Green Books imprint: 155 books
Your Money
Use Less, Save More
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Packed with tips and resources for making your cash go further in the current economic climate, this book provides money saving ideas that give you the chance to get together with other people, cut your waste down, and slow down a bit. Organize a swap party for clothes, seeds, or toys—why buy new?...
by Charles Dowding
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Conventional wisdom is difficult to question, even when it is misguided and contains many contradictions. Gardening has its share of such myths—some with discernible origins in history, others that have become established for no obvious reason—and they often obscure simpler and easier methods...
Flower Farmer's Year
How to Grow Cut Flowers for Pleasure and Profit
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
The Flower Farmer’s Year is a light, entertaining look at how to plant, maintain, and keep evolving a productive cut-flower garden. Whether you want to devote a corner of your garden to a stand of sweet peas and some cosmos, take up flower production for gate sales, or make a livelihood from cut...
Bioregional Solutions
For Living on One Planet
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
We live in a consumer society, and over-consumption is the driving force of environmental degradation. This stark reality led Pooran Desai and Sue Riddlestone to found BioRegional Development Group. In this Briefing they show how we can meet more of our needs for wood products, paper, textiles, food...
Changeology
How to Enable Groups, Communities and Societies to Do Things They've Never Done Before
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Changeology is about influencing human behavior for the better. It shows how to design an effective change project, with inspiring examples in areas such as climate change, obesity, AIDS, tobacco, and nutrition. It speaks to a worldwide audience of professionals and individuals who are acting to make...
Spiritual Activism
Leadership as Service
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Provides a clear look at spiritual activism and the ways it can help us to be better activists, better leaders, and more comfortable with our own spiritualityOver the past half century, our understanding and awareness of spirituality has changed in nature, as have the issues facing activists. Spirituality...
Natural Step
A Framework for Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
The Natural Step framework for sustainability was first developed in 1989. The framework and the organisation, The Natural Step International, have been through many changes during that time, yet the essence of this unique, science-based approach remains unchanged. It is a way of seeing the world...
Gentle Guide to Home Birth
Natural childbirth in your own home
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
This book gives all the information you need about giving birth at home. From nutritious food and yoga to active birth positions and complementary methods of pain relief, A Gentle Guide to Home Birth will help you feel in control. Covering the role of your birth partner in labor and ways to include...
Global Spin
The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2002
Global Spin reveals the sophisticated techniques being used around the world by powerful conservative forces to try to change the way the public and politicians think about the environment. Large corporations are using their influence to reshape public opinion, to weaken gains made by environmentalists,...
Do We Need Pandas?
The Uncomfortable Truth About Biodiversity
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
How much is really known about the species that make up the natural world? In this fascinating book, Ken Thompson explains what we do and don't understand about biodiversity. We know that most species remain undiscovered, and that biodiversity is gravely threatened by overfishing, habitat loss, pollution,...
Learning with Nature
A How-to Guide to Inspiring Children Through Outdoor Games and Activities
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
An extensive book of outdoor activities suitable for a wide range of children and environmentsLearning with Nature is full of fun activities and games to get children outdoors, to explore, have fun, make things, and learn about nature and help them grow up happy and healthy. Suitable for groups of...
Clay and Lime Renders, Plasters and Paints
A How-To Guide to Using Natural Finishes
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
This book was previously published under the title Using Natural Finishes. With step-by-step instructions for applying lime- and clay-based plasters, renders, and paints, this manual features information on the benefits of natural finishes for personal health, the environment, and buildings. Drawing...
Building with Straw Bales
A Practical Manual for Self-Builders and Architects
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Straw bale building is a radically different approach to construction, and this book explains, in straightforward and commonsense terms, the principles of the technique, which was pioneered in the United States more than a hundred years ago and is now entering the mainstream. It is used by firms who...
Convergence with Nature
A Daoist Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Exploring our relationship to nature—to animals, to plants, and to natural places—this book asks how that relationship can be shaped into an appropriate one that contributes to the good of people's lives as a whole. Religions and philosophies have much to say about our relationship with nature,...