2010 Spring Catalog

Chelsea Green

Spring/Summer 2010

Cheesemonger 4Terra Madre 0 6Confronting Collapse 7The Earth’s Best Story 8The Biochar Debate 9DIY U 0 10Presidency in Peril 12Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money 0 14Up Tunket Road 15The Gort Cloud 16Chanterelle Dreams and Amanita Nightmares 17Poisoned for Profit 18Living above the Store 19Adobe Homes for All Climates 20Bye Bye, Miss American Empire 21The Farmstead Creamery Advisor 22Radical Homemakers 23How to Make and Use Compost 24

Homes for a Changing Climate 25Building with Straw Bales, Revised Edition 26Earth Pilgrim 27The Handbook of Sustainability Literacy 28The New Food Garden 29Fruit, Berry and Nut Inventory, Fourth Edition 30The Living Landscape 31The Alternative Kitchen Garden 32Through the Eye of a Needle 33Birthrites 34The Woodland House 35Earth User’s Guide to Permaculture 36The Systems Thinking Playbook 37City21 38Cuisine for Whole Health 39Asian Vegetables 40The People v. Bush 41

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CHEESEMONGERA Life on the WedgeGordon Edgar

Witty and irreverent, informative and provocative, Cheesemonger: A Life on the Wedge is thehighly readable story of Gordon Edgar’s unlikely career as a cheesemonger at San Francisco’sworker-owned Rainbow Grocery Cooperative. A former punk-rock political activist, Edgarbluffed his way into his cheese job knowing almost nothing, but quickly discovered a wholeworld of amazing artisan cheeses. There he developed a deep understanding and respect for thestyles, producers, animals, and techniques that go into making great cheese.

With a refreshingly unpretentious sensibility, Edgar intertwines his own life story with hisongoing love affair with cheese, and offers readers an unflinching, highly entertaining on-the-ground look at America’s growing cheese movement. From problem customers to animal rights,business ethics to taste epiphanies, this book offers something for everyone, including cheeseprofiles and recommendations for selecting the very best—not just the most expensive—cheesesfrom the United States and around the world and a look at the struggles dairy farmers face intheir attempts to stay on and make their living from the land.

Edgar—a smart, progressive cheese man with an activist’s edge—enlightens and delights withhis view of the world from behind the cheese counter and his appreciation for the skill and tra-dition that go into a good wedge of Morbier.

Cheesemonger is the first book of its kind—a cheese memoir with attitude and information thatwill appeal to everyone from serious foodies to urban food activists.

A politically charged walk through the world of artisan cheese.

“Smart, compassionate, and fun to read, Cheesemonger took me by surprise!Who would expect the memoir of a cheese man to be so fascinating, playful,and refreshing? It’s great to hear a voice on food from the punk route, andGordon Edgar brings a fresh and important perspective that we could all usefor hand-made foods . . . and the people who buy them.” —Deborah Madison, author of Local Flavors: Cooking and Eating fromAmerica’s Farmers’ Markets and What We Eat When We Eat Alone

Chelsea Green March 2010Food • Memoir

“If you think culture applies only to transforming milk into cheese, then readthis book! Gordon Edgar takes you on an irreverent journey through history,punk music, lust, food politics, and daily challenges faced by small-scalefarmers and co-op retailers. He simultaneously demystifies cheese whilewrestling with the myths and contradictions of the global food system. He willmake you laugh, cry, and debate him!”—Jeffrey Roberts, author of The Atlas of American Artisan Cheese

Gordon Edgar is the cheesemonger forRainbow Grocery Cooperative, SanFrancisco’s biggest independent gro-cery and the country’s largest retailworker co-op. He has been a panelistand judge at numerous industry cheeseevents, helps organize national andregional worker–co-op conferences andregional cheese conferences, andserves on the board for the CaliforniaArtisan Cheese Guild. He has writtenfor HipMama.com, Clamor Magazine,and MaximumRocknRoll and blogs atgordonzola.livejournal.com andwww.gordonzola.net.

• Pub Date March 2010• $17.95 US, $21.95 CAN • Paper• ISBN 9781603582377• 6 x 9 • 256 pages• Food/Memoir• World English Rights

• Also Available as an e-book



From the book . . .

The moment in which I learned the most took place in the walk-in cooler where I wasdoing my volunteer work. Most of my day was spent organizing cheese for the cheese competition. I wasteamed with another cheese punk, the only other person I know with a cheese tattoo. Fate brought us together.Or at least the promise of cheaper out-of-pocket expenses.

He’d been a cheese buyer longer than I had and referred to himself as a “cheesemonger.” “Tommy, how do youdefine ‘cheesemonger’?” I asked.

During the course of the day we hashed out the definition and connotations. Obviously, cheesemonger was a title that meant “one who buys and sells cheese.” We both liked the history associated with theword “monger.” Fishmonger, warmonger, whoremonger, etc. Clearly it was a serioustitle, and one to be earned.

Cheese lovers sometimes get confused and call themselves cheesemongers. I try to be understanding. Afterall, who wants to be called a “turophile?” It sounds like you have a fetish for molesting out-of-town visitors.

Unfortunately, sometimes I’ve heard cheese workers use the title “cheesemonger” after they’ve been at thejob for about five minutes. In doing so, they ignite in me a visceral distrust. Policing this definition cuts bothways, and I’m sure some folks would question how appropriate it was that I applied the term to myself. Andwhile my new cheesepunk friend and I talked about the definition and what years of experience, gross sales, andratio of factory-to-artisan cheese should be required, he had a few additional rules.

“You can’t call yourself a cheesemonger unless you’ve killed a rat in the walk-in cooler, kicked a sales rep out of yourstore, and bled from a cheese wound,” Tommy declared.

We argued about the rat qualification both on humane grounds and basedon the fact that his urban store might have been in the food business for100 years, but mine had just been a St. Vincent De Paul Thrift Store andMack Truck showroom before recently becoming a grocery store. I had hadno opportunity for that kind of vermin killing. That I had killed manydefenseless animals in my hunting-oriented youth convinced Tommy to giveme a pass on that qualification. My dad was right: Those freezing pre-dawnmornings spent up to my waist in ice-cold water putting out duck decoysreally did pay off.

I never saw Tommy again, but his words have guided me ever since.


TERRA MADREForging a New Global Network of Sustainable Food CommunitiesCarlo Petrini, Founder and President of Slow FoodForeword by Alice Waters

Industrial agriculture took over the world. Now Terra Madre is taking it back.

Chelsea Green March 2010Gardening • Agriculture

Carlo Petrini, born in the small north-ern Italian town of Bra in 1949, is thefounder and international presidentof the Slow Food movement, commit-ted to the promotion of “good, cleanand fair food.” The author of severalbooks, he contributes regularly toItalian dailies and magazines on mat-ters related to gastronomy and foodpolitics. To write Terra Madre, he col-laborated closely with CarloBogliotti, an editor of the Slowfoodmagazine and governor of the SlowFood Italy association.

• Pub Date March 2010• $20.00 US, $25.00 CAN • Paper• ISBN 9781603582636• 51/2 x 71/2 • 208 pages• Gardening/Agriculture • North American Rights


More than twenty years ago, when Italian Carlo Petrini learned that McDonald’s wanted to erectits golden arches next to the Spanish Steps in Rome, he developed an impassioned response: hehelped found the Slow Food movement. Since then, Slow Food has become a worldwide phe-nomenon, inspiring the likes of Alice Waters and Michael Pollan. Now, it’s time to take the workof changing the way people grow, distribute, and consume food to a new level.

On a global scale, as Petrini tells us in Terra Madre, we aren’t eating food. Food is eating us.

