul—The Ecology of Commerce
A visionary new program which businesses can follow to help restore the planet.
Hawken, Paul, Amory & Hunter Lovins—Natural Capitalism
This challenging analysis examines the environmental and cultural costs of industrialization and forecasts a transition to a new economy that succeeds by working with natural resources, instead of depleting them.
Hightower, Jim—Swim Against the Current
America's funniest activist gives the lowdown on how to put up--not shut up--in the fight for the country's future. Hightower introduces readers to people from across the country who are taking charge, living their values, doing good, and doing well.
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Hobhouse, Henry—Seeds of Change: Six Plants that Transformed Mankind (Shoemaker & Hoard)
A superior, popular account of how five plants--quinine, sugar, tea, cotton and the potato--have determined the course of history.
Kennedy, Joseph, Michael Smith, et. al.—The Art of Natural Building
The ultimate ecological building resource includes examples of diverse natural dwellings, from a Hybrid Hobbit House to a thatched studio and a cob office. This volume is an encyclopedia of natural building for non-professionals as well as architects and designers.
Korten, David C.—The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community
Korten draws on evidence from sources as varied as evolutionary theory, developmental psychology, and religious teachings to make the case that Earth Community--a life-centered, egalitarian, sustainable way of ordering human society based on democratic principles of partnership -- is indeed possible. He details a practical strategy for advancing a turning toward a future of as-yet-unrealized human potential.
Kummer, Corby—The Pleasures of Slow Food
The Pleasures of Slow Food introduces readers to the Slow Food movement and its goals, while acquainting them with some of the producers worldwide who embody its spirit and objectives, and including 40 recipes from chefs and everyday cooks whose approach to food and cooking also represents the Slow Food ideal. Was featured at the Texas Book Festival 2008.
Lappé, Anna—Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do about It
A crucial piece of the conversation about climate change, Diet for a Hot Planet makes the disturbing connection between food production and global warming. In this groundbreaking book, Lappé exposes the interests resisting this conversation and the spin-tactics companies are employing to defuse the heat. An engaging call to action, a spirited call for a food system for tomorrow, Diet for a Hot Planet delivers a hopeful message during this troubling time.
McDonough, William and Michael Braungart—Cradle to Cradle: The Next Industrial Revolution
A manifesto for a radically different philosophy and practice of manufacture and environmentalism.
McKibben, Bill—Deep Economy
Contending that more is not better for consumers, bestselling author McKibben offers a realistic, if challenging, scenario for a hopeful future. For those who wonder if there isn't more to life than buying, he provides insight on individual responsibility as well as global awareness. Buy local at BookPeople!
McKibben, Bill—The End of Nature
Reissued on the tenth anniversary of its publication, this classic work on the environmental crisis features a new introduction by the author, reviewing both the progress and ground lost in the fight to save the earth.
McKibben, Bill—Fight Global Warming Now
Drawing on the experience of Step It Up, a national day of rallies held on April 14, McKibben and the Step It Up team provide the facts about what must change to save the climate, and show readers how to build the fight in their community, church, or college.
McKibben, Bill—Hope, Human & Wild
Bill McKibben goes searching for signs of hope in three corners of the world: the astonishingly livable city of Curitiba, in Brazil; the Indian state of Kerala, where the citizens enjoy a life expectancy and literacy rate far above those in the rest of India; and the ecologically-recovering Adirondacks, where he lives.
McSpadden, Wyatt—Texas BBQ
Photographer Wyatt McSpadden has spent some twenty years documenting barbecue—specifically, the authentic family-owned cafes that are small-town mainstays. Traveling tens of thousands of miles, McSpadden has crisscrossed the state to visit scores of barbecue purveyors, from fabled sites like Kreuz's in Lockhart to remote spots like the Lazy H Smokehouse in Kirbyville. Color or black-and-white, wide angle or close up, his pictures convey the tradition and charm of barbecue. Buy local at BookPeople!
McWilliams, James E.—A Revolution in Eating: How the Quest for Food Shaped America
A colorful and spirited tour of culinary attitudes, tastes, and techniques throughout colonial America.
Monbiot, George—Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning
The question is no longer whether climate change is actually happening. The question is what to do about it. Monbiot offers an ambitious and far-reaching program to cut our carbon dioxide emissions to the point where the environmental scales start tipping away from catastrophe.
