Chelsea Green Spring 2009 Catalog

Chelsea Green Spring/Summer 2009

Why We Need Slow Money There is such a thing as money that is too fast. Money that is too fast is money that has become so detached from people, place, and the activities that it is financing that not even the experts understand it fully. Money that is too fast makes it impossible to say whether the world economy is going through a correction in the credit markets, triggered by the subprime mortgage crisis, or whether we are teetering on the edge of something much deeper and more challenging, tied to petrodollars, derivatives, hedge funds, futures, arbitrage, and a byzantine hyper-securitized system of intermediation that no quant, no program trader, no speculator, no investment bank CEO, can any longer fully understand or manage. Just as no one can say precisely where the meat in a hamburger comes from (it may contain meat from as many as a hundred animals), no one can say where the money in this or that security has come from, where it is going, what is behind it, whether—if it were to be “stopped” and, like a hot potato, held by someone for more than a few instants—it represents any intrinsic or real value. Money that is too fast creates an environment in which, when questioned by the press about the outcome of the credit crisis, former treasury secretary Robert Rubin can only respond, “No one knows.” This kind of befuddlement is what arises when the relationships among capital, community, and bioregion are broken. As long as money accelerates around the planet, divorced from where we live, our befuddlement will continue. As long as the way we invest is divorced from how we live and how we consume, our befuddlement will worsen. As long as the way we invest uproots companies, putting them in the hands of a broad, shallow pool of absentee shareholders whose primary goal is the endless growth of their financial capital, our befuddlement at the depletion of our social and natural capital will only deepen. **** We must reexamine the story of progress, being honest about where we as a species seem to be going awry—if one defines nuclear weapons, 9/11, Twinkies, the continuing promulgation of a culture of rampant consumerism in the face of 6.6 billion people, climate change, volatility in global food prices, and widening wealth inequalities as “going awry.” We must recognize the potentially disastrous consequences of doing the same thing over and over again—going more and more global, bigger and bigger, faster and faster—hoping for a different outcome. Then, and only then, we may find the courage to slow money down—not all of it, of course, but meaningful quantities of it. In a world of trillions of dollars a day, this means billions of dollars a day . . . wait . . . did I say billions of dollars a day? I did, and before The Twilight Zone theme song starts ringing in your ears, I add: The Good Lord, and his better half, Great Gaia, did not hand us today’s global financial markets on a platter, blessed and preordained. No, we invented them, and we have it in our power to reinvent them, to design what comes after them. What seems pre- posterous when viewed through the wrong end of the fast-money telescope seems wonderfully within reach when looked at through the lens of slow money, allowing us to set about the work of rebuilding healthy relationships among enterprises and communities and bioregions, and between investors and the enterprises in which they invest. Let us set about this work, then, so that whoever it is that comes onto the world stage after Homo economista and Homo consumerista and the Invisible Hand of the marketplace, may, as they exit stage left, come—fully and fearlessly and wearing whiffs of humus and manure like badges of honor—into view. Woody Tasch From the Prologue of Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money (see page 28) Environmental Audit This catalog was printed using 100% postconsumer-recycled paper, processed chlorine-free and manufactured using biogas energy. Using 1,515 pounds of Rolland Enviro100 Print instead of virgin-fibers paper for this printing of the Chelsea Green Spring-Summer 2009 catalog produces an ecological-footprint reduction equivalent to: • 13 Trees • 818 pounds of solid waste • 7,723 gallons of water • 5.2 pounds of particles suspended in water • 1,797 pounds of air emissions • 1,873 ft 3 natural gas Printed in Canada by Marquis

contents contents The Winter Harvest Handbook 02 Climate Change 04 Future Scenarios 05 Devil in the Milk 06 Wind Energy Basics, Second Edition 07 In Late Winter We Ate Pears 08 Libation, a Bitter Alchemy 09 Gaia’s Garden, Second Edition 10 Living Above the Store 11 The Earth-Sheltered House 12 new releases Small-Scale Grain Raising, Second Edition 13 The End of Money and the Future of Civilization 14 The Purpose of Life 15 Walking with the Great Apes 16 Search for the Golden Moon Bear 16 The New Solar Electric Home, Third Edition 17 Drip Irrigation for Every Landscape and All Climates, Second Edition 18 Crescent City Farmers Market Cookbook 19 The Holistic Beauty Book 20 Earth Pledge White Papers 20 Surviving and Thriving on the Land 21 The Woodland Year 22 Vegan Rustic Cooking 22 Livable Neighborhood 23 Distributed Titles 17 Previously Announced 24 Recently Published 28 Barbara Damrosch ChelseaGreen.com • 802.295.6300

02 April 2009 THE WINTER HARVEST HANDBOOK Year-Round Vegetable Production Using Deep Organic Techniques and Unheated Greenhouses Eliot Coleman From the bestselling author of The New Organic Grower and Four-Season Harvest, a revolutionary guide to year-round harvests of fresh, organic produce—with little or no energy inputs. Choosing locally grown organic food is a sustainable living trend that’s taken hold throughout North America. Celebrated farming expert Eliot Coleman helped start this movement with The New Organic Grower published 20 years ago. He continues to lead the way, pushing the limits of the harvest season while working his world-renowned organic farm in Harborside, Maine. Now, with his long-awaited new book, The Winter Harvest Handbook, anyone can have access to his hard-won experience. Gardeners and farmers can use the innovative, highly successful methods Coleman describes in this comprehensive handbook to raise crops throughout the coldest of winters. Building on the techniques that hundreds of thousands of farmers and gardeners adopted from The New Organic Grower and Four-Season Harvest, this new book focuses on growing produce of unparalleled freshness and quality in customized unheated or, in some cases, Pub Date: April 2009 minimally heated, movable plastic greenhouses. $29.95 US, $37.50 CAN • PB 9781603580816 7 x 10 • 224 pages • Appendices • Bibliography • Index Color illustrations and photos throughout Gardening/Agriculture Barbara Damrosch Eliot Coleman is an organic gardening pioneer. His more than 30 years of experience in all aspects of organic farming includes field vegetables, greenhouse vegetables, rotational grazing of cattle and sheep, and free-range poultry. He is the author of The New Organic Grower and Four-Season Harvest. He and his wife, Barbara Damrosch, were BARBARA DAMROSCH hosts of The Learning Channel’s popular series Gardening Naturally. Today, Coleman and Damrosch operate a year-round commercial market garden and conduct groundbreaking horticultural research projects at Four Season Farm in Harborside, Maine. ChelseaGreen.com • 802.295.6300

03 April 2009 More about Eliot Coleman The winter was not given to us for no purpose. We must thaw its cold with our genialness. We are asked to find out and appropriate all the nutrients it yields. If it is a cold and hard season, its fruit, no doubt, is the more concentrated and nutty. —Henry David Thoreau Coleman offers clear, concise details on greenhouse construction and maintenance, planting schedules, crop management, harvesting practices, and even marketing methods in this complete, meticulous, and illustrated guide. Readers have access to all the techniques that have proven to produce higher-quality crops on Coleman’s own farm. His painstaking research and experimentation with more than 30 different crops will be valuable to small farmers, homesteaders, and experienced home gardeners who seek to expand their production seasons. A passionate advocate for the revival of small-scale sustainable farming, Coleman provides a practical model for supplying fresh, locally grown produce during the winter season, even in climates where conventional wisdom says it “just can’t be done.” • More than 250,000 Eliot Coleman Books Sold! • National Publicity • Author Tour TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 01. THE WINTER HARVEST 02. HISTORICAL INSPIRATION 03. GETTING STARTED 04. THE YEARLY SCHEDULE 05. SUNLIGHT 06. THE “COLD” GREENHOUSE 07. THE “COOL” GREENHOUSE 08. WINTER CROPS 09. SUMMER CROPS 10. GREENHOUSE DESIGN 11. YEAR-ROUND INTENSIVE CROPPING 12. SOIL PREPARATION 13. SOWING 14. WEED CONTROL 15. HARVESTING IN WINTER 16. MARKETING AND ECONOMICS 17. PESTS •••Also by ELIOT COLEMAN ••• 18. INSECTS AND DISEASES 19. TOOLS FOR THE SMALL FARM 20. DEEP ORGANIC FARMING AND THE SMALL FARM APPENDICES ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX 9780930031756 9781890132279 $24.95 • PB $24.95 • PB ChelseaGreen.com • 802.295.6300

04 April 2009 CLIMATE CHANGE Simple Things You Can Do to Make a Difference Jon Clift and Amanda Cuthbert The 7th in the Chelsea GREEN Guide series A pocket guide for personal action that will combat global warming. You know that the ice caps are melting, the seasons are changing, sea levels are rising, storms are on the increase, but what can you do about it? Plenty! This book puts the power back into your hands in the face of the doom and gloom of climate change. You don’t have to wait for someone else to sort it out; rather than worry and feel helpless, you can get up and do something. Climate Change: Simple Things You Can Do to Make a Difference is packed with ideas for action, from simple everyday things that cost nothing to bigger projects that involve more time and money. For example: Get on your bike • Buy local food • Turn off your TV • Insulate your attic • Recycle and compost • Take the train • Turn down the heat • Install solar panels Pub Date: April 2009 Do your part and protect the planet for today and tomorrow. $7.95 US, $9.95 CAN • PB 9781603581066 Jon Clift has a master’s degree in sustainable environmental management. He works as a 43/4 x 61/2 • 96 pages • Color photos freelance environmental consultant and lives in Salcombe, South Devon. Amanda Cuthbert Environment works as a freelance writer and lives in Devon. Together, they have authored many Chelsea Green Guides: Greening Your Office; Water: Use Less–Save More; and Energy: Use • Green tips of the day found Less–Save More. on chelseagreen.com •••Other books of interest••• 9781933392738 9781933392721 9781933392998 $7.95 • PB $7.95 • PB $7.95 • PB GREEN FACT: Many people in the world exist on three gallons of water a day 9781933392752 9781933392745 9781933392981 $7.95 • PB $7.95 • PB $7.95 • PB or less. We can use that amount in one flush of the toilet. The Chelsea Green Guides 6-Pack Set —From Chelsea Green Guide, Water 9781603580342 • $44.95 ChelseaGreen.com • 802.295.6300

