THE ART OF FERMENTATION An In-Depth Exploration of Essential Concepts and Processes from Around the World Sandor Ellix

Katz Foreword by Michael Pollan $39.95 Hardcover 432 pages ISBN 9781603582865 Available May 2012 The most comprehensive guide to do-it-yourself home fermentation ever published. Sandor Katz presents the concepts and processes behind fermentation in ways that are simple enough to guide a reader through their first experience making sauerkraut or yogurt, and in-depth enough to provide greater understanding and insight for experienced practitioners. With full-color illustrations and extended resources, this book provides essential wisdom for cooks, homesteaders, farmers, gleaners, foragers, and food lovers of any kind.

OCCUPY WORLD STREET A Global Roadmap for Radical Economic and Political Reform Ross Jackson $19.95 Paper 336 pages ISBN 9781603583886 Available February 2012 As demonstrators worldwide demand change, Occupy World Street offers a sweeping vision of how to reform our global economic and political structures, break away from empire, and build a world of self-determining sovereign states that respect the need for ecological sustainability and uphold human rights. In this refreshingly detailed plan, Ross Jackson shows how a handful of small nations could take on a leadership role; create new alliances, new governance, and new global institutions; and, in cooperation with grassroots activists, pave the way for other nations to follow suit.

LOCAL DOLLARS, LOCAL SENSE How to Shift Your Money from Wall Street to Main Street and Achieve Real Prosperity Michael Shuman $17.95 Paper 288 pages ISBN 9781603583435 Available February 2012 Local economy pioneer Michael Shuman shows investors how to put their money into building local businesses and resilient regional economiesand profit in the process. Shuman demystifies the growing realm of local investment choicesfrom institutional lending to investment clubs and networks, local investment funds, community ownership, direct public offerings, local stock exchanges, crowdfunding, and more. He also guides readers through the lucrative opportunities to invest locally in their homes, energy efficiency, and themselves.

CHEESE AND CULTURE A History of Cheese and its Place in Western Civilization Paul Kindstedt $24.95 Hardcover 256 pages ISBN 9781603584111 Available April 2012 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 twentyfirst century attitudes toward cheese that we have inherited from our past, and our attitudes about the food system more broadly.

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A SANCTUARY OF TREES Beechnuts, Birdsongs, Baseball Bats, and Benedictions Gene Logsdon $19.95 Paper 240 pages ISBN 9781603584012 Available April 2012 As author Gene Logsdon puts it, We are all tree huggers. But not just for sentimental or even environmental reasons. Humans have always depended on trees for our food, shelter, livelihood, and safety. In many ways, despite the Grimms fairy-tale version of the dark, menacing forest, most people still hold a deep cultural love of woodland settings, and feel right at home in the woods. In this latest book, Logsdon offers a loving tribute to the woods, tracing the roots of his own home groves in Ohio back to the Native Americans and revealing his own history and experiences living in many locations, each of which was different, yet inextricably linked with trees and the natural world.

THE NEW FEMINIST AGENDA Defining the Next Revolution for Women, Work, and Family Madeleine M. Kunin $26.95 Hardcover 256 pages ISBN 9781603584258 $17.95 Paper 256 pages ISBN 9781603582919 Available April 2012

THE SEED UNDERGROUND An Outlandish Revolution to Save Food Janisse Ray $17.95 Paper 240 pages ISBN 9781603583060 Available June 2012 In her latest work of literary nonfiction, award-winning author and activist Janisse Ray argues that if we are to secure the future of food, we first must understand where it all begins: the seed. A journey to the frontier of seed-saving, The Seed Underground is driven by stories, both the authors own and those from people who are waging a lush and quiet revolution in thousands of gardens across America to preserve our traditional cornucopia of food by simply growing old varieties and eating them.