Mourer, Diana—Go Lite on White and Be Discreet with Sweets: A Healthy Eating and Drinking Guide for Teens and Twenties
This is not another "diet" book. It is a healthy eating and drinking guide. Carbs are not the enemy. Neither are fats or proteins. Good nutrition is more than counting calories, carbs, fats and proteins. Good nutrition is getting the nutrients your body needs for good health, abundant energy and healthy weight control. This book defines food for you.
Murphy, Pat—Plan C Community Survival Strategies for Peak Oil and Climate Change
If Plan A means continuing to use fossil fuels and Plan B involves switching to renewable energy sources, then Plan C proposes to break us out of our complacency by advocting a drastic reduction in consumption as the necessary ingredient for a sustainable, equitable world.
Nabhan, Gary Paul—Coming Home to Eat
To rediscover what it might mean to "think globally, eat locally, "Nabhan spent a year trying to eat only foods grown, fished, or caught within 200 miles of his home--with surprising results.
Nabhan, Gary Paul—The Forgotten Pollinators
A natural and cultural history about how pollination works and how easily it can be disrupted.
Nabhan, Gary Paul—Why Some Like it Hot: Food, Genes, and Cultural Diversity
Offers a view of genes, diets, ethnicity, and place that will forever change the way readers understand human health and cultural diversity.
Nabhan, Gary Paul & Robert Coles—The Geography of Childhood: Why Children Need Wild Places
In this unique collaboration, two naturalists ask what may happen now that so many more children are denied exposure to wildness than at any other time in human history.
Nestle, Marion—Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health
An accessible and balanced account, Food Politics laid the groundwork for today's food revolution and changed the way we respond to food industry marketing practices. Now, a new introduction and concluding chapter bring us up to date on the key events in that movement. This pathbreaking, prize-winning book helps us understand more clearly than ever before what we eat and why. Locally available at Monkey Wrench Books.
O'Brien, Robyn—An Unhealthy Truth
Robyn O’Brien is not the most likely candidate for an antiestablishment crusade. A Houston native from a conservative family, this MBA and married mother of four was not someone who gave much thought to misguided government agencies and chemicals in our food—until the day her youngest daughter had a violent allergic reaction to eggs, and everything changed. The Unhealthy Truth is both the story of how one brave woman chose to take on the system and a call to action that shows how each of us can do our part and keep our own families safe. Buy local at BookPeople!
Patel, Raj—Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System
It's a perverse fact of modern life: There are more starving people in the world than ever before (800 million) while there are also more people overweight (1 billion). To find out how we got to this point and what we can do about it, Raj Patel launched a comprehensive investigation into the global food network. Locally available at Monkey Wrench Books.
Pearce, Fred—When the Rivers Run Dry: Water - The Defining Crisis of the 21st Century
In this groundbreaking book, veteran science correspondent Fred Pearce travels to more than thirty countries to examine the current state of crucial water sources. Deftly weaving together the complicated scientific, economic, and historic dimensions of the world water crisis, he provides our most complete portrait yet of this growing danger and its ramifications for us all.
Pearce, Fred—With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change
As Pearce began work on this book, normally cautious scientists beat a path to his door to tell him about their fears and their latest findings. Now he presents this up-to-date and readable book about the growing evidence for global warming and the large climatic effects it may unleash.
Pollan, Michael—A Gardener's Education
In the mid-1980s, Michael Pollan began gardening on the grounds of the old dairy farm he bought in Connecticut, a process that led to a series of musings on the troubled boundary between nature and contemporary life.
Pollan, Michael—In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
A bracing and eloquent manifesto that shows readers how they might start making thoughtful food choices that will enrich their lives and enlarge their sense of what it means to be healthy. Buy local at BookPeople!
Pollan, Michael—The Botany of Desire
In telling the stories of four familiar plant species that are deeply woven into the fabric of our lives, Pollan illustrates how they evolved to satisfy humankinds's most basic yearnings — and by doing so made themselves indispensable. For, just as we've benefited from these plants, the plants, in the grand co-evolutionary scheme that Pollan evokes so brilliantly, have done well by us. The sweetness of apples, for example, induced the early Americans to spread the species, giving the tree a whole new continent in which to blossom. So who is really domesticating whom?