05 April 2009 FUTURE SCENARIOS How Communities Can Adapt to Peak Oil and Climate Change David Holmgren From permaculture’s co-originator, a hopeful, compassionate, and cautious look at four possible futures, and what we can do to prepare for them. In Future Scenarios, permaculture co-originator and leading sustainability innovator David Holmgren outlines four scenarios that bring to life the likely cultural, political, agricultural, and economic implications of peak oil and climate change, and the generations-long era of “energy descent” that faces us. “Scenario planning,” Holmgren explains, “allows us to use stories about the future as a reference point for imagining how particular strategies and structures might thrive, fail, or be transformed.” Future Scenarios depicts four very different futures. Each is a permutation of mild or destructive climate change, combined with either slow or severe energy declines. Probable futures, explains Holmgren, range from the relatively benign Green Tech scenario to the near catastrophic Lifeboats scenario. As Adam Grubb, founder of the influential Energy Bulletin Web site, says, “These aren’t two- dimensional nightmarish scenarios designed to scare people into environmental action. They are compellingly fleshed-out visions of quite plausible alternative futures, which delve into energy, politics, agriculture, social, and even spiritual trends. What they do help make clear Pub Date: April 2009 are the best strategies for preparing for and adapting to these possible futures.” $12.00 US, $14.95 CAN • PB 9781603580892 Future Scenarios provides brilliant and balanced consideration of the world’s options and will 5 x 8 • 144 pages prove to be one of the most important books of the year. Color illustrations & graphs Environment/Future Studies • National Media • U.S. Radio Tour MAUREEN CORBETT David Holmgren is best known as the co-originator, with Bill Mollison, of the permaculture concept, following the 1978 publication of their book Permaculture One. Since then he has written Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond •••Other books of interest••• Sustainability, developed three properties using permaculture principles, and conducted workshops and courses throughout the world. He shows that a sustainable lifestyle is a realistic, attractive, and powerful alternative to dependent consumerism. Holmgren lives with his partner, Su Dennett, and their son, Oliver, at Melliodora, a one-hectare 9780646269900 permaculture demonstration site at Hepburn $39.00 • PB 9781900322188 9780646418445 9781933392127 Springs, Central Victoria, Australia. $24.95 • PB $30.00 • PB $21.95 • PB ChelseaGreen.com • 802.295.6300

06 April 2009 DEVIL IN THE MILK Illness, Health, and the Politics of A1 and A2 Milk Keith Woodford Evidence shows cows’ milk is a link to solving many medical mysteries, from diabetes to autism. This groundbreaking work is the first internationally published book to examine the link between a protein in the milk we drink and a range of serious illnesses, including heart disease, Type 1 diabetes, autism, and schizophrenia. These health problems are linked to a tiny protein fragment that is formed when we digest A1 beta-casein, a milk protein produced by many cows in the United States and northern European countries. Milk that contains A1 beta-casein is commonly known as A1 milk; milk that does not is called A2. All milk was once A2, until a genetic mutation occurred some thousands of years ago in some European cattle. A2 milk remains high in herds in much of Asia, Africa, and parts of Southern Europe. A1 milk is common in the United States, New Zealand, Australia, and Europe. In Devil in the Milk, Keith Woodford brings together the evidence published in more than 100 scientific papers. He examines the population studies that look at the link between con- sumption of A1 milk and the incidence of heart disease and Type 1 diabetes; he explains the science that underpins the A1/A2 hypothesis; and he examines the research undertaken with animals and humans. The evidence is compelling: We should be switching to A2 milk. Pub Date: April 2009 A2 milk from selected cows is now marketed in parts of the U.S., and it is possible to convert a $24.95 US, $31.25 CAN • PB herd of cows producing A1 milk to cows producing A2 milk. 9781603581028 This is an amazing story, one that is not just about the health issues surrounding A1 milk, 6 x 9 • 240 pages but also about how scientific evidence can be molded and withheld by vested interests, and Health/Medical Diseases how consumer choices are influenced by the interests of corporate business. • National Media • U.S. Radio Tour “Devil in the Milk is potentially as significant as Carson’s Silent Spring or Nader’s Unsafe at Any Speed. . . . Devil in the Milk is soundly researched. . . . It should be read by every dairy farmer and consumer.” —Alan Robb,The New Zealand Farmer's Weekly “[A] shattering exposé of the health problems caused by milk and Keith Woodford is Professor of Farm the efforts of elements in the dairy industry and government to Management and Agribusiness at Lincoln cover them up.” —Jacqueline Steincamp, Healthy Options University in New Zealand. A regular commentator in the news media, he was previously at the University of Queensland (Australia) for 20 years. He lives with his “I believe this is an important book. Critics should think carefully family in Christchurch, New Zealand. and avoid knee-jerk reactions.” —Professor Sir John Scott, Professor Emeritus of Medicine, University of Auckland ChelseaGreen.com • 802.295.6300

07 April 2009 WIND ENERGY BASICS SECOND EDITION A Guide to Home- and Community-Scale Wind-Energy Systems Paul Gipe For the homeowner or community organizer, the essential guide to harnessing wind energy. The availability of clean, renewable power is without question going to be the defining challenge and goal of the 21st century, and wind will lead the way. Internationally acclaimed wind energy expert Paul Gipe is as soberly critical of past energy mistakes as he is convincingly optimistic about the future. The overwhelming challenge of transforming our world from one of fossil carbon to one of clean power seems daunting at best—and paralyzingly impractical at worst. Wind Energy Basics offers a solution. Wind power can realistically not only replace the lion’s share of oil-, coal-, and natural- gas–fired electrical plants in the U.S., but also can add enough extra power capacity to allow for most of the cars in the nation to run on electricity. Gipe explains why such a startlingly straightforward solution is eminently doable and can be accomplished much sooner than previously thought—and will have the capacity to resuscitate small and regional economies. Wind Energy Basics offers a how-to for home-based wind applications, with advice on which Pub Date: April 2009 $29.95 US, $37.50 CAN • PB wind turbines to choose and which to avoid. He guides wind-energy installers through 9781603580304 considerations such as renewable investment strategies and gives cautionary tales of wind 8 x 10 • 224 pages applications gone wrong. And for the activist, he suggests methods of prodding federal, state, Color illustrations, charts, and tables and provincial governments to promote energy independence. Previous edition: 9781890132071 Renewable Energy Extensively revised and expanded by 70 percent. New topics include: • Urban wind: Does it make sense? • Building-integrated wind: Is it real or not? • Rooftop mounting: Should you avoid it? • New vertical-axis wind turbines: Are they ready? • Fantasy wind turbines: How to spot them • Ducted turbines: Can they deliver? • Community wind: A not-so-new way to harness the wind • Feed-in tariffs: Can they power a renewables revolution? Paul Gipe is internationally recognized for his expertise in wind energy. In •••Other books of interest••• 2008, he was awarded the World Energy Association’s “World Wind Energy Award.” He has been honored as a “Pioneer” by the World Renewable Energy Congress and as “Person of the Year” by the American Wind Energy Association. Gipe’s previous books are Wind Energy Comes of Age and Wind 9781931498142 9781933392622 9781933392127 Power: Renewable Energy for Home, $50.00 • PB $35.00 • PB $21.95 • PB Farm, and Business. He lives in Bakersfield, California. ChelseaGreen.com • 802.295.6300

08 May 2009 IN LATE WINTER WE ATE PEARS A Year of Hunger and Love Deirdre Heekin and Caleb Barber Recipes and stories from the romantic year in Italy that inspired the acclaimed Osteria Pane e Salute. More than a cookbook, In Late Winter We Ate Pears is a love affair with a culture and a way of life. In vignettes taken from their year in Italy, husband and wife Caleb Barber and Deirdre Heekin offer glimpses of a young, vibrant Italy: of rolling out pizza dough in an ancient hilltown at midnight while wild dogs bay in the abandoned streets; of the fogged car windows of an ancient lovers’ lane amid the olive groves outside Prato. The recipes in In Late Winter We Ate Pears are every bit as delicious as the memories. Selections such as red snapper with fennel sauce, fresh figs with balsamic vinegar and mint, and frangipane and plum tart capture the essence of Italy. Following the tradition of Italian cuisine, the 80 recipes are laid out according to season, to suggest taking advantage of your freshest local ingredients. Whether you are an experienced cook looking for authentic Italian recipes or a beginner wanting to immerse yourself in the romance of a young couple’s culinary adventure, In Late Winter We Ate Pears provides rich sustenance in the best tradition of travel and food writing. Pub Date: May 2009 Cheers to Chef Barber and writer Deirdre Heekin for sharing these marvelous recipes from $25.00 US, $31.25 CAN • PB Osteria Pane e Salute (Pane translates as bread and Salute as health) and for sharing the story 9781603581011 of a most inspired year spent in Italy. In Late Winter We Ate Pears is a testament that bread 7 x 91/2 • 296 pages • 80 recipes and health are the things that make a good life. Previous ISBN: 1931229163 Cooking/Food Lit. • National Media • Authors’ Tour • Simultaneous publication with Libation, a Bitter Alchemy, by Deirdre Heekin “Just right! An inspiring and informative personal quest and a deeply felt journey into the heart and soul of Italian artisanal cuisine.” —Anthony Bourdain, author of A Cook’s Tour and Kitchen Confidential Deirdre Heekin and Caleb Barber are the proprietors and, respectively, wine director and head chef of Osteria Pane e Salute, a boutique restaurant and wine bar in Woodstock, Vermont, recently acclaimed in Bon Appétit, The Boston Globe, Travel and Leisure, and Attaché. Heekin and Barber grow most of their own produce in addition to working with local farm partners. In preparation for his role as head chef of Osteria Pane e Salute, Barber apprenticed with an artisanal baker and in a small trattoria in Tuscany. Heekin and Barber live in Barnard, Vermont, where Heekin produces artisanal after-dinner brandies and micro-vintage garage wine for the osteria. ChelseaGreen.com • 802.295.6300

09 May 2009 LIBATION, A BITTER ALCHEMY Deirdre Heekin Nostalgic and intoxicating, Libation, a Bitter Alchemy explores the bittersweet magic of developing nose and palate through experience and place. For many years, Deirdre Heekin has been creating an unusual, revitalist wine archive of rare and traditional Italian varietals at Osteria Pane e Salute, the nationally celebrated restaurant and wine bar she shares with her chef husband, Caleb Barber. Self-taught in the world of Italian wines, she is known for her fine-tuned work with scent and taste and her ability to pair wines and food in unexpected yet terroir-driven ways. In Libation, a Bitter Alchemy, a series of linked personal essays, Heekin explores the curious development of her nose and palate, her intuitive education and relationship with wine and spirits, and her arduous attempts to make liqueurs and wine from the fruits of her own land in northern New England. The essays follow her as she unearths ruby-toned wines given up by the ghosts of long-gone wine makers from the red soil of Italy, her adoptive land; as she embarks on a complicated pilgrimage to the home of one of the world’s oldest cocktails, Sazerac, in Katrina-soaked New Orleans; as she attempts a midsummer crafting of a brandy made from inherited roses, the results of an old Sicilian recipe she found in a dusty book- store in Naples. Musing on spirits from Campari to alkermes, Heekin’s writing is as intoxicating, rich, and Pub Date: May 2009 carefully crafted as the wines, liquors, and locales she loves. $25.00 US, $31.25 CAN • HC 9781603580861 5 x 8 • 272 pages Food Lit/Wine & Spirits • National Media • Author Tour • Simultaneous publication with In Late Winter We Ate Pears CALEB BARBER •••Other books of interest••• Deirdre Heekin has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and is winner of the Italo Calvino Award for her fiction. Her food writing appears regularly in Gastronomica: The Journal of Taste and Culture. 9781933392899 9781933392004 9781933392349 $35.00 • PB $25.00 • PB $35.00 • PB ChelseaGreen.com • 802.295.6300

