Authors:Donella H. Meadows, Jorgen Randers, Dennis L. Mead
Publisher: Chelsea Gree
Keywords: update, year, growth, limits
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2004-06-01
List price: $22.50
ISBN-10: 193149858X
ISBN-13: 9781931498586

In 1972, three scientists from MIT created a computer model that analyzed global resource consumption and production. Their results shocked the world and created stirring conversation about global ’overshoot,’ or resource use beyond the carrying capacity of the planet. Now, preeminent environmental scientists Donnella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and Dennis Meadows have teamed up again to update and expand their original findings in The Limits to Growth: The 30 Year Global Update.Meadows, Randers, and Meadows are international environmental leaders recognized for their groundbreaking r

Author: Gene Logsdo
Publisher: Chelsea Gree
Keywords: american, dream, farming, pace, nature, living
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 2000-02-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 189013256X
ISBN-13: 9781890132569

For decades, Logsdon and his family have run a viable family farm. Along the way, he has become a widely influential journalist and social critic, documenting in hundreds of essays for national and regional magazines the crisis in conventional agri-business and the boundless potential for new forms of farming that reconcile tradition with ecology.Logsdon reminds us that healthy and economical agriculture must work “at nature’s pace,” instead of trying to impose an industrial order on the natural world. Foreseeing a future with “more farmers, not fewer,” he looks for workable models among

Authors:Rob Hopkins,  Richard Heinberg,
Publisher: Chelsea Gree
Keywords: transition, resilience, guides, local, dependency, handbook, oil
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2008-09-15
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1900322188
ISBN-13: 9781900322188

We live in an oil-dependent world, arriving at this level of dependency in a very short space of time by treating petroleum as if it were in infinite supply. Most of us avoid thinking about what happens when oil runs out (or becomes prohibitively expensive), but The Transition Handbook shows how the inevitable and profound changes ahead can have a positive outcome. These changes can lead to the rebirth of local communities that will grow more of their own food, generate their own power, and build their own houses using local materials. They can also encourage the development of local currencie

Author: Thomas Greco
Publisher: Chelsea Gree
Keywords: legal, tender, alternatives, creating, understanding, money
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2001-11-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1890132373
ISBN-13: 9781890132378

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 on how to make alternatives to the "legal tender" work for individuals, communities, and local economies. Money will set your mental gears spinning with fantastic ideas. This book explains the mysteries and realities of money in clear and accessible prose, and reveals the true workings, and ala

Author: Helen Nearing
Publisher: Chelsea Gree
Keywords: life, leaving, loving
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1993-03-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0930031636
ISBN-13: 9780930031633

Helen and Scott Nearing wrote Living the Good Life and many other best-selling books about working hard, living simply and self-sufficiently while saving time for fun and pursuits of the intellect. This is a book written by Helen after Scott died (at 100 years old!), and is a story of love and living and dying on one’s own terms, at peace with the world and with one’s own heart. Inspiring and moving, this is a "how-to" book about facing life with delight and with eyes open.Helen and Scott Nearing, authors of Living the Good Life and many other bestselling books, lived together for

Authors:Eliot Coleman,  Sheri Amsel, Molly Cook Field,
Publisher: Chelsea Gree
Keywords: gardener, market, home, supply, book, techniques, tools, organic, grower, master, manual, new
Number of Pages: 340
Published: 1995-10-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 093003175X
ISBN-13: 9780930031756

With more than 45,000 sold since 1988, The New Organic Grower has become a modern classic. In this newly revised and expanded edition, master grower Eliot Coleman continues to present the simplest and most sustainable ways of growing top-quality organic vegetables. Coleman updates practical information on marketing the harvest, on small-scale equipment, and on farming and gardening for the long-term health of the soil. The new book is thoroughly updated, and includes all-new chapters such as: *Farm-Generated Fertility-how to meet your soil-fertility needs from the resources of your own land, e

Author: Sheldon Zerde
Publisher: Warren H Gree
Keywords: books, health
Number of Pages: 533
Published: 2004-01-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0875275370
ISBN-13: 9780875275376