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The Permaculture Handbook

The Permaculture Handbook

Garden Farming for Town and Country

by Peter Bane
foreword by David Holmgren

The urban landscape has swallowed vast swaths of prime farmland across North America. Imagine how much more self-reliant our communities would be if 30 million acres of lawns were made productive again. Permaculture is a practical way to apply …

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Making Home

Making Home

Adapting Our Homes and Our Lives to Settle in Place

Other books tell us how to live the good life -- but you might have to win the lottery to do it. Making Home is about improving life with the real people around us and the resources we already have. While encouraging us to be more resilient in the …

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Winter Gardening in the Maritime Northwest

Winter Gardening in the Maritime Northwest

Cool-Season Crops for the Year-Round Gardener - Fifth Edition

Many gardeners can supply a significant amount of their own food during the plentiful summer harvest. But the key to substantial savings on your food bill is putting fresh, homegrown produce on your table every month of the year. And in the mild, …

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High Steaks

High Steaks

Why and How to Eat Less Meat

Each year the average North American ingests well over 200 pounds of animal protein, and the global appetite for meat has also increased dramatically. But feeding our meat addiction comes at tremendous cost. Maintaining our current level of …

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Sacred Acts

Sacred Acts

How Churches are Working to Protect Earth's Climate

by Mallory McDuff
foreword by Bill McKibben

Stories from across North America of contemporary church leaders, parishioners and religious activists who are working to define a new environmental movement, where honoring the Creator means protecting the planet.

Sacred Acts documents the diverse …

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The Interfaith Alternative

The Interfaith Alternative

Embracing Spiritual Diversity

Whatever your spiritual path, chances are that the primary tenets of your faith include universal love, acceptance and compassion.  Yet three thousand years after Moses, twenty-five hundred years after the Buddha, two thousand years after Jesus and …

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