2009 Fall Catalog

Fall 2009

Celebrating 25 Years

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contentscontentsThe Transition Timeline 2The Looting of America 3Howard Dean’s Prescription

for Real Healthcare Reform 4Connected Wisdom 6From Asparagus to Zucchini 7Social Change 2.0 8Marijuana Is Safer 9Nontoxic Housecleaning 10Sustainable Food 11Time’s Up! 12The Polytunnel Handbook 13Stone House 14The Organic Farmer’s Business Handbook 15Death & Sex 16The People v. Bush 17Money and Soul 18A Renewable World 19Herbs for Home Treatment 20Energy Free 21The Raw Milk Revolution 22Waiting on a Train 23The World According to Monsanto 24

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THE TRANSITION TIMELINEFor a Local, Resilient FutureShaun ChamberlinForeword by Rob Hopkins

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The revolutionary Transition Movement has been changing the way communities plan theirfuture by teaching them to prepare for the confluence of climate change and peak oil. Nowmovement leaders have taken their transition training one step further, crafting a timeline forthose who seek a life that is neither reliant on oil, nor based on the myth of perpetual growth.

The Transition Timeline lightens the fear of our uncertain future by mapping out the challenges weface and our pathways to addressing them. The book describes four possible scenarios for thenext twenty years—ranging from the denial scenario, in which we reap the consequences of failingto acknowledge and respond to our environmental challenges, to the transition vision, in whichwe shift our cultural assumptions to fit our circumstances and move into a more fulfilling, lower-energy world.

The practical, realistic details of this transition vision are examined in depth, covering key areassuch as food, energy, demographics, transport, and health care. The authors provide a sense ofcontext for communities working toward a thriving future, as well as a detailed and accessibleupdate on climate change and peak oil and the interactions between them—including their present and future impacts.

Use The Transition Timeline to choose your path, and then make that future real with youractions, individually and with your community. As Transition movement founder Rob Hopkinsoutlines in the chapter he has contributed, there is a rapidly spreading movement addressingthese challenges, and it needs you.

It’s possible to protect yourself and your community fromclimate change and peak oil. Here’s how.

Shaun Chamberlin is the founder of www.darkoptimism.org and hasbeen involved with the Transition Network since its inception. He isalso the Tradable Energy Quotas Development Director at The LeanEconomy Connection and a member of the Department of Energyand Climate Change's Personal Carbon Allowances AdvisoryGroup, as well as a core member of Transition Town Kingston, UK.

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“So here it is: the map and timeline of how to save our world and ourselves. Whether we WILL take up these suggestions as scheduled is a question for the cynicsand dreamers to debate. For us realists, the only relevant questions are, Where do westart?, and, Will you join us?” —Richard Heinberg, senior fellow of the Post CarbonInstitute, and author of eight books, including The Party’s Over and Peak Everything

“The Transition Timeline isn’t another climate jeremiad, but a map of the course we’llneed to take over the coming decade if we are to save our planet, and ourselves. It is a book of hopeful realism, making clear that the future we want remains in ourgrasp—but only for a short while longer.” —Jamais Cascio, cofounder ofWorldChanging.com and founder of OpenTheFuture.com

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THE LOOTING OF AMERICAHow Wall Street’s Game of Fantasy Finance Destroyed Our Jobs,Pensions, and Prosperity—and What We Can Do About ItLes Leopold

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How could the best and brightest in finance crash the global economy and then get us to bailthem out? What caused this mess? And what can Main Street do about it?

In The Looting of America, Les Leopold debunks the prevailing myths that blame low-incomehomebuyers, credit-card debtors, and government interference. Instead, readers will discoverhow Wall Street undermined itself and the rest of the economy by playing and losing a highlylucrative and dangerous game of fantasy finance.

He also asks some tough questions:• Why did Americans let the gap between workers’ and executives’ pay grow so large?• Why did we fail to realize that the excess money in those executives’ pockets was fueling

casino-style investment schemes?• Why did we buy the notion that financial products that no one could even understand would

somehow form the backbone of America’s new economy?• And how can we get our money back and never give it away to gamblers again?

In this page-turning, plain-speaking narrative, Leopold tells us how everyone from individualinvestors to school districts to institutions around the world fell victim to Wall Street’s “innovative”financial products—like collateralized debt obligations, better known as CDOs, which sucked trillions of dollars from the global economy when they failed.

As the country teeters on the brink of a depression, he warns we should be especially wary ofadvice from the so-called financial experts who got us here and then conveniently got themselvesout. So far, it appears they’ve won the battle, but The Looting of America refuses to let them writethe history—or plan its aftermath.

Not a Wall Street insider? A guide to the economic crisis for the rest of us.

Les Leopold cofounded and currently directs two nonprofit organi-zations, the Labor Institute and the Public Health Institute, and is theauthor of the award-winning The Man Who Hated Work andLoved Labor: The Life and Times of Tony Mazzocchi. Leopolddesigns research and educational programs on occupational safetyand health, the environment, and economics and helped form analliance between the United Steel Workers Union and the SierraClub. He attended Oberlin College and Princeton University’sWoodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Helives in Montclair, New Jersey.photo: Lilah Leopold

“Les Leopold’s account of the economic crisis is the clearest and most accessiblethat I have seen. It gives a reader with little economics or financial background ariveting description of how Wall Street tore down our economy and what we cando about it. It’s a page turner we all should read.” —Leo Gerard, International President of the United Steelworkers

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HOWARD DEAN’S Prescription for REAL HEALTHCARE REFORM How We Can Achieve Affordable Medical Care for Every American and Make Our Jobs SaferHoward Dean with Igor Volsky and Faiz Shakir

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What would real healthcare reform look like? And howcan everyday Americans trump big money and puthealthcare back on track? Howard Dean speaks out.

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Americans have pondered how to reform healthcare since the days of Harry Truman. But formost Americans, little has changed—except that healthcare costs have soared, health insurancecompanies have grown bigger and more oppressive to both doctors and patients, and todayeven those Americans who pay dearly for health insurance frequently find that their policiesdon’t adequately cover them when they need their coverage most.

Something has got to give. In his bold new book, Howard Dean—the physician and formergovernor widely credited for reviving the Democratic Party after the 2004 elections—tellsAmericans what needs to be done to successfully reform healthcare. One key, he writes, is tooffer Americans the option to participate in a public health insurance program, much likeMedicare. “America has had ‘socialized’ medicine since 1964,” says Dean. “It’s called Medicare;it covers every American over 65, and they are very happy with the program. The rest ofAmerica deserves a similar option.”

