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Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply – $200

In Stolen Harvest, Vandana Shiva charts the impacts of globalized, corporate agriculture on small farmers, the environment, and the quality of the food we eat. With chapters on genetically engineered...

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Off The Grid Homes: Case Studies for Sunstainable Living – $245

Off the Grid Homes looks at six contemporary architectural projects that integrate alternative technologies for generating and conserving energy. Being off the grid can refer to many different aspects...

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Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage – $275

A sobering exploration of our high-octane trash output that was named an Editor’s Choice by the New York Times and a nonfiction choice by The Guardian. Eat a take-out meal, buy a pair of shoes, or read...

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Liberation Ecologies – $745

At the beginning of the 21st century, the environment and the future of development continue to be issues of crucial importance. Most explanations of environmental crisis emphasize the role of...

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The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality – $345

  Economists insist that recovery is at hand, yet unemployment remains high, real estate values continue to sink, and governments stagger under record deficits. The End of Growth proposes a startling...

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Eco language reader – $275

How can poetry engage with a global ecosystem under duress? How do poetic languages, forms, structures, syntaxes, and grammars contend or comply with the forces of environmental disaster? Can...

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Silent Spring – $185

  Silent Spring by Rachel Carson is a modern classic and has to be read in the context of the time (cold war/nuclear fall out). Carson highlights the disassociation between man and nature, and how this...

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The Carbon Efficient City – $435

The Carbon Efficient City shows how regional economies can be aligned with practices that drive carbon efficiency. It details ten strategies for reducing carbon emissions in our cities: standardized...

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A Sand County Almanac: With Essays on Conservation – $465

Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac has enthralled generations of nature lovers and conservationists and is indeed revered by everyone seriously interested in protecting the natural world. Hailed for...

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Overfishing: What Everyone Needs to Know – $265

  Overfishing. Over the past twenty years considerable public attention has been focused on the decline of marine fisheries, the sustainability of world fish production, and the impacts of fishing on...

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Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, and Development – $275

  A feminist and environmental justice classic, with a new introduction by Vandana Shiva Since at least the days of Francis Bacon, the dominant view in the western world has framed technological and...

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Farm Together Now – $250

  With interest in home gardening at an all-time high and concerns about food production and safety making headlines, Farm Together Now explores the current state of grassroots farming in the U.S. Part...

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Keepers of the Trees: A Guide to Re-Greening North America – $275

  In the tradition of Annie Dillard and John McPhee, writer and activist Ann Linnea interviews fourteen tree keepers about their life and work saving North America’s forests. Engage in the life stories...

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Ecological Design, Tenth Anniversary Edition – $575

  Ecological Design is a landmark volume that helped usher in an exciting new era in green design and sustainability planning. Since its initial publication in 1996, the book has been critically...

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Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet – $265

  The bestselling author of Deep Economy shows that we’re living on a fundamentally altered planet — and opens our eyes to the kind of change we’ll need in order to make our civilization endure. Twenty...

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Deforesting the Earth: From Prehistory to Global Crisis – $545

Published in 2002, Deforesting the Earth was a landmark study of the history and geography of deforestation. Now available as an abridgment, this edition retains the breadth of the original while...

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Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind – $275

  This pathfinding collection has become a seminal text for the burgeoning ecopsychology movement, which has brought key new insights to environmentalism and revolutionized modern psychology. Its...

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What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World – $345

  A lifelong birder, tracker, and naturalist, Jon Young is guided in his work and teaching by three basic premises: the robin, junco, and other songbirds know everything important about their...

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Dreaming the Future: Reimagining Civilization in the Age of Nature – $275

Few would deny that we are entering a period of great change. Our environment is collapsing. Social disruption abounds. All around, it seems, we are experiencing breakdown. But out of this chaos comes...

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Ecopsychology: Science, Totems, and the Technological Species – $525

  We need nature for our physical and psychological well-being. Our actions reflect this when we turn to beloved pets for companionship, vacation in spots of natural splendor, or spend hours working in...

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Life Support: The Environment and Human Health - $325

Life Support brings together the best medical information available on the implications for human health of the global environmental crisis. Written by prominent physicians and public health experts...

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The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature – $325

  Winner of the 2012 National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History Literature. A biologist reveals the secret world hidden in a single square meter of forest In this wholly original book, biologist...

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Whose Crisis, Whose Future – $345

  Crisis? Whose crisis? Today we are in the midst of a multifaceted crisis which touches the lives of everyone on the planet. Whether it’s growing poverty and inequality or shrinking access to food and...

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Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate Collapse - $285

“The real fault line in American politics is not between liberals and conservatives…. It is, rather, in how we orient ourselves to the generations to come who will bear the consequences, for better and...

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The Environmental Responsibility Reader – $475

This book is for anyone involved with managing environmental decisions making. The book promotes innovative ways of understanding and taking responsibility for actions in the context of our ‘natural’...

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The Energy of Slaves: Oil and the New Servitude – $375

By the winner of the Rachel Carson Environment Book AwardAncient civilizations relied on shackled human muscle. It took the energy of slaves to plant crops, clothe emperors, and build cities....

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Telling Our Way to the Sea: A Voyage of Discovery in the Sea of Cortez – $265

A luminous and revelatory journey into the science of life and the depths of the human experience. By turns epic and intimate, Telling Our Way to the Sea is both a staggering revelation of unraveling...

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Prosperity without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet – $345

  Is more economic growth the solution? Will it deliver prosperity and well-being for a global population projected to reach nine billion? In this explosive book, Tim Jackson, a top sustainability...

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Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution – $425

  In this tour de force of scholarship and vision, Ken Wilber traces the course of evolution from matter to life to mind and describes the common patterns that evolution takes in all three of these...

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Ecofeminism – $395

Ecofeminism Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva Two of Zed’s best-known authors argue that ecological destruction and industrial catastrophes constitute a direct threat to everyday life, the maintenance of...

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