Chelsea Green Publishing imprint: 239 books
The Tao of Vegetable Gardening
Cultivating Tomatoes, Greens, Peas, Beans, Squash, Joy, and Serenity
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
The Tao of Vegetable Gardening explores the practical methods as well as the deeper essence of gardening. In her latest book, groundbreaking garden writer Carol Deppe (The Resilient Gardener, Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties) focuses on some of the most popular home garden vegetables—tomatoes,...
Brew Beer Like a Yeti
Traditional Techniques and Recipes for Unconventional Ales, Gruits, and Other Ferments Using Minimal Hops
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2018
Experimentation, mystery, resourcefulness, and above all, fun—these are the hallmarks of brewing beer like a Yeti.
Since the craft beer and homebrewing boom of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, beer lovers have enjoyed drinking and brewing a vast array of beer styles. However,...
In the Company of Bears
What Black Bears Have Taught Me about Intelligence and Intuition
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
In In the Company of Bears, originally published in hardcover as Out on a Limb, Ben Kilham invites us into the world he has come to know best: the world of black bears.
For decades, Kilham has studied wild black bears in a vast tract of Northern New Hampshire woodlands. At times, he has also...
Good Morning, Beautiful Business
The Unexpected Journey of an Activist Entrepreneur and Local-Economy Pioneer
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
It's not often that someone stumbles into entrepreneurship and ends up reviving a community and starting a national economic-reform movement. But that's what happened when, in 1983, Judy Wicks founded the White Dog Café on the first floor of her house on a row of Victorian brownstones in West Philadelphia....
by Jonathan Tasini
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Meet the essential Bernie Sanders—an authentic and uncompromising champion of the people.
Independent United States Senator Bernie Sanders—with a thirty-five-year career in public service, first as Burlington, Vermont’s mayor, then as Vermont’s sole representative to Congress, and currently...
Walking on Water
Reading, Writing and Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2005
Remember the days of longing for the hands on the classroom clock to move faster? Most of us would say we love to learn, but we hated school. Why is that? What happens to creativity and individuality as we pass through the educational system?
Walking on Water is a startling and provocative...
The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor
The Life and Times of Tony Mazzocchi
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2007
A CIA-connected labor union, an assassination attempt, a mysterious car crash, listening devices, and stolen documents--everything you'd expect from the latest thriller. Yet, this was the reality of Tony Mazzocchi, the Rachel Carson of the U.S. workplace; a dynamic labor leader whose legacy lives...
The Social Profit Handbook
The Essential Guide to Setting Goals, Assessing Outcomes, and Achieving Success for Mission-Driven Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
How to Articulate and Assess What Success Looks Like
The Social Profit Handbook offers those who lead, govern, and support mission-driven organizations and businesses new ways to assess their impact in order to improve future work rather than merely judge past performance.
For-profit...
Oil, Power, and War
A Dark History
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
"Auzanneau has created a towering telling of a dark and dangerous addiction.”—Nature
In this sweeping, unabashed history of oil, Matthieu Auzanneau takes a fresh, thought-provoking look at the way oil interests have commandeered politics and economies, changed cultures, disrupted power...
Local Dollars, Local Sense
How to Shift Your Money from Wall Street to Main Street and Achieve Real Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Local Dollars, Local Sense is a guide to creating Community Resilience.
Americans' long-term savings in stocks, bonds, mutual funds, pension funds, and life insurance funds total about $30 trillion. But not even 1 percent of these savings touch local small business-even though roughly half...
Doughnut Economics
Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
A Financial Times "Best Book of 2017: Economics”
800-CEO-Read “Best Business Book of 2017: Current Events & Public Affairs”
Economics is the mother tongue of public policy. It dominates our decision-making for the future, guides multi-billion-dollar investments, and shapes...
Born on Third Base
A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing Wealth Home, and Committing to the Common Good
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
As inequality grabs headlines, steals the show in presidential debates, and drives deep divides between the haves and have nots in America, class war brews. On one side, the wealthy wield power and advantage, wittingly or not, to keep the system operating in their favor—all while retreating into...
Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money
Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2010
Could there ever be an alternative stock exchange dedicated to slow, small, and local? Could a million American families get their food from CSAs? What if you had to invest 50 percent of your assets within 50 miles of where you live?Such questions-at the heart of slow money-represent the first steps...
2052
A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
Forty years ago, The Limits to Growth study addressed the grand question of how humans would adapt to the physical limitations of planet Earth. It predicted that during the first half of the 21st century the ongoing growth in the human ecological footprint would stop-either through catastrophic "overshoot...