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Chelsea Green Publishing Spring 2013 Frontlist Catalog COWS SAVE THE PLANET And Other Improb- able Ways of Restor- ing Soil to Heal the Earth Judith D. Schwartz Foreword by Gretel Ehrlich $17.95 Paperback 240 pages ISBN 9781603584326 Available May 2013 In Cows Save the Planet?, journalist Judith D. Schwartz looks at soil as a crucible for our many overlapping envi- ronmental, economic, and social crises. Schwartz reveals that for many of these problems—climate change, deser- tification, biodiversity loss, droughts, floods, wildfires, rural poverty, malnutrition, and obesity—there are positive, alternative scenarios to the degradation and devastation we face. In each case, our ability to turn these crises into opportunities depends on how we treat the soil. Judith D. Schwartz is a longtime freelance writer whose work has appeared in venues from Glamour and Redbook to The Christian Science Monitor and The New York Times. She lives with her family in southern Vermont. WHAT THEN MUST WE DO? Straight Talk About the Next American Revolution Gar Alperovitz $25.00 Hardcover ISBN 9781603584913 $15.00 Paperback ISBN 9781603585040 224 pages Available April 2013 In What Then Must We Do?, Gar Alperovitz speaks directly to the reader about where we find ourselves in history, why the time is right for a new-economy movement to coalesce, what it means to build a new system to replace the crumbling one, and how we might begin. He also sug- gests what the next system might look like—and where we can see its outlines, like an image slowly emerging in the developing trays of a photographer’s darkroom, already taking shape. Gar Alperovitz, Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland, is cofounder of The Democracy Collaborative. REBUILDING THE FOODSHED How to Create Local, Sustainable, and Se- cure Food Systems Philip Ackerman-Leist $19.95 Paperback 304 pages • Color Insert ISBN 9781603584234 Available February 2013 A Community Resilience Guide Rebuilding the Foodshed refocuses the local-food lens on the broad issue of rebuilding regional food systems that can replace the destructive aspects of industrial agriculture, meet food demands affordably and sustainably, and be resilient enough to endure potentially rough times ahead. Showcasing some of the most promising, replicable models for growing, processing, and distributing sustain- ably grown food, this book points the reader toward the next stages of the food revolution. It also covers the full landscape of the burgeoning local-food movement, from rural to suburban to urban, and from backyard gardens to large-scale food enterprises. Philip Ackerman-Leist, author of Up Tunket Road, is a pro- fessor at Green Mountain College, where he established the college’s farm and sustainable agriculture curriculum and is director of the Green Mountain College Farm & Food Project. He lives with his family in Pawlet, Vermont PARADISE LOT Two Plant Geeks, One-Tenth of an Acre, and the Making of an Edible Garden Oasis in the City Eric Toensmeier $19.95 Paperback 240 pages • Color Insert ISBN 9781603583992 Available February 2013 When Eric Toensmeier and Jonathan Bates moved into a duplex in a run-down part of Holyoke, Massachusetts, the tenth-of-an-acre lot was barren ground and bad soil. The two friends got to work designing what would become not just another urban farm, but a “permaculture paradise.” In telling the story of Paradise Lot, Toensmeier explains the principles and practices of permaculture, the techniques of design and cultivation, and the adventures, mistakes, and do-overs in the process. Full of detailed, useful information about designing a permaculture garden, Paradise Lot is also a funny and charming story of two single guys, both plant nerds, with a wild plan: to real- ize the garden of their dreams and meet women to share it with. Amazingly, on both counts, they succeed. Eric Toensmeier is the author of Perennial Vegetables, and coauthor of the two-volume set Edible Forest Gardens. He lives with his family in Holyoke, Massachusetts. LIFE, LIBERTY, AND THE PURSUIT OF FOOD RIGHTS The Escalating Battle Over Who Decides What We Eat David E. Gumpert Foreword by Joel Salatin $19.95 Paperback 264 pages ISBN 9781603584043 Available June 2013 Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Food Rights takes readers on a disturbing cross-country journey from Maine to California through a netherworld of Amish farmers paying big fees to questionable advisers to avoid the quagmire of America’s legal system, secret food police lurking in vans at farmers’ markets, cultish activists preaching the benefits of pathogens, U.S. Justice Department lawyers clashing with local sheriffs, small Maine towns passing ordinances to ban regulation, and suburban moms worried enough about the dangers of supermarket food that they’ll risk fines and jail to feed their children unprocessed, and unregulated, foods of their choosing. David E. Gumpert has become a nationally recognized writer and authority on the intersection of food, health, and business by virtue of his widely acclaimed book The Raw Milk Revolution, as well as his provocative and popu- lar blog The Complete Patient. He lives in Grantham, NH. GOOD MORNING, BEAUTIFUL BUSINESS The Unexpected Journey of an Activist Entrepre- neur and Local-Economy Pioneer Judy Wicks $27.95 Hardcover ISBN 9781603585057 $17.95 Paperback ISBN: 9781933392240 320 pages Available March 2013 Good Morning, Beautiful Business is a memoir about the evolution of an entrepreneur who would not only change her neighborhood, but would also change her world—helping communities far and wide create local living economies that value people and place as much as commerce and that make communities not just interest- ing and diverse and prosperous, but also resilient. An international leader and speaker in the local-living- economies movement, Judy Wicks is former owner of the White Dog Café, acclaimed for its socially and environmentally responsible business practices. She is also cofounder of the nationwide Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE). She lives in Philadelphia.