Large-scale industrial agriculture has run rampant and penetrated every corner of the world. Theprice of food is fixed by the rules of the market, which have neither concern for quality norrespect for producers. People have been forced into standardized, unnatural diets, and aggressive,chemical-based agriculture is ravaging ecosystems from the Great Plains to the Kalahari. Food hasbeen stripped of its meaning, reduced to a mere commodity, and its mass production is contribut-ing to injustice all over the world.

In Terra Madre, Petrini shows us a solution in the thousands of newly formed local alliancesbetween food producers and food consumers. And he proposes expanding these alliances—con-necting regional food communities around the world to promote good, clean, and fair food.

The end goal is a world in which communities are entitled to food sovereignty—allowed tochoose not only what they want to grow and eat, but also how they produce and distribute it.

Terra Madre People presents thefarmers, breeders, fishermen, cooks, stu-dents, and academics at the Terra Madre2008 meeting who actively support local,sustainable food production and thepreservation of taste and biodiversity.

• Pub Date March 2010• $10.00 • DVD ISBN 9781603582780• $25.00 • Book/DVD set

ISBN 9781603582841• Runtime 16:06 minutes

This colorful 16-minute video captures theTerra Madre gathering of world food communi-ties in Turin, Italy in October 2008 and featuresinterviews with Terra Madre delegates from allover the world. The video also includes clips offood producers and their projects in their nativecountries, as well as interviews with ChelseaGreen authors Sandor Katz and Carlo Petrini.

This DVD is the perfect complement to thebook and clearly illustrates what Terra Madre(the event and the network) is all about,through the faces of the world’s farmers, fisher-men, and other food producers.


CONFRONTING COLLAPSEThe Crisis of Energy and Money in a Post Peak Oil WorldA 25-Point Program for ActionMichael C. RuppertForeword by Colin Campbell, Ph. D.

The world is running short of energy – especially cheap,easy-to-find oil. Shortages, along with resulting priceincreases, threaten industrialized civilization, the globaleconomy, and our entire way of life.

Chelsea Green January 2010Politics • Energy

In Confronting Collapse, author Michael P. Ruppert, a former LAPD narcotics officer turnedinvestigative journalist, details the intricate connections between money and energy, including the ways in which oil shortages and price spikes triggered the economic crash that began inSeptember 2008. Given the 96 percent correlation between economic growth and greenhouse gasemissions and the unliklihood of economic growth without a spike in energy use, Ruppert arguesthat we are not, in fact, on the verge of economic recovery, but on the verge of complete collapse.

Ruppert’s truth is not merely inconvenient. It is utterly devastating.

But there is still hope. Ruppert outlines a 25-point plan of action, including the creation of asecond strategic petroleum reserve for the use of state and local governments, the immediateimplementation of a national Feed-in Tariff mandating that electric utilities pay 3 percent abovemarket rates for all surplus electricity generated from renewable sources, a thorough assessmentof soil conditions nationwide, and an emergency action plan for soil restoration and sustainableagriculture.

“Mike Ruppert has an unblemished track record for saying things that areincendiary, outrageous, shocking—and true. Our new president needs desperately to hear the uncomfortable message of this book about energyand the economy, and so do the rest of us.” —Richard Heinberg, Ph.D., author of The Party’s Over, Peak Everything, TheOil Depletion Protocol and senior fellow, Post Carbon Institute

“Mike Ruppert has been at the forefront of speaking and writing about thegrim reality that the world's crude oil output is peaking or has alreadypeaked and will soon begin what could be swift declines over the nextdecade or two. The world needs to pay careful attention to the multiple risksthis event will usher in. Thanks to Ruppert's new book, readers around theworld will have access to his well written work.”—Matthew R. Simmons, Chairman - Simmons & Company

Michael C. Ruppert is a former LosAngeles Police Department narcoticsinvestigator turned investigative journal-ist. He is the author of Crossing theRubicon: The Decline of the AmericanEmpire at the End of the Age of Oil,and the founder of the online newsletterFrom the Wilderness. He currently livesin Los Angeles.

• Pub Date January 2010• $15.00 US, $17.95 CAN • Paper• ISBN 9781603582643• 53/8 x 83/8 • 256 pages • Charts & graphs• Politics/Energy• World Rights

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THE EARTH’S BEST STORY A Bittersweet Tale of Twin Brothers Who Sparked an Organic RevolutionRon and Arnie Koss

Changing the world isn’t easy, but it can be done.


The Earth’s Best Story tells how Ron and Arnie Koss succeeded in creating the first nationally distributed organic foods company to sit next to its mainstream competition on supermarketshelves—a step that revolutionized and empowered the organic-foods movement as a whole—and benefited hundreds of farmers as well as the millions of babies whose very first foods havebeen organically grown, thanks to Earth’s Best.

The Koss brothers, Ron and Arnie, had been sprout growers, broommakers, tool restorers, but-lers, and natural-foods clerks, yet raised millions of dollars to start the first organic baby foodcompany in the United States. How unlikely was that?

The Earth’s Best Story is a bittersweet tale about the founding of Earth’s Best Baby Foods twenty-five years ago. Told through the dual narrative of each brother, this is not a business tome,although it is rich in entrepreneurial lessons and know-how. Rather, it’s more like a “how to,”“how not to,” and “how they did it” memoir. It’s personal, it’s intense, it’s inspirational, and it’sfull of reflections and tales of wonder and woe.

People of every imaginable background and station in life want to make a difference with theirlives. But how do you effectively do that? How does an idea successfully journey across thewastelands separating fantasy and reality? The Koss brothers take the reader on this journey.Theirs is a tale of idealism, naiveté, and possibility that reflects the quest to find a place in thisworld by somehow changing it for the better.

Ron and Arnie Koss founded Earth’s Best Baby Food in 1985. In addition to baby food, Ron Kossis a natural foods product innovator. During his long-term employ with the aio Food Group, Ronhas secured patents for his work on complete meal supplement ice cream and has also introducedspecialized complete meal supplements for people in health recovery situations. Presently, he isworking on nutritional products for a global relief aid project. Ron enjoys working as a consultantfor socially responsible enterprises and has a special interest in group dynamics, organizationaldevelopment, and conflict resolution. He lives in Montpelier, Vermont, with his family.

Arnie Koss honed his business skills by founding and operating a number of small entrepreneurialcompanies in Vermont. He was actively involved in the development of organic certification stan-dards, which eventually led to the Organic Foods Act of 1990. Arnie has served as a consultantto several prominent natural products companies and is presently the Managing Partner at aioFood Group, a Hawaii-based product development company that has created patented nutritionalsupplement products and also owns the Punalu'u Bakeshop and Visitor Center on the Big Island ofHawaii. He lives in Kula, Hawaii, with his family.

• Pub Date March 2010• $19.95 US, $24.95 CAN • Paperback• ISBN 9781603582391• 6 x 9 • 384 pages• Food/Memoir• World Rights


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THE BIOCHAR DEBATECharcoal’s Potential to Reverse Climate Change and Build Soil FertilityJames Bruges

The Biochar Debate is the first book to introduce both the promise and concerns surroundingbiochar (fine-grained charcoal used as a soil supplement) to nonspecialists. Charcoal making isan ancient technology. Recent discoveries suggest it may have a surprising role to play in com-bating global warming. This is because creating and burying biochar removes carbon dioxidefrom the atmosphere. Furthermore, adding biochar to soil can increase the yield of food cropsand the ability of soil to retain moisture, reducing need for synthetic fertilizers and demands onscarce fresh-water supplies.

While explaining the excitement of biochar proponents, Bruges also gives voice to critics whoargue that opening biochar production and use to global carbon-credit trading schemes couldhave disastrous outcomes, especially for the world’s poorest people. The solution, Brugesexplains, is to promote biochar through an alternative approach called the Carbon MaintenanceFee that avoids the dangers. This would establish positive incentives for businesses, farmers, andindividuals to responsibly adopt biochar without threatening poor communities with displace-ment by foreign investors seeking to profit through seizure of cheap land.

