Showing titles in Sustainable & Green Living

Why would a successful American physician choose to live in a twelve-foot-by-twelve-foot cabin without running water or electricity? To find out, writer and activist William Powers visited Dr. Jackie Benton in rural North Carolina. No Name Creek gurgled through Benton’s permaculture farm, and she stroked honeybees’ wings as she shared her wildcrafter philosophy of living on a planet in crisis. Powers, just back from a decade of international aid work, then accepted Benton’s offer to stay at the cabin for a season while she traveled.

How to Do Things is a fascinating window into life in early 20th century America, and was the first book to collect centuries of practical information, neighborly wisdom, and generational knowledge and compile it into one comprehensive volume...

Essere vegani non è né una moda, né una dieta. Essere vegani vuol dire, prima di tutto, abbracciare una filosofia. Perché chi sceglie di essere vegano ha deciso di non mangiare più dei "qualcuno" che la nostra società ha trasformato in dei "qualcosa" non solo per mettere fine a una barbarie, ma per salvaguardare l'architettura sociale, ambientale ed economica del nostro futuro.

Dans "Vivre simplement", Élisabeth Simard nous guide avec bienveillance sur le chemin du minimalisme pratique, une démarche accessible et moderne qui concorde parfaitement avec l'idée grandissante qu'une vie épurée contribue non seulement à protéger l'environnement, mais aussi à inventer son propre bonheur et à veiller au bien-être de ses enfants. Fruit d'un cheminement réfléchi, l'approche de l'auteure a non seulement fait ses preuves, mais elle s'adapte aussi à une foule de réalités et exclut toute forme de pression ou de comparaison.

Per tutti gli aspiranti giardinieri planetari, ecco tre lezioni su talee e bulbi, sul Terzo paesaggio e sui semi, prodigiose astronavi che viaggiano nello spazio e nel tempo, e su molto altro. In perfetto equilibrio tra passione visionaria e consigli pratici, tra racconti filosofici e semplici tecniche di coltivazione, qui si istiga a fare e disfare, e anche a lasciar fare, perché "per essere giardinieri non occorre possedere un giardino. Il giardino è il pianeta e noi tutti ci viviamo in mezzo".

Framed by the author’s personal experience with backyard hens, Chickens: Their Natural and Unnatural Histories explores the history of the chicken from its descent from the dinosaurs to the space-age present. En route, Lembke surveys chickens in ancient Greece, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the 19th century, and modern times, including the role of chickens in Jewish and Muslim practices. She also investigates the birds’ contributions to science and their jaunty appearances in literature.

Host Marcus Guiliano is a chef on a mission. He is an award-winning chef, green restaurateur, real-food activist, professional speaker, restaurant consultant, and ultramarathoner. He is also owner of Aroma Thyme Bistro, the first green-certified restaurant in the Hudson Valley of New York.

Cooler Smarter is based on an in-depth, two-year study by the experts at The Union of Concerned Scientists. While other green guides suggest an array of tips, Cooler Smarter offers proven strategies to cut carbon, with chapters on transportation, home energy use, diet, and personal consumption, as well as how best to influence your workplace, your community, and elected officials. The book explains how to make the biggest impact and when not to sweat the small stuff.

Why a unicycle? Why a cross-country trip? Why leave a prominent New York magazine and return to the simple life in Kentucky? Reminiscent of classic literary travelogues, Mark Schimmoeller's Slowspoke: A Unicyclist's Guide to America takes listeners on an inward, emotional journey as he inches across landscapes and communities from North Carolina to Arizona. Schimmoeller became inspired by his unicycle as an adolescent.

A healthy, money-smart and sustainable lifestyle begins at home! Drawn from the collective experience of green-conscious home buyers and homeowners, sustainability experts across North America and thousands of top real estate professionals. Start planting the seeds today for a more sustainable future tomorrow with Green Your Home, a proven, practical guide on how to lay the groundwork for your green adventure, determine your green priorities, and recharge your air quality and interior living space.

A poet at heart, Amy Minato rejects her life of consumption in Chicago to go back to nature - specifically, to a commune in Oregon, where she rediscovers herself. She also cops occasionally to the pretentiousness of her mission, and laughs along with the listener at her attempts to be both environmentally friendly and sane, considering the fact that she’s moved in with a bunch of strangers in a remote locale.

The Agile City engages the fundamental question: what to do about it? Journalist and urban analyst James S. Russell argues that we'll more quickly slow global warming - and blunt its effects - by retrofitting cities, suburbs, and towns. The Agile City shows that change undertaken at the building and community level can reach carbon-reduction goals rapidly. Adapting buildings (39 percent of greenhouse-gas emission) and communities (slashing the 33 percent of transportation related emissions) offers numerous other benefits that tax gimmicks and massive alternative-energy investments can't match.

The future of our cities is not what it used to be. The modern-city model that took hold globally in the twentieth century has outlived its usefulness. It cannot solve the problems it helped to create - especially global warming. Fortunately, a new model for urban development is emerging in cities to aggressively tackle the realities of climate change. In Life After Carbon, urban sustainability consultants Pete Plastrik and John Cleveland assemble this global pattern of urban reinvention from the stories of 25 "innovation lab" cities across the globe.

Registrazione della conferenza tenuta a Bologna nel novembre 2008 da Marco Ferrini, direttore del Centro Studi Bhaktivedanta, nella quale l'esperto di cultura vedica tratta dei disturbi della personalità legati al consumo di cibo. Un fenomeno in crescita nella società di oggi e con ripercussioni piuttosto preoccupanti.

Noi siamo quello che mangiamo. In realtà il cibo influenza non solo il fisico, ma anche la coscienza, l'affettività ed il nostro modo di pensare. Non solo, da quello che mangia (e anche da come mangia) si può riconoscere il livello di consapevolezza di una persona. Si può comprendere per esempio il suo livello di rispetto, sensibilità e compassione nei confronti di altre creature, quanto è in grado di considerare la sofferenza altrui alla stregua di una propria sofferenza.

L'intervento di Marco Ferrini alla Camera dei Deputati, nell'ambito del Convegno "Prevenzione ed Educazione Alimentare" (2016) ha introdotto l'importanza dell'aspetto etico nelle scelte alimentari, portando la visione della tradizione dello Yoga fondata sul valore della non violenza, Ahimsa. La persona non si nutre soltanto del cibo in quanto tale, ma anche di tutti quegli imprinting emozionali contenuti in esso, che influenzano il suo stato di salute psicofisica e il suo livello di consapevolezza spirituale.

Organic gardening is natural gardening. Enthusiastic fan of natural gardening Tom shows us how we can have a flourishing garden without pesticides and chemicals.

Renewable energy is good for your wallet. Those who see that opportunity are already seizing it … all the way to the bank. Green Is Good is a no-nonsense guide to how you, the average American, can easily incorporate clean energy and energy efficiency into your daily life and in the process save money, make money, and help wean your community off fossil fuels.

Drawing on findings from leading health researchers as well as conversations with both chemical and organic farmers from coast to coast, Maria Rodale irrefutably outlines the unacceptably high cost of chemical farming on our health and our environment. She traces the genesis of chemical farming and the rise of the immense companies that profit from it, bringing to light the government's role in allowing such practices to flourish.

In the 1970s, Dolly Freed lived off the land dirt cheap and plum easy. Living in their own house on a half-acre lot outside of Philadelphia for almost five years, Dolly and her father produced their own food and drink and spent roughly $700 each per year. Thirty years later Dolly Freed's Possum Living is as fascinating and pertinent as it was in 1978. Tin House is reissuing the survivalist classic with a foreword by David Gates and an afterword by the author.