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Chelsea Green PublishingSpring 2013 Frontlist Catalog

COWS SAVE THE PLANETAnd Other Improb-able Ways of Restor-ing Soil to Heal the EarthJudith D. SchwartzForeword by Gretel Ehrlich

$17.95 • Paperback 240 pages ISBN 9781603584326

Available May 2013

In Cows Save the Planet?, journalist Judith D. Schwartz looks at soil as a crucible for our many overlapping envi-ronmental, economic, and social crises. Schwartz reveals that for many of these problems—climate change, deser-tification, biodiversity loss, droughts, floods, wildfires, rural poverty, malnutrition, and obesity—there are positive, alternative scenarios to the degradation and devastation we face. In each case, our ability to turn these crises into opportunities depends on how we treat the soil.

Judith D. Schwartz is a longtime freelance writer whose work has appeared in venues from Glamour and Redbook to The Christian Science Monitor and The New York Times. She lives with her family in southern Vermont.

WHAT THEN MUST WE DO?Straight Talk About the Next American RevolutionGar Alperovitz

$25.00 • Hardcover ISBN 9781603584913$15.00 • Paperback ISBN 9781603585040224 pages

AvailableApril 2013

In What Then Must We Do?, Gar Alperovitz speaks directly to the reader about where we find ourselves in history, why the time is right for a new-economy movement to coalesce, what it means to build a new system to replace the crumbling one, and how we might begin. He also sug-gests what the next system might look like—and where we can see its outlines, like an image slowly emerging in the developing trays of a photographer’s darkroom, already taking shape.

Gar Alperovitz, Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland, is cofounder of The Democracy Collaborative.

REBUILDING THE FOODSHEDHow to Create Local, Sustainable, and Se-cure Food SystemsPhilip Ackerman-Leist

$19.95 • Paperback 304 pages • Color Insert ISBN 9781603584234

Available February 2013

A Community Resilience Guide

Rebuilding the Foodshed refocuses the local-food lens on the broad issue of rebuilding regional food systems that can replace the destructive aspects of industrial agriculture, meet food demands affordably and sustainably, and be resilient enough to endure potentially rough times ahead. Showcasing some of the most promising, replicable models for growing, processing, and distributing sustain-ably grown food, this book points the reader toward the next stages of the food revolution. It also covers the full landscape of the burgeoning local-food movement, from rural to suburban to urban, and from backyard gardens to large-scale food enterprises.

Philip Ackerman-Leist, author of Up Tunket Road, is a pro-fessor at Green Mountain College, where he established the college’s farm and sustainable agriculture curriculum and is director of the Green Mountain College Farm & Food Project. He lives with his family in Pawlet, Vermont

PARADISE LOTTwo Plant Geeks, One-Tenth of an Acre, and the Making of an Edible Garden Oasis in the CityEric Toensmeier

$19.95 • Paperback 240 pages • Color InsertISBN 9781603583992

Available February 2013

When Eric Toensmeier and Jonathan Bates moved into a duplex in a run-down part of Holyoke, Massachusetts, the tenth-of-an-acre lot was barren ground and bad soil. The two friends got to work designing what would become not just another urban farm, but a “permaculture paradise.” In telling the story of Paradise Lot, Toensmeier explains the principles and practices of permaculture, the techniques of design and cultivation, and the adventures, mistakes, and do-overs in the process. Full of detailed, useful information about designing a permaculture garden, Paradise Lot is also a funny and charming story of two single guys, both plant nerds, with a wild plan: to real-ize the garden of their dreams and meet women to share it with. Amazingly, on both counts, they succeed.