Pollan, Michael—The Omnivore's Dilemma
Pollan writes about the ecology of the food humans eat and why--what it is, in fact, that we are eating. Discussing industrial farming, organic food, and what it is like to hunt and gather food, this is a surprisingly honest and self-aware account of the evolution of the modern diet. Buy local at BookPeople!
Richardson, Jill—A Recipe for America: Why Our Food System is Broken and What We Can Do to Fix It
In Recipe for America, food activist Jill Richardson shows how sustainable agriculture—where local farms raise food that is healthy for consumers and animals and does not damage the environment—offers the only solution to America’s food crisis. In addition to highlighting the harmful conditions at factory farms, this timely and necessary book details the rising grassroots food movement, which is creating an agricultural system that allows people to eat sustainably, locally, and seasonally. Buy local at BookPeople!
Rogers, Heather—Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage
Part expose, part social commentary, this work traces the connections between modern industrial production, consumer culture, and America's disposable lifestyle.
Salatin, Joel—Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories From the Local Food Front
Although Polyface farm has been glowingly featured in countless national print and video media, it would not exist if the USDA and the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services had their way. From a lifetime of noncompliance, frustration, humor, and passion come the behind-the-scenes real stories that have brought this little family farm into the forefront of the non-industrial food system. Asked recently where he thought America's food system was on a continuum of history, Joel Salatin responded: “We're at Wounded Knee. For all the foodie fluff and eco-local buzz, in the final analysis the imbedded, heritage, transparent, truthful food system is in danger of annihilation. The Seventh Cavalry wears blue pinstriped suits and sits in posh government office buildings. The Native Americans are farmers trying to heal their land, their neighbors, and their food.” Using the stories as a springboard to the broader philosophical issues surrounding food choice and entrepreneurship, Joel comes across as both evangelist and lover. You may not agree with all of his conclusions, but this book will force you to think about things that most people didn't even know existed.
Salatin, Joel—You Can Farm
For all the wannabes and newbies, this book is subtitled: "The Entrepreneur's Guide to Start and Succeed in a Farming Enterprise." A veritable compendium of information, Joel pulls from his eclectic sphere of knowledge, combines it with a half century of farming experience, and covers as many topics as he can think of that will affect the success of a farming venture. He offers his 10 best picks for profitable ventures, and the 10 worst. He covers insurance, record keeping, land acquisition, and equipment. Some people have suggested the title should just be "You Can," meaning that really the book is about succeeding in life. A hard hitting, practical view from a successful farmer, if this book scares you off, it will be the best reality check you ever spent.
Salatin, Joel—Salad Bar Beef
Fishing for a phrase to describe this ultimately land-healing and nutrition-escalating production model, Joel realized that he was offering the cows a salad bar. He coined the phrase to describe the farm's beef, and thereby stimulate questions from potential customers. Eventually he incorporated the phrase into the title of a book that describes herd effect, mobbing, moving, field design, water systems, manure monitoring, soil fertility, and even pigaerating. A fundamentally fresh way to look at the symbiosis between farmer, field, and cow, this book is now a classic in the pasture-based livestock movement.
Schlosser, Eric—Fast Food Nation
To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of postwar America. Schlosser charts the fast food industry's enormous impact on our health, landscape, economy, politics and culture as he transforms the way America thinks about what it eats. Buy local at BookPeople! and also available locally from Monkey Wrench Books.
Shuman, Michael H.—The Small-Mart Revolution
In The Small-Mart Revolution, Shuman makes a compelling case for his alternative business model, one in which communities reap the benefits of "going local" in four key spending categories: goods, services, energy, and finance. The Small-Mart Revolution presents a visionary yet practical roadmap for everyone concerned with mitigating the worst of globalization.
Simon, Michele—Appetite for Profit
The United States is currently embroiled in a national debate over the growing public health crisis caused by poor diet. Many people are starting to ask who is to blame and how can we fix the problem, especially among children? The major food companies, including McDonald's, Coca-Cola, Kraft, and General Mills, are responding with a massive public relations campaign. They are pretending to sell healthier food and otherwise position themselves as "part of the solution.” All the while, they continue to lobby against commonsense nutrition policies. This book explains how to fight back by offering reliable resources. Readers will learn how to spot the PR, how to not be fooled, and how to organize.
Small Wright, MacHaelle—Behaving as if the God in All Life Mattered
Small Wright's own intense communication with nature has enabled her to have a greater understanding of the planet, and how human beings and nature can co-exist together peacefully, and healthfully. Chapters include lessons about energy, nature, the animal and mineral kingdoms, as well as exercises to put this unique viewpoint into practice.
