books about: sustainability

books about: sustainability

books:

Sustainability

The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems

Van Jones

HarperOne, 2008

Perfect Timing!
The Green Collar Economy, How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems, by Van Jones, could not be more timely. As our economy (and perhaps the world economy) enters a period called stagflation--meaning, a stagnant economy coupled with inflation--Jones offers a ...

Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats

Sally Fallon

NewTrends Publishing, Inc., 1999

Nourishing Traditions
This is so much more than a cook book! It gives the reasons behind food preparation, and the scientific information to refute popular missconceptions about what foods are "good" for you and what is "bad". The recipies are well written and easy to understand, and the ...

In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

Michael Pollan

Penguin Press HC, The, 2008

A Must Read: And here is why
Healing the Rift: Merging Science and Spirituality Michael Pollan chronicles the dogma and misconceptions concerning food and food nutrition. With tens of thousands of books published each year on cooking, diet, food, and nutrition, few really give readers the ...

Preserving Food without Freezing or Canning: Traditional Techniques Using Salt, Oil, Sugar, Alcohol, Vinegar, ...

The Gardeners and Farmers of Centre Terre Vivante

Chelsea Green Publishing, 2007

A very useful book, that calls to mind grandmas of the world!
I ordered this book a bit over a month ago. I received it very promptly and read it front to back the same day. I was totally amazed by the varied methods of preserving- from using root cellaring to fermenting to using salt and oils and even making jams and jellies! ...

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.)

Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, ...

Harper Perennial, 2008

A guide to change your eating
Barbara Kingsolver uses her very readable style to encourage us all on a journey to understand the effects of the standard American diet on our own health as well as the health of the earth. This book is a fun and heart-touching read that also contains great recipes ...

When Technology Fails (Revised & Expanded): A Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability, and Surviving the ...

Matthew Stein

Chelsea Green Publishing, 2008

Preparing for "CHAOS" in the United States.
This manual guides one toward survival, when technology fails.....and it will, it's only a matter of time now. It has already begun. Most people cannot hunt, grow food, or recognize anything growing in the wild that would help them survive, if they needed to. The ...

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Michael Pollan

Penguin, 2007

Zeitgeist for Food!
Probably the most important book about the state of food in this country, and maybe the world. Michael Pollan's calm voice is the call to tune in, wake up and choose the food you consume rather than give in to corporate and government default as we have been ...

Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build ...

Daniel C. Esty, Andrew S. Winston

Yale University Press, 2006

Green to Gold
Esty and Winston seem to be a perfect duo to write this book. Together they have a very strong and complementing background, ranging from experiences in academics and government to green and strategy consulting. The result is a book that has the right balance of theory ...

The Self-sufficient Life and How to Live It

John Seymour

DK ADULT, 2003

Timely advice
What a great find at a time when our lives are having to do an about face! We may not end up with a farm per se but will use the helpful pages in this book to make ourselves less dependent on the super market at the very least. The illustrations are particularly good. ...

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things

William McDonough, Michael Braungart

North Point Press, 2002

excellent, even oustanding
Great book, in perfect condition and as I saw on screen that s how i received at home.

Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future

Bill McKibben

Holt Paperbacks, 2008

Changed the way I see the world
I must admit, I wasn't particularly enthused about "Deep Economy" when I picked it up... it was one of several shorter texts required for my senior seminar class as a business major. I'm so glad I stuck with it... because it's had a lasting impression upon me. I won't ...

Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills, Third Edition

Skyhorse Publishing, 2008

The Skills Your Grandparents Had, But You Probably Don't
Until I checked this book out of the library, I had rarely given a thought to getting "back to basics," that is learning how to be more self-sufficient. After I read the book, I soon bought it, because it opened my eyes to the many ways that I am almost entirely ...

Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beauty to the ...

Paul Hawken

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2008

A book full of hope
This is a wonderfully documented guide about groups working for social justice and for bringing balance and restoring our planet's seriously damaged environment. Among many issues, Paul Hawken tells us that fighting for those important objectives, ideology or ...

Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet

Jeffrey D. Sachs

Penguin Press HC, The, 2008

Insightful, frightening and promising
Famed economist Jeffrey Sachs manages to deliver pessimistic news in an optimistic way. Yes, the Earth faces dire threats from global warming, poverty, war, deforestation and mass extinctions. Yet Sachs asserts that these severe problems are manageable. Fixing them ...

Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, Third Edition

Lester R. Brown

W. W. Norton, 2008

Deeply Insightful but Very Readable
This is one of the finest books to summarize in layman's terms both the problems and solutions to our unsustainable, industrialized economy. What distinguishes Lester Brown form other authors on the topic of sustainability is the ease of readability of his books. ...