The Biochar Debate covers the essential issues from experimental and scientific aspects ofbiochar in the context of global warming to fairness and efficiency in the global economy tonegotiations for the future of the Kyoto Protocol.

Real hope for dealing with global warming while enhancing agricultural yields.

James Bruges worked as an architect inLondon, Sudan, and India until 1995when he retired in order to write abouteconomic and environmental issues. Heis the author of Sustainability and theBristol Urban Village Initiative, The LittleEarth Book, and The Big Earth Book,and was a contributor to What AboutChina? His work has also appeared inResurgence, The Friend, and TheEcologist. He was raised in Kashmir untilthe age of twelve and now lives with hiswife, Marion, in Bristol, England.

“What we need is a charcoal maker on every farm so the farmer can turn hiswaste into carbon . . . We have to grow food, so why not help Gaia do thejob of CO2 removal for us?” —James Lovelock, originator of Gaia theory

“Bruges’ book is up to date and as comprehensive as any book could be atthis extremely early stage of interest in the issue.” —Dennis Meadows, coauthor of Limits to Growth

• Pub Date March 2010• $14.95 US, $17.95 CAN • Paper• ISBN 9781603582551• 51/2 x 81/2 • 128 pages • Color photos• Nature/Environment• North American Rights


“The Biochar Debate is an intelligent and even-handed look at the potential forboth improving soil and addressing global warming offered by the decentral-ized production and use of biochar. The potential pitfalls and unknowns areclearly acknowledged—this is not another faddish silver bullet approach, butoffers some real world examples and practical ideas that anyone can use.” —Grace Gershuny, author of The Soul of Soil

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Chelsea Green April 2010Current Events • Education

DIY UEdupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher EducationAnya Kamenetz

The case against college, and for education.

• Pub Date April 2010• $14.95 US, $17.95 CAN • Paper• ISBN 9781603582346• 53/8 x 83/8 • 208 pages• Current Events/Education


Anya Kamenetz is a staff writer for FastCompany magazine. The Village Voicenominated her for a Pulitzer Prize forcontributions to the feature seriesGeneration Debt, which became a bookin 2006. She has written for the NewYork Times, appeared on CNN andNational Public Radio, and been fea-tured as a “Yahoo Finance Expert.” Afrequent speaker nationwide, Kamenetzblogs at Fastcompany.com, TheHuffington Post, andanyakamenetz.blogspot.com. She livesin Brooklyn with her husband.

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The price of college tuition has increased more than any other major good or service for the lasttwenty years. Nine out of ten American high school seniors aspire to go to college, yet the UnitedStates has fallen from world leader to only the tenth most educated nation. Almost half of collegestudents don’t graduate; those who do have unprecedented levels of federal and private student-loan debt, which constitutes a credit bubble similar to the mortgage crisis.

The system particularly fails the first-generation, the low-income, and students of color whopredominate in coming generations. What we need to know is changing more quickly thanever, and a rising tide of information threatens to swamp knowledge and wisdom. America can-not regain its economic and cultural leadership with an increasingly ignorant population. Ourchoice is clear: Radically change the way higher education is delivered, or resign ourselves tonever having enough of it.

The roots of the words “university” and “college” both mean community. In the age of constantconnectedness and social media, it’s time for the monolithic, millennium-old, ivy-covered wallsto undergo a phase change into something much lighter, more permeable, and fluid.

The future lies in personal learning networks and paths, learning that blends experiential anddigital approaches, and free and open-source educational models. Increasingly, you will decidewhat, when, where, and with whom you want to learn, and you will learn by doing. The univer-sity is the cathedral of modernity and rationality, and with our whole civilization in crisis, we arepoised on the brink of Reformation.

“A huge talent.” —Stephen J. Dubner, coauthor, Freakonomics

“Turning public policy into a page-turner isn’t easy, but Kamenetz has done just that. We all need to read this brilliant book.” —–Laurence J. Kotlikoff, coauthor, The Coming Generational Storm

Praise for Anya Kamenetz and her previous book, Generation Debt:

“Surprisingly balanced [and] dead-on.” —–The Cleveland Plain Dealer

“Bold and thought-provoking.” —–Los Angeles Times

“Anya Kamenetz brilliantly reveals the illogic and wasteful inequities ofAmerica's blind faith in higher education. Her book will be devastating forolder people who still believe one more graduate degree is the road to per-sonal success and a prosperous economy. Younger people will feel relief thatsomeone has finally told the truth about their predicament. Kamenetz offersa radically different way to think about the future and she gives young peo-ple a more rational and promising way to think about theirs.”—–William Greider, author of Come Home, America: The Rise and Fall (andRedeeming Promise) of Our Country, and National Affairs Correspondentfor The Nation


Chelsea Green April 2010Current Events • Education

Q&A with Anya Kamenetz

Who, really, are Edupunks and Edupreneurs, and are they on the fringe of education orreally in the thick of it at well-respected, already-established universities?

AK: There is a large establishment within higher education that wants to preserve the status quo at all cost, buta growing number understand the dire need for change. Among the folks who are alive to this need, there is anemerging dichotomy between those who see the need for change as an economic opportunity and those whosee it as an opportunity to instantiate free, open, networked education.

Edupunks are determined that knowledge and learning should be free and open. They want to smash the tradi-tional hierarchies of education and let learners control what, when, where, and how they learn. They’re commit-ted to open-source technology and open licensing of creative work. They believe in the power of networks andcommunities.

Edupreneurs want to harness some of the same technologies to create new, for-profit business models thatreshape or replace existing educational institutions.

Everyone is madly trying to figure out models to make the brave new world of education sustainable and effi-cient. Both the edupunks and the edupreneurs have something important to contribute to this process, just asthe Mozilla Foundation, the nonprofit that produces the open-source browser Firefox, can do its thing along-side Google, a public company. Advocates and innovators of all stripes are actively changing the system, frommajor universities, to governments and the UN, to venture-capital firms, to complete outsiders.

How soon do you see the fall of traditional higher education, or at least their giving way tomore technology-driven, open-source models?

AK: These changes are underway. The higher-ed landscape will be virtually unrecognizable within ten years asmore and more people discover alternatives to the tuition cost spiral, not to mention the time, space, and otherlimitations of the “old-school” models.

What made you want to write about this, as the daughter of professors, and a Yalegraduate?

AK: As my background indicates, I’m a partisan of the traditional liberal arts and higher education as a whole.My concern is how the world can satisfy its growing thirst for knowledge—and how America, which has fallenbehind, can catch up.

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A PRESIDENCY IN PERIL

New York Times Bestselling Author of Obama’s Challenge

R o b e rt K u t t n e r

THE INSIDE STORY OF OBAMA’S PROMISE,

WALL STREET’S POWER, AND THE STRUGGLE

TO CONTROL OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE

A PRESIDENCY IN PERILThe Inside Story of Obama's Promise, Wall Street's Power, and theStruggle to Control our Economic FutureRobert Kuttner

• Pub Date April 2010• $25.00 US, $27.50 CAN • Hardcover• ISBN 9781603582704• 6 x 9 • 288 pages• Index• Politics/Economics• World Rights

When Barack Obama took office in January 2009, he had an unprecedented chance to do whatno other recent president could: seize the nation’s financial reins from the corporate elite andreturn them to the American people. Progressives everywhere held out hope that their newleader would take advantage of the economic crisis he stepped into and enact bold policies thatwould evoke real financial reforms—putting Main Street in front of Wall Street, at last.