In this straight-talking guide to overcoming today’s healthcare crisis, Dean spells out:• What Obama’s healthcare plan is all about• How other countries handle healthcare• Which special interests are standing in the way of progress and why• How healthcare reform will help American businesses prosper• Why Americans need choice—between private and public health insurance coverage

Millions of Americans lack health insurance; millions more pay for coverage that doesn’t protectthem from serious illness; and the status quo leaves Americans at the mercy of corporate interests.This persuasive argument from a passionate political strategist shows Americans how to take backthe healthcare reins.

Howard Dean—physician and former chairman of the DemocraticNational Committee (DNC)—served six terms as Governor of Vermontbefore running for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination inthe 2004 election. Dean also founded Democracy for America (DFA),the grassroots organization that organizes community activists, trainscampaign staff, and endorses progressive candidates. While he wasVermont’s governor, the state expanded its universal healthcare pro-gram to cover nearly every child under age 18—and also lowered itspublic debt, balanced its budget, and reduced taxes.

Faiz Shakir, currently the research director at the Center for American Progress inWashington, D.C., has been a researcher for the Democratic National Committee, a U.S.Senate legislative aide on veterans affairs, and a White House communications aide.

Igor Volsky is a healthcare researcher and blogger at the Center for American Progress.

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from Howard Dean’s Prescription for Real Healthcare Reform:Much has been made of the 48 million Americans whodon’t have health insurance. Their stories are heart-rend-ing, and it’s a scandal that in the wealthiest nation onearth, we do not cover everybody. No other industrialdemocracy in the world puts up with this embarrass-ment. But the debate on healthcare reform—which iscoming to a peak once again—should also focus on thefact that many Americans who do have health insurancedon’t find out that it doesn’t adequately cover them untilit is too late.

What’s the real issue?The real issue in the debate over healthcare reform is notwhether we should have “socialized medicine” or not. It’swhether we should continue with an extraordinarilyinefficient system that today features a private insurance

industry that takes large amounts of money out of thehealthcare system for shareholders, administrators, andexecutives, while denying people the basic coverage theyhave paid for.

How to frame the debate.The debate about healthcare reform is not a debateabout how much a role the government should play.Instead, the debate should focus on this simple ques-tion: Should we give Americans under 65 the samechoice we give Americans over 65? Should we give allAmericans a choice of opting out of the private healthinsurance system and benefiting from a public healthinsurance plan? Americans ought to be able to decidefor themselves.

What Americans Should Demand of Real Healthcare Reform.

• Choice: Everyone should be able to choose between a public health insurance option—like Medicare—or a private health insurance option.

• No forced moves: If you like the health insurance coverage you have, you should be able to keep it.

• Coverage options for small business: Very small businesses should have the option of handing over health insurance coverage for their employees to a public or private plan subsidized by the government.

• Everybody in, nobody out: Public and private health insurance plans should turn no one away based on illness, pre-existing conditions, or other criteria.

• Similar premiums for everyone: Despite age or illness, all Americans should be able to opt into a public or private healthcare without wide discrepancies in cost based on age or previous illness.

• More options, not less: Healthcare reform should expand Americans’ healthcare choices, not reduce them.

• Financial protection: A public health insurance option is more affordable because it’s more efficient. This protects families’ financial health.

• Fewer of your healthcare dollars spent on overhead: A public health insurance option is much cheaper to operate and will help reduce non-health-related overhead costs.

• Universality: Everyone other than those already covered by Medicare or Medicaid should have the option to join a public plan.

• Portability: A public health insurance plan should cover you no matter how many times you move, no matter who you work for, and no matter where you live.



CONNECTED WISDOMLiving Stories About Living SystemsLinda Booth Sweeney, Ed.D.

• Pub Date September 2009• $24.95 US, $32.50 CAN • Paper• ISBN 9780982248010• 9 x 12 • 96 pages • Full Color Throughout• Ages 9 and up• Chelsea Green Kids

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Connected Wisdom: Living Stories About Living Systems gathers twelve stories from different cultures that each reveal a unique example of a “living system.” Through them, Linda BoothSweeney shows that what we now call systems thinking has been around for a very long time.

A Balinese folktale tells the story of a gecko who cannot sleep because of the sparks from a firefly. He traces the cause of his complaint from one animal to another to the mosquitoes hedepends on for his survival. Like this gecko, young readers will understand that all life is inter-related, and will be able to grasp the concept of the living system of “interdependence.” In aBurmese folktale, a king spills a drop of honey on his windowsill, too little to bother cleaningup. Yet the drop draws a fly, which attracts a lizard, which is followed by a cat, then a dog, andthe owners of the cat and the dog, each armed with a stick. When civil war erupts, the kingand readers understand the living system of “linearity,” in which an effect is disproportionate toits cause.

Clear and simple notes accompany these and the other stories in Connected Wisdom.

Says Sweeney, “If kids understand living systems, they’re more likely to think and act ininformed ways and less likely to jump to blame a single cause for the challenges theyencounter.”

Connected Wisdom is a large-format, full-color volume that is as suitable for gift-giving as it isfor classrooms and libraries.

A new collection of folktales reveals how people haveunderstood sustainable living over the centuries.

Linda Booth Sweeney, Ed.D., is a researcher and writer dedicatedto making the principles of systems thinking and sustainabilityaccessible. She has worked with Outward Bound, Sloan School ofM.I.T., and Schlumberger Excellence in Educational Development,or SEED. She is the author of The Systems Thinking Playbook;When a Butterfly Sneezes: A guide for helping children exploreinterconnections in our world through favorite stories; The SEEDWater Book; and numerous academic journals and newsletters.Sweeney lives outside Boston, Massachusetts. More informationavailable at www.lindaboothsweeney.net.

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“The moment you touch and open this book, its wisdom is evident. This is the wisdomof wholes, of belonging, and connecting the dots to see the richer tapestry of life.”—Raffi, singer and bestselling author of Wheels on the Bus and Baby Beluga

“. . . Linda Booth Sweeney has assembled a wonderful collection of ancient folktales and myths from around the world, which convey the profound "systemic wis-dom" of peoples who lived close to nature and had a deep intuitive understandingof life's networks, cycles, and processes of transformation. I highly recommendConnected Wisdom as a superb tool for teaching and learning the systemic thinkingthat is critical in our globally interconnected world.”—Fritjof Capra, author, The Web of Life and The Hidden Connections


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FROM ASPARAGUS TO ZUCCHINIA Guide to Cooking Farm-Fresh Seasonal Produce, Third EditionMadison Area Community Supported Agriculture Coalition

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Ever wonder how you’ll ever be able to use all your vegetables? From Asparagus to Zucchinianswers the question of what to do with your armloads of greens, exotic herbs, and never-before-seen vegetables with recipes that are as concise and doable as they are appealing. Created for andby Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) members, the book is an indispensable tool foranyone who wants to eat seasonally and locally.

