Rebecca Thistlethwaite Addresses these and Other Crucial Questions in this must-read book for anyone aspiring to get into small-to-midscale market farming, or who wants to make their existing farm more dynamic, profitable, and, above all, sustainable.
This text, produced by the Worldwatch Institute, outlines the issues, concerns, and possibilities raised by the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, known as the Rio+20. The core issues for building a green economy are: degrowth in the developed nations; economic democracy; a shift from consumption-oriented renumeration to shortening work-time; pricing does not reward needless consumption of bulk-bought goods; shifting from obsolescence...
This book examines how sustainability has the potential to transform both the fashion system and the innovators who work within it. The book is organized in three parts. The first part is concerned with transforming fashion products across the garment's lifecycle and includes innovation in materials, manufacture, distribution, use, and re-use. The second part looks at ideas that are transforming the fashion system at root into something more...
A pioneering urban farmer and MacArthur "Genius Award" winner points the way to building a new food system that can feed--and heal--broken communities. The son of a sharecropper, Will Allen had no intention of ever becoming a farmer himself. But after years in professional basketball and as an executive for Kentucky Fried Chicken and Procter...
Design Like You Give a Damn [2] is the indispensable handbook for anyone committed to building a more sustainable future. Following the success of their first book, Architecture for Humanity brings readers the next edition, with more than 100 projects from around the world. Packed with practical and ingenious design solutions, this book addresses the need for basic shelter, housing, education, health care, clean water, and renewable energy....
This book is designed for women interested in the do-it-yourself movement who enjoy innovative clothing and accessories made from recycled and industrial materials. While the book's design is referential to a 1950's craft sewing book, the hardcover format is small and the visual design is chosen more for style than ease of use. Young people with good eyesight will not find this a problem as long as they are sitting down and have both hands...
Without a doubt, the topic of energy--from coal, oil, and nuclear to geothermal, solar and wind--is one of the most pressing across the globe. It is of paramount importance to policy makers, economists, environmentalists, and industry as they consider which technologies to invest in, how to promote use of renewable energy sources, and how to plan for dwindling reserves of non-renewable energy. InEnergy: What Everyone Needs to Know, Jos...
Prefabrication offers a simple path to the green home of your dreams, and in her latest book, Prefabulous author Sheri Koones highlights the many ways of using prefabrication to create almost-off-the-grid homes--houses that are not only environmentally friendly but often operate at nearly zero annual energy cost. Taking energy from the grid when necessary and returning any excess energy produced, almost-off-the-grid homes function on a...
This is a Mind-Changing Manifesto About the Environment, Efficiency, and the Real Path to Sustainability.
In Everything Under the Sun, well-known scientist, author, and broadcaster David Suzuki explores the interconnectedness of the world's myriad environmental challenges. The solutions are there, he argues; we just need the will to act together to bring about change. Book jacket.