But that, writes Robert Kuttner, is not the way things turned out. Instead, America’s bestchance for radical financial reform turned into Wall Street’s greatest victory. Obama filled hisadministration with allies of financial elites who were more interested in business as usual thanin transformative change. As a consequence, Main Street remained mired in deep recession.Instead of being the instrument of economic renewal, Obama became the target of economicfrustration.

In this hard-hitting, incisive account, Kuttner shares his unique, insider view of how theObama administration not only missed its moment to turn our economy around—but deep-ened Wall Street’s risky grip on America’s future. Carefully constructing a one-year history ofthe problem, the players, and the outcome, Kuttner gives readers an unparalleled account of thepresident’s first year.

More importantly, Kuttner shows how we could—with swift, decisive action—still enact realreforms, and how Barack Obama could redeem his promise.

This is a book not to be missed by anyone who wants to understand exactly how Wall Streetwon, and how Main Street can still fight back.

From the author of the New York Timesbest-seller, Obama’s Challenge

Robert Kuttner is the author of theNew York Times best-seller Obama’sChallenge: America’s EconomicCrisis and the Power of aTransformative Presidency and sever-al other books on politics and theeconomy. He is cofounder and coedi-tor of The American Prospect maga-zine and a distinguished senior fel-low at the progressive think tankDemos. He was a longtime columnistfor BusinessWeek and continues towrite columns in the Boston Globe. Aregular commentator on TV andradio, Kuttner also blogs frequentlyon how America can harness capital-ism to serve a broad public interest.

AprilPolitics & Social Justice

“Obama's Challenge is the fruit of Bob Kuttner's lifetime of engagé report-ing, analysis, and advocacy . . . it is riveting, brilliant, and persuasive.Kuttner, in concise chapters written with great vigor and clarity, shows whatthe change could look like if Obama is bold enough to go for it and the godscontinue to smile on him.” —Hendrik Hertzberg, from his New Yorker blog

Praise for Robert Kuttner and his previous book, Obama's Challenge:

“Robert Kuttner has incisively captured the political moment, underscoredby the deepening economic crisis. Lucidly and passionately, he lays out thehurdles facing an Obama presidency and challenges him to seize themoment and achieve greatness by redeeming the promise of America.”—–Arianna Huffington, cofounder and editor-in-chief, The Huffington Post

“[Kuttner's] thoughtful, hopeful and apprehensive book is a particularlyvaluable guide to what the progressive left hopes to see in the Obamapresidency.” —–New York Times Sunday Book Review

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AprilPolitics & Social Justice

From A Presidency in PerilDare we still hope that Obama will yet deliver change we can believe in? The quiet desperation of millionsof Americans is not being well articulated, much less remedied, by either party. But at the rate events areunfolding, the economic unease will increasingly be defined and articulated by the Republican right. Thecrucial question is whether Obama himself has been so totally captured by the financial elite that his pathis now irreversible.

It has become a cliché among pundits that the Democratic Party is hamstrung by interest groups.Commentators usually have in mind groups that are actually fairly weak politically––blacks, Hispanics,gays, feminists, schoolteachers, trade unionists. Politicians who propitiate these groups are accused of pan-dering. The fact that the most powerful interest group of them all, the financial industry, seldom makesthe list, is testament to its quiet power. Princeton University political scientist Larry Bartels observes, “Inthe 1930s and 1940s, Democrats went as far as the South would let them go. Since the 1990s, they’vegone as far as Wall Street will let them go.” That power structure needs to be dislodged before real reformcan proceed.

In principle, Obama is free to toss out his top aides and bring in a new team. Bill Clinton repeatedly shuf-fled his advisors. So did Lincoln. But, as we shall see, the threads that link Obama’s political aides to hisWall Street–dominated group of top economic advisers will not be easily sundered. The addiction of thisadministration to flows of Wall Street’s political money reinforces the impulse to go easy on the financialindustry. Obama’s style is to delegate and to proceed with extreme caution. To shift course and lead a dif-ferent economic team with drastically different views and goals, Obama would have to grow immensely inoffice.

It is, of course, too early for a definitive judgment. History reminds us that Lincoln, in mid-1862, was fac-ing a bleak military and political landscape. His peers considered him a failure. His greatness came later.John Kennedy, judged a year and a half into his term, looked like a pretty disappointing president, too.Often, wisdom ripens with experience––and Obama is nothing if not a learner.

Sometimes, however, leaders fail to seize moments pregnant with possibility. Sometimes, to invert a much-loved verse of the poet Seamus Heaney, hope and history don’t rhyme. The British historian A.J.P. Taylor,referring to the revolutionary year 1848, when nationalist revolutions in central Europe seeking self-deter-mination and liberal democracy were all aborted, memorably characterized the events as a turning point ofhistory on which history failed to turn. We will soon learn whether our own era is such a time.

In Obama’s fateful first year, there was a road not taken, a possible road to radical financial reform, broadprosperity, and the mobilization of an appreciative citizenry. This book explains how the key decisionsunfolded, the stakes, and the alternatives, as we look forward to the second half of Obama’s term. There isstill time for him to redeem his presidency. But that time is fast running out.


INQUIRIES INTO THE NATURE OF SLOW MONEYInvesting as if Food, Farms, and Fertility MatteredWoody TaschForeword by Carlo Petrini

A call to bring money back down to earth.

Chelsea Green April 2010Sustainable Business

Woody Tasch is president of the newlyformed NGO Slow Money andChairman Emeritus of Investors’ Circle,a nonprofit network of angel investors,venture capitalists, foundations, andfamily offices that, since 1992, hasfacilitated the flow of $130 million to200 early-stage companies and ven-ture funds dedicated to sustainability.He lives in northern New Mexico. Forinformation about Slow Money pleasevisit www.slowmoneyalliance.org.

Could there ever be an alternative stock exchange dedicated to slow, small, and local? Could amillion American families get their food from CSAs? What if you had to invest 50 percent ofyour assets within 50 miles of where you live?

Such questions—at the heart of slow money—represent the first steps on our path to a neweconomy.

Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money presents an essential new strategy for investing in localfood systems and introduces a group of fiduciary activists who are exploring what should comeafter industrial finance and industrial agriculture. Theirs is a vision for investing that puts soilfertility into return-on-investment calculations and serves people and place as much at it servesindustry sectors and markets.

Leading the charge is Woody Tasch—whose decades of work as a venture capitalist, foundationtreasurer, and entrepreneur now shed new light on a truer, more beautiful, more prudent kind offiduciary responsibility. He offers an alternative vision to the dusty old industrial concepts of thenineteenth and twentieth centuries when dollars, and the businesses they financed, lost theirconnection to place; slow money, on the other hand, is firmly rooted in the new economic,social, and environmental realities of the 21st century.

Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money is a call to action for designing capital markets builtaround not extraction and consumption but preservation and restoration.

Is it a movement or is it an investment strategy? Yes.

“It goes along with Small Is Beautiful on my ‘books that matter’ shelf.” —Joan Dye Gussow, Professor Emeritus, Columbia University, and author, ThisOrganic Life

“The promise of Slow Money gives us all hope that the post-financial-meltdowneconomy will be much more grounded in local, community-based, mission-posi-tive enterprises.”—Rian Fried, President, Clean Yield Asset Management

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• Pub Date April 2010• $15.95 US, $19.95 CAN • Paper• ISBN 9781603582544

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“This book is an essential read for anyone who is concerned about the humancondition and our planet. Few have taken the idea of walking your talk thismuch to its essence: all the way to where money meets the earth, so that wecan begin to build a truly healthy economy.”—Mark Finser, Chair of the Board, RSF Social Finance


UP TUNKET ROADThe Education of a Modern HomesteaderPhilip Ackerman-LeistIllustrations by Erin Ackerman-Leist

Simple living has never been so complicated.