Eric Toensmeier is the author of Perennial Vegetables, and coauthor of the two-volume set Edible Forest Gardens. He lives with his family in Holyoke, Massachusetts.

LIFE, LIBERTY, AND THE PURSUIT OF FOOD RIGHTSThe Escalating Battle Over Who Decides What We EatDavid E. GumpertForeword by Joel Salatin

$19.95 • Paperback 264 pagesISBN 9781603584043

Available June 2013

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Food Rights takes readers on a disturbing cross-country journey from Maine to California through a netherworld of Amish farmers paying big fees to questionable advisers to avoid the quagmire of America’s legal system, secret food police lurking in vans at farmers’ markets, cultish activists preaching the benefits of pathogens, U.S. Justice Department lawyers clashing with local sheriffs, small Maine towns passing ordinances to ban regulation, and suburban moms worried enough about the dangers of supermarket food that they’ll risk fines and jail to feed their children unprocessed, and unregulated, foods of their choosing.

David E. Gumpert has become a nationally recognized writer and authority on the intersection of food, health, and business by virtue of his widely acclaimed book The Raw Milk Revolution, as well as his provocative and popu-lar blog The Complete Patient. He lives in Grantham, NH.

GOOD MORNING, BEAUTIFUL BUSINESSThe Unexpected Journey of an Activist Entrepre-neur and Local-Economy Pioneer Judy Wicks

$27.95 • Hardcover ISBN 9781603585057$17.95 • Paperback ISBN: 9781933392240320 pages

Available March 2013

Good Morning, Beautiful Business is a memoir about the evolution of an entrepreneur who would not only change her neighborhood, but would also change her world—helping communities far and wide create local living economies that value people and place as much as commerce and that make communities not just interest-ing and diverse and prosperous, but also resilient.

An international leader and speaker in the local-living-economies movement, Judy Wicks is former owner of the White Dog Café, acclaimed for its socially and environmentally responsible business practices. She is also cofounder of the nationwide Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE). She lives in Philadelphia.

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THE NEW HORSE-POWERED FARMTools and Systems for the Small-Scale, Sustainable Market GrowerStephen Leslie

$39.95 • Paperback 400 pages • Full Color ISBN 9781603584166

Available March 2013

The New Horse-Powered Farm is the first book of its kind, offering wisdom and techniques for using horse power on the small farm or homestead, from longtime horse farmer Stephen Leslie. The book sets the stage for incorporating draft power on the farm by presenting tips on getting started with horses, care of the work-horse, different horse-training systems, and the merits of differ-ent draft breeds. The novice teamster is introduced to the basic tools of horse-drawn tillage and cultivation used for profitable horse-powered farming, with a spotlight on whole-farm management, as well as information on haying with horses, raising small grains, managing the woodlot, farm education, agritourism, and more.

Stephen Leslie and his family manage an organic farm at the Cobb Hill Ecovillage in Hartland, Vermont.

GROWING FOOD IN A HOTTER, DRIER LANDLessons from Desert Farmers on Adapting to Climate Uncer-taintyGary Paul NabhanForeword by Bill McKibben

$29.95 • Paperback 272 pages • Full Color ISBN 9781603584531

Available June 2013

Gary Paul Nabhan is one of the world’s experts on the agricultural traditions of arid lands. For this book he has visited indigenous and traditional farmers in the Gobi Desert, the Arabian Peninsula, the Sahara Desert, and Andalusia, as well as the Sonoran, Chihuahuan, and Painted deserts of North America, to learn firsthand their techniques and designs aimed at reducing heat and drought stress on orchards, fields, and dooryard gardens.This book is useful not only for farmers and permacultur-ists in desert regions, its techniques and prophetic vision for achieving food security in the face of climate change may well need to be implemented across most of North America over the next half-century, and are already applicable in most of the semiarid West, Great Plains, and the U.S. Southwest and adjacent regions of Mexico.

Gary Nabhan is the W. K. Kellogg Endowed Chair in Sustainable Food Systems at the University of Arizona, as well as the permaculture designer and orchard-keeper of Almuniya de los Zopilotes Experimental Farm in Patago-nia, Arizona, where he lives.

