Green Publishing: 511 books
by Amy Kolb Noyes
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
When it comes to cleaning products, society often values convenience over personal and planetary health, thanks to decades of advertising propaganda from the chemical companies that market overpriced and dangerous concoctions. But awareness is changing: Not only are homemade and nontoxic cleaners...
Market Farming Success
The Business of Growing and Selling Local Food, 2nd Editon
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
An insider's guide to market gardening and farming for those in the business of growing and selling food, flowers, herbs, or plants.
Market Farming Success identifies the key areas that usually trip up beginners—and shows how to avoid those obstacles. This book will help the aspiring or beginning...
Money
Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001
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...
Future Scenarios
How Communities Can Adapt to Peak Oil and Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
In Future Scenarios, permaculture co-originator and leading sustainability innovator David Holmgren outlines four scenarios that bring to life the likely cultural, political, agricultural, and economic implications of peak oil and climate change, and the generations-long era of “energy descent”...
Food Not Lawns
How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden and Your Neighborhood into a Community
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2006
Gardening can be a political act. Creativity, fulfillment, connection, revolution—it all begins when we get our hands in the dirt.
Food Not Lawns combines practical wisdom on ecological design and community-building with a fresh, green perspective on an age-old subject. Activist and urban...
Sharing the Harvest
A Citizen's Guide to Community Supported Agriculture, 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
To an increasing number of American families the CSA (community supported agriculture) is the answer to the globalization of our food supply. The premise is simple: create a partnership between local farmers and nearby consumers, who become members or subscribers in support of the farm. In exchange...
by Steve Gilman
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Soil is a living organism that loves to cooperate with farmers and gardeners. A green thumb will appear on those who align themselves with its health and requirements. This book discusses:
Soil habitat
Sustaining soil fertility
The soil food-web
Nutrient availability and deficiency
After...
The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved
Inside America's Underground Food Movements
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2006
An instant classic for a new generation of monkey-wrenching food activists. Food in America is cheap and abundant, yet the vast majority of it is diminished in terms of flavor and nutrition, anonymous and mysterious after being shipped thousands of miles and passing through inscrutable supply chains,...
Cows Save the Planet
And Other Improbable Ways of Restoring Soil to Heal the Earth
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
"In Cows Save the Planet, journalist Judith D. Schwartz looks at soil as a crucible for our many overlapping environmental, economic, and social crises. Schwartz reveals that for many of these problems—climate change, desertification, biodiversity loss, droughts, floods, wildfires, rural poverty,...
The Natural Building Companion
A Comprehensive Guide to Integrative Design and Construction
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Natural buildings not only bring satisfaction to their makers and joy to their occupants, they also leave the gentlest footprint on the environment. In this complete reference to natural building philosophy, design, and technique, Jacob Deva Racusin and Ace McArleton walk builders through planning...
Passive Solar Architecture
Heating, Cooling, Ventilation, Daylighting and More Using Natural Flows
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
New buildings can be designed to be solar oriented, naturally heated and cooled, naturally lit and ventilated, and made with renewable, sustainable materials—no matter the location or climate.
In this comprehensive overview of passive solar design, two of America’s solar pioneers give homeowners,...
Serious Straw Bale
A Home Construction Guide for All Climates
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2000
In 1994, when Chelsea Green published The Straw Bale House, the response from many people was a loud, "Huh?!"
Those days are gone. With more than 100,000 copies sold, and straw bale projects underway in most regions of North America, we've entered a new era. Even building-code officials...
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,...
The Lost Language of Plants
The Ecological Importance of Plant Medicine to Life on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2002
This could be the most important book you will read this year. Around the office at Chelsea Green it is referred to as the "pharmaceutical Silent Spring." Well-known author, teacher, lecturer, and herbalist Stephen Harrod Buhner has produced a book that is certain to generate controversy....