Chelsea Green June 2010Sustainable Living

Philip Ackerman-Leist and his wife,Erin, farmed in the South Tirol region ofthe Alps and North Carolina beforebeginning their twelve-year home-steading venture in Pawlet, Vermont.Ackerman-Leist is a professor at GreenMountain College, where he estab-lished the college farm and sustainableagriculture curriculum and is Director ofthe Green Mountain College Farm &Food Project.

Ever since Thoreau’s Walden, the image of the American homesteader has been of someone get-ting away from civilization, of forging an independent life in the country. Yet if this were evertrue, what is the nature and reality of homesteading in the media-saturated, hyper-connected21st century?

For seven years Philip Ackerman-Leist and his wife, Erin, lived without electricity or running waterin an old cabin in the beautiful but remote hills of western New England. Slowly forging their ownfarm and homestead, they took inspiration from their experiences among the mountain farmers ofthe Tirolean Alps and were guided by their Vermont neighbors, who taught them about what ittruly means to live sustainably in the postmodern homestead—not only to survive, but to thrive ina fragmented landscape and a fractured economy.

Up Tunket Road is the inspiring true story of a young couple who embraced the joys of simpleliving while also acknowledging its frustrations and complexities. Ackerman-Leist writes withhumor about the inevitable foibles of setting up life off the grid—from hauling frozen laundryuphill to getting locked in the henhouse by their ox. But he also weaves an instructive narrativethat contemplates the future of simple living. His is not a how-to guide, but something muchricher and more important—a tale of discovery that will resonate with readers who yearn for abetter, more meaningful life, whether they live in the city, country, or somewhere in between.

• Pub Date June 2010• $17.95 US, $21.95 CAN • Paper• ISBN 9781603580335• 6 x 9 • 272 pages • Illustrations• Sustainable Living• World Rights



Chelsea Green June 2010Sustainable Business

THE GORT CLOUDThe Invisible Force Powering Today’s Most Visible Green BrandsRichard Seireeni

Exploring the networks that make or break green brands.

“Green” has gone mainstream and, for many companies, caring for the environment is not just aphilosophy, it’s a marketing strategy. So how does a company that’s genuinely committed togreen principles differentiate itself from its greenwashing competitors?

Brand expert Richard Seireeni interviewed more than thirty eco-capitalists from a broad rangeof industries—home improvement, transportation, household products, food and beverage,energy, real estate, finance, and fashion. The collective experiences of leaders like GaryHirshberg of Stonyfield Farms, Jeffrey Hollender of Seventh Generation, and the grandsons ofsoapmaker Dr. Bronner provide a rich source of wisdom for green businesses getting off theground or for any business aiming to improve its environmental performance.

Seireeni shows how green entrepreneurs leveraged their brands by successfully navigating the “GortCloud”—a term coined by the author to describe the vast and largely invisible network of NGOs,trendspotters, advocacy groups, social networks, business alliances, certifying organizations, andother members of the green community that have the power to make or break new green brands.

Integrating the Gort Cloud into brand development and marketing strategies is critical to the successof any aspiring green brand. Creating a cause, building credibility, developing a simple and com-pelling message, identifying core customers and sales channels, deftly playing the green alternativemedia, and fending off second-to-market competitors are all required to build a green brand.

How these skills are put into practice will vary for each business, but Seireeni’s research pointstoward a set of shared characteristics and basic tenets that every business can use to build a credibleand successful green brand.

• Pub Date June 2010• $19.95 US, $24.95 CAN • Paper• ISBN 9781603582520

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Richard Seireeni is a thirty-year veteranin brand consulting and marketing. Hehas been art director of Rolling Stonemagazine, creative director of WarnerBros. Records, and co-creative directorof Enterprise IG, New York. He isfounder of The Brand Architect Group in Los Angeles, with affiliated offices inTokyo and Shanghai. He graduatedfrom the Univ. of Washington School of Architecture and is a member of theU.S. Green Building Council. He lives in LA with his wife and two children. For more information, visitwww.TheGortCloud.com.

“This is one of the best green marketing and branding books written lately, providing not only a clear view about the past and the present of the greeneconomy, but also valuable lessons to its future.” —Eco-Libris

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Chelsea Green May 2010Food

CHANTERELLE DREAMS AND AMANITA NIGHTMARESThe Love, Lore, and Mystique of MushroomsGreg Marley

Dispatches from a Mycophile.

• Pub Date May 2010• $17.95 US, $21.95 CAN • Paper• ISBN 9781603582148• 6 x 9 • 272 pages • Illustrations• Food• World Rights


Greg Marley has a passion for mush-rooms that dates to 1971, the year heleft his native New Mexico and spent thesummer in the verdant woods of centralNew York. Since then, he has becomean avid student and teacher of mycolo-gy, as well as a mushroom identificationconsultant to the Northern New EnglandPoison Control Center and owner ofMushrooms for Health, a company thatprovides education and products madewith Maine medicinal mushrooms.Marley is the author of Mushrooms forHealth: Medical Secrets of NortheasternFungi. He lives and mushrooms inRockland, Maine.

Throughout history, people have had a complex and confusing relationship with mushrooms.Are fungi food or medicine, beneficial decomposers or deadly “toadstools” ready to kill anyonefoolhardy enough to eat them? In fact, there is truth in all these statements. In ChanterelleDreams and Amanita Nightmares, author Greg Marley reveals some of the wonders and myster-ies of mushrooms, and our conflicting human reactions to them.

With tales from around the world, Marley, a seasoned mushroom expert, explains that some cul-tures are mycophilic (mushroom-loving), like those of Russia and Eastern Europe, while others areintensely mycophobic (mushroom-fearing), including the US. He shares stories from China, Japan,and Korea—where mushrooms are interwoven into the fabric of daily life as food, medicine, fable,and folklore—and from Slavic countries where whole families leave villages and cities during rainyperiods of the late summer and fall and traipse into the forests for mushroom-collecting excursions.

From the famous Amanita phalloides (aka “the Death Cap”), reputed killer of Emperor Claudius inthe first century AD, to the beloved chanterelle (cantharellus cibarius) known by at least eighty-ninedifferent common names in almost twenty-five languages, Chanterelle Dreams and AmanitaNightmares explores the ways that mushrooms have shaped societies all over the globe.

This fascinating and fresh look at mushrooms—their natural history, their uses and abuses,their pleasures and dangers—is a splendid introduction to both fungi themselves and to ourhuman fascination with them. From useful descriptions of the most foolproof edible species torevealing stories about hallucinogenic or poisonous, yet often beautiful, fungi, Marley’s longand passionate experience will inform and inspire readers with the stories of these dark andmysterious denizens of our forest floor.


POISONED FOR PROFITHow Toxins Are Making Our Children Chronically IllPhilip and Alice Shabecoff

Why is one of every three American children sick?

In a landmark investigation that’s been compared to Silent Spring, two veteran journalists defini-tively show how, why, and where industrial toxins are causing rates of birth defects, asthma, cancer,and other serious illnesses to soar in children. Philip and Alice Shabecoff reveal that the children ofbaby boomers—the first to be raised in a truly toxified world—are the first generation to be sickerand have shorter life expectancies than their parents. The culprits, they say, are the companies thatprofit from producing, using, and selling toxics.

In piercing case histories, the authors bring readers to places like Dickson, Tennessee, wherebabies were born with cleft lips and palates after landfill chemicals seeped into the water, and PortNeches, Texas, where so many graduates of a high school near synthetic rubber and chemicalplants contracted cancer that the school was nicknamed “Leukemia High.”

And they ask a razor-sharp question: Just why are we letting corporations commit these crimesagainst our children, sabotage investigations and regulations, hire scientists to skew data ontoxic impacts, and fend off government controls with powerful lobbying groups?