Organized by vegetable—fifty-three in all—each section includes nutritional, historical, and storageinformation, as well as cooking tips. With more than 420 original recipes created, tested, andenjoyed by chefs, CSA members, and farmers, you’ll never be without a delicious recipe to makethe most of the season’s bounty. The best part is that lesser-known vegetables like burdock andkohlrabi have more recipes, not fewer!

From Asparagus to Zucchini is more than just a cookbook. Also included are essays that addressthe larger picture of sustainable agriculture, how our food choices fit into our economy, environment, and community, and more information on home food preservation and how tohelp kids appreciate—and even eat—their vegetables. Readers will find an extensive resourcesection and recipe index to round out this unique resource. With this book, prepare to awakenand reaffirm your dedication to enjoying the unique flavors of local foods while nourishing thelife of sustainable family farms.

Anyone who wants to eat locally needs a copy of thisbestselling cookbook—over 200,000 copies sold!

The Madison Area Community Supported Agriculture Coalition(MACSAC) is a nonprofit organization of CSA farms and memberspromoting the production and consumption of fresh, local, andsustainable foods in southern Wisconsin. MACSAC promotes andsupports CSA farms, coordinates community- and farmer-educationprograms on the benefits of locally grown foods, and operates thePartner Shares Program, which raises funds to subsidize CSAmemberships for limited-income households. To learn more, visitwww.macsac.org.

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“From Aparagus to Zucchini sparkles with a sense of community, that all-important‘extra’ that comes along with beautiful food fresh from the farm. It answers the questionof what to do with your armloads of greens, exotic herbs, and never-before-seen veg-etables with recipes that are as concise and doable as they are appealing. The essaysthat precede the recipes shouldn’t be missed—they will reaffirm—or awaken, as needbe, your dedication to enjoy the unique flavors of your local foods while nourishing thelife of the sustainable family farm. What could be better than that?”—Deborah Madison, author of Local Flavors, Cooking and Farmer’s Markets


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SOCIAL CHANGE 2.0A Blueprint for Reinventing Our WorldDavid Gershon

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Achieving the “change” in social change.

David Gershon is the author of ten books, including the best-sellingEmpowerment: The Art of Creating Your Life As You Want It andLow Carbon Diet: A 30-Day Program to Lose 5,000 Pounds, winnerof the “Most Likely to Save the Planet” Independent Publisher BookAward. He is founder and president of Empowerment Institute andcodirects its school for social change. His clients include cities, governmental agencies, nonprofits, large corporations, and socialentrepreneurs engaged in furthering social change. Gershon haslectured at Harvard, MIT, and Duke Universities and served as anadvisor to the Clinton White House and United Nations. He lives inupstate New York.

If “change” is the mantra of our moment in history, Social Change 2.0 may be poised to becomeits bible. Drawing on his three decades in the trenches of large-scale societal transformation,David Gershon—founder and president of Empowerment Institute, and described by theUnited Nations as a “graceful revolutionary”—offers an original and comprehensive roadmap tobring about fundamental change in our world.

From his initiation as architect of the United Nations–sponsored First Earth Run—a mythicpassing of fire around the world symbolizing humanity’s quest for peace on earth that drew tensof millions of participants, the planet’s political leaders, and, through the media, over a billionpeople at the height of the cold war—to his recent climate-change work helping citizens, cities,and entire states measurably reduce their carbon footprint (using his book Low Carbon Diet),Gershon offers readers strategies to evolve an effective new model for transformative change atany scale. These include:• The first comprehensive social-change model with proven, practical strategies and tools to

either launch a social-change initiative or improve the efficacy of any existing change program.• A “Practitioner’s Guide” accompanying each chapter, to help readers apply this social-change

framework to their initiative.

The result is an inspiring book that will quickly find its way onto the desks—and into the hearts—of change agents from environmental activists, social entrepreneurs, community organizers, andcivic, government, and business leaders, to the vast number of baby boomers looking for a way togive back and the millennials just raring to go.

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From the Introduction . . . Social Change 2.0 has a simple and some might say radical premise: That thenatural starting point for changing our world for the better is us. That takingpersonal responsibility to make the needed changes within ourselves and ourcommunities is the foundation for changing our institutions, not the other wayaround. That people are willing to make these changes if empowered by apersonal vision and the means to bring it to fruition. That these changes can beaccelerated and reinforced with the right laws and financial incentives, but itbegins with us.


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MARIJUANA IS SAFER So Why Are We Driving People to Drink?Steve Fox, Paul Armentano, and Mason Tvert

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Evidence shows marijuana is safer than alcohol. Yet alcohol is legal and marijuana is not. Isn’t it time for some citizen-led sanity?

Nationally recognized marijuana-policy experts Steve Fox, Paul Armentano, and Mason Tvertcompare and contrast the relative harms and legal status of the two most popular recreational substances in the world—marijuana and alcohol. Through an objective examination of the twodrugs and the laws and social practices that steer people toward alcohol, the authors pose a simpleyet rarely considered question: Why do we punish adults who make the rational, safer choice touse marijuana instead of alcohol?

Marijuana Is Safer reaches for a broad audience. For those unfamiliar with marijuana, it pro-vides an introduction to the cannabis plant and its effects on the user, and debunks some of the government’s most frequently cited marijuana myths. For current and aspiring advocates of marijuana-law reform, as well as anyone else who is interested in what is becoming a majorpolitical battle, the authors spell out why the message that marijuana is safer than alcohol mustbe a prominent part of the public debate over legalization.

Most importantly, for the millions of Americans who want to advance the cause of marijuana-policy reform—or simply want to defend their own personal, safer choice—this bookprovides the talking points and detailed information needed to make persuasive arguments tofriends, family, coworkers, and elected officials.

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Mason Tvert photo: Lori NagelPaul Armentano photo: Mike Milkovich

• Pub Date September 2009• $14.95 US, $19.50 CAN • Paper• ISBN 9781603581448 • 53/8 x 83/8 • 192 pages• Politics & Social Justice • World Rights

Steve Fox is the Director of State Campaigns for the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP), the nation’slargest organization dedicated to reforming marijuana laws. From 2002-2005, he lobbiedCongress as MPP’s Director of Government Relations. He cofounded Safer Alternative forEnjoyable Recreation (SAFER) in 2005 and has helped guide its operations since its inception. Heis a graduate of Tufts University and Boston College Law School and currently lives in Marylandwith his wife and two daughters.

Steve Fox photo: Lisa Fox

Mason Tvert is the cofounder and Executive Director of Safer Alternative for Enjoyable Recreation(SAFER) and the SAFER Voter Education Fund. He appears frequently in the news and travels thecountry promoting the “Marijuana Is Safer Than Alcohol” message. He resides in Denver, where heserves on the city’s Marijuana Policy Review Panel appointed by Mayor John W. Hickenlooper.

