New Society Publishers imprint: 44 books
Shrinking the Technosphere
Getting a Grip on Technologies that Limit our Autonomy, Self-sufficiency and Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Over the past two centuries we have witnessed a wholesale replacement of most of the previous methods of conducting both business and daily life with new, technologically advanced, more efficient methods.
What exactly is progressive or efficient about this new arrangement is hardly ever examined...
Essential Hempcrete Construction
The Complete Step-by-Step Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Hempcrete is a versatile, energy-efficient natural insulation material, useful for walls, roofs, and floors. Made from the inner stem of the hemp plant mixed with a lime-based binder, it is a very strong, lightweight and breathable alternative to manufactured insulations. Essential Hempcrete Construction...
After Progress
Reason and Religion at the End of the Industrial Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Progress is not just a goal in the West—it's a religion. Most people believe in its inherent value as enthusiastically and uncritically as medieval peasants believed in heaven and hell. Our faith in progress drives the popular insistence that peak oil and climate change don't actually matter—after...
Essential Prefabricated Straw Bale Construction
The Complete Step-by-Step Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Prefabricated straw bale wall panels combine the performance and low environmental impact of traditional straw bale with reduced labor and more consistent results. These structural insulated panels (SIPs) are built offsite and transported to the job site, or built onsite and "tipped up" into position....
Afterburn
Society Beyond Fossil Fuels
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Climate change, along with the depletion of oil, coal, and gas, dictate that we will inevitably move away from our profound societal reliance on fossil fuels; but just how big a transformation will this be? While many policy-makers assume that renewable energy sources will provide an easy "plug-and-play"...
Dark Age America
Climate Change, Cultural Collapse, and the Hard Future Ahead
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
After decades of missed opportunities, the door to a sustainable future has closed, and the future we face now is one in which today's industrial civilization unravels in the face of uncontrolled climate change and resource depletion.
What is the world going to look like when all these changes...
by Mark Boyle
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
More than ever, people are longing for deep and meaningful change. Another world is not only possible; it is essential. Yet despite our creative and determined efforts to attain social justice and ecological sustainability, our global crises continue to deepen.
In Drinking Molotov Cocktails...
Reinventing Green Building
Why Certification Systems Aren't Cutting Enough Carbon and What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Buildings and their associated systems are the largest source of greenhouse gases in the world. The 2030 Challenge aims to produce zero-net energy from new North American construction by 2030 while achieving a 50 percent reduction in carbon emissions from existing buildings. With less than 4 percent...
The Heart of Sustainability
Ecological Balance from the Inside Out
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Amidst the doom and gloom that dominates the headlines, a different kind of story is unfolding. The players are activists, visionaries and cultural innovators, the backdrop is the tipping point of our global and environmental challenges, and the narrative is the molding of a new paradigm to shape...
Advanced Top Bar Beekeeping
Next Steps for the Thinking Beekeeper
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Bee populations are plummeting worldwide. Colony Collapse Disorder poses a serious threat to many plants which rely on bees for pollination, including a significant proportion of our food crops. Top bar hives are based on the concept of understanding and working with bees' natural systems, enabling...
Cordwood Building
A Comprehensive Guide to the State of the Art
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Cordwood masonry walls are low-cost, easy to build, aesthetically pleasing, and score high environmental points for making use of low-impact materials.This fully revised 2nd edition of the most widely read and used book on cordwood construction presents the latest innovations and on-the-ground...
Better
The Everyday Art of Sustainable Living
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Intellectual arguments alone will not sway the dominant paradigm; to be motivated to create change, people must be moved. Art has the power to inform, influence, and inspire. The creative impulse can, quite literally, change the world. Better explores the intersection of sustainability and art,...
Essential Building Science
Understanding Energy and Moisture in High Performance House Design
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Poor heat and moisture management are the enemies of durable, comfortable, and efficient housing, and good building design and construction starts with a solid understanding of good building science.Essential Building Science provides a highly visual and accessible introduction to the fundamentals...
Fixing Fashion
Rethinking the Way We Make, Market and Buy Our Clothes
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
With sales of more than five hundred billion US dollars a year, the fashion industry is one of the most important sectors of the global economy, employing millions of men, women, and often children in the developing world. And yet its record is far from pretty. The collapse of Bangladesh's Rana Plaza...