It’s time, they say, for families and the health and environmental communities to fight back, andtheir painstakingly researched book shows how people are taking action across the country—frompressuring politicians and investigating sickness clusters in their regions to ridding their own homesof countless toxic products like crib mattresses infused with dangerous flame retardants or teethingrings steeped in harmful chemicals.

Powerful, unflinching, and eminently readable, Poisoned for Profit is a wake-up call that isbound to inspire talk and force change.

• Pub Date May 2010• $17.95 US, $21.95 CAN • Paper• ISBN 9781603582568• 6 x 9 • 368 pages• Health/Environment• Paperback Rights

Chelsea Green May 2010Health • Environment

Philip Shabecoff was the chief environmental correspondent for the New York Times for fourteen of the thirty-twoyears he worked there as a reporter. After leaving the Times, he founded and published Greenwire, an onlinedaily digest of environmental news. He has appeared on Meet the Press, Face the Nation, Washington Week inReview, CNN News, C-Span, National Public Radio, and the BBC. For his environmental writing, Shabecoff wasselected as one of the Global 500 by the United Nations Environment Programme. He received the JamesMadison Award from the American Library Association for leadership in expanding the public’s right to know. His previous books include A Fierce Green Fire: A History of the American Environmental Movement.

“Brilliant. Every parent in America owes a debt of gratitude to Philip and AliceShabecoff. [Poisoned for Profit] should be high on the . . . President’s reading list.”—Barry Commoner

“Powerful reporting backing powerful conclusions—it will make those of us withkids shudder, but hopefully it will also make us get out of our chairs andengage in the politics necessary to protect the future.”—–Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy and The End of Nature

Alice Shabecoff is a freelance journalistfocusing on family and consumer topics.Her work has appeared in the NewYork Times, Washington Post, ChristianScience Monitor, and InternationalHerald Tribune, among other publica-tions. She was executive director of theNational Consumers League, the coun-try’s oldest consumer organization, andexecutive director of the national non-profit Community Information Exchange. Her previous books include A Guide toCareers in Community Development.


LIVING ABOVE THE STOREBuilding a Business That Creates Value, Inspires Change, and Restores Land and CommunityMartin MelaverForeword by Ray Anderson

How a business can redefine, then find, success.

• Pub Date June 2010• $19.95 US, $24.95 CAN • Paper• ISBN 9781603582537

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Chelsea Green June 2010Sustainable Business

Martin Melaver has been CEO ofMelaver, Inc., since 1992. Never con-tent with the well-trod path, he has aPhD in literature from Harvard Universityand an MBA from NorthwesternUniversity’s Kellogg School ofManagement. He is actively involvedwith numerous community organizationsin and around Savannah, Georgia.Melaver splits his time betweenSavannah and Tel Aviv, Israel.

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The economic crash of late 2008 is just the latest evidence of the truth that many have known forso long: that too much of our modern economy is based on a house of cards. We need businessesthat not only factor their impact on people and places into their equations for success but alsostrive 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. He chal-lenges business owners and managers to move beyond business as usual and create real change.

Living above the Store brings us into the story of Melaver, Inc., a third-generation, seventy-year-oldfamily 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, showingreaders where sustainable principles meet sustainable practices on a day-to-day basis.

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 realize their highest potential

• Leverage an ethos within a business that “ripples outward” to foster restoration of both land and community

• Embrace a notion of limits to growth• Reframe ideas about competition, proprietary knowledge, and business success

Living above the Store is for readers who want to learn more about how a socially responsible business can first redefine, and then find, success.

“Living above the Store breaks the mold on business writing.” —–Paul Hawken, author of The Ecology of Commerce

“This is a heartwarming and inspiring story of how business ought to be conducted at the intersection of community, common sense, and caring.” —–David W. Orr, author of Design on the Edge and Paul Sears DistinguishedProfessor of Environmental Studies and Politics at Oberlin College

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ADOBE HOMES FOR ALL CLIMATESSimple, Affordable, and Earthquake-resistant Natural Building TechniquesLisa Morey Schroder and Vince Ogletree

New methods for an old art—modern adobe construction for buildings of all styles in all places.

Vince Ogletree founded Earth Building Consultants & Contractors,Ltd., in Auckland, New Zealand. Before his untimely death in 2005,he had twenty-three years of building experience including twelveyears working with earthen and adobe methods. Vince dedicatedhimself to working on this manual in the last year of his life so thatothers could benefit from his knowledge and expertise in adobebuilding and share in his passion for earthen building and in hisvision for environmentally conscious construction.

Chelsea Green August 2010Green Building

Lisa Morey Schroder has a Bachelor of Science in ConstructionEngineering and Management as well as a diploma in ArchitecturalDesign. She worked alongside Ogletree for five years before found-ing Adobe Building Systems, LLC. She has been involved in thedesign and planning stages of dozens of adobe homes and hasyears of hands-on experience in all aspects of adobe construction.Schroder lives with her husband and two children in Vancouver,British Columbia.

The lay-up of adobe bricks is an easy, forgiving way to achieve a solid masonry-wall system. Contraryto stereotypes, adobe is perfectly adaptable for use in cold, wet climates as well as hot and dry ones,and for areas prone to earthquakes. With its efficient use of energy, natural resources for construction,and minimal effort for long-term maintenance, it’s clear that the humble adobe brick is an idealoption for constructing eco-friendly structures throughout the world.

The book is ideal both for first-time do-it-yourselfers and for experienced adobe builders seeking toimprove their craft. Drawing on the experience of more than fifty major adobe projects since 1993,Adobe Homes for All Climates describes Adobe Building Systems’ patented reinforcement and scaf-folding systems, showing readers how to construct adobe homes more easily and safely, and withsuperior strength, durability, structural integrity, and aesthetic appeal, as compared to earthenhomes of the past.

All aspects of adobe construction are covered, including making and laying adobe bricks,installing lintels and arches, conduits and pipes, doors and windows, top plates and bond-beams, ideal wall dimensions, adobe finishes, and other adobe construction components, suchas the inexpensive use of scaffolding. These methods will produce a premium product that willmeet and often exceed inspection standards.

Equipped with this manual, you will be able to obtain a building permit, make adobe bricksswiftly, and confidently lay them up. You will be able to beautifully finish your adobe wallswith earth plasters creating stunning colors and outstanding light effects and create a beautiful,energy-efficient home that will last for generations to come.

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BYE BYE, MISS AMERICAN EMPIRE Neighborhood Patriots, Backcountry Rebels, and Their Underdog Crusades to Redraw America’s Political Map Bill Kauffman

It’s been almost a century and a half since a critical mass of Americans believed that secessionwas an American birthright. But breakaway movements large and small are rising up across thenation. From Vermont to Alaska, activists driven by all manner of motives want to form newstates—and even new nations.

So, just what’s happening out there? The American Empire is dying, says Bill Kauffman in thisincisive, eye-opening investigation into modern-day secession—the next radical idea poised to entermainstream discourse. And those rising up to topple that empire are a surprising mix of conserva-tives, liberals, regionalists, and independents who—from movement to movement—may share fewpolitical beliefs but who have one thing in common: a sense that our nation has grown too large,and too powerfully centralized, to stay true to its founding principles.

Bye Bye, Miss American Empire traces the historical roots of the secessionist spirit, and introduces usto the often radical, sometimes quixotic, and highly charged movements that want to decentralizeand re-localize power.

During the George W. Bush administration, frustrated liberals talked secession back to withinhailing distance of the margins of national debate, a place it had not occupied since 1861. Now,secessionist voices on the left and right and everywhere in between are amplifying. WritesKauffman, “The noise is the sweet hum of revolution, of subjects learning how to be citizens, ofpeople shaking off . . . their Wall Street and Pentagon overlords and taking charge of their livesonce more.”