Paul Armentano, Deputy Director of NORML (The National Organization for the Reform ofMarijuana Laws) and the NORML Foundation, is a recognized expert in marijuana policy, health,and pharmacology. He appears regularly on Drew Pinsky’s nationally syndicated radio show, andhis work has appeared in over 500 publications. Armentano is the 2008 recipient of the ProjectCensored Real News Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism. He currently lives in Vallejo,California, with his wife and son.


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NONTOXIC HOUSECLEANINGAmy Kolb Noyes

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When it comes to cleaning products, society often values convenience over personal and planetaryhealth, thanks to decades of advertising propaganda from the chemical companies that marketoverpriced and dangerous concoctions. But awareness is changing: Not only are homemade andnontoxic cleaners strong enough for the toughest grunge, they are often as convenient as theircommercial counterparts.

Nontoxic Housecleaning—the latest in the Chelsea Green Guides series—provides a way for peopleto improve their immediate environment every day. Pregnant women, parents of young children,pet owners, people with health concerns, and those who simply care about a healthy environ-ment—and a sensible budget—can all benefit from the recipes and tips in this guide.

Included are tips for:• The basic ingredients: what they are, and why they work.• Specific techniques for each room and cleaning need in the house.• Detailed recipes for homemade cleaners, including floor polishes, all-purpose cleanser,

disinfecting cleanser, window cleaner, oven cleaner, furniture polish, mold- and mildew- killing cleansers, bathroom scrub, deodorizers, stain removers, laundry boosters and starch, metal polishes, scouring powder, and more.

A pocket guide for making and using nontoxic cleaning products.

Amy Kolb Noyes lives at Indecision Farm in Vermont and writesfrequently on home and garden topics for a variety of regionaland national publications. An environmental activist, she is vicechair of the nonprofit Green Up Vermont, has long served on itsboard of directors, and has authored Living the Green Up Way.She lives in northern Vermont.

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Grime Away Appliance CleanerIn an 32 oz spray bottle mix in the given order:

• 1 teaspoon castile soap with an essential oil OR 1 teaspoon unscented castile soap and 8-10 drops of your favorite oil

• 1 teaspoon washing soda • 3 cups warm water • 1 tablespoon vinegar

Shake well to mix before each use.

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SUSTAINABLE FOODHow to Buy Right and Spend LessElise McDonough

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Wondering whether it’s worth it to splurge on the locally raised beef? What about those organiccarrots? New in the Chelsea Green Guides series, Sustainable Food: How to Buy Right and SpendLess helps the average shopper navigate the choices, whether strolling the aisles of a modernsupermarket or foraging at a local farmers market.

This down-to-earth, casual guide—small enough to be slipped into your pocket—answers theseand other questions for the shopper:• What are the differences among organic, local, fair-trade, free-range, naturally raised, and

biodynamic foods?• How affordable is it to subscribe to a CSA farm—and what are the advantages?• Is it better to choose wild Alaskan salmon at $18.99, or the Chilean farmed fish at $11.99?• What cooking oils can be sustainably sourced?• How can a food co-op increase access to, and affordability of, healthier, Earth-friendly foods?• Where can you find sustainably produced sugar, and are there any local replacements for

sweeteners from faraway lands?• What do the distinctions between shade-grown and trellised coffee mean?• Is shark okay to eat? How about mackerel? • Why is the war on plastic bags so important?

Sustainable eating just got easier.

A guide to making ethical, budget-friendly, food-buying choices.

Elise McDonough trained at New York City’s Natural GourmetInstitute, but her informal training in counterculture cuisine beganat the Cleveland Food Co-op, where she was initiated into theworld of food politics, strange ingredients, and alternative diets.She lives in New York City, where she volunteers at the UnionSquare Greenmarket, and is actively involved in many local farmand food issues.

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Try these great tips to get started!

• Fishing for good seafood? Try farmed tilapia, mussels, bay scallops, or wild salmon. (And avoid farmed salmon at all costs.)

• Looking to eat lower on the food chain? Expand your repertoire with polished barley instead of rice, or polenta instead of potatoes.

• Think you can’t afford organic food? Consider subscribing to a CSA farm. Also, buying organic foods in bulk can be more frugal than the overly packaged name-brand alternatives.

• Pub Date September 2009• $7.95 US, $10.50 CAN • Paper• ISBN 9781603581417• 43/4 x 61/2 • 96 pages • other info• Food & Health • Green Guides• World Rights


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TIME’S UP!An Uncivilized Solution to a Global CrisisKeith Farnish

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How to survive the unfolding global crisis.

Keith Farnish is an environmental writer, philosopher, and activist.He founded The Earth Blog (www.theearthblog.org) in 2006 andwrites The Unsuitablog (www.unsuitablog.com). He is also a guestauthor on The Sietch Blog. Keith lives in Essex, England, with hiswife and children.

People know that the climate is changing for the worse, that species are being driven to extinctionat a rapidly increasing rate, and that entire ecosystems are becoming shadows of their former richness. They know but they do not understand. The global environmental crisis is closing in onhumanity from all directions, yet the crisis barely registers on this culture’s list of problems. As westand around, humanity is doomed to a collapse that may leave only a few nomads and a toxic,barely survivable Earth in its wake.

So why is nothing being done beyond changing light bulbs, recycling, and buying organicfood? It’s certainly not for a lack of good reasons. Humans have no motivation stronger thansurvival, yet the culture that dominates—the culture we call industrial civilization—has createda set of priorities that values financial wealth, the possession of superfluous goods, and short,cheap thrills above that most basic need. In short, we are prepared to die in order to live a lifethat is killing us.

Time’s Up! is about changing our behavior. The book describes how our actions affect the verythings on Earth that we depend on for survival, at scales that we rarely contemplate. It arms uswith the tools to free us from a culture that has blinded us for centuries, and which will allowus to live in a way that will give Earth, and ourselves, a viable future.

• Pub Date September 2009• $17.95 US, $23.50 CAN • Paper• ISBN 9781900322485• 6 x 9 • 192 pages• Nature & Environment

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“What Farnish does very well in this book is to present the reader with a little morethan the obvious. It goes beyond recycling and bicycling, and he goes a step furtherin the way he explains climate change. His solutions may not be revolutionary, butmaybe they don’t need to be. Farnish gives us the knowledge, the inspiration, and the empowerment to pull together and start this fight, even if we can’t all be like him—we can and we have do something.”—The Ecologist


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THE POLYTUNNEL HANDBOOKPlanning • Siting • Erecting • Using • MaintainingAndy McKee and Mark Gatter

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The last decade has seen an unprecedented rise in demand for organic fruit and vegetables, andeach year more of us are discovering that homegrown food is fresher, tastier, and more nutritiousthan food shipped in from elsewhere. A polytunnel can be used as an affordable, low-carbon aidto growing your own food all year round, from crispy salads and fresh vegetables in the dead ofwinter to juicy melons and mouthwatering grapes in high summer.

