Chelsea Green Publishing: 239 books
Two Percent Solutions for the Planet
50 Low-Cost, Low-Tech, Nature-Based Practices for Combatting Hunger, Drought, and Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Two Percent Solutions for the Planet profiles fifty innovative practices that soak up carbon dioxide in soils, reduce energy use, sustainably intensify food production, and increase water quality. The “two percent” refers to: the amount of new carbon in the soil needed to reap a wide variety of...
Gene Everlasting
A Contrary Farmer's Thoughts on Living Forever
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Author Gene Logsdon—whom Wendell Berry once called “the most experienced and best observer of agriculture we have”—has a notion: That it is a little easier for gardeners and farmers to accept death than the rest of the populace. Why? Because every day, farmers and gardeners help plants and...
Javatrekker
Dispatches from the World of Fair Trade Coffee
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2007
In each cup of coffee we drink the major issues of the twenty-first century-globalization, immigration, women's rights, pollution, indigenous rights, and self-determination-are played out in villages and remote areas around the world. In Javatrekker: Dispatches from the World of Fair Trade Coffee,...
When Technology Fails
A Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability, and Surviving the Long Emergency, 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
There’s never been a better time to “be prepared.” Matthew Stein’s comprehensive primer on sustainable living skills—from food and water to shelter and energy to first-aid and crisis-management skills—prepares you to embark on the path toward sustainability. But unlike any other book,...
This Organic Life
Confessions of a Suburban Homesteader
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002
Joan Dye Gussow is an extraordinarily ordinary woman. She lives in a home not unlike the average home in a neighborhood that is, more or less, typically suburban. What sets her apart from the rest of us is that she thinks more deeply--and in more eloquent detail--about food. In sharing her ponderings,...
The Seed Underground
A Growing Revolution to Save Food
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012
There is no despair in a seed. There's only life, waiting for the right conditions-sun and water, warmth and soil-to be set free. Everyday, millions upon millions of seeds lift their two green wings.
At no time in our history have Americans been more obsessed with food. Options- including those...
The Wild Wisdom of Weeds
13 Essential Plants for Human Survival
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
The Wild Wisdom of Weeds is the only book on foraging and edible weeds to focus on the thirteen weeds found all over the world, each of which represents a complete food source and extensive medical pharmacy and first-aid kit. More than just a field guide to wild edibles, it is a global plan for...
Money
Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001
Cash. Loot. Scratch. Lucre. Bread. Coin. Scrip. Moolah. Green. We all think we know intuitively what money is, and what it can do for us. Tom Greco, director of the Community Information Resource Center, understands and explains money on an eye-popping, fundamental level. Moreover, he provides a roadmap...
Future Scenarios
How Communities Can Adapt to Peak Oil and Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
In Future Scenarios, permaculture co-originator and leading sustainability innovator David Holmgren outlines four scenarios that bring to life the likely cultural, political, agricultural, and economic implications of peak oil and climate change, and the generations-long era of “energy descent”...
Food Not Lawns
How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden and Your Neighborhood into a Community
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2006
Gardening can be a political act. Creativity, fulfillment, connection, revolution—it all begins when we get our hands in the dirt.
Food Not Lawns combines practical wisdom on ecological design and community-building with a fresh, green perspective on an age-old subject. Activist and urban...
by Steve Gilman
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Soil is a living organism that loves to cooperate with farmers and gardeners. A green thumb will appear on those who align themselves with its health and requirements. This book discusses:
Soil habitat
Sustaining soil fertility
The soil food-web
Nutrient availability and deficiency
After...
Cows Save the Planet
And Other Improbable Ways of Restoring Soil to Heal the Earth
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
"In Cows Save the Planet, journalist Judith D. Schwartz looks at soil as a crucible for our many overlapping environmental, economic, and social crises. Schwartz reveals that for many of these problems—climate change, desertification, biodiversity loss, droughts, floods, wildfires, rural poverty,...
The Natural Building Companion
A Comprehensive Guide to Integrative Design and Construction
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Natural buildings not only bring satisfaction to their makers and joy to their occupants, they also leave the gentlest footprint on the environment. In this complete reference to natural building philosophy, design, and technique, Jacob Deva Racusin and Ace McArleton walk builders through planning...
Passive Solar Architecture
Heating, Cooling, Ventilation, Daylighting and More Using Natural Flows
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
New buildings can be designed to be solar oriented, naturally heated and cooled, naturally lit and ventilated, and made with renewable, sustainable materials—no matter the location or climate.
In this comprehensive overview of passive solar design, two of America’s solar pioneers give homeowners,...