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When Technology Fails: A Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability, and Surviving the Long Emergency
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Jonathan Safran Foer · 341 pages
After spending much of his life shifting between various omnivore and herbivore eating habits, the author presents a thought provoking look at why and how humans choose their diets. Delivering the pros and cons of eating meat, he invites readers on an insightful exploration into the many facets of food. Brilliantly synthesizing philosophy, literature, science, memoir, and his own detective work,
The Ethics Of What We Eat
Peter Singer, Jim Mason
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Michael Pollan · 450 pages
What should we have for dinner?" To one degree or another this simple question assails any creature faced with a wide choice of things to eat. Anthropologists call it the omnivore's dilemma. Choosing from among the countless potential foods nature offers, humans have had to learn what is safe, and what isn't—which mushrooms should be avoided, for example, and which berries we can enjoy. Today, as
Gorgeously Green : 8 Simple Steps to an Earth-Friendly Life
Sophie Uliano · 322 pages
Are you confused by all the advice you hear and see daily on how to "go green"? Do you want to incorporate earth-friendly practices into your life, but you don't know where to start? Don't stress! Green guru Sophie Uliano has sorted through all the eco-info out there and put everything you need to know about living a green lifestyle right at your fingertips.In Gorgeously Green, Sophie offers a sim
Food Inc.: A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer-And What You Can Do About It
Karl Weber · 321 pages
From the Publisher: Food, Inc. is guaranteed to shake up our perceptions of what we eat. This powerful documentary deconstructing the corporate food industry in America was hailed by Entertainment Weekly as "more than a terrific movie-it's an important movie." Aided by expert commentators such as Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser, the film poses questions such as: Where has my food come from, and
The Backyard Homestead: Produce All the Food You Need on Just a Quarter Acre!
Carleen Madigan · 367 pages
**From a Quarter of An Acre, You Can Harvest:** 1400 Eggs 50 Pounds of Wheat 60 Pounds of Fruit 2000 Pounds of Vegetables 280 Pounds of Pork 75 Pounds of Nuts **The Indispensable Guide to Food Self-Sufficiency** Learn How To: -milk a goat -prime a fruit tree -dry herbs -make dandelion wine -bake whole-grain bread -tap a maple tree -make fresh mozzarella -brew beer -mill grains
The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World
John Robbins · 451 pages
Explores the dangers behind many foods, describes the benefits of healthy alternatives, and explains how people can extend their lives, increase their vibrancy and vitality, and take a stand for a more compassionate and sustainable world by making better food choices.
Mad Cowboy: Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won't Eat Meat
Howard F. Lyman, Glen Merzer · 223 pages
Former cattle rancher Howard Lyman "blasts through the propaganda of the beef and dairy industries ... and exposes an animal-based diet as the primary cause of cancer, heart disease, and obesity in this country."--Jacket.
Happy Snacking, Don't Die!: Foraging and Vegan Recipes with Black Forager (A Cookbook)
Alexis Nikole Nelson · 272 pages
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Barbara Kingsolver, Steven L. Hopp, Camille Kingsolver · 384 pages
Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver returns with her first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat."As the U.S. population made an unprecedented mad dash for the Sun Belt, one carload of us paddled against the tide, heading for the Promised Land where water falls from the sky and green stuff grows all around. We were about to begi
Slow Death by Rubber Duck: How the Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Life Affects Our Health
Rick Smith, Bruce Lourie · 352 pages
Veganist: Lose Weight, Get Healthy, Change the World
Kathy Freston · 294 pages
Promotes weight loss, healthy eating, and conscious consumerism through veganism, arguing that a meat and dairy-free lifestyle helps one lose weight, live longer, and is better for the economy and the environment.
A Sand County Almanac: With Essays on Conservation from Round River
Aldo Leopold · 269 pages
First published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times Book Review as a trenchant book, full of vigor and bite, A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for Americas relationship to the land. Written with an unparalleled understanding of the ways of nature, the book includes a section on the monthly changes of the
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
Charles C. Mann · 631 pages
From the author of 1491 -- the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas -- a deeply engaging new history of the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs. More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed radically different suites of plants and animals. When Christopher C
Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally
Alisa Smith, J.B. MacKinnon · 272 pages
Unbowed
Wangari Maathai · 336 pages
In Unbowed, Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai recounts her extraordinary journey from her childhood in rural Kenya to the world stage. When Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977, she began a vital poor people's environmental movement, focused on the empowerment of women, that soon spread across Africa. Persevering through run-ins with the Kenyan government and personal losses, and jail
Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Germ Laboratory
Michael C. Carroll · 320 pages
Strictly off limits to the public, Plum Island is home to virginal beaches, cliffs, forests, ponds -- and the deadliest germs that have ever roamed the planet. Lab 257 blows the lid off the stunning true nature and checkered history of Plum Island. It shows that the seemingly bucolic island in the shadow of New York City is a ticking biological time bomb that none of us can safely ignore.Based on
Power Politics
Arundhati Roy · 157 pages
The acclaimed novelist criticizes globalization, particularly as it manifests in Indian dam construction, and challenges the idea that only "experts" can criticize social and economic policy.
Dogs and Demons: Tales From the Dark Side of Modern Japan
Alex Kerr · 432 pages
"In an ancient tale, a Chinese emperor asks his court painter about the easiest and most difficult subjects to paint. The painter replies, "Dogs are difficult, demons are easy." To Alex Kerr, a longtime resident expert and observer, Japan's "dogs" are the vital activities that sustain an ecologically and culturally responsible economy, while the expedient "demons" are the million-dollar boondoggle
Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller: Oil and the End of Globalization
Jeff Rubin · 304 pages
An internationally renowned energy expert has written a book essential for every American--a galvanizing account of how the rising price and diminishing availability of oil are going to radically change our lives. Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller is a powerful and provocative book that explores what the new global economy will look like and what it will mean for all of us.In a co
Sepp Holzer's Permaculture: A Practical Guide to Small-Scale, Integrative Farming and Gardening
Sepp Holzer · 256 pages
Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants
Jane Goodall, Gail Hudson · 426 pages
"Renowned naturalist and bestselling author Jane Goodall examines the critical role that trees and plants play in our world"--Provided by the publisher.