10 May 2009 GAIA’S GARDEN SECOND EDITION A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture Toby Hemenway A classic, popular Chelsea Green gardener's reference—revised and also expanded to address urban and limited-space permaculture. The first edition of Gaia’s Garden sparked the imagination of America’s home gardeners, introducing permaculture’s central message: Working with Nature, not against her, results in more beautiful, abundant, and forgiving gardens. This extensively revised and expanded second edition broadens the reach and depth of the permaculture approach for urban and suburban growers. Many people mistakenly think that ecological gardening—which involves growing a wide range of edible and other useful plants—can take place only on a large, multiacre scale. As Hemenway demonstrates, it’s fun and easy to create a “backyard ecosystem” by assembling communities of plants that can work cooperatively and perform a variety of functions, including: • Building and maintaining soil fertility and structure • Catching and conserving water in the landscape • Providing habitat for beneficial insects, birds, and animals • Growing an edible “forest” that yields seasonal fruits, nuts, and other foods Pub Date: May 2009 $29.95 US, $37.50 CAN • PB This revised and updated edition also features a new chapter on urban permaculture, 9781603580298 designed especially for people in cities and suburbs who have very limited growing space. 8 x 10 • 320 pages • Color photos & illustrations Whatever size yard or garden you have to work with, you can apply basic permaculture Previous ISBN: 9781890132521 principles to make it more diverse, more natural, more productive, and more beautiful. Best of all, once it’s established, an ecological garden will reduce or eliminate most of the Organic Gardening backbreaking work that’s needed to maintain the typical lawn and garden. Praise for the Previous Edition “Takes the native plants and organic gardening movement to the next level.” —Joel M. Lerner, The Washington Post KIEL HEMENWAY “A bold, wonderful, nature-embracing, and completely sensible vision of the future.” —Justin Siskin, Los Angeles Daily News Toby Hemenway teaches permaculture and ecological design courses around the world and is on the faculty of “Practical science for making your yard produce food and beauty.” Portland State University. A former —Rose O’Donnell, The Seattle Times geneticist, Hemenway left the biotech industry in the 1990s and spent 10 years creating and living on a rural permaculture homestead in southern “A gardener’s blueprint for ecological abundance from the Oregon. He now lives in Portland, ground up.” Oregon, where he is developing —Steve Spreckel, Acres USA several urban sustainability sites. ChelseaGreen.com • 802.295.6300

11 May 2009 LIVING ABOVE THE STORE Building a Business That Creates Value, Inspires Change, and Restores Land and Community Martin Melaver Foreword by Ray Anderson How a business can redefine, then find, success. The economic crash of late 2008 is just the latest evidence of the truth that many have known for so long: that too much of our modern economy is based on a house of cards. We need businesses that not only factor their impact on people and places into their equations for success but also strive to restore the communities and environments in which they operate. How can this be done? In Living Above the Store, Martin Melaver provides a roadmap for creating such a business. It’s not only a “how to” but a “why to” that challenges business as usual to change. Living Above the Store brings us into the story of Melaver, Inc., a third-generation, 70-year-old family real estate business, as it evolves toward becoming a thought and product leader in sustainable business practices. It is part business management theory and part case study, where sustainable principles meet sustainable practices, always grounded in day-to-day practice. Living Above the Store demonstrates how to: • Adopt a business model that provides for economic success while contributing to society and the environment • Shape a business culture that is restorative to a workforce by helping employees Pub Date: May 2009 realize their highest potential $27.95 US, $34.95 CAN • HC • Leverage an ethos within a business that “ripples outward” to foster restoration of 9781603580854 both land and community 6 x 9 • 320 pages • Charts and diagrams • Embrace a notion of limits to growth Ethical Business • Reframe ideas about competition, proprietary knowledge, and business success Living Above the Store is for readers who care about issues of community and sustainability as •National Media well as for those who want to learn more about how a socially responsible business can first •Author Tour redefine, and then find, success. •••Other books of interest••• KIM THOMSON Martin Melaver has been CEO of Melaver, Inc., since 1992. Never content with the well- 9780964595354 9781603580007 9781933392905 9781603580069 trod path, he has a PhD in literature from $19.95 • PB $17.95 • PB $17.95 • PB $21.95 • HC Harvard University and an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. He is actively involved with numerous community organizations in and around Savannah, Georgia. Melaver splits his time between Savannah and Tel Aviv, Israel. ChelseaGreen.com • 802.295.6300

12 May 2009 THE EARTH-SHELTERED HOUSE Now Back in Print! An Architect’s Sketchbook Malcolm Wells Revolutionary common-sense advice for home building from the leading proponent of earth-sheltered living. A Classic Sustainable Building Book The Earth-Sheltered House is a classic in the annals of sustainable building books, written by a legend in the field of environmentally responsible architecture. Malcolm Wells has a fundamentally different way of looking at the design and building process, and his icon- oclastic perspective has never been more apparent. Wells’s work is revolutionary, but readers will find his message to be pure common sense. Earth sheltering offers superior comfort with minimal energy input, and it is Pub Date: May 2009 adaptable to diverse terrains as well as a variety of architectural aesthetics. $24.95 US, $31.25 CAN • PB 9781603581073 11 x 81/2 • 192 pages • B&W illustrations Previous ISBN: 9781890132194 Green Building “Lovely and provocative.” —Whole Earth Review “Malcolm Wells has been an inspiration to two generations of architecture students. This book should be required reading for everyone making decisions about the built environment.” —Steve Heckeroth, award-winning solar designer/builder JAY ELLIOTT Malcolm Wells, a pioneer of underground building and natural design, is widely known for his many books, including How to Build an Underground Home and Gentle Architecture. His cartoons are featured in Rob Roy’s Mortgage Free! Innovative Strategies for Debt-Free Home Ownership. He works in the Underground Art Gallery in Brewster, Massachusetts. ChelseaGreen.com • 802.295.6300

13 June 2009 SMALL-SCALE GRAIN RAISING SECOND EDITION An Organic Guide to Growing, Processing, and Using Nutritious Whole Grains for Home Gardeners and Local Farmers Gene Logsdon The classic text on raising grain—revised and expanded for home gardeners and small-scale farmers. First published in 1977, this book—from one of America’s most famous and prolific agricultural writers—became an almost instant classic among homestead gardeners and small farmers. Now fully updated and available once more, Small-Scale Grain Raising offers an entirely new generation of readers the best introduction to a wide range of both common and lesser-known specialty grains and related field crops, from corn, wheat, and rye to buckwheat, millet, rice, spelt, flax, and even beans and sunflowers. More and more Americans are seeking out locally grown foods, yet one of the real stum- bling blocks to their efforts has been finding local sources for grains, which are grown mainly on large, distant corporate farms. At the same time, commodity prices for grains— and the products made from them—have skyrocketed due to rising energy costs and increased demand. In this book, Gene Logsdon proves that anyone who has access to a large garden or small farm can (and should) think outside the agribusiness box and learn to grow healthy whole grains or beans—the base of our culinary food pyramid—alongside their fruits and vegetables. Starting from the simple but revolutionary concept of the garden “pancake patch,” Logsdon opens up our eyes to a whole world of plants that we wrongly assume only the Pub Date: June 2009 $29.95 US, $37.50 CAN • PB agricultural “big boys” can grow. He succinctly covers all the basics, from planting and 9781603580779 dealing with pests, weeds, and diseases to harvesting, processing, storing, and using whole 7 x 10 • 256 pages • B&W drawings grains. There are even a few recipes sprinkled throughout, along with more than a little wit Sustainable Agriculture/Organic Gardening and wisdom. Never has there been a better time, or a more receptive audience, for this book. Localvores, serious home gardeners, CSA farmers, and whole-foods advocates—in fact, all people who value fresh, high-quality foods—will find a field full of information and ideas in this once and future classic. REBECCA CARTELLONE •••Also by Gene Logsdon ••• Gene Logsdon is the author of 25 books (and counting) embracing ecology, art, farming, cultural studies, and nature writing, including The Contrary Farmer and Farming at Nature’s Pace. He has a weekly newspaper column 9781890132569 9780930031749 9781890132668 and contributes regularly to two quarterly $25.00 • PB $19.95 • PB $14.95 • PB magazines, Farming and The Draft Horse Journal, and to the Web site OrganicToBe.org. He and his wife, Carol Logsdon, operate an experimental garden farm in Wyandot County, Ohio. They have two children and three grandchildren. ChelseaGreen.com • 802.295.6300

14 June 2009 THE END OF MONEY AND THE FUTURE OF CIVILIZATION Thomas H. Greco, Jr. A sweeping view of money—past, present, and future—including a plan to democratize the economy and restore the “credit commons.” Like the proverbial fish who doesn’t know what water is, we swim in an economy built on money that few of us comprehend, and, most definitely, what we don’t know is hurting us. Very few people realize that the nature of money has changed profoundly over the past three centuries, or—as has been clear with the latest global financial crisis—the extent to which it has become a political instrument used to centralize power, concentrate wealth, and subvert popular government. On top of that, the economic growth imperative inherent in the present global monetary system is a main driver of global warming and other environmental crises. The End of Money and the Future of Civilization demystifies the subjects of money, banking, and finance by tracing historical landmarks and important evolutionary shifts that have changed the essential nature of money. Greco’s masterful work lays out the problems and then looks to the future for a next stage in money’s evolution that can liberate us as individuals and communities from the current grip of centralized and politicized money power. Greco provides specific design proposals and exchange-system architectures for local, regional, Pub Date: June 2009 national, and global financial systems. He offers strategies for their implementation and outlines $19.95 US, $24.95 CAN • PB actions grassroots organizations, businesses, and governments will need to take to achieve success. 9781603580786 6 x 9 • 256 pages Ultimately, The End of Money and the Future of Civilization provides the necessary understanding—for entrepreneurs, activists, and civic leaders—to implement approaches toward B&W photos, tables, and diagrams monetary liberation. These approaches would empower communities, preserve democratic Economics/Monetary Policy institutions, and begin to build economies that are sustainable, democratic, and insulated • National Media from the financial crises that plague the dominant monetary system. • U.S. Radio Tour • The what, how, and why of our current, destructive money system • The what, how, and why of independent, sustainable alternatives • The long-ignored change that is required to move toward a democratic, steady-state economy Thomas H. Greco, Jr. is a leading authority on free-market approaches to monetary and financial innovation, including cashless exchange systems. A former engineer, entre- •••Other books of interest••• preneur, and tenured college professor, Greco is now a sought-after advisor and speaker at conferences internationally. His previous books include Money: Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender. Through his Web site, reinventingmoney.com, and associated blogs and books, Greco offers an unprecedented wealth of information on the 9781603580069 9781933392233 9781890132378 $21.95 • HC $30.00 • PB $25.00 • PB interplay of economics and democracy. When not traveling internationally, he lives in the San Francisco Bay area and Tucson, Arizona. ChelseaGreen.com • 802.295.6300

