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Cordwood Building: The State of the Art (Natural Building Series) Cordwood masonry is an ancient building technique whereby walls are constructed from "log...	The Poverty of Affluence: A Psychological Portrait of the American Way of Life	Art of Focused Conversation for Schools Best Price: $133.33 Jo Nelson presents a profound, yet simple method to help teachers, administrators, students and...	Tools for Environmental Management: A Practical Introduction and Guide (Conscientious Commerce) Best Price: $67.30 This is the first book that I have seen to compile a practical toolkit for managers who are...	Biodiesel Power: The Passion, the People, and the Politics of the Next Renewable Fuel Best Price: $6.67 I just finished reading Lyle Estill's book "Biodiesel Power, The passion, the people,...



No Vacancy: Global Responses to the Human Population Explosion Best Price: $29.90 The human population surpassed 6.4 billion in 2004 and will, at current growth rates, reach 13...	Bridges of power: Women's multicultural alliances	Doing Democracy	Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth	Dancing with the Tiger: Learning Sustainability Step by Natural Step (Conscientious Commerce) What do some of the most recognized and progressive companies in North America like Nike and...



Homes That Heal (and those that don't): How Your Home Could be Harming Your Family's Health (Women Writers of the Islamic World) Media reports focus increasingly on the declining health of children in industrialized...	The Solar Food Dryer: How to Make and Use Your Own Low-Cost, High Performance, Sun-Powered Food Dehydrator (Mother Earth News Book for Wiser Living) The Solar Food Dryer describes how to use solar energy to dry your food instead of costly...	Your Green Home: A Guide to Planning a Healthy, Environmentally Friendly New Home (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series) More and more homeowners today want houses that are healthy to live in and cause minimal damage...	Your Green Home: A Guide to Planning a Healthy, Environmentally Friendly New Hom	Photovoltaics Design And Installation Manual: Renewable Energy Education for a S

Bridges Of Power: Women's Multicultural Alliances Best Price: $5.00	Earthbag Building: The Tools, Tricks and Techniques (Natural Building Series) Over 70 percent of Americans cannot afford to own a code-enforced, contractor-built home. This...	B.Willard'sThe Sustainability Advantage(The Sustainability Advantage: Seven Business Case ofaTriple BottomLine(ConscientiousCommerce)(Hardcover)(2002) Best Price: $23.50	Two Essays: On Anger / New Men New Women - Some Thoughts on Nonviolence These two essays originally appeared in "We can Not Live Without Our Lives."	How to Re-Imagine the World: A Pocket Guide for Practical Visionaries [HT RE IMAGINE THE WORLD] Best Price: $14.95

Green Building Products: The GreenSpec Guide to Residential Building Materials [GREEN BUILDING PRODUCTS 3/E] Best Price: $40.95	Making a Living While Making a Difference: Conscious Careers in an Era of Interdependance, Revised Edition Making a Living While Making a Difference is a timely and highly informative guide to a working...	A Nation of Farmers: Defeating the Food Crisis on American Soil ?Astyk and Newton have written an important book with an unusual message: We need millions of...	Toward Sustainable Communities: Resources for Citizens and Their Governments Local governments are increasingly caught between rising expectations that development...	B.Willard'sThe Sustainability Champion's Guidebook(The Sustainability Champion'sGuidebook.HowtoTransformYourCompany(Paperback)(2009)

Winter Harvest Cookbook: How to Select and Prepare Fresh Seasonal Produce All Winter Long Anyone can include more local food in their diet at the peak of summer, but what do you do when...	Prescriptions for a Healthy House Best Price: $7.69 Ones' home is one of the most important factors in ones health, I believe. Todays houses...	The Healing Heart for Families: Storytelling to Encourage Caring and Healthy Families Best Price: $12.49 I highly recommend them to EVERYONE!! It has really struck me what a "white bread"...	College Without High School: A Teenager's Guide to Skipping High School and Going to College "Blake Boles has written a remarkable how-to handbook that is destined to change the lives...	D. Chiras's Solar Electricity Basics(Solar Electricity Basics: A Green Energy Guide [Paperback]))(2010) Best Price: $28.15

Solar Water Heating--Revised & Expanded Edition: A Comprehensive Guide to Solar Water and Space Heating Systems (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series) Heating water with the sun is a practice almost as old as humankind itself. Solar Water Heating...	Naturally Clean: The Seventh Generation Guide to Safe & Healthy, Non-Toxic Cleaning Compelling evidence links the chemicals in household products to cancer, asthma, allergies,...	Whitewash: The Disturbing Truth About Cow's Milk and Your Health North Americans are some of the least healthy people on Earth. Despite advanced medical care and...	The Healing Heart for Communities: Storytelling for Strong and Healthy Communities (Families) The Healing Heart provides powerful examples of the use of stories and storytelling in...	Barefoot Gen a Cartoon Story of Hiroshima A comic book for children and adults like no other comic book you have ever seen! A powerful,...