Engaging, illuminating, even sometimes troubling, Bye Bye, Miss American Empire is a must-readfor those taking the pulse of the nation.

An offbeat tour through the increasingly disuniting states of America.

Chelsea Green July 2010Politics • Social Justice

• Pub Date July 2010• $17.95 US, $21.95 CAN • Paper• ISBN 9781933392806• 6 x 9 • 320 pages• Politics/Social Justice• World Rights


Bill Kauffman is the author of ninebooks, including Dispatches from theMuckdog Gazette, which won the 2003national “Sense of Place” award fromWriters & Books, and Look Homeward,America, which the American LibraryAssociation named one of the bestbooks of 2006. He writes frequently forThe Wall Street Journal and theAmerican Conservative and lives in hisnative Genesee County, New York, withhis family.

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“A small masterpiece . . . Kauffman is a romantic reactionary, a writer with an odd, energetic optimism.” —Gore Vidal

“There is myth and poetry in this refreshing look at a town . . . Kauffman is oneof the most original journalistic voices in America today.”—–Richmond Times-Dispatch

Praise for Bill Kauffman's Dispatches from the Muckdog Gazette:

“A sort of Our Town with attitude . . . Readers will laugh out loud.” —–Publishers Weekly

“Those born in a small town will know what he means and probably envy himfor having had the gumption to go back home.” —–The Wall Street Journal


THE FARMSTEAD CREAMERY ADVISORThe Complete Guide to Building and Running a Small, Farm-Based Cheese BusinessGianaclis Caldwell

There has never been a better time to be making and selling great cheese. People worldwide are con-suming more high-quality, handmade cheese than ever before. The number of artisan cheesemakershas doubled in recent years, and many of the industry’s newcomers are “farmstead” producers—those who work only with the milk of their own animals. Today, more than ever before, the peoplewho choose to become farmer-cheesemakers need access to the knowledge of established cheese arti-sans who can help them build their dream.

Few career choices lead to such extremes of labor, emotion, and monetary challenge. In TheFarmstead Creamery Advisor, respected cheesemaker, instructor, and speaker Gianaclis Caldwellwalks would-be producers through the many, and often confusing, steps and decisions they willface when considering a career in this burgeoning cottage industry. This book fills the gap thatexists between the pasture and cheese plate. It goes far beyond issues of caring for livestock andbasic cheesemaking, explaining business issues such as:

• Analyzing your suitability for the career• Designing and building the cheese facility• Sizing up the market• Negotiating day-to-day obstacles• Ensuring maximum safety and efficiency

Drawing from her own and other cheesemakers’ experiences, Caldwell brings to life the story of creating a successful cheesemaking business in a practical, organized manner. Absolutely essential foranyone interested in becoming a licensed artisan cheesemaker, The Farmstead Creamery Advisor willalso appeal to the many small and hobby-farm owners who already have milking animals and whowish to improve their home dairy practices and facilities.

Essential reading for aspiring artisan cheesemakers and home dairy producers.

Chelsea Green July 2010Gardening • Agriculture

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Gianaclis Caldwell, along with her hus-band, Vern, and their teenage daughter,Amelia, owns Pholia Farm situated inthe verdant Rogue Valley of southernOregon, where they make aged cheesefrom the milk of their Nigerian Dwarfgoats. The twenty-three-acre, off-the-gridfarm and forest has been in Caldwell’sfamily since the 1940s. Caldwell’s criti-cally acclaimed cheeses have been fea-tured in books, articles, and top-ten lists.She is a former nurse and mixed-mediaartist.

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RADICAL HOMEMAKERSReclaiming Domesticity from a Consumer CultureShannon Hayes

Mother Nature has shown her hand. Faced with climate change, dwindling resources, andspecies extinctions, most Americans understand the fundamental steps necessary to solve ourglobal crises—drive less, consume less, increase self-reliance, buy locally, eat locally, rebuild ourlocal communities.

In essence, the great work we face requires rekindling the home fires.

Radical Homemakers is about men and women across the U.S. who focus on home and hearthas a political and ecological act, and who have centered their lives around family and commu-nity for personal fulfillment and cultural change. It explores what domesticity looks like in anera that has benefited from feminism, where domination and oppression are cast aside andwhere the choice to stay home is no longer equated with mind-numbing drudgery, economicinsecurity, or relentless servitude.

Radical Homemakers nationwide speak about empowerment, transformation, happiness, andcasting aside the pressures of a consumer culture to live in a world where money loses its powerto relationships, independent thought, and creativity. If you ever considered quitting a job toplant tomatoes, read to a child, pursue creative work, can green beans and heal the planet, thisis your book.

Essential reading on a lifestyle change that will beembraced by many in the years to come.

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THE FARMER AND THE GRILLA Guide to Grilling, Barbecuingand Spit-Roasting GrassfedMeat . . . and for saving theplanet one bite at a timeShannon Hayes

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“The world is moving towards a tougher period, when the relative easeand luxury we’ve known will be tested. But that test can deepen our familyand community lives, as Shannon Hayes shows, providing more of us—ofboth genders—become homemakers.” —Bill McKibben, author of Earth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planetand Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future

“Brilliant, visionary, and practical. This is a mind-bending book that willforever change your view of human possibility and compel you to rethinkyour life. My highest recommendation. ” —David Korten, author of Agenda for a New Economy and The GreatTurning and board chair of YES! magazine

“Breathtaking, scholarly, passionate and inspiring.” —Holly Hickman, Radical Homemaker, former Fox News Radio reporterand creator of SustainableSuppers.com

Advance Praise for Radical Homemakers

“Outside the boxes of both conservatives and liberals, this book is radicalthinking at its best. Read it and think.” —John De Graaf, coauthor ofAFFLUENZA and director of Take Back Your Time

Shannon Hayes is the host of grassfed-cooking.com and author of The Farmerand the Grill and The Grassfed Gourmet.She has written for numerous publica-tions, including the New York Times. Sheholds a Ph.D. from Cornell University andworks with her family on Sap BushHollow Farm in upstate New York. Learnmore at radicalhomemakers.com

• Pub Date April 2010• $23.95 US, $29.95 CAN • Paper• ISBN 9780979439117• 6 x 9 • 352 pages• Sustainable Living


HOW TO MAKE AND USE COMPOSTThe Ultimate GuideNicky Scott

Composting is easy, fun, saves you money, and helps you to grow lovely plants. Whether youlive in an apartment with no garden or have a family and garden that generate large amounts offood and garden waste, this book shows you how to compost everything that can be compostedat home, work, or school, and in spaces big and small.

How to Make and Use Compost features an A-Z guide that includes a comprehensive list of whatyou can and can’t compost, concepts and techniques, compost systems, and common problemsand solutions. It includes how to:

• Compost your food waste safely• Get the best out of a Dalek-type plastic composter• Make your own seed, plant, and cuttings compost• Create liquid feed for your plants with a wormery• Make compost in your flat or on your balcony• Avoid problems such as rats and flies.

By making your own compost you can feed your plants, increase the fertility of your soil, and helpreduce the amount of waste going to landfill at the same time.

Everything you need to know to make successful compost in the city or country, flat or field.

Green Books April 2010Gardening • Agriculture

COMPOSTINGAn Easy Household GuideNicky Scott

$7.95 US • PB • 97819333927454 3/4 x 6 1/2 • 96 pages Color illustrations

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REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLEAn Easy Household GuideNicky Scott

$7.95 US • PB • 97819333927524 3/4 x 6 1/2 • 96 pages Color illustrations

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Nicky Scott is a former Chairman of theCommunity Composting Network and isthe Coordinator of the DevonCommunity Composting Network. Hehas helped in the development of the“Scotty’s Hot Box” and the “RiDan”composter, both now widely used forcomposting food waste. Nicky Scottlives in England.