15 August 2009 THE PURPOSE OF LIFE Science’s Surprising Answer to Religion’s Most Profound Question Dorion Sagan and Eric D. Schneider The answer to the grandest philosophical question of all time requires thinking outside the boxes of conventional religious teaching and conventional scientific wisdom. What is the purpose of life? Some say it's to reproduce, others to glorify God, but behind these and other proposed purposes lies a scientific purpose. In The Purpose of Life, science writer Dorion Sagan and biophysicist Eric D. Schneider lay out the fascinating evidence for life’s natural purpose—its function in an energy-driven cosmos. New evidence shows that the evolution of life on Earth over the past three-and-a-half billion years has not been random but has a clear direction, and its direction is related to life's function as a natural system. Indeed, life shares its function—its purpose—with that of certain other complex natural systems. Although the answer is simple and not exclusive—life may have other purposes—its profound implications may change the way we see ourselves, our relationships to other living beings, and our future on this shared, energy-driven planet. Sagan and Schneider provide a striking alternative to both scientific and religious views of this age-old question. Engaging recent bestsellers such as Rick Warren’s The Purpose-Driven Life and Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth: Finding Your Life's Purpose, The Purpose of Life goes beyond popular Pub Date: August 2009 science, weaving literature, philosophy, and spirituality into a highly readable narrative. $15.95 US, $19.95 CAN • PB 9781933392387 51/2 x 81/2 • 224 pages Science/Philosophy “Building upon the beautiful subtleties of the Second Law of • National Media Thermodynamics, Eric Schneider and Dorion Sagan take us on a tour •••Also by Dorion Sagan••• de force through biology, touching upon the origin of life, sex, evolution, ecology, and even economics. Along the way, they dethrone the idea that the gene is the central actor in the drama of life and put the focus properly back on the plot—the organized flows of matter and energy that make life what it is.” —J. Scott Turner, author of The Extended Organism 9781933392325 9781933392318 $14.95 • PB $25.00 • PB Dorion Sagan is the Eric D. Schneider lives in author or coauthor of 21 the mountains of southwest books translated into 11 Montana. He is best languages, including described as a biophysi- Notes from the Holocene cist, synthesizing biology WILLIAM CAMPELL and Microcosmos (with and physics at a fundamen- Lynn Margulis). A tal level. He has been chief Humana Scholar, scientist of the National Lindisfarne Fellow, and Oceanic Administration recipient of an EdPress and director of the Award in nonfiction, Sagan has written for The New York National Marine Quality Laboratory of the U.S. Environmental Times, Wired, and The New York Times Book Review. He cur- Protection Agency. rently resides in Amherst, Massachusetts. Schneider and Sagan coauthored Into the Cool: Energy Flow, Thermodynamics, and Life (University of Chicago Press, 2006), which has been a scientific bestseller. ChelseaGreen.com • 802.295.6300

16 August 2009 WALKING WITH THE GREAT APES Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Biruté Galdikas Sy Montgomer y Foreword by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas From the bestselling author of The Good Good Pig, a classic book back in print! Extensively Updated by the Author • New Photos Three astounding women scientists have in recent years penetrated the jungles of Africa and Borneo to observe, nurture, and defend humanity’s closest cousins. Jane Goodall has worked with the chimpanzees of Gombe for nearly 50 years; Dian Fossey died in 1985 defending the mountain gorillas of Rwanda; and Biruté Galdikas lives in intimate proximity to the orangutans of Borneo. All three began their work as protégées of the great Anglo-African archeologist Louis Leakey, and each spent years in the field, allowing the apes to become their familiars—and ultimately waging battles to save them from extinction in the wild. Their combined accomplishments have been mind-blowing, as Goodall, Fossey, and Galdikas forever changed how we think of our closest evolutionary relatives, of ourselves, and of how to conduct good science. From the personal to the primate, Sy Montgomery explores the science, Pub Date: August 2009 $17.95 US, $22.50 CAN • PB wisdom, and living experience of three of the greatest scientists of the twentieth century. 9781603580625 51/2 x 81/2 • 304 pages • Color photo insert Previous ISBN: 9780395611562 Nature/Essays SEARCH FOR THE GOLDEN MOON BEAR New in Paper! Science and Adventure in Pursuit of a New Species Sy Montgomer y With a New Scientific Addendum by Dr. Gary Galbreath • New Photos Sy Montgomery has already shared with readers her amazing encounters with great apes, man-eating tigers, and pink river dolphins, but her latest muse is an animal whose name and appearance evoke another world altogether. Southeast Asia’s golden moon bear, with its luminous coat, lionlike mane, and Mickey Mouse ears, was unknown to science—until Montgomery and her colleagues got on the trail at the dawn of the new millennium. Search for the Golden Moon Bear recounts Montgomery’s quest—fraught with danger and mayhem—to reconstruct an evolutionary record and piece together a living portrait of her little- known subject. This beautiful animal is not just a scientific eureka! It is also a powerful symbol of conservation. Search for the Golden Moon Bear is a field report from the frontiers of science and the ends of the earth, seamlessly weaving together folklore, natural history, and contemporary research into fantastic travelogue. Sy Montgomery is an author, naturalist, documentary scriptwriter, and radio commentator who Pub Date: August 2009 has traveled to some of the world’s most remote wildernesses for her work. She has worked in a $19.95 US, $19.95 CAN • PB pit crawling with 18,000 snakes in Manitoba, been hunted by a tiger in India, swum with pink 9781603580632 dolphins in the Amazon, and been undressed by an orangutan in Borneo. She is the author of 51/2 x 81/2 • 336 pages • Color photo insert 15 award-winning books, including her national bestselling memoir, The Good Good Pig. Previous ISBN: 9780618356508 Montgomery lives in Hancock, New Hampshire. Nature/Essays ChelseaGreen.com • 802.295.6300

17 aatec publications THE NEW SOLAR ELECTRIC HOME THIRD EDITION The Complete Guide to Photovoltaics for Your Home Joel Davidson and Fran Orner A reality-based education in conservation and home solar electric systems. Joel Davidson and Fran Orner have updated their PV classic for our “new age of photovoltaics.” Drawing on decades of industry, hands-on, and personal experience (they live in one of the first net-metered PV homes in California), the authors guide you step-by-step through the process of going solar. Emphasizing energy conservation, but not deprivation, Davidson and Orner take you from determining your energy needs to sizing, siting, selecting, and installing—or hiring professionals to install—your PV system. A safe and code-compliant system is the result. • Chapters 1 through 8 explain the basics of PV, discuss the policies and regulations that affect a home PV system, and guide the reader through decision making. • Chapters 9 through 15 examine the components of a PV system—what they are, how they work, and how to select them. • Chapters 16 through 19 provide instruction on sizing, siting, installing, and maintaining a code-compliant PV system. Pub Date: Available Now • Chapter 20 offers a glimpse into the future of PV. $39.95 US, $45.95 CAN • PB In clear, concise language, with more than 170 illustrations, 52 tables, multiple worksheets and 9780937948170 checklists, solar radiation data, excerpts from the National Electrical Code®, and more—includ- 6 x 9 • 496 pages • 171 B&W photos & ing numerous real-life examples—this third edition of The New Solar Electric Home gives you all drawings • Worksheets • Checklists the information you need to get your personal power plant online. Previous ISBN: 9780937948095 Green Building A PV industry founder, Joel Davidson was named “one of this country’s most experienced hands-on pioneers” by the Rocky Mountain Institute. Fran Orner, an accomplished PV system designer, owns and operates SOLutions in Solar Electricity (www.solarsolar.com). ChelseaGreen.com • 802.295.6300

18 Metamorphic Press DRIP IRRIGATION FOR EVERY LANDSCAPE AND ALL CLIMATES SECOND EDITION Robert Kourik Manage limited water supplies with precision and efficiency. Drip irrigation is the best way to help any plant flourish and survive tough times, especially short or long droughts. Pick the wrong “stuff ” and you easily can feel overwhelmed. Robert Kourik’s Drip Irrigation for Every Landscape and All Climates clearly explains how to use less water yet increase the yields of vegetables and promote the growth and flowering of all plants—trees, shrubs, and container plants—in any climate, even where it rains irregularly. In the tradition of the original groundbreaking book, this fully revised edition incorporates new information essential for gardeners, including how to manage limited water supplies with precision and efficiency, without the clutter of hundreds of widgets and gizmos, and the knowledge is shared in Kourik’s inimitable, friendly, down-to-earth, and easy-to-understand style. Drip Irrigation for Every Landscape and All Climates reveals how to: • Utilize drip irrigation for everything you grow—trees, shrubs, hanging plants, container plants, and vegetable and flower gardens —and save up to 50 percent Pub Date: April 2009 of your water compared to sprinklers. $24.95 US, $31.25 CAN • PB • Use a streamlined configuration of hardware and tubing. 9780961584849 81/2 x 11 • 160 pages • B&W illustrations • Choose the best, sturdiest hardware that will last for decades in your home landscape Organic Gardening/Techniques and vegetable garden. • Pick tubing that has no emitters punched on the outside—these have a tendency to break off—and use this tubing buried beneath the surface to irrigate without losing any water to wind or evaporation. • Roll out a drip system in a very short period of time, avoiding tedious hours punching in emitters or adding smaller tubing to reach each plant. • Capture and reuse gray water and cistern water for irrigation. • Construct a system in which the main parts are effectively hidden or can be simply attached to an existing garden faucet. Individual projects are carefully detailed and include: how anyone can construct a system by attaching it to an existing garden faucet or the main water supply, constructing larger assem- blies for big gardens, irrigating all sizes of potted plants, easy ways to irrigate a vegetable garden, and how to lay out tubing for the best health of trees and shrubs. During the 1975 California drought, Robert Kourik created a primitive drip •••Also by ROBERT KOURIK••• system, and since then he has continued to innovate using the latest technologies. He has written 10 instructional books advocating sustainable gardening, edible landscaping, and a healthy lifestyle, including Roots Demystified. He lives in Occidental, California. 9780961584832 9781856230261 $25.00 • PB $49.95 • PB ChelseaGreen.com • 802.295.6300