RAISING DOUGHThe Complete Guide to Financing a Socially Respon-sible Food BusinessElizabeth ÜForeword by Michael Shuman$19.95 • Paperback 264 pagesISBN 9781603584289

Available June 2013

More and more entrepreneurs are using food-based businesses to solve social and environmental problems—and yet the majority of them report that a lack of access to capital prevents them from launching, maintaining, or growing their ventures. Raising Dough is an unprecedented guide to the full range of financing options available to support sustainable food businesses.

Elizabeth Ü is executive director of Finance for Food, a nonprofit that educates food-system entrepreneurs in the United States about the full range of financing options available to support them. She is also a financing and strategy consultant with Cutting Edge Capital. Her passion is helping food-based business owners identify appropriate–and mission-aligned–financing opportunities based on their unique situations and values.

THE GRAFTER’S HANDBOOKR. J. Garner

$40.00 • Hardcover 336 pagesB&W Illustrations ISBN 9781603584821

Available February 2013

The Grafter’s Handbook is the classic reference book and revered encyclopedia (and the only one of its kind) on plant propagation by grafting, and has been favored by orchardists and gardeners since its first publication in 1947. Now revised and updated for a new generation by respected horticulturist Steve Bradley, the all-time classic is back and better than ever. Everything the dedicated amateur, student, and professional horticulturalist wants to know about grafting is here, clearly written in a concise and straightforward style, the distillation of a lifetime’s careful study and research.

R. J. Garner, a scientist at the former East Malling Research Station from 1926 until 1972, became an international authority on the vegetative propagation of woody plants. After his death in 1993, East Malling Research Station opened the Robert Garner Laboratory in remembrance of his life’s work.

THE GREENED HOUSE EFFECTRenovating Your Home with a Deep Energy RetrofitJeff Wilson

$34.95 • Paperback 288 pages • Full ColorISBN 9781603584500

Available June 2013

In The Greened House Effect, author Jeff Wilson brings his twenty-five years of construction experience and knowledge of home building to bear on making our current houses cleaner, greener, and healthier. Using his own family’s deep energy retrofit of their 1942 home as a prime example, Wilson weaves a readable narrative at a practical, hammer-and-nail level. He presents the solutions to our building and energy problems, making them seem possible for average homeowners and small contractors by offering the right set of information, skills, and materials.

Jeff Wilson has twenty-five years’ experience in the build-ing industry, both as a “pickup contractor” and as a televi-sion and radio host for various programs on the HGTV and diy networks. He lives with his family in Athens, Ohio.

THE RESILIENT FARM AND HOMESTEADAn Innovative Permaculture and Whole Systems Design ApproachBen Falk

$40.00 • Paperback 368 pages • Full ColorISBN 9781603584449

Available June 2013

Based on research and development in earthworks, perennial crops, cold-climate rice production, and nutrient-dense food/medicine from the Whole Systems Research Farm, The Resilient Farm and Homestead is a manual for developing durable, beautiful, and highly functional human-habitat systems fit to handle an age of rapid transition. The book includes detailed information on earthworks; gravity-fed water systems; site design and management; nutrient-dense production strategies; rapid topsoil formation; agroforestry; human-labor and social-systems aspects; and much more, complete with gorgeous photography and detailed design drawings. A case study for the homestead of the future.

Ben Falk, M.A.L.D, developed Whole Systems Design, LLC, as a land-based response to biological and cultural extinction and the increasing separation between people and elemental things. He lives in Waitsfield, Vermont.

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THE ORGANIC GRAIN GROWERSmall-Scale, Holistic Grain Production for the Home and Market ProducerJack Lazor

$39.95 • Paperback 504 pages • Color InsertsISBN 9781603583657

Available August 2013

The ultimate guide to growing organic grains on a small and ecological scale, The Organic Grain Grower is invalu-able for both home-scale and commercial producers interested in expanding their resilience and crop diversity through growing their own grains. Longtime farmer and organic pioneer Jack Lazor covers how to grow and store wheat, barley, oats, corn, dry beans, soybeans, pulse crops, oilseeds, grasses, nutrient-dense forages, and lesser-known cereals. In addition to detailed cultivation and processing information, Lazor argues the importance of integrating grains on the organic farm (not to mention for the local-food system) for reasons of biodiversity and whole-farm management

Jack Lazor is co-owner of Butterworks Farm in Westfield, Vermont with his wife, Anne, and cofounder of the Northern Grain Grower’s Association.