THE NATURAL BUILDING COMPANION A Comprehensive Guide to Integrative Design and Construction Jacob Deva Racusin & Ace McArleton $49.95 Paper + DVD 416 pages ISBN 9781603583398 Available April 2012 Applicable to building in climates that are cold and wet, hot and dry, or somewhere in between, this book offers thorough coverage of straw bale, straw-clay, woodchip-clay, and cellulose wall systems as well as earthen and stone wall systems. Integrating holistic design and permaculture principles, this fully illustrated volume informs professionals making the transition from conventional building, homeowners embarking on their own construction, and green builders who want comprehensive guidance on natural-building options. Includes an instructional DVD.

Feminists opened up thousands of doors in the 1960s and 1970s, but decades later, are U.S. women where they thought theyd be? The answer, it turns out, is a resounding no. Looking back over five decades of advocacy, Madeleine Kunin analyzes where progress stalled, looks at the successes of other countries, and charts the course for the next feminist revolutionone that mobilizes women, and men, to call for the kind of government and workplace policies that can improve the lives of women and strengthen their families.

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SOWING SEEDS IN THE DESERT Natural Farming, Global Restoration, and Ultimate Food Security Masanobu Fukuoka $17.95 Paper 272 pages ISBN 9781603584180 Available May 2012
Fukuokas last major workand perhaps his most important. Fukuoka spent years working with people and organizations in Africa, India, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the United States, to prove that you could, indeed, grow food and regenerate forests with very little irrigation in the most desolate of places. Only by greening the desert, he said, would the world ever achieve true food security. This revolutionary book presents Fukuokas plan to rehabilitate the deserts of the world using natural farming, including practical solutions for feeding a growing human population, rehabilitating damaged landscapes, reversing the spread of desertification, and providing a deep understanding of the relationship between human beings and nature.

THE ORGANIC SEED GROWER A Farmers Guide to Vegetable Seed Production John Navazio $49.95 Hardcover 256 pages ISBN 9781933392776 Available May 2012 A comprehensive manual for the serious vegetable grower who is interested in growing highquality seeds using organic farming practices. It is written for both serious home seed savers and diversified small-scale farmers who want to learn the necessary steps involved in successfully producing a commercial seed crop organically. Detailed profiles for each of the major vegetables provide users with practical, in-depth knowledge about growing, harvesting, and processing seed for a wide range of common and specialty vegetable crops, from Asian greens to zucchini.

2052 A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years Jorgen Randers $24.95 Paper 304 pages ISBN 9781603584210 Available July 2012 Commemorating the fortieth Anniversary of The Limits to Growth, 2052 asks, what will happen to humanity over the next forty years? We know that much needs to change to make our future more sustainable. But will we rise to the occasion? How much change is likely to occur? And how do we prepare to live good lives in the world that is likely to emerge? These are the questions that propelled Jorgen Randers, a renowned analyst of global trends, to ask dozens of leading experts around the globe to weigh in with their best predictions on how our economies, energy supplies, natural resources, climate, food, fisheries, militaries, political divisions, cities, psyches, and more will take shape in the coming decades.

RAINWATER HARVESTING VOL 1, 2ND EDITION Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life and Landscape Brad Lancaster $28.95 Paper 220 pages ISBN 9780977246434 Available April 2012
The first in a three-volume guide on how to conceptualize, design, and implement sustainable water-harvesting systems for your home, landscape, and community. This book enables you to assess your on-site resources, gives you a diverse array of strategies to maximize their potential, and empowers you with guiding principles to create an integrated, multifunctional waterharvesting plan specific to your site and needs. This revised and expanded second edition increases potential on-site harvests with more integrated tools and strategies for solar design, understanding your water/ energy/carbon connections, water/erosion flow patterns and their water-harvesting response, and updated illustrations to show you how to do it all.

EDIBLE WEEDS From Your Garden and Beyond Gail Harland $17.95 Paper 128 pages ISBN 9781900322997 Available May 2012 This practical guide to identifying and using a wide range of edible varieties of weeds will appeal to gardeners, botanists, and horticulturalists, as well as to those with an interest in controlling their weeds in eco-friendly ways. Includes over forty-five species, with details of how to identify them and suggestions for using them for both cooking and making things. There is also a section on poisonous plants and those edible plants that should not be eaten to excess.

SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL IN THE 21ST CENTURY The Legacy of E. F. Schumacher Diana Schumacher $14.95 Paper 96 pages ISBN 9781900322751 Available April 2012 An influential economist and profound thinker, E. F. Schumacher is widely known for his bestselling book Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered. In his later years he became an iconic figure who played an influential part in the development of the environmental movement. In the thirty-five years since he died, many other organizations have been established that trace their primary inspiration back to Schumacher. This book traces his legacy through the activities and outreach of pioneering organizations that, over the years, have been working on practical solutions to our interrelated global crises.

LOGODAEDALY, OR SLEIGHT OF WORDS Erzsbet Gilbert $18.95 Hardcover 286 pages ISBN 9780982337295 Available January 2012 Young author Erzsbet Gilbert has delved into the history of the English language to unearth a host of forgotten, quirky, obsolete, and utterly bizarre words, and created a phrasebook like no other. It is a dictionary whose entries are not merely words, but the fantastical stories and wild musings behind thema dictionary of two-headed serpents and royal assassins, warrior birds and people on the moon, specters and true love. One might not learn an everyday vocabulary, but beyond A and Z the reader finds that the meaning of a word is always much more than it seems.

SLOW WINE 2012 A Year in the Life of Italys Vineyards and Wines Slow Food Editore $25.00 Paper 352 pages ISBN 9788884992987 Available March 2012
Slow Wine adopts a new approach to wine criticism and looks beyond what is in the glass. A wine cannot be judged by scores, symbols or other numerical evaluations, but needs to be assessed in a broader context. The guide centres round the agronomical efforts of cellars, describing vines planted, vineyards tended and the philosophy underpinning the work of winemakers. Three sections describe the cellars in their entirety: Life, the stories of the leading players in the world of winemaking;Vines, profiles of vineyards according to their characteristics and the way they are managed; and Wines, straightforward descriptions backed up by comprehensive statistics.

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THE CHINESE MEDICINAL HERB FARM A Cultivators Guide to Small-Scale Organic Herb Production Peg Schafer $34.95 Paper 336 pages ISBN 9781603583305 Peg Schafer, longtime grower and teacher, guides readers with information on propagating, cultivating, and harvesting Chinese herbs, and presents fascinating new scientific data that reveal the ageold wisdom of nature and the traditional systems of Chinese medicine. Through seventy-nine detailed herb profilesall tested and trialed on Schafers certified organic farmSchafer offers easy-tofollow information, suitable for both growers and practitioners, for growing efficacious wild-simulated herbs.

THE HOLISTIC ORCHARD Tree Fruits and Berries the Biological Way Michael Phillips $39.95 Paper 432 pages ISBN 9781933392134 Michael Phillips, author of The Apple Grower, demystifies the basic skills everybody should know about the inner-workings of the orchard ecosystem, as well as orchard design, soil biology, and organic health management. Detailed insights on grafting, planting, pruning, and choosing the right varieties for your climate are also included, along with a step-by-step instructional calendar to guide growers through the entire orchard year.

REINVENTING FIRE Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era Amory B. Lovins & Rocky Mountain Institute $34.95 Hardcover 352 pages ISBN 9781603583718 Oil and coal have built our civilization, created our wealth, and enriched the lives of billions.Yet their rising costs to our security, economy, health, and environment now outweigh their benefits. Amory Lovins and Rocky Mountain Institute offer a new vision to win the clean energy racenot forced by public policy but led by business. Grounded in thirty years practical experience, this ground-breaking, peerreviewed analysis integrates marketbased solutions across transportation, buildings, industry, and electricity. It maps pathways and strategies for a 158%-bigger 2050 U.S. economy that needs no oil, no coal, no nuclear energy, one-third less natural gas, and no new inventions.