19 marketumbrella.org CRESCENT CITY FARMERS MARKET COOKBOOK Poppy Tooker Foreword by Alice Waters Experience the flavors of Slow Food New Orleans. Thirteen years in the making, the Crescent City Farmers Market Cookbook is ready for the audience that has long been awaiting it. The world’s loudly proclaimed interest in New Orleans—its food, its culture, and most recently its struggle to rebuild after one of the greatest disasters in modern times—proves that, now more than ever, there is tremendous demand for such a book. Poppy Tooker tells the story of the Crescent City Farmers Market through her distinctly New Orleans voice as one of a local food preservationist, Slow Food New Orleans founder, and longtime market collaborator. With a market tradition dating back to the late 1600s, the story of the rise and decline of New Orleans’ city markets prior to the creation of the Crescent City Farmers Market is both educational and entertaining. Tooker recalls whimsical and wacky market events with both prose and archival photography. On a more serious note, she tells compelling stories of Hurricane Katrina’s devastating impact on market vendors Pub Date: April 2009 from an insider’s point of view. More than 70 profiles of key market vendors are included, $24.95 US, $31.25 CAN • PB humanizing the book’s recipes in a truly unique way. 9781603580991 The Crescent City Farmers Market Cookbook incorporates renowned New Orleans chefs’ recipes 9 x 9 • 208 pages • 100 color photos inspired by the region’s seasonal bounty, as well as family favorites from market vendors and Cooking/Slow Food shoppers. More than 125 recipes, ranging from Creole classics such as Oysters Rockefeller, Gumbo Z’Herbes, and Bread Pudding to Gator-Tater Salad, Asian Pear Slaw, Chevre-Stuffed Squash Blossoms, Kakurei Turnip and Pork Fricasse, Barbecue Shrimp Pie, and Satsuma- Chocolate Gelato reveal why New Orleans is one of the great food cities of the world. Poppy Tooker is a culinary activist who has worked tirelessly to promote and preserve the historic food ways of New Orleans. With her motto “Eat It to Save It,” she has helped revive endangered foods across the U.S. and abroad in collaboration with Slow Food’s Ark of Taste. She is a contributing editor for Hallmark Magazine and a regular columnist for Louisiana Cookin’ magazine and also has written for Fine Cooking. Tooker’s on-camera flair has made her a sought-after guest on the Food Network, on the History Channel, and in multiple PBS documentaries. She lives in New Orleans, LA. ChelseaGreen.com • 802.295.6300

20 Green Books THE HOLISTIC BEAUTY BOOK Over 100 Natural Recipes for Gorgeous Healthy Skin Star Khechara The how and why of making your own cosmetics. Do you: • Worry about chemicals in your cosmetics? • Want to use only the very best, fresh, handmade holistic potions? • Want to use ethical and environmentally friendly products? • Have sensitive skin and need very pure potions? DIY skin care is fun, easy, and empowering. The Holistic Beauty Book is packed with safe, 100 percent natural, organic, eco-friendly skin-care potions you can make at home that are gorgeous yet affordable. • Use vegan/vegetarian ingredients that are organic, local, and fairly traded. • Make plain base creams/ointments from scratch for herbal/aromatherapy use. • Stop using skin-damaging and environment-damaging chemicals. • Make wonderful soothing potions for pregnancy and baby care. The author includes recipes for lip balms, face creams, body butters, massage bars, bath melts, scrubs, cleansers, baby care products, moisturizers, facial toners, masks and packs, and much more. Pub Date: April 2009 $22.00 US, $27.50 CAN • PB A holistic practitioner, Star Khechara teaches workshops on how to make your own 100-per- 9781900322270 cent natural, earth-friendly skincare potions and offers skin-health consultations and a potion- 71/2 x 9 • 160 pages • Two-color throughout making service for those who want individual formulations. Her business, Flowr’d Up, is an Health/Natural Beauty ethical practice that focuses on sustainability and protecting the environment, actively sup- porting fair trade, organics, local growers, and reusing and recycling. She lives in the UK. Earth Pledge EARTH PLEDGE WHITE PAPERS 3-Book Box Set! Series on Sustainable Development Earth Pledge More than 80 essays on sustainability in the fields of architecture, fashion, and cuisine. Beginning in England, white papers have long provided a forum for exploring important social and political issues. Earth Pledge publishes the series on sustainable development to highlight and encourage discussion about the issues of sustainability the world faces in the twenty-first century. This remarkable collection, featuring essays by academics and experts in the fields of cuisine, architecture, and fashion, identifies the barriers to sustainability, provides solutions to overcome them, and celebrates the pioneers who lead the charge toward meeting the practical requirements of today without compromising the needs of future generations. Included in this beautifully packaged 3-book box set are: FutureFashion White Papers, Sustainable Architecture White Papers, and Sustainable Cuisine White Papers Available Now $55.00 US, $63.00 CAN Boxed Set with Belly Band 9780967509938 Earth Pledge partners with business, communities, and government to accelerate the adoption of sustain- 41/2 x 73/4 • 784 pages • Two-color throughout able practices. The foundation has a range of innovative eco-tech initiatives that share one common Green Living objective: to demonstrate economic viability today and make a real difference tomorrow. ChelseaGreen.com • 802.295.6300

21 Green Books SURVIVING AND THRIVING ON THE LAND How to Use Your Time and Energy to Run a Successful Smallholding Rebecca Laughton The first book to look at how to avoid burnout, manage your time, and earn a viable living from the land. It’s a dream come true when you finally get a piece of land or join an eco-community and start to plan your sustainable land-based enterprise. But all too often the dream is spoiled by lack of money, stress, exhaustion, and poor time management, and your work and future plans can dis- solve into discord, illness, and poverty. Smallholdings provide food, home, fuel, and employment for those who run them and local, seasonal, often organic and ethical food and timber for an expanding market. Surviving and Thriving on the Land looks at ways in which projects can be designed that care for the people involved in them as well as the earth that they are trying to protect. If land-based ecological projects are to offer a realistic solution to the problems we face in the twenty-first century, it is imperative that they be sustainable in terms of human energy. This book offers a framework, backed up by real-life examples, of issues to consider when setting up a new project or for overcoming human-energy–based problems in existing projects. Rebecca Laughton lived for 4 years at Tinker’s Bubble, an ecological community in Somerset where the residents manage 40 acres of land without the use of fossil fuels. While researching her book, she traveled around France and the UK visiting other land- Pub Date: April 2009 based projects, and she found that the subject of human energy use within ecological $24.95 US, $31.25 CAN • PB projects had not been addressed adequately. Laughton studied geography at Newcastle 9781900322287 University and has an MSC in sustainable agriculture from Wye College, University of 6 x 9 • 256 pages London. She lives in the UK. B&W photos throughout Sustainable Living/Agriculture FOREST GARDENING PERMACULTURE Robert Hart IN PRACTICE Permanent Agriculture Pub Date: April 2009 Pub Date: April 2009 $20.00 US, $24.95 CAN • DVD $20.00 US, $24.95 CAN • DVD 9781900322393 48 minutes 9781900322409 50 minutes A Classic Now A Classic Now Available in DVD! Available in DVD! This DVD, whose aim is to inspire people to start their own perma- Some 45 years ago, the late Robert Hart had a vision of planting a culture projects, shows how permaculture is practiced in four very small food-producing forest that could fulfill the needs of a healthy diet different settings: a Hampshire back garden belonging to the editors and at the same time create a beautiful and ecologically sound environ- of Permaculture Magazine, including fruit trees, vegetables, bees, ment. Having explored Hart’s practical and philosophical ideas, this chickens, and ducks; a City Challenge project in Bradford close to a film goes on to look at two other projects inspired by the principles of housing estate with 10,000 residents, tackling the problems of forest gardening and perennial vegetable growing. unemployment, environmental awareness, and backyard food grow- On a windy plot in Cornwall, Ken Fern has set up Plants for a Future, ing; a community co-op in Devon, which involves a café, allot- where he grows 1,500 species of useful perennial plants (and maintains ments, and local composting scheme; and a small farm in the Forest information on a further 5,500 in his database). And a few miles north of Dean where innovative marketing schemes ensure a close link of London, Mike and Julia Guerra have created a tiny garden as an between producer and consumer, including meat production, a veg- inspiration to anyone wanting to “act locally.” etable box scheme, and locally produced charcoal. Anyone looking for small, practical solutions to world problems will find this DVD both useful and inspiring. ChelseaGreen.com • 802.295.6300

22 Permanent Publications THE WOODLAND YEAR Ben Law A celebration of a true pioneer who has created a woodland renaissance. Packed with stunning color photographs, The Woodland Year is an intimate month-by- month journey through Ben Law’s yearly cycle of work, his naturally attuned lifestyle, and his deep understanding of his woods. The Woodland Year provides a fascinating insight into every aspect of sustainable woodland management, including the cycles of nature, seasonal tasks, wild food gathering, wine making, mouthwatering and useful recipes, coppice crafts, round-pole timber-frame eco-building (pioneered by Ben), nature conservation, species diversity, tree profiles, and the use of horses for woodland work. This is a profound book that is both practical and poetic. It describes a way of life that is economically and ecologically viable and sets a new standard for managing our woods in a low-impact, sustainable way. As such, it holds some of the fundamental keys to how we can achieve a lower-carbon society. Ben Law trains apprentices and runs courses on sustainable woodland management, Pub Date: April 2009 roundwood timber framing, coppice crafts, and permaculture design. He was a founding $39.95 US, $49.95 CAN • HC member of the Forest Stewardship Council. He also has worked for Oxfam as a perma- 9781856230339 culture consultant. He is the author of The Woodland Way: A Permaculture Approach to 81/2 x 101/2 • 176 pages • 318 color photos Sustainable Woodland Management and The Woodland House. He lives in West Sussex, Living/Homesteading UK. Law’s woodland house has been featured on The World’s Greenest Homes, a series of the Discovery Channel’s Planet Green. VEGAN RUSTIC COOKING Through the Seasons Diana White More than 160 delicious recipes that will help you stay healthy through the seasons. Vegan Rustic Cooking is packed with fiber-rich, low-glycemic-index, whole foods that encourage friendly gut bacteria and give more food for fewer calories. The useful index lists not just recipe titles but also ingredients. This means you can select the available veggies from your garden or veggie box, look them up in the index, and choose an appropriate recipe that uses what you have available! This will enable you to cook tasty food from the freshest, healthiest ingredients you can find, all year round. “You don’t have to be vegan to enjoy this book . . . an interest in healthy living and using seasonal vegetables is all you need.” —Kitchen Garden The recipes are organized in sections: Soups; Fillings for Sandwiches, Toast, and Baked Potatoes; Sauces; Main Meals; and Baked Goods. There are even naughty fry-ups (all the fun without the health hazards), omelets, quiches, pizzas, and puddings galore! Each section is arranged according to the seasonal availability of the ingredients. Diana White was a vegetarian for 23 years and has been a vegan for the last 12. She and her Pub Date: April 2009 husband, Peter White, grow their own fruit and vegetables vegan-organically. She is a trustee of $22.00 US, $27.50 CAN • PB the Vegan Organic Network. She lives in the UK. 9781856230346 6 x 9 • 208 pages • B&W illustrations Cooking/Vegan ChelseaGreen.com • 802.295.6300