Fleeing Vesuvius: Overcoming the Risks of Economic and Environmental Collapse Practical and fundamentally optimistic, Fleeing Vesuvius takes a hard look at many of the...	Webs of Power: Notes from the Global Uprising Best Price: $7.49 With all the horrors of the present age, I often find it difficult to keep from sinking in...	Shaping Globalization: Civil Society, Cultural Power and Threefolding Best Price: $77.90 Nicanor Perlas prepared this book in time for the Millennium Forums around the UN in September...	Dumbing Us Down The book consists of five essays on the education system in the US. The first two essays are...	The Mediator's Handbook [MEDIATORS HANDBK REV/E 3/E] Best Price: $20.54

Photovoltaics Design And Installation Manual: Renewable Energy Education for a S Best Price: $151.69	Earth-Sheltered Houses: How to Build an Affordable... (Mother Earth News Book for Wiser Living) An earth-sheltered, earth-roofed home has the least impact upon the land of all housing styles,...	And the Skylark Sings with Me: Adventures in Homeschooling and Community-Based Education A clear and magical account of how David and Ellen helped their daughters find new ways to take...	Microhydro: Clean Power from Water Hydroelectricity is the world's largest and cleanest source of renewable -energy. But...	Homes That Heal And Those That Don't - How Your Home May Be Harming Your Family's Health

The Natural Step for Communities: How Cities and Towns can Change to Sustainable Practices Sustainability may seem like one more buzzword and cities and towns like the last places to...	The Homeowner's Guide to Renewable Energy Best Price: $21.75	Wind Power Basics: A Green Energy Guide Wind energy is the fastest growing source of energy in the world, and by the year 2020 it is...	Green Building Products, 3rd Edition: The GreenSpec Guide to Residential Buildin	EcoCities: Rebuilding Cities in Balance with Nature This is very well written book where if the topic is not so stichy as a novel, the author is...

The Joy of Conflict Resolution: Transforming Victims, Villains and Heroes in the Workplace and at Home The rapid rate of change in the workplace and among families often leads to conflict and...	The Ecotechnic Future: Envisioning a Post-Peak World I liked how John Michael Greer took the hubris out of modern notions of history. He subjects...	Power from the Sun: A Practical Guide to Solar Electricity (Mother Earth News Book for Wiser Living) This is a great book to get you started on solar power. Starts with the basics and takes you...	From Container to Kitchen: Growing Fruits and Vegetables in Pots I was hoping for some tips and tricks to growing Fruits and Veggies in containers. At first when...	Rise Up Singing Best Price: $28.82

Insight and Action: How to Discover and Support a Life of Integrity and Commitment to Change Best Price: $82.00	The Art of Natural Building: Design, Construction, Resources Best Price: $17.85 Today, around 5 million people on Earth work and live in buildings made of adobe, stone, rammed...	Teaching About Climate Change: Cool Schools Tackle Global Warming (Green Teacher) Best Price: $8.79 Nice book for the classroom teacher, applicable to a variety of grade levels. It's filled...	On Gandhi's Path: Bob Swann's Work for Peace and Community Economics Bigger has turned out not to be better. Servicing the global economy has exacted a heavy toll in...	Solar Electricity Basics: A Green Energy Guide The future will be powered by renewables. As we transition away from finite and polluting fossil...

Power From the Wind: Achieving Energy Independence ?Authors Dan Chiras, Mick Sagrillo, and Ian Woofenden have addressed the needs of people seeking...	Bioshelter Market Garden: A Permaculture Farm To ensure food security and restore the health of the planet, we need to move beyond industrial...	The Mediator's Handbook Best Price: $14.00 Alternative dispute resolution (ADR) has received lots of attention over the last decade or so,...	Off The Map: An Expedition Deep into Empire and the Global Economy Best Price: $8.80 As much as other reviewers were raving about this book, I thought I would like it just as much. ...	Green Building Products: The GreenSpec Guide to Residential Building Materials Best Price: $4.43 Housing is probably the second largest consumer of non-renewable resources after the automobile....