WHEN DISASTER STRIKES A Comprehensive Guide for Emergency Planning and Crisis Survival Matthew Stein $24.95 Paper 400 pages ISBN 9781603583220 In this disaster-preparedness manual, Matthew Stein, author of When Technology Fails, outlines the materials youll needfrom food and water, to shelter and energy, to first-aid and survival skillsto help you safely live through the worst. When Disaster Strikes covers how to find and store food, water, and clothing, as well as the basics of installing back-up power and lights. Stein instructs you on the smartest responses to natural disasterssuch as fires, earthquakes, hurricanes, and floodshow to keep warm during winter storms, even how to protect yourself from attack or other dangerous situations.

THE TRANSITION COMPANION Making Your Community More Resilient in Uncertain Times Rob Hopkins $29.95 Paper 320 pages ISBN 9781603583923 In 2008, the best-selling The Transition Handbook suggested a model for a community-led response to peak oil and climate change. The Transition Companion picks up the story today, and tells inspiring tales of communities working for a future where local economies are valued and nurtured; where lower energy use is seen as a benefit; and where enterprise, creativity, and the building of resilience have become cornerstones of a new economy. The book looks in detail at the process a community in transition goes through, calling on the experience of those who have already embarked on this journey.

WILD FLAVORS One Chefs Transformative Year Cooking from Evas Farm Didi Emmons $34.95 Hardcover 320 pages ISBN 9781603582858
Curiosity sparked Emmonss initial venture down the Massachusetts coast to meet the celebrated farmer Eva Sommaripa, whose 200-plus uncommon herbs, greens, and edible weeds supply many top Northeastern chefs. Wild Flowers follows Didi through a year in Evas Garden and offers both the warmth of their shared tales as well as the exquisite foods Didi came to develop using only the freshest of ingredients and wild edibles. Alongside the unique seasonal offerings, Didi provides profiles and tips on forty-six uncommon plants, and shares Evas wisdom about staying connected and maintaining a sane and healthy lifestyle in an increasingly hectic world.

THE SMALL-SCALE POULTRY FLOCK An All-Natural Approach to Raising Chickens and Other Fowl for Home and Market Growers Harvey Ussery $39.95 Paper 416 pages ISBN 9781603582902 The most comprehensive and definitive guide to date on raising allnatural poultry for the homesteader and small farmer. Usserys model presents a practical and integrative model for working with chickens and other domestic fowl, based entirely on natural systems, and will prove invaluable for beginner homesteaders, growers looking to incorporate poultry into their farm, and farmers seeking to work more holistically with their poultry.

KILLING THE CRANES A Reporters Journey Through Three Decades of War in Afghanistan Edward Girardet $27.95 Hardcover 432 pages ISBN 9781603583428 In Killing the Cranes, Edward Girardet delivers a firsthand account of his thirty years on the ground amid the war, chaos, and strife that have come to define Afghanistan. Along the way, Girardet met the key figures that shaped the nations destiny, including Ahmed Shah Massoud and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, and narrowly escaped with his life following an encounter with Osama bin Laden. In this timely and compelling tale, Girardet shines extraordinary light on Afghanistans catastrophic history and uncertain future, and offers insight into the Wests fraught involvement and failed recovery effort.

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ALONE AND INVISIBLE NO MORE

How Grassroots Community Action and 21st Century Technologies Can Empower Elders to Stay in Their Homes and Lead Healthier, Happier Lives

Allan S. Teel, MD $17.95 Paper 216 pages ISBN 9781603583794

DREAM OF A NATION Inspiring Ideas for a Better America Edited by Tyson Miller $29.95 Paper 446 pages ISBN 9780615482262 Across the nation countless individuals and organizations are dreaming a new future. Dream of a Nation sheds lights on some of the groundbreaking leaders, projects, and ideas that have the potential to solve societys toughest problems. Through a collection of essays and short commentaries, the solutions and projects presented celebrate unique contributions from the countrys diverse population and span the nations most prevalent concerns.