23 Empowerment Institute LIVABLE NEIGHBORHOOD A Program to Make Life Better on the Street Where You Live David Gershon Illustrations by Ed Koren Urban • Suburban • Rural • Transforming Communities One Neighborhood at a Time. Much has been written about neighborhoods as the organizing principle in community development. This is where concerns about quality of life are tangible and a sense of pride is easily established. As a consequence, initiatives designed to work at the neighborhood level have great potential to capture peoples’ imaginations and sustain participation. Neighborhood initiatives are also attractive because they awaken a sense of community. The Livable Neighborhood program is based on a state-of-the-art understanding of what it takes to change individual and group behavior. It’s easy to implement. It’s enjoyable to take part in. Neighborhoods that follow the simple instructions will make themselves safer, healthier, quieter, prettier, friendlier, greener, more economical, and better places to raise kids. Its purpose is to help citizens take the steps they can on their own while at the same time interacting with local government as efficiently as possible. “The Livable Neighborhood program serves to empower people by providing them tools to successfully improve their neighborhoods. The program creates accountability Pub Date: April 2009 between the city and its citizens, creating a win-win civic compact. In today’s world it $15.95 US, $19.95 CAN • PB is so hopeful to find a program like this . . . a great service to our communities.” 9780964437395 —Kathleen A. McGinty, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental 81/2 x 11 • 120 pages Protection 20 B&W photos and illustrations Environment/Sociology Recently Published GREEN LIVING HANDBOOK A 6-Step Program to Create an Environmentally Sustainable Lifestyle David Gershon Now, in an expanded edition, Green Living Handbook (originally called EcoTeam) is available to the trade for the first time. The original book has David Gershon is the author of nine been translated into 22 languages, and with more than 250,000 copies sold through its unique grass- books, including the best-selling roots distribution model, David Gershon’s Empowerment: The Art of Creating Your in-depth program for sustainable living is the ful- Life as You Want It and Low Carbon crum of a global movement that is changing the Diet: A 30-Day Program to Lose 5,000 way the world thinks about going green. Pounds, winner of the “Most Likely to Save the Planet” Independent Publisher Green Living Handbook has been driving environmental-behavior change in cities, faith Book Award. The founder and CEO of communities, universities, and businesses for more than a decade. This illustrated work- Empowerment Institute, he is one of the book walks readers step-by-step through a comprehensive lifestyle transformation pro- world’s leading authorities on behavior gram that has proven it can get results. change and large-scale transformation. In a time when more and more Americans are seeking sustainable lifestyles, this first trade He lives in upstate New York. edition of Green Living Handbook is perfectly poised to help thousands of Americans trans- late their good intentions into action and contribute to a sustainable future for us all. $14.95 US • PB • 9780963032744 • 8 x 11 • 160 pages ChelseaGreen.com • 802.295.6300

24 Previously Announced SPELL OF THE TIGER Two highly acclaimed books back in print! The Man-Eaters of Sundarbans Sy Montgomer y With a New Afterword by the Author A book that earned Sy Montgomery her status as one of the most celebrated wildlife writers of our time, Spell of the Tiger brings readers to the Sundarbans, a vast tangle of mangrove swamp and tidal delta that lies between India and Bangladesh. It is the only spot on earth where tigers routinely eat people—swimming silently behind small boats at night to drag away fishermen, snatching honey collectors and woodcutters from the forest. But, unlike other parts of Asia, where tigers are rapidly being hunted to extinction, tigers in the Sundarbans are revered. With the skill of a naturalist and the spirit of a mystic, Montgomery reveals the delicate balance of Sundarbans life, explores the mix of worship and fear that offers tigers unique protection there, and unlocks some surprising answers about why people at risk of becoming prey might consider their predator a god. “Sy Montgomery puts the fear of God into you with her tales of the great mangrove swamp of Sundarbans.” —Los Angeles Times Pub Date: February 2009 $16.95 US, $18.50 CAN • PB “Spell of the Tiger is a splendid, transcendental book, distilled like 9781603580595 brandy. Lovers of nature should love it.” 51/2 x 81/2 • 240 pages • Color photo insert —Edward Hoagland Nature JOURNEY OF THE PINK DOLPHINS An Amazon Quest Sy Montgomer y With a New Introduction by the Author When Sy Montgomery ventured into the Amazon to unlock the mysteries of the little- known pink dolphins, she found ancient whales that plied the Amazon River at dawn and dusk, swam through treetops in flooded forests, and performed underwater ballets with their flexible bodies. But she soon found out that to know the botos, as the dolphins are locally called, you must also know the people who live among them. And so in Journey of the Pink Dolphins, Montgomery—part naturalist, part poet, part Indiana Jones—winds her way through watery tributaries and riverside villages, searching for botos and hearing the tales of locals who believe these ethereal dolphins are shape-shifters—creatures that emerge from the water as splendidly dressed men or women only to enchant their human onlookers, capture their souls, and then carry them away to Encante, an underwater world. “One of the most brilliant books of our time.” —Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, author of The Tribe of Tiger Pub Date: February 2009 “I started to read this book at six in the morning and did not move $19.95 US, $21.95 CAN • PB out of my chair for the rest of the day. I did not lose a day; I 9781603580601 gained a whole world.” 51/2 x 81/2 • 320 pages • Color photo insert —Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, author of When Elephants Weep Nature ChelseaGreen.com • 802.295.6300

25 Previously Announced THE GORT CLOUD The Invisible Force Powering Today’s Most Visible Green Brands Richard Seireeni Discover the network that makes or breaks green brands. “Green” has gone mainstream, and for many companies, caring for the environment is not just a philosophy, it’s a marketing strategy. So how does a company that’s genuinely committed to green principles differentiate itself from its greenwashing competitors? Brand expert Richard Seireeni interviewed more than 30 eco-capitalists from a broad range of industries— home improvement, transportation, household products, food and beverage, energy, real estate, finance, and fashion. The interviews—with such leaders as Gary Hirschberg of Stonyfield Farm, Jeffrey Hollander of Seventh Generation, and the grandsons of Dr. Bronner—offer candid and valuable advice for new green businesses and businesses aiming to improve their environmental performance. What binds them together into a whole that is greater than the sum of the parts is the Gort Cloud. The Gort Cloud? The Gort Cloud—a term coined by Richard Seireeni—is the vast and largely invisible network of NGOs, trendspotters, advocacy groups, social networks, business alliances, certify- ing organizations, and other members of the green community that—in its entirety—has the power to make or break new green brands. Among the 23 sustainable business case studies: Pub Date: February 2009 Ben & Jerry’s • Stonyfield Farm • Dr. Bronner’s • Green Mountain Coffee Roasters $24.95 US, $27.50 CAN • HC 9781603580618 Seventh Generation • Tesla Motors • Southwest Windpower • Ecotrust • Time Inc. 6 x 9 • 320 pages Nau Clothing • ShoreBank Pacific • Portfolio 21 • TerraCycle • Yolo Colorhouse Ethical Business “Clear thinking and compelling examples will prove valuable for anyone looking to make hay in the growing green movement.” —Publishers Weekly ELAINE KIM The invisible green network Richard Seireeni is a 30-year veteran in brand consulting and marketing. He has been art director of Rolling Stone magazine, creative director of Warner Bros. Records, and cocreative director of EnterpriseIG, New York. He has managed his own consulting business, The Brand Architect Group, in Los Angeles since 1984, with affiliated offices in Tokyo and Shanghai. Seireeni graduated from the University of Washington School of Architecture and is a member of the U.S. Green Building Council. Millions of people connecting to green messages through thousands of green portals © 2007 The Brand Architect Group ChelseaGreen.com • 802.295.6300

26 Previously Announced EXPOSED The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products “A gripping new book.” —The Economist and What’s at Stake for American Power Mark Schapiro 2008 Nautilus Book Awards Silver Winner From tainted pet food to toxic toys, Americans can thank the successful lobbying efforts of the U.S. chemical industry for the secret ingredients in everyday products that have been linked to rising rates of infertility, endocrine system disruptions, neurological disorders, and cancer. While the U.S. Congress stalls in the face of these dangers, the European Union has chosen to act. Strict consumer-safety regulations have forced multinationals to manufacture safer products for European consumers, while lower U.S. standards allow them to continue selling unsafe products to Americans. Schapiro’s exposé shows that short of strong government action, the United States will lose not only its ability to protect citizens from environmental hazards but also, as economic priorities shift, whatever claim it has to commercial supremacy. In Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What’s at Stake for American Power, investigative journalist Mark Schapiro takes the reader to the front lines of global corporate and political power, where tectonic battles are being waged that will determine the physical and economic health of our children and ourselves. Pub Date: January 2009 “Smart and timely.” —ForeWord Magazine $16.95 US, $18.50 CAN • PB 9781603580588 • 6 x 9 • 224 pages $22.95 US, $29.95 CAN • HC “A wake-up call.” —Treehugger.com 9781933392158 • 6 x 9 • 224 pages Environmental Politics HOW THE RICH ARE Recently Published DESTROYING THE EARTH Her vé Kempf Foreword by Greg Palast Bringing to bear decades of experience as a leading environmental journalist, Hervé Kempf describes the invincibility that many of the world’s wealthy feel in the face of global warming and other ecological disasters, and how their unchecked privilege is thwarting action on the most vexing problems facing our world. Kempf deftly illuminates the links between global ecology and global economy, describing the alarming disparity between the millions of engaged citizens around the world who are trying to do right by the planet—recognizing that we’re all in the same boat—and the world’s economic elites, who continue to benefit by plundering the environment because they have access to “lifeboats” that insulate them from the resulting catastrophes. “A fact-filled, concise, hard-hitting, highly rational, and much-needed analysis of the crises we face.” —John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man “Filled with righteous anger, this book tells a truth that cannot be denied and may just save the planet and our lives.” $12.95 US, $14.50 CAN • PB 9781603580359 —Maude Barlow, author of Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis 53/8 x 83/8 • 140 pages and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water Environmental Politics ChelseaGreen.com • 802.295.6300

