Chelsea Green Publishing: 239 books
The ALL NEW Don't Think of an Elephant!
Know Your Values and Frame the Debate
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Ten years after writing the definitive, international bestselling book on political debate and messaging, George Lakoff returns with new strategies about how to frame today’s essential issues.
Called the “father of framing” by The New York Times, Lakoff explains how framing is about ideas—ideas...
Top-Bar Beekeeping
Organic Practices for Honeybee Health
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
"This is an excellent guide for hobby beekeepers who wish to keep bees using top-bar hives. Drawing on his more than 30 years of beekeeping experience in New Mexico, author Les Crowder describes in detail the special comb management techniques that this low-cost, but relatively intensive, form...
Four-Season Harvest
Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long, 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
If you love the joys of eating home-garden vegetables but always thought those joys had to stop at the end of summer, this book is for you. Eliot Coleman introduces the surprising fact that most of the United States has more winter sunshine than the south of France. He shows how North American gardeners...
Sepp Holzer's Permaculture
A Practical Guide to Small-Scale, Integrative Farming and Gardening
Language: German
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Sepp Holzer farms steep mountainsides in Austria 1,500 meters above sea level. His farm is an intricate network of terraces, raised beds, ponds, waterways and tracks, well covered with productive fruit trees and other vegetation, with the farmhouse neatly nestling amongst them. This is in dramatic...
The Art of Fermentation
An In-Depth Exploration of Essential Concepts and Processes from around the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
Winner of the 2013 James Beard Foundation Book Award for Reference and Scholarship, and a New York Times bestseller, The Art of Fermentation is the most comprehensive guide to do-it-yourself home fermentation ever published. Sandor Katz presents the concepts and processes behind fermentation...
Journey of the Pink Dolphins
An Amazon Quest
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2009
By the acclaimed author of The Soul of an Octopus and the bestselling memoir The Good Good Pig.
When Sy Montgomery ventured into the Amazon to unlock the mysteries of the littleknown pink dolphins, she found ancient whales that plied the Amazon River at dawn and dusk, swam through treetops...
Cheese and Culture
A History of Cheese and its Place in Western Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Behind every traditional type of cheese there is a fascinating story. By examining the role of the cheesemaker throughout world history and by understanding a few basic principles of cheese science and technology, we can see how different cheeses have been shaped by and tailored to their surrounding...
by Tyler Volk, Dorion Sagan
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
On DEATH . . .
What is shared by spawning Pacific salmon, towering trees, and suicidal bacteria? In his lucid and concise exploration of how and why things die, Tyler Volk explains the intriguing ways creatures-including ourselves-use death to actually enhance life. Death is not simply the end of...
Companies We Keep
Employee Ownership and the Business of Community and Place, 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2008
Part memoir and part examination of a new business model, the 2005 release of The Company We Keep marked the debut of an important new voice in the literature of American business. Now, in Companies We Keep, the revised and expanded edition of his 2005 work, John Abrams further develops his idea that...
Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening
How to Grow Nutrient-Dense, Soil-Sprouted Greens in Less Than 10 days
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
The Low-Tech, No-Grow-Lights Approach to Abundant Harvest
Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening offers good news: with nothing more than a cupboard and a windowsill, you can grow all the fresh salad greens you need for the winter months (or throughout the entire year) with no lights, no pumps,...
DIY U
Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
The price of college tuition has increased more than any other major good or service for the last twenty years. Nine out of ten American high school seniors aspire to go to college, yet the United States has fallen from world leader to only the tenth most educated nation. Almost half of college students...
Fasting and Feasting
The Life of Visionary Food Writer Patience Gray
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
A New York Times Notable Book for 2017--Now in Paperback
For more than thirty years, Patience Gray—author of the celebrated cookbook Honey from a Weed—lived in a remote area of Puglia in southernmost Italy. She lived without electricity, modern plumbing, or a telephone, grew much of her...
Killing the Cranes
A Reporter's Journey through Three Decades of War in Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
Few reporters have covered Afghanistan as intrepidly and humanely as Edward Girardet. Now, in a gripping, personal account, Girardet delivers a story of that nation's resistance fighters, foreign invaders, mercenaries, spies, aid workers, Islamic extremists, and others who have defined Afghanistan's...
The End of Stationarity
Searching for the New Normal in the Age of Carbon Shock
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Scientists have devised a new term to explain the turmoil caused by climate change: the end of stationarity. It means that our baselines for rainfall, water flow, temperature, and extreme weather are no longer relevant—that making predictions based on past experience is no longer possible. But climate...