The Polytunnel Handbook looks at all aspects of polytunnel use, from planning your purchase toharvesting the rewards, and includes a step-by-step guide detailing how polytunnels are put upand maintained. There are chapters on developing healthy soil and preventing pests, and a jargon-free guide to the range of often mystifying accessories that many tunnel retailers offer. In addition,the do-it-yourself enthusiast will find a full set of instructions for building a polytunnel fromscratch, and the authors explain how to keep your polytunnel productive in every season.

An affordable organic method of growing fresh food all year round.

Andy McKee first grew vegetables with his father at the age of five,and since then he has grown food in situations ranging from a seventeenth-story window box to guerrilla gardening in the middleof a Christmas-tree plantation. McKee had his eyes opened to thepotential of polytunnels during a visit to one featuring a hot tubwarmed by a clay oven. He lives with his wife and family in ruralDorset, England, and is entirely self-sufficient in vegetables.

Mark Gatter began growing vegetables while homesteading innorthern California in the early eighties and has been an avid gardener ever since. He’s a firm advocate of an organic, raised-bedapproach and relies on a polytunnel to keep fresh food on the tableright through the winter. He and his wife share their smallholding inWales with eleven sheep, several chickens, and two dogs.

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STONE HOUSEA Guide to Self-Building with Slipforms Revised and UpdatedTomm Stanley

• Pub Date September 2009• $34.95 US, $45.50 CAN • Paper• ISBN 9780473148218• (Previous ISBN: 9780473099701)• 81/4 x 115/8 • 214 pages • 105 B&W photos

53 diagrams and illustrations• Green Building

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The classic text on building stone homes.

Tomm Stanley is an American who has been living in New Zealandsince 1995. On his rural New Zealand property Tomm has createdan environmentally friendly, off-the-grid lifestyle that provides a balance to his professional life as an international management consultant. His Web-based business, www.heartbeatnursery.co.nz,assists in funding his personal mission of restoring the former hillsidefarm, now infested with an imported plant weed, to its natural,forested state.

Stone House: A Guide to Self-Building with Slipforms has been the leading resource for people interestedin building with stone and slipforms since it was first released in 2003. Stonefield Publishing’s revisededition of this classic has two new chapters from author Tomm Stanley and many new photographs;in addition, the original pictures and diagrams have been digitally enhanced.

Stone House contains all the hard knowledge, helpful tips, and fresh ideas you’ll need to successfullybuild a stone home of your own. Tomm Stanley, an international business consultant, active ecologist, and all around handyman—who decided to go for his dream of building his ownhouse—leads you through the entire process. Using a lighthearted narrative approach, Tommdescribes the trials and tribulations that accompanied the wonderful successes he experienced as afirst-time self-builder creating his own house of stone.

Self-builders not working with stone will also find this book inspirational, educating, andentertaining. Alternative-building advocates will be interested in the eco-friendly approach thatTomm takes to building as much of his house as possible from locally sourced materials.

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THE ORGANIC FARMER’S BUSINESS HANDBOOKA Complete Guide to Managing Finances, Crops, and Staff—and Making a Profit Richard Wiswall

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Contrary to popular belief, a good living can be made on an organic farm. What’s required isfarming smarter, not harder.

In The Organic Farmer’s Business Handbook, Richard Wiswall shares advice on how to make yourvegetable production more efficient, better manage your employees and finances, and turn a profit.From his twenty-seven years of experience at Cate Farm in Vermont, Wiswall knows firsthand thejoys of starting and operating an organic farm—as well as the challenges of making a living fromone. Farming offers fundamental satisfaction from producing food, working outdoors, being one’sown boss, and working intimately with nature. But, unfortunately, many farmers avoid learningabout the business end of farming; because of this, they often work harder than they need to, orquit farming altogether because of frustrating—and often avoidable—losses.

In this comprehensive business kit, Wiswall covers:• Step-by-step procedures to make your crop production more efficient• Advice on managing employees, farm operations, and office systems• Novel marketing strategies • What to do with your profits: business spending, investing, and planning for retirement

A companion CD offers valuable business tools, including easy-to-use spreadsheets for projectingcash flow, a payroll calculator, comprehensive crop budgets for twenty-four different crops, and tax planners.

Learn the business of running your own profitableorganic farm.

Richard Wiswall started Cate Farm in East Montpelier, Vermont,where he has farmed since 1981. Known for his work on farmprofitability and appropriate business tools, Wiswall consults withother farmers and writes and speaks frequently on organic-farmbusiness issues. To learn more about Wiswall and Cate Farm, visitwww.catefarm.com.

Chelsea Green OctoberGardening & Agriculture

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DEATH & SEXTyler Volk & Dorion Sagan

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On DEATH . . .

What does death have to do with life? In his short, intriguing look at how and why things die,Tyler Volk explains that death is not simply the end of life. Rather, it is an essential step in naturalselection that has long powered evolutionary design. Volk weaves the science of living and dyingin a deft narrative that illustrates how life uses death for more adaptive living. In fact, death hasbeen an exquisite, ever-shifting part of the grand evolutionary story—from life’s simple beginningsnearly four billion years ago to the evolved human culture and consciousness of today; from thesimplicity of bacteria to the complexity of human psychology. Death reveals the connectionsbetween life and death, not as opposites, not even as complements. Volk illuminates death as anorgan of life—rather like wings or fingers, mating behaviors, or thoughts.

. . . and SEX

In Sex, Dorion Sagan takes a delightful, irreverent, and informative gambol through the science,philosophy, and literature of humanity’s most obsessive subject. Have you ever wondered what thepromiscuous behaviors of chimpanzees and the sexual bullying of gorillas tell us about ourselves?Why we lost our hair? What amoebas have to do with desire? Linking evolutionary biology topopular culture, Sex touches on topics ranging from animal genitalia to sperm competition, jeal-ousy’s status as an aphrodisiac, the origins of language, Casanova and music, ovulation andclothes, mother-in-law jokes and alpha females, love and loneliness. A brief, wonderfully enter-taining, highly literate foray into the origins and evolution of sex.

Two books in one cover, Death & Sex unravel and answer some of life’s most fundamental questions.

Two books under one cover deliver a brief, incisive, andentertaining romp through the science of sex and death.

Dorion Sagan is author of numerous articles and twenty-threebooks translated into eleven languages, including Notes from theHolocene: A Brief History of the Future and Into the Cool, co-authored with Eric D. Schneider. His writings have appeared inThe New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, Wired,Smithsonian, The Ecologist, Natural History, and numerous otherpublications. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Chelsea Green OctoberScience & Sciencewriters

Tyler Volk is head of the science track in New York University’senvironmental studies program and a professor of biology, with a research emphasis on the global carbon cycle. Volk’s previousbooks include CO2 Rising: The World’s Greatest EnvironmentalChallenge; Metapatterns: Across Space, Time, and Mind; andGaia’s Body: Toward a Physiology of Earth. He lives in New York City.