MOST LIKELY TO SECEDEWhat the Vermont Independence Movement Can Teach Us about Reclaiming Community and Creating a Human-Scale Vision for the 21st CenturyEdited by Ron Miller and Rob Williams

$19.95 • Paperback 256 pagesISBN 9781603585026

Available March 2013

From the annals of Vermont Commons: Voices of Indepen-dence news journal

The 21st-century United States is no longer a function-ing republic, but an unreformable empire unresponsive to the needs and concerns of its own citizens. Most Likely to Secede features a collection of provocative and forward-thinking essays from twenty-nine contributors to Vermont Commons. Written by cutting-edge citizens and entrepreneurs, the essays call for economic relocalization and political independence for Vermont, and, in some cases, nonviolent secession of the state from the U.S. and the peaceful dissolution of the United States as a whole.

Ron Miller spent nearly thirty years as an educational scholar and activist, known internationally as a founder of the holistic education movement.

Rob Williams is the publisher of Vermont Commons. He is a Vermont-based professor, farmer, musician, historian, and journalist who plays pholk phunk music with the Phineas Gage Project and raises grass-fed yaks in the Mad River Valley.

NATURAL BEEKEEPING, REVISED AND EXPANDED EDITIONOrganic Approaches to Modern ApicultureRoss Conrad

$34.95 • Paperback 368 pages • Full ColorISBN 9781603583626

Available March 2013

Now revised and updated with new resources and including full-color photos throughout, Natural Beekeeping offers all the latest information in a book that has already proven invaluable for organic beekeepers. The new edition offers the same holistic, sensible alternative to conventional chemical practices with a program of natural hive management, but offers new sections on a wide range of subjects, including the basics of bee biology and anatomy, urban beekeeping, parasitic mite control, hive diseases, and more.

Ross Conrad learned his craft from the late Charles Mraz, world-renowned beekeeper and founder of Champlain Valley Apiaries in Vermont. Former president of the Vermont Beekeepers Association, Conrad is a regular contributor to Bee Culture—The Magazine of American Beekeeping. He lives in Vermont.

RAISING THE BARThe Future of Fine ChocolatePam Williams, Jim Eber

$19.95 • Hardcover 288 pagesISBN 9780969192121

Previously Announced

Raising the Bar tells the story of what that next move-ment in the fine-flavor chocolate symphony might hold. Told in four lively parts covering everything from before the bean to after the bar—genetics, farming, manufactur-ing, and bonbons—the book features interviews with dozens of international stakeholders across the fine flavor industry to consider the promises and pitfalls ahead. It looks through what is happening today to understand where things are going, while unwrapping the possibilities for the millions and millions of us who believe that life without the very best chocolate is no life at all.

Pam Williams has been involved in the chocolate industry since 1981 when she opened her first chocolate endeavor, the chocolate shop au Chocolat.

Jim Eber is a veteran writer and collaborator specializing in food and business marketing.

CHEESE AND CULTUREA History of Cheese and its place in West-ern CivilizationPaul Kindstedt

$17.95 • Paperback 256 pagesISBN 9781603585064

Available January 2013

Paperback Reprint

A comprehensive look at the 9,000-year history of cheese, the ways in which it has shaped civilization, and what it can tell us about the future of food. Cheese and Culture endeavors to advance our appreciation of cheese origins by viewing human history through the eyes of a cheese scientist. This tour through cheese history offers a useful lens through which to view our twenty-first-century attitudes toward cheese that we have inherited from our past, and our attitudes about the food system more broadly.

Paul Kindstedt is a Professor of Food Science in the Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences at the University of Vermont. He has authored numerous research articles and invited conference proceedings on dairy chemistry and cheese science, as well as many book chapters. He lives in Vermont with his family.

NO-REGRETS REMODELING, SECOND EDITIONCreating a Comfortable, Healthy Home That Saves EnergyThe Editors of Home Energy magazine

$29.95 • Paperback 168 pages • Full ColorISBN 9780963944436Home Energy magazine

Available April 2013

No-Regrets Remodeling, Second Edition, is oriented to the homeowner who wants to make the right deci-sions to improve their home’s comfort, safety, durability, and energy savings, but isn’t prepared to do more than simple weatherizing or efficiency measures. It will educate homeowners about opportunities for improving their home’s energy efficiency and comfort at one of the most critical junctures in home ownership. That moment comes when homeowners are faced with the decision to remodel a recently purchased or existing home, or due to a component failure, need to upgrade their home’s HVAC, appliances, lighting, or other energy-related systems.

