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Less is More

Less is More

Embracing Simplicity for a Healthy Planet, a Caring Economy and Lasting Happiness

Our obsessive pursuit of wealth isn't working -- people are afraid and anxious; we're destroying the planet, undermining happiness, and clinging to an unsustainable economy.

But there's another way. Less can be More. Throughout history wise people …

related subjects: Sustainable Living
Life Rules

Life Rules

Nature's Blueprint for Surviving Economic and Environmental Collapse

Corporate capitalism has ravaged the planet the way HIV ravages the human body, triggering a Critical Mass of cascading environmental, economic, social and political crises. Economic and climate instability, collapsing ecosystems, peak fossil fuels …

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Life, Money and Illusion

Life, Money and Illusion

Living on Earth as if we want to stay

In recent years, unchecked growth has brought us to the brink of economic and environmental collapse. Life, Money and Illusion was inspired by the dilemma of having an economic structure that has to grow to remain healthy, while facing the finite …

Liquid Gold

Liquid Gold

The Lore and Logic of Using Urine to Grow Plants

Nitrogen pollution of lakes, rivers and oceans by human urine is a growing problem. Liquid Gold shows how urine can safely be used to grow food, fuel, fiber and beautiful landscapes while protecting the environment and providing free and safe …

related subjects: Food and Gardening
The Little Book of Garden Heroes

The Little Book of Garden Heroes

This delightful little book shows how to attract beneficial wildlife and choose useful plants that will help rule out the need for chemicals in the garden. It takes the four basic ingredients that make a successful garden and selects the 'heroes' …

related subjects: Food and Gardening
The Little Book of Slugs

The Little Book of Slugs

The Little Book of Slugs arose out of the Centre for Alternative Technology's Bug-the-Slug campaign. It collects over 70 different organic solutions to the slug problem, distilled from over 300 professional and leisure gardeners. As well as organic …

related subjects: Food and Gardening
Living Green

Living Green

Communities that Sustain

Social issues are, and need to be, a central part of environmental and economic sustainability efforts. Using stories of extraordinary communities across North America, Living Green showcases the social side of living green.

The book features …

related subjects: Community Building
The Long Descent

The Long Descent

A User's Guide to the End of the Industrial Age

Americans are expressing deep concern about US dependence on petroleum, rising energy prices and the threat of climate change. Unlike the energy crisis of the 1970s, however, there is a lurking fear that, now, the times are different and the crisis …

related subjects: Post Carbon Prep / Peak Oil