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THE PEOPLE V. BUSHOne Lawyer’s Campaign To Bring the President to Justice and theNational Grassroots Movement She Encounters along the WayCharlotte Dennett

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A bold, ingenious look at how—and when—U.S. citizens might prosecute their former president for crimes committed in office.

Chelsea Green OctoberPolitics & Social Justice

When journalist-turned-lawyer Charlotte Dennett became outraged that Bush White Houseofficials were acting above the law, she did something that surprised even herself. While run-ning for a state attorney general seat, she pledged to prosecute George W. Bush for murder ifelected. She lost the race, but found a nationwide movement—one that continues its quest tohold leaders accountable to U.S. law and preserve a Constitutional presidency.

In The People v. Bush, Dennett recounts her seminal effort to make Bush answerable for sendingtroops to Iraq on false pretenses, introduces readers to a world where the actions of a few canindeed empower the many, and reports on the current state of the movement to hold Bushaccountable for high crimes and misdemeanors.

Dennett’s wild ride through politics began when she read in The Prosecution of George W. Bushfor Murder, by lawyer Vincent Bugliosi, that a state attorney general could prosecute George W.Bush—should one take up the cause. Soon after, Dennett launched her attorney-general race inVermont, signed up Bugliosi as her special prosecutor in the event that she won, and togetherthe two made headlines across Vermont and the nation.

Dennett’s book also explores the tenacity of other Americans who launched grassroots cam-paigns to prosecute or impeach Bush, as well as Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy, who proposeda Truth Commission.

With these stories and her own, Dennett shows that it’s not just possible but necessary to holdhigher-ups responsible for heinous acts—not out of revenge, but to preserve justice and defendthe Constitution.

Charlotte Dennett, author and attorney, has been practicing law inVermont since 1997 with an emphasis on personal injury litigationand suing the government under the Freedom of Information Act.She’s also been a reporter in the Middle East and is the coauthorwith her husband, Gerard Colby, of Thy Will Be Done—TheConquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism inthe Age of Oil. She and her husband live in Cambridge, Vermont.

“George Bush took America to war in Iraq on a lie, causing incalculable death, horror,and suffering. In this very important and consequential book, Charlotte Dennett, a trueAmerican patriot who has been on the front lines of trying to bring Bush to justice,informs all who care deeply about this country what has to be done so that it neverhappens again.”—Vince Bugliosi, attorney and bestselling author of The Prosecution of George W.Bush for Murder and Helter Skelter

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MONEY AND SOULThe Psychology of Money and the Transformation of CapitalismPer Espen Stoknes Translated from the Norwegian by Susan M. Davies

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A new way to think about money.

Many feel that money and what we perceive as the psyche (or soul) are bitter enemies—do wechoose money or soul, finance or feelings, markets or common humanity? Money and Soultraces the origins of these opposing concepts, and the emotions that money provokes.Economic ideas often stand out as being universal, globally valid, and without cultural ties. Butwhen money is viewed in its cultural and philosophical context, it becomes evident that themoney of today is a particular system of symbols—something that society itself has devised overmany centuries—that both reflects and reinforces society’s dominant concerns.

In the twenty-first century, our major concerns include social cohesion, global warming, andenvironmental destruction. Per Espen Stoknes shows how new forms of money can be developedthat will encourage us to act in ways that protect these critically important aspects of our worldthat are currently excluded from the money system. He shows how currencies for natural andsocial capital could work in tandem with the manufactured capital that defines our monetarysystem to the exclusion of all else.

Money and Soul opens up new methods of looking at, thinking about, and using money. Itpoints to a future where our ideas about money will be greatly expanded; a future with differentkinds of money—used for different social purposes—in circulation.

Per Espen Stoknes is an organizational psychologist, senior lecturerat BI Norwegian School of Management, and a partner in theDigital Thinking Network—an international think tank for future-scenario planning. Stoknes has worked both as a clinical therapistand as an advisor to major national and international organizations.

• Pub Date October 2009• $19.95 US, $25.95 CAN • Paper• ISBN 9781900322461• 6 x 9 • 296 pages• Ethical Marketplace

Green Books OctoberEthical Marketplace

“Mainstream economics is bankrupt. In this book, Per Espen Stoknes guides ustowards a saner alternative. He plunges deeply into the roots of our relationship withmoney and emerges with solid, workable proposals for a new economy. Money &Soul is a vitally important contribution to creating a sustainable future.” —Dr. Stephan Harding, coordinator of the MSc in Holistic Science at SchumacherCollege and author of Animate Earth

“The need for new ideas has never been more pressing . . . Now is precisely the timeto start thinking very differently indeed—and Per Espen Stoknes certainly rises to thatparticular challenge.” —Jonathon Porritt, Founder Director, Forum for the Future


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A RENEWABLE WORLDPolicies, Practices, & TechnologiesHerbert Girardet & Miguel Mendonça

• Pub Date October 2009• $27.95 US, $36.50 CAN • Paper• ISBN 9781900322492• 61/2 x 9 • 208 pages • Full color throughout• Nature & Environment

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Climate change and energy shortages are set to become the greatest challenges for humanity inthe twenty-first century. While a few reports have given some indication about what can be doneto come to grips with these problems, very little has been written about how these necessarychanges can be brought about. A Renewable World outlines the key steps needed to make thecrucial transition actually happen.

The latest climate research indicates that the challenge facing us is not just the reduction of ourannual global emissions of greenhouse gases, but of their actual concentrations in the atmosphere.After years of inaction, urgent and comprehensive action is now needed to turn an existentialcrisis for humanity into an opportunity to secure the well-being and prosperity of present andfuture generations.

This book shows how we can:• Accelerate the renewable energy revolution• Renew our local economies and our urban habitat• Renew the living systems of planet earth• Renew and invigorate international cooperation

Illustrated in full color, A Renewable World deals with a variety of urgent issues in a holistic,comprehensive, and accessible way.

How to influence and accelerate the measures needed todeal with climate change and the energy crisis.

Herbert Girardet is an author, filmmaker, and consultant focusingon sustainable development. He is director of programs of theWorld Future Council and a former chairman of the SchumacherSociety in the UK. He is a recipient of a UN Global 500 Awardfor outstanding environmental achievements. His previous booksinclude The Gaia Atlas of Cities, 1992 and 1996; Cities, People,Planet: Urban Development and Climate Change, 2004 and2008; and Surviving the Century: Facing Climate Change andOther Global Challenges, 2007.