Smith, Jeffrey M.—Genetic Roulette
This book, prepared with input by more than 30 scientists, is for anyone wanting to understand genetic modification technology, to learn how to protect themselves, or to share their concerns with others.
Smith, Jeffrey M.—Seeds of Deception
In Seeds of Deception, Jeffrey Smith, a former executive with the leading independent laboratory testing for GM presence in foods, documents these serious health dangers and explains how corporate influence and government collusion have been used to cover them up.
Steinfeld, Carol—Liquid Gold
Nitrogen pollution of lakes, rivers, and oceans by human urine is a growing problem. Liquid Gold shows how urine can safely be used to grow food, fuel, fiber, and beautiful landscapes while protecting the environment and providing free and safe fertilizer.
Tasch, Woody—Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered
We must bring money back down to earth. Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money presents the path for bringing money back down to earth - philosophically, strategically and pragmatically, and with an entrepreneurial spirit that is informed by decades of work by the thousands of CEOs, investors, grant-makers, food producers and consumers who are seeding the restorative economy. Buy local at BookPeople!
Thompson, W.I. & The Findhorn Community—The Findhorn Garden (Harper & Row)
An amazing journey into the beliefs of the Findhorn Community and the world of plant spirits.
Tompkins, Peter—The Secret Life of Nature (Harper Paperbacks)
An astonishing account of how spiritualists and scientists alike are revealing that the physical world teems with nature spirits.
Vileisis, Ann—Kitchen Literacy
Though the hidden costs of modern meals can be high, Vileisis shows that greater understanding can lead consumers to healthier and more sustainable choices. Revealing how knowledge of our food has been lost and how it might now be regained, "Kitchen Literacy "promises to make us think differently about what we eat.
Visser, Margaret—Much Depends on Dinner
Food historian Margaret Visser takes a meal of corn on the cob with butter and salt, roast chicken with rice, salad, and ice cream, and wittily deconstructs it, providing a wealth of information about the history, anthropology, and philosophy of one of life's great pleasures.
Walker, Pamela and Linda Walsh—Growing Good Things to Eat in Texas
As more and more people seek locally grown food, independent, family owned and operated agriculture has expanded, creating local networks for selling and buying produce, meat, and dairy products and reviving local agricultural economies throughout the United States. In Growing Good Things to Eat in Texas, author Pamela Walker and photographer Linda Walsh portray eleven farming and ranching families who are part of this food revival in Texas. With biographical essays and photographs, Walker and Walsh illuminate the work these food producers do, why they do it, and the difference it makes in their lives and in their communities. Buy local at BookPeople!
Whitefield, Patrick—Permaculture in a Nutshell
Permaculture in a Nutshell is a concise and accessible introduction to the principles and practice of permaculture in termperate climates. It covers how permaculture works in the city, the country, and on the farm and explores ways in which people can work together to recreate real communities. Locally available at Monkey Wrench Books.
Winne, Mark—Closing the Food Gap
Food, like air and water, is a basic necessity, but stands as a glaring example of how the gap between this country’s “haves” and “have-nots” remains deep and wide. Like thousands of food activists throughout North America, Mark Winne has worked for 35 years to close the food gap. From organizing breakfast programs for low-income children in Maine to developing innovative national food policies in Washington, DC, Winne has dedicated his professional life and writing to finding local, state, and federal solutions to America’s food disparities. Buy local at BookPeople!
Wittenberg, Margaret M.—New Good Food
Industry veteran Margaret M. Wittenberg offers reliable, practical, one-stop advice on organics, whole grains, buying local, sustainability, and more. Focusing on core food products available at large-scale and natural foods markets, she profiles everything from new sweeteners like agave nectar to specialty flours like spelt and barley to gourmet salts. She also clears up confusing food labels, misleading marketing claims, and common misperceptions behind everyday foods.
Witzel, Michael Karl—Barbecue Road Trip: Recipes, Restaurants & Pitmasters from America's Great Barbecue Regions
With its fervent aficionados, traditions, and wildly varying regional styles--each with its passionate advocates--barbecue is much more than a way of cooking meat: it's a cultural ritual. A history as entertaining as it is informative, this book is the first to explore American barbecue's regional roots.
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