27 Previously Announced THINKING IN SYSTEMS A Primer Donella Meadows Edited by Diana Wright, Sustainability Institute Problem solving for the twenty-first century. In the years following her role as the lead author of the international bestseller Limits to Growth—the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet— Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in 2001. Meadows’s newly released manuscript, Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Edited by the Sustainability Institute’s Diana Wright, this essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world, showing readers how to develop the systems-thinking skills that thought leaders across the globe consider critical for 21st-century life. Some of the biggest problems facing the world—war, hunger, poverty, and environmental degradation—are essentially system failures. They cannot be solved by fixing one piece in isolation from the others, because even seemingly minor details have enormous power to undermine the best efforts of too-narrow thinking. Although readers will learn the conceptual tools and methods of systems thinking, the heart of the book is grander than methodology. Donella Meadows was known as much for nurturing Pub Date: January 2009 positive outcomes as she was for delving into the science behind global dilemmas. She reminds $19.95 US, $21.95 CAN • PB readers to pay attention to what is important, not just what is quantifiable, to stay humble, 9781603580557 and to stay a learner. 6 x 9 • 240 pages • Diagrams Systems Theory In a world growing ever more complicated, crowded, and interdependent, Thinking in Systems helps readers avoid confusion and helplessness, the first step toward finding proactive and effective solutions. “Thinking in Systems is required reading for anyone hoping to run a successful company, community, or country. Learning how to think in systems is now part of change-agent literacy. And this is the best book of its kind.” —Hunter Lovins, founder and President of Natural Capital Solutions and coauthor of Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution A woman whose pioneering work in the 1970s still makes front-page news, Donella Meadows was a scientist, author, teacher, and farmer widely considered ahead of her time. MEDORA HEBERT, VALLEY NEWS She was one of the world’s foremost systems analysts, winner of a MacArthur Foundation “genius” award, and a Pulitzer Prize nominee for her long-running newspaper column. She died unexpectedly in 2001 as she neared completion of Thinking in Systems. For more information, visit www.ThinkingInSystems.org. ChelseaGreen.com • 802.295.6300

28 Recently Published INQUIRIES INTO THE NATURE OF SLOW MONEY Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered Woody Tasch Foreword by Carlo Petrini “We must bring money back down to earth.” Could there be anything more urgently needed than this simple prescription, offered by an investor and philanthropist when he first learned about Slow Money? Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money presents the path for bringing money back down to earth—philosophically, strategically, and pragmatically—and with an entrepreneurial spirit that is informed by decades of work by the thousands of CEOs, investors, grant-makers, food producers, and consumers who are seeding the restorative economy. The months and years ahead will surely see a flood of books proposing micro- and macro- economic fixes to the financial crises of the day. Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money brings a different vision—a meta-economic vision, looking above the top line and below the bottom line, a new way of seeing what is going on in the soil of the economy. The soil of the economy? Bringing money back down to earth? This is the path toward a financial system that serves people and place as much at it serves industry sectors and markets. To discover this path and to begin to walk down it, that is the mission of Slow Money. Pub Date: January 2009 $21.95 US, $23.95 CAN • HC 9781603580069 51/2 x 7 1/2 • 240 pages Economics/Sustainable Investing “Woody Tasch has one of those fast minds that always seem to ask the right slow questions. He is on to something: a new vision of deploying capital in a way that might offer a true alternative to faster and faster, bigger and bigger, more and more global.” —Eliot Coleman, farmer and author of The New PATTY KESTIN Organic Grower and Four-Season Harvest Woody Tasch is chairman of Investors’ “Indispensable reading, to be placed on the same shelf as Wendell Berry Circle, a nonprofit network of angel investors, and E. F. Schumacher.” venture capitalists, foundations, and family —Gregory Whitehead, Treasurer, The Whitehead Foundation offices that, since 1992, has facilitated the flow of $130 million to 200 early-stage companies and venture funds dedicated to sustainability. He is president of the newly “Financial high-flier Woody Tasch believes his Slow Money movement, which formed NGO Slow Money. Woody was invests in sustainable agriculture, could put the economy back on its feet.” formerly treasurer of the Jessie Smith Noyes —Ode Magazine Foundation. He was founding chairman of the Community Development Venture Capital Alliance, which supports venture investing in economically disadvantaged regions. He lives in northern New Mexico. ChelseaGreen.com • 802.295.6300

29 Recently Published OBAMA’S CHALLENGE America’s Economic Crisis and the Power New York Times bestseller! of a Transformative Presidency Robert Kuttner “An important and vital book that all Americans should read.” —Thom Hartmann In this urgent and hopeful book about how great presidents overcome great crises, Robert Kuttner explains what Barack Obama will need to do to redeem his own promise and the promise of America. With America facing the gravest economic crisis since the Great Depression, our next president must become a truly transformative leader—like Roosevelt and Lincoln—pursuing bold and decisive action to overcome not just the crisis, but a powerful undertow of bad advice and DC-insider influence. Anything less and the scale of the crisis will consign Obama’s promise to failure. With his exceptional skill at appealing to our better angels, Barack Obama could be the right leader at the right time to reawaken America to the promise of shared prosperity coupled with responsibility toward future generations. Invoking America’s greatest leaders, Robert Kuttner explains how Obama could be our next transformative president. “World-renowned economist and educator Kuttner presents a realistic road map decoding the political and economic complexities facing a newly elected American president. . . . Kuttner offers . . . a persuasive plan of action for $14.95 US, $15.50 CAN • PB 9781603580793 meeting these challenges head-on, complete with . . . eloquent examples taken 53/8 x 83/8 • 224 pages from transformational leaders like Roosevelt, Lincoln, Kennedy, and Johnson. Economic Policy/Politics . . . Kuttner’s erudite book is highly recommended for readers of all political persuasions.” —Library Journal • National Publicity • Author Tour “Riveting, brilliant, and persuasive. Kuttner, in concise chapters written with great vigor and clarity, shows what the change could look like if Obama is bold enough to go for it and the gods continue to smile on him.” CAROLINA MANERO —Hendrik Hertzberg, from his New Yorker blog “[Will] more powerfully transform your understanding of American politics, progressive economics, and the role of leadership in saving a nation than any Robert Kuttner is cofounder and other book currently in print. . . . An important and vital book that all coeditor of The American Prospect Americans should read.” magazine, as well as a Distinguished Senior Fellow of the think tank Demos. —Thom Hartmann, Independent Thinker BuzzFlash Review of the Month He was a longtime columnist for BusinessWeek, and continues to write columns in The Boston Globe. “Robert Kuttner has incisively captured the political moment, underscored by the deepening economic crisis. Lucidly and passionately, he lays out the hurdles facing an Obama presidency and challenges him to seize the moment and achieve greatness by redeeming the promise of America.” —Arianna Huffington ChelseaGreen.com • 802.295.6300

30 Recently Published FRESH FOOD FROM SMALL SPACES The Square-Inch Gardener’s Guide to Year-Round Growing, Fermenting, and Sprouting R. J. Ruppenthal Books on container gardening have been wildly popular with urban and suburban readers, but until now, there has been no comprehensive “how-to” guide for growing fresh food in the absence of open land. Fresh Food from Small Spaces fills the gap as a practical, comprehensive, and downright fun guide to growing food in small spaces. It provides readers with the knowledge and skills necessary to produce their own fresh vegetables, mushrooms, sprouts, and fermented foods, as well as to raise bees and chickens—all without reliance on energy-intensive systems such as indoor lighting and hydroponics. With this book as a guide, people living in apartments, condominiums, townhouses, and single-family homes will be able to grow up to 20 percent of their own fresh food using a combination of traditional gardening methods and space-saving techniques such as reflected lighting and container “terracing.” Those with access to yards can produce even more. “This is one of the most important gardening books in years, loaded with great ideas for urban gardeners. Ruppenthal is ahead of the curve—he has seen the future of city gardening and I like it!” —William Moss, “Moss in the City” columnist at the National Gardening $24.95 US, $27.50 CAN • PB Association’s Garden.org 9781603580281 7 x 10 • 192 pages • Illustrations Gardening MORTGAGE FREE! Second Edition Innovative Strategies for Debt-Free Home Ownership Rob Roy As a wave of foreclosures sweeps the country, many people are giving up hope for owning a home of their own. They have good reason to turn their backs on the banks, but not on their dreams. In this revised edition of Mortgage Free!, Rob Roy offers a series of escape routes from enslavement to financial institutions, underscored by true stories of intrepid homeowners who have put their principles into action. From back-to-the-land homesteads to country homes, here is a complete guide to strategies that allow you to own your land and home, free and clear, without the bank. Included is detailed advice about: • Clarifying and simplifying your notions of what’s necessary; • Finding land that you love and can afford; • Taking control of the house-building process, for the sake of sanity and pleasure; and • Learning to take a long-term perspective on your family’s crucial economic decisions, avoiding debt and modern-day serfdom. Praise for the previous edition of Mortgage Free! “We can live well AND have our freedom, and Rob Roy shows us $24.95 US, $27.50 CAN • PB 9781603580656 how in this entertaining, detailed, and well-illustrated book.” 6 x 9 • 368 pages • Illustrations —Janet Luhrs, author of The Simple Living Guide Previous edition: 9780930031985 Finance/Sustainable Living ChelseaGreen.com • 802.295.6300

31 Recently Published HOLY ROLLER Growing Up in the Church of Knock Down, Drag Out; or, How I Quit Loving a Blue-Eyed Jesus Diane Wilson A Childhood Memoir In this rollicking memoir, Diane Wilson—a Texas Gulf Coast shrimper and the author of the highly acclaimed An Unreasonable Woman—takes readers back to her childhood in rural Texas and into her family of Holy Rollers. By night at tent revivals, Wilson gets religion from Brother Dynamite, an ex-con who finds Jesus in a baloney sandwich and han- dles masses of squirming poisonous snakes under the protection of the Holy Ghost. By day, Wilson scratches secret messages to Jesus into the paint on her windowsill and lies down in the middle of the road to see how long she can sleep in between passing trucks. Holy Roller is a fast-paced, hilarious, sometimes shocking experience readers won’t soon forget. One of the best Southern writers of her generation, Wilson’s voice twangs with a style and accent all its own, as true and individual as her boundless originality and wild youth. “Through a vividly kaleidoscopic voice that captures the intensity of fanatical religious rapture with pitch-perfect accuracy, Wilson exuberantly animates a feverish time, a frenetic place, and its fiery people.” —Booklist $24.95 US, $27.50 CAN • HC “Holy Roller is a book so good I have to make myself put it down so I won't 9781933392820 finish it too soon.” —Garrison Keillor, host of A Prairie Home Companion 51/2 x 81/2 • 240 pages • B&W photo insert Memoir NOT ONE DROP Betrayal and Courage in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Riki Ott • Foreword by John Perkins Betrayed by oilmen’s promises in the 1970s, the people of Prince William Sound, Alaska, awaken on March 14, 1989 to the nation’s largest oil spill. Not One Drop is an extraordinary tale of ordinary lives ripped apart by disaster and of community healing through building relationships of trust. Author Riki Ott, a rare combination of commercial salmon “fisherma’am” and PhD marine biologist, describes firsthand the impacts of oil companies’ broken promises when the Exxon Valdez spilled most of its cargo and despoiled thousands of miles of shore. Ott illustrates in stirring fashion the oil industry’s 20-year trail of pollution and deception that predated the tragic 1989 spill and delves deep into the disruption to the fishing community of Cordova during the following 19 years. In vivid detail, she describes the human trauma coupled inex- tricably with that of the sound’s wildlife and its long road to recovery. Her human story, varied background, professional training, and activist heart lead readers to the root of the problem: a clash of human rights and corporate power embedded in law and small-town life. “Ott is the Erin Brockovich of the Exxon Valdez oil disaster. In Not $21.95 US, $23.95 CAN • PB One Drop she recounts a riveting tale of loss, intrigue, cover-ups, 9781933392585 and courage—and in the process helps us all see why we will be 6 x 9 • 352 pages • B&W photo insert glad to leave behind the age of oil.” Environment —Fran Korten, Publisher of YES! magazine ChelseaGreen.com • 802.295.6300

