Green Publishing: 511 books
Climate Solutions
A Citizen's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Millions of Americans are demanding that all levels of government—local, state, and federal—take immediate and effective action to fight climate change. But there’s a big problem. Hundreds of policy ideas are floating about, and many of them aren’t very good. It’s quite possible that bad...
The New Bread Basket
How the New Crop of Grain Growers, Plant Breeders, Millers, Maltsters, Bakers, Brewers, and Local Food Activists Are Redefining Our Daily Loaf
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
For more than 10,000 years, grains have been the staples of Western civilization. The stored energy of grain allowed our ancestors to shift from nomadic hunting and gathering and build settled communities—even great cities. Though most bread now comes from factory bakeries, the symbolism of wheat...
Gaia's Garden
A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009
The first edition of Gaia’s Garden sparked the imagination of America’s home gardeners, introducing permaculture’s central message: Working with Nature, not against her, results in more beautiful, abundant, and forgiving gardens. This extensively revised and expanded second edition broadens...
by Ross Mars
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2005
The Basics of Permaculture Design, first published in Australia in 1996, is an excellent introduction to the principles of permaculture, design processes, and the tools needed for designing sustainable gardens, farms, and larger communities.
Packed with useful tips, clear illustrations, and...
Getting Started in Permaculture
50 Practical Projects to Build and Design Productive Gardens, 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2007
Permaculture experts Ross and Jenny Mars outline the steps to transform your garden into a productive living system. Modeled upon the development of Candlelight Farm, and illustrated with photographs, this guide encourages the reader to make positive steps towards reconciling human impact with nature...
Biodiesel
Growing a New Energy Economy, 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
For anyone who is trying to keep up with the extremely rapid developments in the biodiesel industry, the second edition of Biodiesel: Growing a New Energy Economy is an invaluable aid. The breathtaking speed with which biodiesel has gained acceptance in the marketplace in the past few years has been...
Chanterelle Dreams, Amanita Nightmares
The Love, Lore, and Mystique of Mushrooms
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2010
2011 Winner, International Association of Culinary Professionals Jane Grigson Award2011 Finalist, International Association of Culinary Professionals in the Culinary History categoryThroughout history, people have had a complex and confusing relationship with mushrooms. Are fungi food or medicine,...
Cheesemonger
A Life on the Wedge
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
Witty and irreverent, informative and provocative, Cheesemonger: A Life on the Wedge is the highly readable story of Gordon Edgar's unlikely career as a cheesemonger at San Francisco's worker-owned Rainbow Grocery Cooperative. A former punk-rock political activist, Edgar bluffed his way into his cheese...
The Flower Farmer
An Organic Grower's Guide to Raising and Selling Cut Flowers, 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2008
The domestic cut flower business has experienced a renaissance in the past decade, thanks in large part to the first edition of The Flower Farmer: An Organic Grower’s Guide to Raising and Selling Cut Flowers, which helped thousands of small growers start successful businesses. This newly expanded...
A Solar Buyer's Guide for the Home and Office
Navigating the Maze of Solar Options, Incentives, and Installers
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2010
Solar power, once a fringe effort limited to DIY enthusiasts, is now fast becoming mainstream. Many home and business owners are curious about solar electric and solar thermal systems, and wonder how to go about getting a clean energy generation system of their own. The vast majority will hire a professional...
An Unlikely Vineyard
The Education of a Farmer and Her Quest for Terroir
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
Named one of the Best Wine Books of 2014 by The New York Times, An Unlikely Vineyard tells the evolutionary story of Deirdre Heekin’s farm from overgrown fields to a fertile, productive, and beautiful landscape that melds with its natural environment.
Is it possible to capture landscape in...
Salted and Cured
Savoring the Culture, Heritage, and Flavor of America's Preserved Meats
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
From country ham to coppa, bacon to bresaola
Prosciutto. Andouille. Country ham. The extraordinary rise in popularity of cured meats in recent years often overlooks the fact that the ancient practice of meat preservation through the use of salt, time, and smoke began as a survival technique....
The Raw Milk Revolution
Behind America's Emerging Battle over Food Rights
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2009
Beginning in 2006, the agriculture departments of several large states-with backing from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration-launched a major crackdown on small dairies producing raw milk. Replete with undercover agents, sting operations, surprise raids, questionable test-lab results, mysterious...
Living at Nature's Pace
Farming and the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2000
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...