Green Books imprint: 155 books
Apocalypedia
A Utopian Guide to What Is and What Isn't
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
Encyclopaedias and dictionaries are often boring, of no help when it comes to secretly filling train carriages with subversive balloons and they rarely manage to offend everyone. Lexicographers assume that language is a big machine that you need an instruction manual to use, rather than a river of...
Smart Growth
From Sprawl to Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Smart Growth explains what the UK must do to improve the quality of life in an overcrowded land. Urban sprawl is unsustainable in an age of climate change and peak oil. But for 100 years, the UK’s planning policies have been based on ideals of low-density living and attitudes that favor the individual...
Passivhaus Handbook
A Practical Guide to Constructing and Retrofitting Buildings for Ultra-Low Energy Performance
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
An essential guide for anyone wanting to realize a supremely comfortable, healthy, and durable home with exceptionally low energy costs, this book brings together current thinking and best practice in Passivhaus design. This type of design focuses on getting the building fabric right, to achieve ultralow...
by Richard Douthwaite, Bernard Lietaer
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
In this Schumacher Briefing, Richard Douthwaite argues that just as different insects and animals have different effects on human society and the natural world, money has different effects according to its origins and purposes. Was it created to make profits for a commercial bank, or issued by a government...
How to Grow Your Food
A Guide for Complete Beginners
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
If you've never opened a seed packet before and want to grow your food but don't know where to start, this book is for you. It gives advice on everything from planting seeds to harvesting your crops and dealing with problems—and it doesn't matter whether you have a whole garden or just a patio,...
Allotment Gardening
An Organic Guide for Beginners
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005
Allotment Gardening is a practical guide to growing your own fruit and vegetables organically. Aimed at those who have not had an allotment before, or are new to growing their own, it is packed with advice from choosing and planning your allotment through to harvesting and storing your produce. In...
Youth-led Development
Harnessing the energy of youth to make poverty history
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Many strange things are done in the name of ?development?: agencies build concrete boxes with tin roofs, cram 120 children into them and call it ?education?; millions are invested in youth?training? but little in job creation, which means youth move from being unskilled unemployed to skilled unemployed....
Surviving and Thriving on the Land
How to Use Your Spare Time and Energy to Run a Successful Smallholding
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Surviving and Thriving on the Land looks at ways in which projects can be designed that care for the people involved in them as well as the Earth that they are trying to protect. It's a dream come true when you finally get a piece of land or join an eco-community, and start to plan your sustainable...
by Robin Stott, June Crown
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
In this Briefing, Robin Stott proposes solutions to the key problems that beset our present health system. He argues that if we are to develop a true public health service rather than a 'disease service', we must make radical changes to the decision-making processes.
Growth Illusion
How Economic Growth Has Enriched the Few, Impoverished the Many and Endangered the Planet
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1999
The idea that growth is beneficial underlies the economic strategies of all major political parties, but the reality of recent years is that the negative effects of growth have far outweighed any positive ones. In Ireland, growth has been the root cause of unemployment; in Britain it has led to an...
Images of Earth and Spirit
A Resurgence Art Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
"Images of Earth & Spirit" features the work of over fifty artists: over 140 sumptuous illustrations accompanied by interviews and insights into their work. Artists featured include Robin Baring, Cecil Collins, Alan Davie, Morris Graves, Andy Goldsworthy, Andrzej Jackowski, Richard Long,...
Homes for a Changing Climate
Adapting Our Homes and Communities to Cope with the Climate of the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Homes for a Changing Climate celebrates the collected wisdom of traditional and contemporary responses to the challenges of climate and illustrates the many ways in which houses can be designed, built, and adapted to cope with these challenges. At the beginning of the 21st century, the world finally...
Working with the Curlew
A Farmhand's Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
In Working with the Curlew, Trevor Robinson shares his enthusiasm and joy for his work as a shepherd on the moor at Great Whernside in Yorkshire, and later as a farmhand near Leominster in Hereford. A lovely environment, very busy and hard work with no lorries, no electric motors, and no tractors,...
Chicken Nuggets
A miscellany of poultry pickings
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Few farmyard and back-garden animals display such appealing and amusing characteristics as chickens. Some continually scratch the ground in search of insects, many just bustle and hustle, while others reveal self-importance through a measured walk. They would have been outstanding vaudeville acts,...