32 Recently Published THE TRANSITION HANDBOOK From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience Rob Hopkins • Foreword by Richard Heinberg We live in an oil-dependent world, arriving at this level of dependency in a very short space of time by treating petroleum as if it were in infinite supply. Most of us avoid thinking about what happens when oil runs out (or becomes prohibitively expensive), but The Transition Handbook shows how the inevitable and profound changes ahead can have a positive outcome. These changes can lead to the rebirth of local communities that will grow more of their own food, generate their own power, and build their own houses using local materials. They can also encourage the development of local currencies to keep money in the local area. With little proactive thinking at the governmental level, communities are taking matters into their own hands and acting locally. If your town is not a transition town, this upbeat guide offers you the tools for starting the process. “There is no more important book than this one for any community seeking change toward ecological sustainability.” —Jerry Mander, founder/director of the International Forum on Globalization $24.95 US, $27.50 CAN • PB 9781900322188 9 x 9 • 240 pages • Two-color “If your town is not yet a Transition Town, here is guidance for making Sustainable Living it one. We have little time, and much to accomplish.” —Richard Heinberg, from the foreword GAVIOTAS 10th Anniversary Edition A Village to Reinvent the World Alan Weisman • New afterword by the author By the author of the national bestseller The World Without Us Los Llanos—the rain-leached, eastern savannas of war-ravaged Colombia—are among the most brutal environments on Earth and an unlikely setting for one of the most hopeful environmental stories ever told. Here, in the late 1960s, a young Colombian development worker named Paolo Lugari wondered if the nearly uninhabited, infertile llanos could be made livable for his country’s growing population. He had no idea that nearly four decades later his experiment would be one of the world’s most celebrated examples of sustainable living: a permanent village called Gaviotas. Gabriel García Márquez has called Paolo Lugari “Inventor of the World.” Lugari himself has said that Gaviotas is not a utopia: “Utopia literally means ‘no place.’ We call Gaviotas a topia, because it’s real.” Relive their story with this special 10th-anniversary edition of Gaviotas, complete with a new afterword by the author describing how Gaviotas has survived and pro- gressed during the past decade. “Gaviotas is the ongoing saga of what real, hands-on sustainability $16.95 US, $18.95 CAN • PB 9781603580564 means, calluses and all, practiced in the most demanding social and 6 x 9 • 256 pages • Photos & diagrams environmental circumstances conceivable.” Previous edition: 9781890132286 —Paul Hawken, author of Blessed Unrest and The Ecology of Commerce Sustainable Living ChelseaGreen.com • 802.295.6300

33 Recently Published FINDING THE SWEET SPOT The Natural Entrepreneur’s Guide to Responsible, Sustainable, Joyful Work Dave Pollard • Foreword by Dave Smith “[A] useful and much-needed book.” —Publishers Weekly “Now what am I going to do?” is a question many people ask—and leave unanswered—at critical potential turning points in their careers. Whatever your situation, this is the book to help you get started. Finding the Sweet Spot explains how sustainable, responsible, and joyful natural enterprises differ from most jobs, and it provides the framework for building your own natural enterprise. You’ll learn how to find partners who will help make your venture successful, how to do world-class market research, how to innovate, how to build resilience into your enterprise, and how to avoid the land mines that sink so many small businesses. Most important, you’ll learn how to find the “sweet spot” where your gifts, your passions, and your purpose intersect. “Store shelves are full of books that plow already-plowed ground. Only rarely does a book take us into a whole new territory. This one does. . . . With an uncanny ability to make meaning on a human scale, Dave’s $17.95 US, $19.95 CAN • PB unwavering honesty and clear process make this a must-read. . . . This is 9781933392905 exactly the right message for these economic times.” —Patti Digh, author 6 x 9 • 224 pages • Illustrations of Global Literacies: Lessons on Business Leadership and National Cultures Careers/Entrepreneurship COMPANIES WE KEEP Employee Ownership and the Business of Community and Place John Abrams • Foreword by William Greider Thoroughly revised with an expanded focus on employee ownership and workplace democracy, Companies We Keep celebrates the idea that when employees share in the rewards as well as the responsibility for the decisions they make, better decisions result. This is an especially timely topic. Most of the baby boomer generation—the owners of millions of American businesses— will retire within the next two decades. Projections call for 750,000 ownership transitions in 2009. Employee ownership is gathering steam as businesses change hands, and Abrams examines some of the many ways this is done. Companies We Keep is structured around eight principles—from “Sharing Ownership” and “Cultivating Workplace Democracy” to “Thinking Like Cathedral Builders” and “Committing to the Business of Place”—that Abrams has discovered in the 32 years since he cofounded South Mountain Company on the island of Martha’s Vineyard. Together, these principles reveal communities of enterprise as a potent force of change that can—and will— improve the way Americans do business. “John Abrams gives entrepreneurs what they really need: proof that $17.95 US, $19.95 CAN • PB sustainable business works.” —Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s 9781603580007 6 x 9 • 352 pages • Photos Previous edition: 9781933392196 Ethical Business ChelseaGreen.com • 802.295.6300

34 Recently Published GAIA’S KITCHEN Vegetarian Recipes for Family and Community, Second Edition Julia Ponsonby Revised and Expanded Updating the first edition—winner of the Gourmand World Cookbook award for best vegetarian cookbook of 2001—the cuisine featured in Gaia’s Kitchen calls on the best of Mediterranean, Californian, Indian, and Mexican vegetarian cooking. It celebrates old favorites rich in cheese and eggs and offers a variety of tempting new vegan dishes using ingredients such as beans, tofu, and tempeh. Besides soups, main courses, and salads, there’s a mouthwatering selection of desserts, breads, cakes, and biscuits. Gaia’s Kitchen also explores the issues of nutrition, special diets, and the ecological dimension of food production. $25.95 US, $28.50 CAN • PB • 9781900322256 • 95/8 x 9 • 224 pages • Full color • GREEN BOOKS Cooking/Vegetarian ORGANIC PLACES TO STAY IN THE UK Second Edition Linda Moss Are you looking for a hotel or bed-and-breakfast that serves organic food? Would you like to stay at a campsite and have organic vegetables delivered? Do you like to have organic food available in your holiday cottage? Do you want to spend your holiday on an organic farm? Organic Places to Stay in the UK gives you all the information you need for an “organic holiday.” • Small hotels, guest houses, and B&Bs offering organic, local, and homegrown produce; • Self-catering accommodation on organic farms, many with Soil Association certification, where you often can buy the farm’s produce or order local organic produce; and • Campsites on organic farms. $22.00 US, $23.95 CAN • PB • 9781900322195 • 6 x 9 • 304 pages • Full color • GREEN BOOKS Travel THE LOCAL FOODS WHEELS 12-inch diameter • Card stock • Rotating dial • Full color • Illustrated Single copy: $12.95 US, $14.50 CAN • 10-copy prepack: $129.95 US, $145.00 CAN Food/Reference Introducing the Local Foods Wheels The Local Foods Wheels are beautifully designed, full-color dials showing which foods are grown locally and when they are in season. The top wheel of each dial shows the foods that are available year-round, and the bottom shows foods that are available only seasonally. As you turn the top wheel, it exposes one season of the bottom wheel at a time, so that you can see what seasonal foods are available in addition to the year-round local foods. At any time of year, the dial shows at a glance the incredible bounty available in the San Francisco Bay or New York City areas. Turn the wheel over and you will find seasonality references arranged alphabetically. This list gives greater detail about when local foods are harvested and available. NEW YORK CITY AREA SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Single copy: 9781603580687 Single copy: 9781603580663 10-copy prepack: 9781603580694 10-copy prepack: 9781603580670 ChelseaGreen.com • 802.295.6300

35 Recently Published RETURNING TO MY MOTHER’S HOUSE Winner of the National Best Books Taking Back the Wisdom of the Feminine 2008 Award for Women’s Issues Gail Straub • Foreword by Christiane Northrup, MD Many years after the premature death of her mother, Gail Straub undertook a period of soul searching and came to believe that, like her mother and so many women of our time, she had overcorrected in the direction of the masculine, her “successful” life of outer accomplish- ment and committed social activism having come at the expense of a rich and satisfying inner life. Her search took her around the globe, where she encountered the longing to retrieve sacred female wisdom among the women she met. Gail’s poetic and heartfelt story is for anyone who has ever struggled to build and sustain an interior life in our driven and fast- paced society—and for mothers and daughters everywhere. “There isn’t a woman alive who won’t be able to relate to this lyrical, poignant, and beautifully written story. Like Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love, Gail’s story will help women gain insight and wisdom that not only will help heal their relationship with their mothers but could, quite frankly, help save their lives! Bless you, Gail, for doing work that heals all of us.” —from the foreword by Christiane Northrup, MD, author of Women's Bodies, $21.95 US, $23.95 CAN • HC Women's Wisdom and Mother-Daughter Wisdom 9780963032751 51/2 x 81/2 • 264 pages Spirituality/Women’s HIGH POINT OPEN SPACES SACRED PLACES As featured in The New York Times, The Stories of How Nature Heals and Unifies Baltimore Sun, and The Washington Post Tom Stoner and Carolyn Rapp Foreword by G. Martin Moeller, Jr. Open Spaces Sacred Places is a book that dramatically demonstrates how nature has the power to heal and unify in our increasingly frenetic 21st-century world. It is a series of inspirational stories told through the voices of “firesouls,” those passionate and persistent people who have brought communities together to create public areas of respite. The book depicts a wide variety of sacred places. These public green spaces are places of peace and refreshment, where people can tap into their own deep wisdom and find an antidote for the stressful, divisive, and isolating effects of life in today’s complex world. “The healing power of nature—so important to physical, mental, and spiritual well-being and so undervalued in contemporary medicine—is the central theme of this wonderful book. The authors show us how people everywhere can work to create public green spaces that soothe and refresh and help heal communities and the world. Open Spaces Sacred $30.00 US, $32.95 CAN • PB with flaps Places is an inspired call to action.” 9780981565606 —Dr. Andrew Weil, best-selling author 9 x 10 • 208 pages • Full color • 200 photos Nature/Meditation TKF FOUNDATION ChelseaGreen.com • 802.295.6300

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