Miguel Mendonça is research manager for the World FutureCouncil. He works in both research and advocacy, focusing on renewable energy policy. He has worked on four continents, campaigning, coalition building, and speaking, and is a memberof the steering committee of the Alliance for Renewable Energy.

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HERBS FOR HOME TREATMENTA Guide to Using Herbs for First Aid and Common Health ProblemsAnna Newton

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In Herbs for Home Treatment, Anna Newton explains the advantages of using herbs—and providesherbal remedies—to cure common ailments and improve general health. She provides easy-to-followadvice on creating your own apothecary with a small number of versatile herbs.

Learn how to:• Prevent and treat common illnesses with herbs• Avoid some of the adverse side effects that are common with chemical-based medicines• Grow and store herbs, and create tinctures, oils, and ointments for a home apothecary

This user-friendly guide to herbs and their medicinal properties explains how to deal with common illnesses—including digestive, respiratory, circulatory, and nervous-system conditions.Newton suggests essential herbs everyone should have on hand, and offers advice on how to getthe best out of herbs for general health, including how to maintain your energy level, increaseyour stamina, and improve your mood. Inside you’ll find information on dosages, possibleallergies, and clues for when it’s time to seek professional help. Also included is guidance onhow to make your own apothecary, how to concoct a first-aid kit for when traveling abroad,and a list of herb retailers and professional herbalists.

How to deal with common illnesses using medicinalherbs, and how to create your own apothecary.

Anna Newton studied herbal medicine at the University of Walesand has worked as a medical herbalist for Neal’s Yard inCheltenham for the past six years. Newton is a member of theNational Institute of Medical Herbalists and the College ofPractitioners of Phytotherapy.

• Pub Date October 2009• $24.95 US, $32.50 CAN • Paper• ISBN 9781900322423• 6 x 9 • 176 pages • 32 color pages• Food/Health/Travel

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ENERGY FREEHomes for a Small PlanetAnn V. EdminsterForeword by Peter Yost

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Energy Free equips building professionals and homeowners alike with a toolkit for creating homesthat use no more energy than they produce—homes that are free from energy-price fluctuationsand that also help free society from the high political and environmental costs of fossil fuels.

Individuals and institutions have been working toward “zero-energy” homes for decades. Thisvolume is the first to distill their experience into a practical and comprehensive how-to guide.The author includes step-by-step guidance on how to make decisions that will yield an energy-free residential project, whether a single-family home or multifamily building, new or existing,in an urban or a rural setting.

The principal topics include:• Project boundaries (assessing your home’s behavior, and also your own)• Prioritizing strategies (for instance, insulation vs. photovoltaics)• Economics (including payback periods and incentives)• How to minimize a building’s energy needs• How to minimize your energy needs• How to power the energy needs that remain• The critical role of integrated project planning

Energy Free offers a wide array of resource information, including detailed window and insulationcomparisons; assessments of the relative contributions of different building elements; and overallperformance. It draws on research and empirical data from myriad sources, including theDepartment of Energy’s Building America program; Sacramento Municipal Utility District’sHouse of the Future; Passiv Haus Institute in Europe and the Passive House Institute of the U.S.;Florida Solar Energy Center; Living Building Challenge; Affordable Comfort, Inc.’s, ThousandHome Challenge; and many pioneering individual home projects across North America.

How to create homes that produce at least as much energy as they consume.

Ann Edminster, M.Arch., LEED AP, is a recognized national experton green home design and construction. She is a principal authorof the LEED for Homes Rating System and consults to builders,homeowners, developers, supply-chain clients, design firms, utilities,investors, and public agencies. She sits on the advisory boards ofseveral private companies. She lives in Pacifica, California.

• Pub Date December 2009• $25.00 US, $32.50 CAN • Paper• ISBN 9780976491132• 8 x 10 • 264 pages

87 B&W photos & illustrations• Green Building

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“In Energy Free, Ann Edminster brings her wisdom and clarity to the issue of net-zero-energy homes. With so much attention being paid to energy savings and reduction ofcarbon emissions, we need a book like this that helps us sort through the confusingtechnologies, claims, and economics to create homes that are better for the planet andbetter for your budget.” —Alex Wilson, Executive Editor, Environmental BuildingNews and BuildingGreen.com


THE RAW MILK REVOLUTIONBehind America's Emerging Battle Over Food RightsDavid E. Gumpert

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How the fight over raw milk is changing the wayAmericans think about food-borne illness, chronic disease,and government regulation of what we eat and drink.

David E. Gumpert is a journalist who specializes in covering theintersection of health and business. His popular blog, www.thecom-pletepatient.com, has chronicled the increasingly unsettling battlesover raw milk. He has authored or coauthored seven books on various aspects of entrepreneurship and business and previouslyhas been a reporter and editor with The Wall Street Journal andthe Harvard Business Review. He lives in Needham, Massachusetts.

Beginning in 2006, the agriculture departments of several large states—with federal backing—launched a crackdown on small dairies producing raw milk. Replete with undercover agents,sting operations, surprise raids, questionable test-lab results, mysterious illnesses, propagandablitzes, and grand jury investigations, the crackdown was designed to disrupt the supply ofunpasteurized milk to growing legions of consumers demanding healthier and more flavorfulfood.

The Raw Milk Revolution takes readers behind the scenes of the government’s tough and occa-sionally brutal intimidation tactics, as seen through the eyes of milk producers, governmentregulators, scientists, prosecutors, and consumers. It is a disturbing story involving marginallylegal police tactics and investigation techniques, with young children used as political pawns ina highly charged atmosphere of fear and retribution.

Are regulators’ claims that raw milk poses a public health threat legitimate? That turns out tobe a matter of considerable debate. The Raw Milk Revolution reveals that the government’s campaign—ostensibly designed to protect consumers from pathogens like salmonella, E. coli0157:H7, and listeria—was based in a number of cases on suspect laboratory findings and illnesses that could well have had other causes, including pasteurized milk.

David Gumpert dares to ask whether regulators have the public’s interest in mind or the economic interests of dairy conglomerates. He assesses how the government’s anti–raw-milkcampaign fits into a troublesome pattern of expanding government efforts to sanitize the foodsupply—despite rises in asthma, diabetes, and allergies. The Raw Milk Revolution provides anunsettling view of the future, in which nutritionally dense foods are ever less easy to obtain.

Chelsea Green NovemberFood, Health, & Travel

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WAITING ON A TRAIN The Embattled Future of Passenger Rail Service James McCommonsForeword by James Howard Kunstler

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Will America ever get passenger rail back on track?

During the tumultuous year of 2008—when gas prices reached $4 a gallon, Amtrak set rider-ship records, and a commuter train collided with a freight train in California—journalist JamesMcCommons spent a year on America’s trains, talking to the people who ride and work therails throughout much of the Amtrak system. Organized around these rail journeys, Waiting ona Train is equal parts travel narrative, personal memoir, and investigative journalism.

