Chelsea Green Publishing: 239 books
Pearls, Politics, and Power
How Women Can Win and Lead
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Pearls, Politics, and Power is a call to action for new political engagement and leadership from the women of America. Informed by conversations with elected women leaders from all levels, former three-term Vermont Governor and Ambassador to Switzerland Madeleine M. Kunin asks: What difference do...
Human Heart, Cosmic Heart
A Doctor’s Quest to Understand, Treat, and Prevent Cardiovascular Disease
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
Thomas Cowan was a 20-year-old Duke grad—bright, skeptical, and already disillusioned with industrial capitalism—when he joined the Peace Corps in the mid-1970s for a two-year tour in Swaziland. There, he encountered the work of Rudolf Steiner and Weston A. Price—two men whose ideas would fascinate...
The End of America
Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2007
In a stunning indictment of the Bush administration and Congress, best-selling author Naomi Wolf lays out her case for saving American democracy. In authoritative research and documentation Wolf explains how events of the last six years parallel steps taken in the early years of the 20th century’s...
Slow Democracy
Rediscovering Community, Bringing Decision Making Back Home
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Reconnecting with the sources of decisions that affect us, and with the processes of democracy itself, is at the heart of 21st-century sustainable communities.
Slow Democracy chronicles the ways in which ordinary people have mobilized to find local solutions to local problems. It invites us...
Tripping over the Truth
How the Metabolic Theory of Cancer Is Overturning One of Medicine's Most Entrenched Paradigms
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
A masterful synchronization of history and cutting-edge science shines new light on humanity's darkest diagnosis.
In the wake of the Cancer Genome Atlas project's failure to provide a legible roadmap to a cure for cancer, science writer Travis Christofferson illuminates a promising blend of...
Nuclear Roulette
The Truth about the Most Dangerous Energy Source on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Nuclear power is not clean, cheap, or safe. With Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima, the nuclear industry's record of catastrophic failures now averages one major disaster every decade. After three US-designed plants exploded in Japan, many countries moved to abandon reactors for renewables....
Desert or Paradise
Restoring Endangered Landscapes Using Water Management, Including Lake and Pond Construction
Language: German
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Sepp Holzer farms steep mountainsides in Austria 5,000 feet above sea level. His farm is an intricate network of terraces, raised beds, ponds, and waterways, well covered with productive fruit trees and other vegetation, in dramatic contrast to his neighbors' spruce monocultures. Fans of Sepp Holzer...
The Carbon Farming Solution
A Global Toolkit of Perennial Crops and Regenerative Agriculture Practices for Climate Change Mitigation and Food Security
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
With carbon farming, agriculture ceases to be part of the climate problem and becomes a critical part of the solution
Agriculture is rightly blamed as a major culprit of our climate crisis. But in this groundbreaking new book, Eric Toensmeier argues that agriculture—specifically, the subset...
Growing Food in a Hotter, Drier Land
Lessons from Desert Farmers on Adapting to Climate Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
How to harvest water and nutrients, select drought-tolerant plants, and create natural diversity
Because climatic uncertainty has now become "the new normal," many farmers, gardeners and orchard-keepers in North America are desperately seeking ways to adapt their food production to...
Letter to a Young Farmer
How to Live Richly without Wealth on the New Garden Farm
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
For more than four decades, the self-described “contrary farmer” and writer Gene Logsdon has commented on the state of American agriculture. In Letter to a Young Farmer, his final book of essays, Logsdon addresses the next generation—young people who are moving back to the land to enjoy a better...
Fresh Food from Small Spaces
The Square-Inch Gardener's Guide to Year-Round Growing, Fermenting, and Sprouting
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2008
Books on container gardening have been wildly popular with urban and suburban readers, but until now, there has been no comprehensive "how-to" guide for growing fresh food in the absence of open land. Fresh Food from Small Spaces fills the gap as a practical, comprehensive, and downright...
Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation
Simple to Advanced and Experimental Techniques for Indoor and Outdoor Cultivation
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2015
What would it take to grow mushrooms in space? How can mushroom cultivation help us manage, or at least make use of, invasive species such as kudzu and water hyacinth and thereby reduce dependence on herbicides? Is it possible to develop a low-cost and easy-to-implement mushroom-growing kit that would...
Keeping a Family Cow
The Complete Guide for Home-Scale, Holistic Dairy Producers, 3rd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
The cow is the most productive, efficient creature on earth. She will give you fresh milk, cream, butter, and cheese, build human health and happiness, and even turn a profit for homesteaders and small farmers who seek to offer her bounty to the local market or neighborhood. She will provide rich...
by Sarah Flack
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Part of the NOFA guides. Includes information on:
Soils, the foundation of health (manure management)
Crop production and grazing management (forage species, pasture management, setting up a grazing system)
Livestock (selection, nutrition, winter and summer feed considerations, seasonal milking,...