Chelsea Green Publishing: 239 books
The Chelsea Green Reader
Selections from 30 Years of Independent Publishing, 1984-2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Chelsea Green, the Vermont-based independent publisher, has always had a nose for authors and subjects that are way ahead of the cultural curve, as is evident in this new anthology celebrating the company’s first thirty years in publishing.
The more than one hundred books represented in this...
Simple Food for the Good Life
Random Acts of Cooking and Pithy Quotations
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1990
Fifty years before the phrase "simple living" became fashionable, Helen and Scott Nearing were living their celebrated "Good Life" on homesteads first in Vermont, then in Maine. All the way to their ninth decades, the Nearings grew their own food, built their own buildings, and...
Fruitful Labor
The Ecology, Economy, and Practice of a Family Farm
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
"Instead of taking us through his work, season by season, crop by crop--the narrative approach--Madison explores his farm and its methods analytically, from many overlapping angles. The result is profoundly interesting." -- The New York Review of Books
As the average age of America’s...
Power from the People
How to Organize, Finance, and Launch Local Energy Projects
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2012
Over 90 percent of US power generation comes from large, centralized, highly polluting, nonrenewable sources of energy. It is delivered through long, brittle transmission lines, and then is squandered through inefficiency and waste. But it doesn't have to be that way. Communities can indeed produce...
The Making of a Radical
A Political Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
Scott Nearing lived one hundred years, from 1883 to 1983--a life spanning most of the twentieth century. In his early years, Nearing made his name as a formidable opponent of child labor and military imperialism. Having been fired from university jobs for his independence of mind, Nearing became a...
by Amy Kolb Noyes
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
When it comes to cleaning products, society often values convenience over personal and planetary health, thanks to decades of advertising propaganda from the chemical companies that market overpriced and dangerous concoctions. But awareness is changing: Not only are homemade and nontoxic cleaners...
Market Farming Success
The Business of Growing and Selling Local Food, 2nd Editon
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
An insider's guide to market gardening and farming for those in the business of growing and selling food, flowers, herbs, or plants.
Market Farming Success identifies the key areas that usually trip up beginners—and shows how to avoid those obstacles. This book will help the aspiring or beginning...
Sharing the Harvest
A Citizen's Guide to Community Supported Agriculture, 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
To an increasing number of American families the CSA (community supported agriculture) is the answer to the globalization of our food supply. The premise is simple: create a partnership between local farmers and nearby consumers, who become members or subscribers in support of the farm. In exchange...
The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved
Inside America's Underground Food Movements
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2006
An instant classic for a new generation of monkey-wrenching food activists. Food in America is cheap and abundant, yet the vast majority of it is diminished in terms of flavor and nutrition, anonymous and mysterious after being shipped thousands of miles and passing through inscrutable supply chains,...
Serious Straw Bale
A Home Construction Guide for All Climates
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2000
In 1994, when Chelsea Green published The Straw Bale House, the response from many people was a loud, "Huh?!"
Those days are gone. With more than 100,000 copies sold, and straw bale projects underway in most regions of North America, we've entered a new era. Even building-code officials...
The Lost Language of Plants
The Ecological Importance of Plant Medicine to Life on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2002
This could be the most important book you will read this year. Around the office at Chelsea Green it is referred to as the "pharmaceutical Silent Spring." Well-known author, teacher, lecturer, and herbalist Stephen Harrod Buhner has produced a book that is certain to generate controversy....
Sustainable Food
How to Buy Right and Spend Less
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Wondering whether it’s worth it to splurge on the locally raised beef? What about those organic carrots? New in the Chelsea Green Guides series, Sustainable Food: How to Buy Right and Spend Less helps the average shopper navigate the choices, whether strolling the aisles of a modern supermarket...
Mid-Course Correction Revisited
The Story and Legacy of a Radical Industrialist and his Quest for Authentic Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2019
The original Mid-Course Correction, published 20 years ago, became a classic in the sustainability field. It put forth a new vision for what its author, Ray C. Anderson, called the “prototypical company of the 21st century”—a restorative company that does no harm to society or the environment....
The Soul of Soil
A Soil-Building Guide for Master Gardeners and Farmers, 4th Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1999
Soil is the basis not only for all gardening, but for all terrestrial life. No aspect of agriculture is more fundamental and important, yet we have been losing vast quantities of our finite soil resources to erosion, pollution, and development.
Now back in print, this eminently sensible and...