PASSIVE SOLAR ARCHITECTURE

Heating, Cooling, Ventilation, Daylighting, and More Using Natural Flows David A. Bainbridge & Ken Haggard

$85.00 Hardcover 304 pages ISBN 9781603582964

SLOW GARDENING A No-Stress Philosophy for All Senses and Seasons Felder Rushing $29.95 Paper 240 pages ISBN 9781603582674 Sharing the wisdom of well-known garden expert Felder Rushing, Slow Gardening offers a commonsense, informal, and outright funny philosophy that will appeal to gardeners no matter where they live or how often they weed. By taking the road less traveled, Slow Gardening will have gardeners focusing on the long haul and remembering to take it easy along the way. As Felder says, Life has lots of pressureswhy include them in the garden?

The current state of elder care in America is appalling, expensive, and unsustainable. Dr. Allan S. Teel describes a philosophy and a course of action that have turned aging in place into a viable alternative for dozens of elderly residents in Damariscotta, Maine. Teel lays out a plan to expand his approach to the millions of Americans nearing retirement age and how these techniques can be used to avert the financial and personal disaster approaching nationwide.

In a comprehensive overview of passive solar design two of the nations solar pioneers give homeowners, architects, and builders the keys to successfully using the sun and climate resources for heating, cooling, ventilation, and daylighting. Fully illustrated with many diagrams and photographs, the book will help everyone involved best undertake a sustainable building project, from planning and design, to construction, remodeling, and operating the completed building.

GET UP, STAND UP Uniting Populists, Energizing the Defeated, and Battling the Corporate Elite Bruce E. Levine $17.95 Paper 256 pages ISBN 9781603582988 Why has there been such a lack of organized resistance to economic injustice in America? In this provocative analysis, Levine details the problem of demoralization. When fatalism sets in, truths about policy failures are no longer enough to get people to take action. Levine describes cultural and psychological forces that have created a passive and discouraged population, explains how both right-wing and progressive institutions have undermined peoples resistance to domination, and lays out strategies for Americans to unite, gain strength, and wrest power away from the corporategovernment elite.

GROW YOUR FOOD FOR FREE (WELL, ALMOST) Dave Hamilton $24.95 Paper 192 pages ISBN 9781900322898

Dont like spending money in garden centers? Think you can make it yourself for a fraction of the price or find a cheaper option? Dave Hamilton shows you how, by recycling and reusing materials creatively and making the most of what you have, you can gather all you need to grow your food on a budget. He shows how to go through the gardening year on a shoestring, from making your own raised beds to fixing broken tools and taking cuttings, and gives money-saving tips for every season.

SEPP HOLZERS PERMACULTURE A Practical Guide to Small-Scale Integrative Farming and Gardening Sepp Holzer $29.95 Paper 256 pages ISBN 9781603583701

ECONOMICS UNMASKED From Power and Greed to Compassion and the Common Good Philip B. Smith & Manfred Max-Neef $21.95 Paper 192 pages ISBN 9781900322706 The economic system under which we live not only forces the great majority of humankind to live their lives in indignity and poverty, it threatens life itself. Economics Unmasked presents a cogent critique of the dominant economic system in order to help transform our society into one in which all forms of life will be protected. The first part of this book shows how dominant theoretical constructions bring about injustice. The second part is concerned with the foundations of a new economics where justice, human dignity, compassion, and reverence for life are the guiding values.

Sepp Holzer farms steep mountainsides in Austria 1,500 meters above sea level. His farm is an intricate network of terraces, raised beds, ponds, waterways, and tracks, well covered with productive fruit trees and other vegetation, with the farmhouse neatly nestling amongst them. This is in dramatic contrast to his neighbors spruce monocultures. Holzer covers every aspect of his farming methods, not just how to create a holistic system on the farm itself, but how to make a living from it.

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