Readers meet the historians, railroad executives, transportation officials, politicians, governmentregulators, railroad lobbyists, and passenger-rail advocates who are rallying around a simplequestion: Why has the greatest railroad nation in the world turned its back on the very form oftransportation that made modern life and mobility possible?

Distrust of railroads in the nineteenth century, overregulation in the twentieth, and heavy govern-ment subsidies for airports and roads have left the country with a skeletal intercity passenger-railsystem. Amtrak has endured for decades, and yet failed to prosper owing to a lack of political andfinancial support and an uneasy relationship with the big, remaining railroads.

While riding the rails, McCommons explores how the country may move passenger rail forwardin America—and what role government should play in creating and funding mass-transportationsystems. Against the backdrop of the nation’s stimulus program, he explores what it will take tobuild high-speed trains and transportation networks, and when the promise of rail will be realizedin America.

James McCommons has been a journalist for more than twenty-five years and published hundreds of articles in magazines andmajor newspapers. A former senior editor at Organic Gardeningmagazine, he specializes in ecology and travel writing. He grewup in a railroad family and has spent thirty-five years riding trainsin America. He currently teaches journalism and nature writing atNorthern Michigan University and lives in Marquette, Michigan.

Chelsea Green NovemberNature & Environment

“America once had a passenger railroad system that was the envy of the world.Now we have one that the Bulgarians would be ashamed of. The task of reviving it could not be more important if we wish to keep people moving around this continent-sized nation, especially as the airlines crap out and our system of massHappy Motoring founders on the shoals of ‘peak oil.’ The infrastructure of our railsystem is lying out in the rain waiting to be fixed; the project would put scores ofthousands of people to work at meaningful jobs at all levels; and the fact thatwe’re not even talking about it shows how un-serious we are as a society. Thisbook is one small step toward the giant leap of consciousness necessary to repairour battered country.” —James Howard Kunstler, author of World Made ByHand and The Long Emergency

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THE WORLD ACCORDING TO MONSANTOMarie-Monique RobinBonus Features by Jeffrey Smith

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Monsanto’s controversial past combines some of the most toxic products ever sold with mis-leading reports, pressure tactics, collusion, and attempted corruption. They now race to geneti-cally engineer (and patent) the world’s food supply, which profoundly threatens our health,environment, and economy. Combining secret documents with first-hand accounts by victims,scientists, and politicians, this widely praised film exposes why Monsanto has become theworld’s poster child for malignant corporate influence in government and technology.

Also on the DVD:Your Milk on Drugs—Just Say No!, A film by Jeffrey M. Smith

Dairy products from cows treated with Monsanto's genetically engineered bovine growth hormone(rBGH or rBST) may sharply increase cancer risk and other diseases, especially in children. Alreadybanned in most industrialized nations, it was approved in the U.S. on the backs of fired whistle-blowers, manipulated research, and a corporate takeover at the FDA. This must-see film includesfootage prepared for a Fox TV station—canceled after a letter from Monsanto's attorney threatened“dire consequences.”

Bonus CD:“Don’t Put That in Your Mouth,” a speech by Jeffrey M. Smith

You’ll want to stop eating genetically modified foods after you learn how they’re linked to toxicand allergic reactions; sick, sterile, and dead livestock; and damage to virtually every organstudied in lab animals.

The long-awaited film by an award-winning French filmmaker is now available in the U.S.

Marie-Monique Robin has received 20 awards for her films sinceher directing debut in 1989, including the Laurier du Sénat, FIGRA’sBest Investigative Documentary Award, LASA’s Award of Merit, theCairo Cinema Festival Critics’ Award for Death Squads: The FrenchSchool, and the Rachel Carson Prize for her exposé on Monsanto.Her book The Photos of the Century: 100 Historic Moments hasmore than 700,000 copies in print in seven languages.

• Pub Date Available• $19.95 US • DVD• ISBN 9780972966597• 71/2 x 51/4 • 109 minutes • Bonus CD

YES! Books AvailableDVD/Food & Health

photo: Marc Duployer

International bestselling author of Seeds of Deception and GeneticRoulette, Jeffrey M. Smith is a widely popular spokesperson on the documented health risks of genetically modified organisms(GMOs) and how biotech companies rig research, gag critics,hijack regulators, and spin fantastic unfulfilled promises. HisInstitute for Responsible Technology’s Campaign for HealthierEating in America is designed to achieve the tipping point of consumer rejection of GMOs to force them out of the food supply.The Campaign encourages public and private showings of theMonsanto film and offers support material atwww.ResponsibleTechnology.org. He lives in Fairfield, Iowa.



• Pub Date Available• $59.95 US, $74.95 CAN • Paper• ISBN 9781933392882• 81/4 x 101/2 • 374 pages

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Individual productions by filmmakers Harry Wiland and Dale Bell have received an AcademyAward, five Emmys, one Peabody, two Christophers, and two Cine Golden Eagles, amongother awards. Their collaborative award-winning project on caregiving, “And Thou ShaltHonor,” was broadcast by PBS in 2002 to wide acclaim. They are both Ashoka LifetimeFellows and Purpose Prize Fellows.

Chelsea Green AvailableNature & Environment

“Going to Green is unparalleled in its narrative inventiveness, compelling visualimagery, and intellectual rigor. While designed for high school students, it is also perfectly suited to introductory courses for community-based organizations.”—Jennifer Wolch, Professor of Geography and Planning and Director of the Center for Sustainable Cities, University of Southern California

GOING TO GREENA Standards-Based Environmental Education Curriculum for Schools, Colleges, and CommunitiesHarry Wiland and Dale BellThe Media & Policy Center Foundation

This unique learning resource combines an integrated, detailed academic curriculum with service-based learning activities to educate, inspire, and empower citizen learners to buildgreener and healthier communities.

Tested in high schools, university extension classes, community colleges, and communityorganizations, this teacher-friendly curriculum is rated highly as a successful program forknowledge acquisition across disciplines. It meets NSTA and NCSS national standards forgrades 9–12, and includes a wide variety of cross-curricular activities with focus on literature,math, and art.

Based on the PBS Series Edens Lost & Found

“An innovative educational collaborative that examines the role that residents canplay in the revitalization of their neighborhoods, towns, and cities through sustainablepractices and environmental awareness.”—Eric Garcetti, President, Los Angeles City Council

“The Edens Lost & Found series is an important addition to material available tointroduce students at all levels to environmental values. The presentation of somehard lessons regarding success and failure, and how much time and effort go intotrying to change our neighborhoods and cities, makes this series unique. I look for-ward to the next opportunity that I have to use the Edens Lost & Found series, andenthusiastically recommend it to educators at all levels.”—Greg Andranovich, PhD, Professor of Political Science, California State University, Los Angeles

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