Showing titles in Sustainable & Green Living

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.

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.

From world-renowned scientist Jane Goodall, as seen in the National Geographic documentary Jane, comes a provocative look into the ways we can positively impact the world by changing our eating habits. "One of those rare, truly great books that can change the world." —John Robbins, author of...

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...

Want to learn more about organic food? Curious about alternative power sources? Want to do your part to help save the environment? The way that you live, work, travel, eat, drink, and dress affects the earth and the environment--and this concise, eye-opening book gives you all the tools you need...

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.