Chelsea Green Publishing: 239 books
Listening to the Land
Conversations about Nature, Culture and Eros
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
In this far-ranging and heartening collection, Derrick Jensen gathers conversations with environmentalists, theologians, Native Americans, psychologists, and feminists, engaging some of our best minds in an exploration of more peaceful ways to live on Earth. Included here is Dave Foreman on biodiversity,...
One-Straw Revolutionary
The Philosophy and Work of Masanobu Fukuoka
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
One-Straw Revolutionary represents the first commentary on the work of the late Japanese farmer and philosopher Masanobu Fukuoka (1913 – 2008), widely considered to be natural farming’s most influential practitioner. Mr. Fukuoka is perhaps most known for his bestselling book The One-Straw Revolution...
Walking with the Great Apes
Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Biruté Galdikas
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
2017 is the 50th anniversary of The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund and Karisoke Research Center in Rwanda.
Three astounding women scientists have in recent years penetrated the jungles of Africa and Borneo to observe, nurture, and defend humanity's closest cousins. Jane Goodall has worked with the...
by Lee Welles
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2007
Miho's backyard had always been the sea. The creatures within it were an endless source of fascination. But when the sea steals away her small family, she finds herself the ward of an uncle she has never met and submerged in a world she has never known: Japan. From the city of Nagoya to the seaside...
by Lee Welles
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2007
Elizabeth Angier was happy to be at the end of the school year. She thought her summer on the family farm would be full of work and play with her best friend, Rachel, and her other best friend, her dog, Maizey. However, Elizabeth didn't anticipate the Harmony Farms Corporation moving to her town....
Masonry Heaters
Designing, Building, and Living with a Piece of the Sun
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Masonry Heaters is a complete guide to designing and living with one of the oldest, and yet one of the newest, heating devices. A masonry heater’s design, placement in the home, and luxurious radiant heat redefine the hearth for the modern era, turning it into a piece of the sun right inside the...
The Solar House
Passive Heating and Cooling
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002
Passive solar heating and passive cooling—approaches known as natural conditioning—provide comfort throughout the year by reducing, or eliminating, the need for fossil fuel. Yet while heat from sunlight and ventilation from breezes is free for the taking, few modern architects or builders really...
Tamed and Untamed
Close Encounters of the Animal Kind
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Extraordinary new insights into the minds and lives of our fellow creatures from two of the world’s top animal authors, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and Sy Montgomery.
A Mail on Sunday “Critic's Pick” Best Read of the Year
"In their writing and in their lives and in their...
Your Baby's Microbiome
The Critical Role of Vaginal Birth and Breastfeeding for Lifelong Health
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
From the Directors of the Award-Winning Documentary Microbirth
At least two amazing events happen during childbirth.
There’s the obvious main event, which is the emergence of a new human into the world. But there’s another event taking place simultaneously, a crucial event that is...
Preserving Food without Freezing or Canning
Traditional Techniques Using Salt, Oil, Sugar, Alcohol, Vinegar, Drying, Cold Storage, and Lactic Fermentation
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2007
Typical books about preserving garden produce nearly always assume that modern "kitchen gardeners" will boil or freeze their vegetables and fruits. Yet here is a book that goes back to the future—celebrating traditional but little-known French techniques for storing and preserving edibles...
Make Mead Like a Viking
Traditional Techniques for Brewing Natural, Wild-Fermented, Honey-Based Wines and Beers
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
A complete guide to using the best ingredients and minimal equipment to create fun and flavorful brews
Ancient societies brewed flavorful and healing meads, ales, and wines for millennia using only intuition, storytelling, and knowledge passed down through generations—no fancy, expensive...
The Wildcrafting Brewer
Creating Unique Drinks and Boozy Concoctions from Nature's Ingredients
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
Primitive beers, country wines, herbal meads, natural sodas, and more
The art of brewing doesn’t stop at the usual ingredients: barley, hops, yeast, and water. In fact, the origins of brewing involve a whole galaxy of wild and cultivated plants, fruits, berries, and other natural materials,...
The New Cider Maker's Handbook
A Comprehensive Guide for Craft Producers
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
All around the world, the public’s taste for fermented cider has been growing more rapidly than at any time in the past 150 years. And with the growing interest in locally grown and artisanal foods, many new cideries are springing up all over North America, often started up by passionate amateurs...
The Winter Harvest Handbook
Year Round Vegetable Production Using Deep Organic Techniques and Unheated Greenhouses
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
Choosing locally grown organic food is a sustainable living trend that’s taken hold throughout North America. Celebrated farming expert Eliot Coleman helped start this movement with The New Organic Grower published 20 years ago. He continues to lead the way, pushing the limits of the harvest season...