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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.

La Ruota di Medicina degli indiani d'America è la Ruota della Natura e racchiude in sé l'intera cultura e le tradizioni dei nativi americani: è la simbolica testimonianza della loro spiritualità, del rapporto vivo e vero che essi intrattengono da sempre con la natura. La Ruota di medicina ci fa scoprire che la natura non è un oggetto al nostro servizio, ma un sistema complesso e vivente che continuamente si trasforma, i cui equilibri dipendono anche da noi e dal nostro comportamento quotidiano nei suoi confronti.

A differenza di quello che molti possono pensare, la dieta vegetariana non è una moda, ma è una scelta consapevole che ha una storia e anche lunga, a partire dall'antichità, se non dall'inizio dei tempi, quando i nostri antenati primitivi si cibavano di bacche ed erbe, trascurando totalmente il consumo di carni. Partendo da un'analisi della nostra fisiologia, fino allo studio di una più corretta alimentazione, cercheremo di conoscere meglio questo stile alimentare, passando attraverso un approfondimento dei vantaggi personali, sociali e globali che la scelta vegetariana porta con sé.

"The time for stepping up and protecting our planet is now. And this book is an easy, enjoyable place to start." -- Moby It's time to put your good intentions into action. It's time to give a shit -- about your health, your footprint, and your planet. Give a Sh*t guides you through the...

The industrial age made possible by fossil fuels will surely decline as these fuels run out. In The Ecotechnic Future John Michael Greer alerts the listener to possible changes future generations may face as these dwindling fuel supplies lead first to a deindustrial age, then to a society which salvages the remnants of our current plenty, and eventually to a time in which people may learn to live in balance with the environment: an ecotechnic society.

In Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything, Daniel Goleman recasts the uproar over global warming and the assault of man-made toxins into our bodies in terms of the collective self-deception which both created this crisis and holds a key to...

In Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything, Daniel Goleman recasts the uproar over global warming and the assault of man-made toxins into our bodies in terms of the collective self-deception which both created this crisis and holds a key to...

“An in-depth and compelling account of diverse Americans living off the grid.” —Los Angeles Times The radical search for the simple life in today’s America. On a frigid April night, a classically trained opera singer, five months pregnant, and her husband, a former marine biologist...

Virginia farmer Joel Salatin, who has been offered a prominent role in President Trump's Department of Agriculture, has become the new voice of clean, local, healthy eating. From Salatin's point of view, life in the 21st century just ain't normal. In FOLKS, THIS AIN'T NORMAL, he discusses how...

What makes everyday spaces work, how do they shape us, and what do they say about us? The spaces we live in - whether public areas, housing, offices, hospitals or cities - mediate community, creativity and our very identity, making us who we are. Using insights from environmental psychology, design, and architecture, The Shaping of Us reveals the often imperceptible ways in which our surroundings influence our behaviour.

Sixteen-year-old climate activist Xiuhtezcatl Martinez and his group the Earth Guardians believe that choices made now will have a lasting impact on the world of tomorrow, and they want to ensure a positive, just, and sustainable future. Beginning with their empowering story, We Rise explores many aspects of effective activism and provides step-by-step information on how to start and join solution-oriented movements.

The most beautiful guide to the Danish custom of hygge, the everyday life philosophy for better living. Hygge is a feeling of belonging and warmth, a moment of comfort and contentment. This beautiful little book will help you to find hygge and embrace it every day. Make a pot of coffee, relax in your favourite chair and discover for yourself how life is better with hygge.

Like many people, Beth Terry didn't think an individual could have much impact on the environment. But while laid up after surgery, she read an article about the staggering amount of plastic polluting the oceans and decided then and there to kick her plastic habit. Now she wants to teach you how you can too.

In these chapters, the Karmapa shares his vision for bringing social action into daily life, on a scale we can realistically manage through the choices we make every day - what to buy, what to eat, and how to relate honestly and bravely with our friends and family and coworkers. His fresh and encouraging perspective shows us that we have the strength to live with kindness in the midst of the many challenges we face as socially and environmentally conscious beings.

Mucho se habla de ecología. Videos, mensajes, fotos y textos que se comparten en todas partes. Muy a pesar de ello, pocas son las costumbres que parecemos estar dispuestos a cambiar. ¿Por qué sucede esto? Porque necesitamos iniciarnos, es decir encarnar esos mensajes. En este audiolibro descubrirás conceptos importantes, consejos ecológicos y por sobre todo muchas razones para arrancar con un cambio que puede reconfigurar toda tu vida. Vivir mejor es posible. El autor, Marcelo Torres, nos invita a SER FELICES.

Le Audioricette sono un nuovo modo per scoprire e approfondire la preparazione, le caratteristiche e la storia dei tuoi piatti preferiti. Ogni audiobook contiene la spiegazione passo passo di tre semplici e gustose ricette per stuzzicare la tua fantasia in cucina, e una ricca e approfondita sezione sulla storia e le caratteristiche dei piatti. Vuoi portare a tavola un menù per i tuoi amici o parenti vegani ma non sai da dove iniziare?

Questo audiolibro è un viaggio nel miracolo della natura perché ognuno possa accorgersi che tutto ciò che ci circonda ci è stato donato per renderci consapevoli che non siamo estranei al mondo ma ne siamo parte. Ci condurrà verso un sentiero che porta a riconoscere il nostro animo, per essere pronti a esaltare la bellezza presente nella nostra esistenza ed essere grati del dono della vita.

Veränderungen erleichtern das Leben. Veränderungen erweitern den Horizont. Veränderungen sind eine Herausforderung, welche positive Hormone aktiviert und die Seele aufatmen lässt. Nichts ist so beständig wie die Veränderung. Sie haben sich fest vorgenommen, etwas in Ihrem Leben anders zu gestalten? Sie wissen nicht so recht, was? Ich gebe Ihnen einen Tipp: Beginnen Sie mit dem Erhalt Ihres eigenen Lebensraumes, dem Ihrer Kinder und deren zukünftigen Nachkommen.