New Society Publishers: 243 books
by Sharon Astyk and Aaron Newton
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Once we could fill our grocery carts with cheap and plentiful food, but not anymore. Cheap food has gone the way of cheap oil. Climate change is already reducing crop yields worldwide. The cost of flying in food from far away and shipping it across the country in refrigerated trucks is rapidly becoming...
by Lewis, Michael and Conaty, Pat
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
We find ourselves between a rock and a hot place compelled by the intertwined forces of peak oil and climate change to reinvent our economic life at a much more local and regional scale. The Resilience Imperative argues for a major SEE (Social, Ecological, Economic) Change as a prerequisite for replacing...
by Charles Durrett
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
No matter how rich life is in youth and middle age the elder years can bring on increasing isolation and loneliness as social connections lessen especially if friends and family members move away.Senior cohousing fills a niche for this demographic -- the healthy educated and proactive adults who want...
The Permaculture Market Garden
A Visual Guide to a Profitable Whole-Systems Farm Business
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2017
Permaculture tends to be very much in the domain of home gardeners and property owners. But what if we could take it all a step further, and merge the fields of permaculture and market gardening?
In The Permaculture Market Garden, author Zach Loeks brings together his passion for sustainable...
by Richard Douthwaite and Gillian Fallon. Editors
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
The financial crisis that has blighted the world's richest countries since 2008 was a turning point in human history because it ushered in an era in which economies will tend to shrink rather than grow. Incomes will decline because the natural resources required for growth particularly oil the lifeblood...
Small Stories, Big Changes
Agents of Change on the Frontlines of Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
A remarkable cast of characters inhabit the pages of this book. Meet Tim Toben, who developed a high rise with the lowest energy consumption of any building in the southeastern United States, was foreclosed upon, and lost millions in the process. Gary Phillips held the line against real estate developers...
Decline and Fall
The End of Empire and the Future of Democracy in 21st Century America
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
“Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.” Although he was writing nearly a century ago, Yeats could just as easily be describing the United States today. The decline and fall of Americas global empire is the central feature of todays geopolitical landscape,...
A Finer Future
Creating an Economy in Service to Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
The blueprint for an inspiring regenerative economy that avoids collapse and works for people and the planet.
Humanity is in a race with catastrophe. Is the future one of global warming, 65 million migrants fleeing failed states, soaring inequality, and grid-locked politics? Or one of empowered...
by Ellen LaConte
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Corporate capitalism has ravaged the planet the way HIV ravages the human body, triggering a Critical Mass of cascading environmental, economic, social and political crises. Economic and climate instability, collapsing ecosystems, peak fossil fuels and devastating resource wars-if Earth were a patient,...
Catch the Fire
An Art-Full Guide to Unleashing the Creative Power of Youth, Adults and Communities
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Community, youth, non-profit, education, entrepreneurial, and religious organizations all have exciting ambitions, but they often lack the creative skills to impact people on a deep level. Catch the Fire is a complete guide to using arts and empowerment techniques to bring greater vitality and depth...
by Jim Merkel
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2003
Imagine you are first in line at a potluck buffet. The spread includes not just food and water, but all the materials needed for shelter, clothing, healthcare, and education. How do you know how much to take? How much is enough to leave for your neighbors behind you - not just the six billion people,...
Stepping Lightly
Simplicity for People and the Planet
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
While the voluntary simplicity movement has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years, it is still often stereotyped as being mainly concerned with a thrifty lifestyle. But simple living has much deeper implications than just cleaning closets or selling off a second car. In Stepping Lightly, Mark Burch...
The Market Gardener
A Successful Grower's Handbook for Small-Scale Organic Farming
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Les Jardins de la Grelinette is a micro-farm located in Eastern Quebec, just north of the American border. Growing on just 1.5 acres, owners Jean-Martin and Maude-Helène feed more than 200 families through their thriving CSA and seasonal market stands and supply their signature mesclun salad mix to...
by John Restakis
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
At the close of the twentieth century, corporate capitalism extended its reach over the globe. While its defenders argue that globalization is the only way forward for modern, democratic societies, the spread of this system is failing to meet even the most basic needs of billions of individuals around...