New Society Publishers: 243 books

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Fixing Fashion

Rethinking the Way We Make, Market and Buy Our Clothes

by Michael Lavergne
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015

With sales of more than five hundred billion US dollars a year, the fashion industry is one of the most important sectors of the global economy, employing millions of men, women, and often children in the developing world. And yet its record is far from pretty. The collapse of Bangladesh's Rana Plaza...
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Creating Cohousing

Building Sustainable Communities

by Charles Durrett
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2001

A man's home is his castle. But demographic and economic changes have turned our castles into islands. How can we regain the elements of the traditional village family, cooperation, community and a sense of belonging within the context of 21st century life?Creating Cohousing: Building Sustainable...
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The Art of Natural Building-Revised and Updated

Design, Construction, Resources

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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015

The popularity of natural building has grown by leaps and bounds, spurred by a grassroots desire for housing that is healthy, affordable, and environmentally responsible. While there are many books available on specific methods such as straw-bale construction, cob, or timber framing, there are few...
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The Urban Farmer

Growing Food for Profit on Leased and Borrowed Land

by Curtis Stone
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015

There are twenty million acres of lawns in North America. In their current form, these unproductive expanses of grass represent a significant financial and environmental cost. However, viewed through a different lens, they can also be seen as a tremendous source of opportunity. Access to land is a...
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The Rocket Mass Heater Builder's Guide

Complete Step-by-Step Construction, Maintenaince and Troubleshooting

by Erica Wisner, Ernie Wisner
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016

Heating with wood is often considered a natural and economical alternative to electricity or fossil fuels. However, even with a fairly new and efficient woodstove, many cords of wood are required for burning over the course of a single winter, and incomplete combustion can contribute to poor air quality....
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The Big Swim

Coming Ashore in a World Adrift

by Carrie Saxifrage
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015

Climate change is alarming and complicated. Governments are acting too slowly or not at all, and not enough people feel informed or empowered enough to demand action. But ignoring a catastrophe of such magnitude is a certain path to disaster. The Big Swim puts forward the idea that personal growth...
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Grow. Create. Inspire.

Crafting a Joyful Life of Beauty and Abundance

by Crystal Stevens
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016

How can we embrace the absolute necessity of preserving and protecting the earth for our descendants, creating a future in which there is still clean water to drink, fresh air to breathe, and fresh, healthy food vital to human existence? Grow Create Inspire is a rallying cry, itself an inspiration...
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Homemade for Sale

How to Set Up and Market a Food Business from Your Home Kitchen

by Lisa Kivirist, John Ivanko
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015

From farm-to-fork and "Buy Local" to slow food and hand-made artisan breads, more people than ever are demanding real food made with real ingredients by real people. Widely known as "cottage food legislation," over forty-two states and many Canadian provinces have enacted recent...
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The Poop on Scoop

Safely Capturing and Recycling the Nutrients in Greywater, Humanure, and Urine

by Dan Chiras
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016

Flush it and forget it is the plumbing mantra of the industrialized world. Most people just want sewage to go away, preferably without having to see, smell, or worse yet, touch it. But crap has a bad rap. Human waste is a valuable resource we can use to support food production. Blackwater, greywater,...
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The Econest Home

Designing and Building a Light Straw Clay House

by Paula Baker-Laporte, Robert Laporte
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015

An EcoNest is not just a home—it is a breathtakingly beautiful structure that nurtures health and embraces ecology. This unique approach to construction combines light clay straw, timber framing, earthen floors, natural plasters, and other natural techniques with the principles of Building Biology...
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Dude Making a Difference

Bamboo Bikes, Dumpster Dives and Other Extreme Adventures Across America

by Rob Greenfield
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015

You want to do something for the planet, but what? Change a light bulb, install a low-flow faucet, eat organic? How about ride forty-seven hundred miles across America on a bamboo bicycle, using only water from natural sources, avoiding fossil fuels almost completely, supplying your few electrical...
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The Ethical Meat Handbook

Complete Home Butchery, Charcuterie and Cooking for the Conscious Omnivore

by Meredith Leigh
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015

Nutrition, environmental impact, ethics, sustainability—it seems like there's no end to the factors we must consider when we think about our food. At the center of the dietary storm is animal-based agriculture. Was your beef factory-farmed or pasture-raised? Did your chicken free range, or was it...
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Permaculture for the Rest of Us

Abundant Living on Less than an Acre

by Jenni Blackmore
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015

Many of us want to increase our self-sufficiency, but few have access to the ideal five sunny, gently sloping acres of rich, loamy, well-drained soil. Jenni Blackmore presents a highly entertaining, personal account of how permaculture can be practiced in adverse conditions, allowing anyone to learn...
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Magnifeco

Your Head-to-Toe Guide to Ethical Fashion and Non-toxic Beauty

by Kate Black
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015

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