The Raging Grannies Songbook	Transforming abuse: Nonviolent resistance and recovery Best Price: $6.95	Two Essays: On Anger / New Men New Women - Some Thoughts on Nonviolence These two essays originally appeared in "We can Not Live Without Our Lives."	How to Re-Imagine the World: A Pocket Guide for Practical Visionaries [HT RE IMAGINE THE WORLD] Best Price: $14.95	Green Building Products: The GreenSpec Guide to Residential Building Materials [GREEN BUILDING PRODUCTS 3/E] Best Price: $40.95

Making a Living While Making a Difference: Conscious Careers in an Era of Interdependance, Revised Edition Making a Living While Making a Difference is a timely and highly informative guide to a working...	A Nation of Farmers: Defeating the Food Crisis on American Soil ?Astyk and Newton have written an important book with an unusual message: We need millions of...	Toward Sustainable Communities: Resources for Citizens and Their Governments Local governments are increasingly caught between rising expectations that development...	B.Willard'sThe Sustainability Champion's Guidebook(The Sustainability Champion'sGuidebook.HowtoTransformYourCompany(Paperback)(2009)	Winter Harvest Cookbook: How to Select and Prepare Fresh Seasonal Produce All Winter Long Anyone can include more local food in their diet at the peak of summer, but what do you do when...

Prescriptions for a Healthy House Best Price: $7.69 Ones' home is one of the most important factors in ones health, I believe. Todays houses...	The Healing Heart for Families: Storytelling to Encourage Caring and Healthy Families Best Price: $12.49 I highly recommend them to EVERYONE!! It has really struck me what a "white bread"...	Barefoot Gen: Out of the ashes Graphic Novel. "This vivid and harrowing tale will... burn a radioactive crater in your...	Insight and action: How to discover and support a life of integrity and commitment to change Best Price: $192.40	The Better World Handbook: Small Changes That Make a Big Difference [BETTER WORLD HANDBK REV/E] Best Price: $22.92

The Home Energy Diet: How to Save Money by Making Your House Energy-Smart (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series) With rising energy costs, homeowners are beginning to examine the energy efficiency of their own...	Depletion and Abundance: Life on the New Home Front Why are so few peak oil authors women? There's been much debate about this, and no one has...	Evolution's Edge: The Coming Collapse and Transformation of Our World Gold-winner in the "Most Likely to Save the Planet" category of the Independent...	Everyone Wins!: Cooperative Games and Activities This new edition of the best-selling Parent Choice Award-winner Everyone Wins! collects more...	EcoKids: Raising Children Who Care for the Earth To forge a sustainable future, we need citizens who care for the earth. We need citizens who...

Green Remodeling : Changing the World One Room at a Time (Mother Earth News Book for Wiser Living) Whether because of changing lifestyles or simply because houses are becoming outdated, millions...	Just Transportation: Dismantling Race and Class Barriers to Mobility Best Price: $14.45 This book points out an all too often ignored point: that arguments over sprawl and...	Free the Children! Conflict Education for Strong, Peaceful Minds Susan Fitzell's book is a clearly written, well thought out book that needs to be read by...	Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil Best Price: $12.50 Edited 30 June to add links to ten books and observe that rankism is bad, but providing...	Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive Best Price: $16.84 I read this book as a volunteer activist interested in community engagement and the dialogical...

The Better World Shopping Guide Prepack: Every Dollar Makes a Difference, Pack of 10 I found this little handbook as a fair trade store called "Ten Thousand Villages" and...	Clayoquot mass trials: Defending the rainforest Best Price: $12.00	Change the World for Ten Bucks: 50 Ways to Make a Difference Best Price: $46.42	The Better World Shopping Guide: Every Dollar Makes a Difference [BETTER WORLD SHOPPING GD 2/E] Best Price: $0.99	Finding Community: How to Join an Ecovillage or Intentional Community Finding community is as critical as obtaining food and shelter, since the need to belong is what...

Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling ?Gatto draws on thirty years in the classroom and many years of research as a school reformer....

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