Home Energy magazine—the magazine of home perfor-mance since 1984—assembled a team of editors and authors to work on the second edition of No-Regrets Remodeling. Lead editor Carol Venolia, was honored by The Green Economy Post as one of ten pioneering women in green design and named a Green Design Trailblazer by Natural Home magazine.

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SUSTAINABILITYA Cultural History Ulrich Grober$24.95 • Paperback 224 pages • B&W Images ISBN 9780857840455Green Books, UKAvailable February 2013

Ulrich Grober reassesses the concept of sustainability using a range of fascinat-ing historical instances of its application. The journey takes in Francis of Assisi‘s thirteenth-century “Canticle of the Sun,” as well as Greek philosophers and Enlightenment scholars. Whether in the court of Louis XIV or the silver mines of Saxony, Grober reveals that sustainabil-ity is always born of crisis and yet also marks the birth of a new awareness, a realization that the planet we live on has to be sustained and preserved for future generations.

ALTERED GENES, TWISTED TRUTHHow the Venture to Genetically En-gineer Our Food Has Subverted Sci-ence, Corrupted Government, and Systematically Deceived the PublicSteven M. Druker$31.95 • Hardcover ISBN 9780985616915$21.95 • Paperback ISBN 9780985616908380 pagesClear River PressAvailable June 2013

CHANGEOLOGYHow to Enable Groups, Communi-ties, and Societies to Do Things They’ve Never Done BeforeLes Robinson$24.95 • Paperback 272 pages ISBN 9780857840615Green Books, UKAvailable February 2013

Tells the story of how the massive enter-prise to restructure the genetic core of the world’s food supply came into being, how it advanced by violating the protocols of science, and how for more than three decades hundreds of eminent biologists and esteemed institutions have contorted the truth in order to conceal the unique risks of its products—and get them onto our dinner plates.

Changeology is about influencing the behavior of human beings for the better. The book is relevant to change projects both large and small, and in almost any area of activity, but with an emphasis on key topics such as climate change, poverty, obesity, AIDS, and tobacco and drug use. It is aimed at a worldwide audience of professionals and individuals who are act-ing to make change in their corporations, cities, and neighborhoods, as well as in their own lives.

HOT BEDSHow to Grow Early Crops Using Age-Old TechniquesJack First$18.95 • Paperback 160 pages • Full Color ISBN 9780857841063Green Books, UKAvailable April 2013

By reviving and modernizing hot beds, an ancient vegetable-growing method, Jack First produces healthy plants that crop at least two months earlier than convention-ally grown vegetables, even in his native Yorkshire, England. This practical, illustrated guide has everything you need to under-stand about how to utilize this highly pro-ductive, low-cost, year-round, eco-friendly gardening technique. Straightforward explanations, diagrams, and examples show how the natural process of decay can be harnessed to enable out-of-season growing without using energy from fossil fuels or elaborate equipment.

GROWING UP THE WALL How to Grow Food in Vertical Plac-es, on Roofs and in Small SpacesSue Fisher$18.95 • Paperback 192 pages • Full ColorISBN 9780857841094Green Books, UKAvailable May 2013

Grow up! If you have limited outdoor space and would like to grow your food, this practical illustrated guide will help you transform previously plant-free zones into thriving, beneficial, and utterly beautiful food-growing areas. Using special containers, either bought or homemade, as well as conventional methods, such as containers on a roof or growing plants up walls, you can grow a wide range of edible crops—and grab a salad for lunch without getting your feet wet.

THE GRASSFED GOURMET COOKBOOKHealthy Cooking & Good Living with Pasture-Raised FoodsShannon Hayes$22.95 • Paperback • 269 pagesISBN 9780967367026Left to Write Press

In The Grassfed Gourmet Cookbook, Hayes details her own journey from farmer to foodie and back to the farm again. She lays out, in simple terms, the nutritional, environmental, social, and animal-welfare benefits of grass-fed foods and offers simple strategies for finding and prepar-ing grass-fed meats and dairy products, as well as foolproof techniques for get-ting the most out of your purchases.

Previously Published

ANIMATE EARTH, SECOND EDITIONScience, Intuition, and GaiaStephan Harding$24.95 • Paperback 288 pagesISBN 9781900322546Green Books, UKAvailable February 2013

In Animate Earth, Stephan Harding ex-plores how Gaian science can help us to develop a sense of connectedness with the more-than-human world. His work is based on careful integration of rational scientific analysis with our intuition, sensing, and feeling—a vitally important task at this time of severe ecological and climate crisis. This expanded second edition (published in the UK in 2009) includes a new chapter on fungi, new contemplative exercises, and an update on the global-climate situation.

ORGANIC GARDENING, SECOND EDITIONThe Natural No-Dig WayCharles Dowding$24.95 • Paperback 256 pages • Full Color ISBN 9780857840899Green Books, UKAvailable February 2013

In this new, full-color edition of Organic Gardening Charles Dowding shares the wealth of his experience, explaining his approach to soil and plants and reveal-ing the range of techniques that have enabled him to grow healthy and vibrant plants for decades. Based on this ap-proach and his experience with a system of permanent, slightly raised beds, Or-ganic Gardening shows you how to grow a delicious variety of fruit and vegetables: what to choose; when to sow, plant, and harvest; and how best to avoid pests and diseases without the need to dig.

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THINKING IN SYSTEMS

$19.95 • PaperbackISBN 9781603580557Donella Meadows

DREAMING THE FUTURE

$17.95 • PaperbackISBN 9781603584593

Kenny Ausubel

A SANCTUARY OF TREES

$19.95 • PaperbackISBN 9781603584012

Gene Logsdon

LOCAL DOLLARS, LOCAL SENSE$17.95 • Paperback

ISBN 9781603583435Michael Shuman

WIND ENERGY BASICS, SECOND

EDITION $29.95 • Paperback

ISBN 9781603580304Paul Gipe

THE NEW FEMINIST AGENDA

$26.95 / $17.95Hardcover & Paperback

ISBN 9781603584258 (HC)ISBN 9781603582919 (PB)

Madeleine M. Kunin

THE NATURAL BUILDING

COMPANION$59.95 • Paperback + DVD

ISBN 9781603583398Jacob Deva Racusin,

Ace McArleton

KILLING THE CRANES$27.95 / $19.95

Hardcover & PaperbackISBN 9781603583428 (HC)ISBN 9781603583183 (PB)

Edward Girardet

THE HAND-SCULPTED HOUSE

$35.00 • PaperbackISBN 9781890132347

Ianto Evans, Michael G. Smith, Linda Smiley

2052 $34.95 / $24.95

Hardcover & PaperbackISBN 9781603584678 (HC)ISBN 9781603584210 (PB)

Jorgen Randers

NUCLEAR ROULETTE $29.95 / $19.95

Hardcover & PaperbackISBN 9781603584777 (HC)ISBN 9781603584340 (PB)

Gar Smith

THE END OF AMERICA$13.95 • Paperback

ISBN 9781933392790Naomi Wolf

REINVENTING FIRE$34.95 • Hardcover

ISBN 9781603583718Amory Lovins, Rocky

Mountain Institute

SLOW DEMOCRACY$19.95 • Paperback

ISBN 9781603584135Susan Clark, Woden

Teachout

THE MAN WHO PLANTED TREES, 20TH

ANNIVERSARY EDITION $22.50 • Hardcover

ISBN 9781931498722Jean Giono

INQUIRIES INTO THE NATURE OF SLOW

MONEY $15.95 • Paperback

ISBN 9781603582544Woody Tasch

LYNN MARGULIS$27.95 • Hardcover

ISBN 9781603584463Edited by Dorion Sagan

DON’T THINK OF AN ELEPHANT

$10.00 • PaperbackISBN 9781931498715

George Lakoff

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WHEN DISASTER STRIKES

$24.95 • PaperbackISBN 9781603583220

Matthew Stein

POWER FROM THE PEOPLE

$19.95 • PaperbackISBN 9781603584098

Greg Pahl

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THE ART OF FERMENTATION$39.95 • Hardcover

ISBN 9781603582865Sandor Ellix Katz

SEPP HOLZER’S PERMACULTURE $29.95 • Paperback

ISBN 9781603583701Sepp Holzer

WILD FLAVORS $34.95 • Hardcover

ISBN 9781603582858Didi Emmons

TOP-BAR BEEKEEPING$24.95 • Paperback

ISBN 9781603584616Les Crowder, Heather

Harrell

THE SEED UNDERGROUND $17.95 • Paperback

ISBN 9781603583060Janisse Ray

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