HOMES FOR A CHANGING CLIMATE Adapting Our Homes and Communities to Cope with the Climate of the 21st CenturyWill Anderson

Designing and building homes to cope with ongoing climate change.

Green Books February 2010Green Building

Climate change is inescapable. Even if the whole world stopped pumping carbon dioxide intothe sky today, at least forty years of climate change are ahead of us, thanks to the long time lagwithin the Earth’s ecosystem. As the century progresses, extremes will become more common:heat waves, drought, storms, and floods will test the design of our buildings and the resilience ofour communities. We also face the slow rise of sea levels and the secondary impacts of climatechange, especially on energy and food security.

Across the world, communities have been living with such extremes for millennia. If we havethe imagination to learn from others and rethink the ways we build and live together, we canface this unsettling future with confidence.

Homes for a Changing Climate celebrates this collective wisdom, exploring traditional and con-temporary responses to the challenges of climate and illustrating the many ways in which housescan be designed, built, and adapted to cope with these challenges. Combining inspiring casestudies, striking photography, and practical advice, Homes for a Changing Climate is a book ofimagination and hope in difficult times.

• Pub Date February 2010• $35.00 US, $43.50 CAN • Paper• ISBN 9781900322478• 8 x 10 • 192 pages

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Will Anderson is Senior Researcher forthe Centre for Sustainable Energy,based in Bristol, England. He has a pub-lished academic background in healthand social research but now writes witha focus on ecological design. He is aregular contributor to Timber Building.His several degrees include one in sus-tainable development.


Green Books February 2010Green Building

BUILDING WITH STRAW BALES, REVISED & UPDATEDA Practical Guide for the UK and IrelandBarbara Jones

Straw-bale building has brought to the constructionindustry many new and useful ideas about energy efficiency and responsibility toward the environment.

This fully revised and updated edition includes new construction drawings, standard details forbest-practice design, examples of off-the-peg drawings for small buildings such as summer housesand studios, and designs for affordable houses. These designs have a carbon rating of less thanzero.

As a building material, straw excels in the areas of cost-effectiveness and energy efficiency.Building with Straw Bales gives details of all the main construction methods and includes:

• bale specifications • plans• walls and foundations • doors and windows • plastering• building regulations and planning permission• frequently asked questions • construction drawings

• Pub Date February 2010• $24.95 US, $30.95 CAN • Paper• ISBN 9781900322515

[Previous ISBN 9781903998137]• 71/2 x 91/4 • 184 pages • Color plates• Green Building

Barbara Jones is one of the foremoststraw-bale builders in the UK and hasbeen involved in building more than200 houses. Her company, AmazonNails, runs workshops in straw-baletraining and natural building techniques.

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EARTH PILGRIMSatish Kumar

Being on a pilgrimage doesn’t necessarily mean travel-ling from one place to another—it means a state ofmind, a state of consciousness, a state of fearlessness.

Green Books February 2010Spirituality

In Earth Pilgrim, Satish Kumar draws on his personal experience and also his understanding ofthe spiritual traditions of both East and West. The book takes the form of conversationsbetween Kumar and others about the inner and outer aspects of pilgrimage: “To be a pilgrim isto be on a path of adventure, to move out of our comfort zones, to let go of our prejudices andpreconditioning, to make strides towards the unknown.” If we want to tread the pilgrim’s path,we need to go beyond ideas of good and evil and to be dedicated to our quest—to our naturalcalling. We need to shed not just our unnecessary material possessions but also our burdens offear, anxiety, doubt, and worry; in this way we can find spiritual renewal and enter on the greatadventure into the unknown.

Kumar believes that at this stage of human history we now need a new kind of pilgrim, unattachedto any form of dogma—“Earth Pilgrims” who are concerned with this world, not the next, andwho are seeking a deep commitment to life in the here and now, upon this Earth, in this world.We need to realize that we are all connected, and through that connectivity we become pilgrims.

Satish Kumar is an internationallyrenowned speaker on ecological andspiritual issues. He is the author of TheBuddha and the Terrorist; NoDestination; You Are, Therefore I Am;and Spiritual Compass. He lives inNorth Devon, England.

We can relate to our planet Earth in two ways. Either we can act as touristsand look at the Earth as a source of goods and services for our use, pleasureand enjoyment, or we can act as Earth Pilgrims and treat the planet with rev-erence and gratitude. Tourists value the Earth and all her natural riches only interms of their usefulness to themselves. Pilgrims perceive the planet as sacred,and recognize the intrinsic value of all life. The living Earth, with all its graceand beauty, is good in itself.

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YOU ARE, THEREFORE I AMA Declaration of DependenceSatish Kumar

$20.00 US • PB • 97819039981826 x 9 • 192 pages

NO DESTINATIONAn AutobiographySatish Kumar

$20.00 US • PB • 97818700988926 x 9 • 320 pages

•••Also by Satish Kumar•••

• Pub Date February 2010• $19.95 US, $24.95 CAN • Hardcover• ISBN 9781900322577• 53/4 x 83/4 • 144 pages

19 B&W illustrations• Spirituality


THE HANDBOOK OF SUSTAINABILITY LITERACYSkills for a Changing WorldArran Stibbe, editor

A ground-breaking book that offers deep reflection onthe skills that people will need to survive and thrive inthe challenging conditions of the twenty-first century.

Green Books February 2010Nature • Environment

Responding to the threats of climate change, peak oil, resource deletion, economic uncertainty andenergy insecurity demands the utmost in creativity, ingenuity, and new ways of thinking in order toreinvent self and society. In The Handbook of Sustainability Literacy, leading sustainability educatorsare joined by permaculturists, literary critics, ecologists, artists, journalists, engineers, mathemati-cians, and philosophers in examining the skills needed in the twenty-first century. Among the manyskills, attributes, and values described in this volume are values reflection, coping with complexity,permaculture design, transition skills, advertising awareness, effortless action, and ecological intelli-gence, each accompanied by ideas for active-learning exercises to help develop the skill. Far frombeing a rigid or definitive statement of the “one right way,” however, the handbook is exploratory,aiming to open up new, unthought-of paths, possibilities, and choices. It is intended primarily foreducators across the spectrum from higher education to informal education, but is also suitable forlearners themselves and anyone interested in the literally “vital” issue of the skills we need to surviveand thrive in the twenty-first century and build a more sustainable future. Contributors includeJohn Naish, Satish Kumar, Patrick Whitefield, John Blewitt, Stephan Harding, and Stephen Sterling.

Arran Stibbe has an academic back-ground in both humanities and humanecology, and combines the two in histeaching and research into educationfor sustainability. He has publishedwidely in the area of ecolinguistics and is currently a senior lecturer andUniversity Teaching Fellow in theDepartment of Humanities at theUniversity of Gloucestershire.

The ability to take steps towards building a more sustainable self and societyrequires far more than knowledge about sustainability—it requires sustain-ability literacy. This book uses the term sustainability literacy to indicate theskills, attitudes, competencies, dispositions and values that are necessary forsurviving and thriving in the declining conditions of the world in ways whichslow down that decline as far as possible. Gaining practical skills requires aform of learning which goes beyond memorizing and repeating facts. Itrequires active learning, a broad term used to refer to self-reflection, self-directed enquiry, learning by doing, engagement with real life issues, andlearning within communities of practice.

. . . Given the trajectory of society and the seeming lack of political will tomake changes significant enough to change that trajectory, it is easy to losehope or cling to highly unlikely ‘solutions,’ such as electric cars for solvingthe energy crisis, genetic engineering to solve the food crisis, or planetaryengineering to solve climate change. Finding well-grounded hope liesinstead in taking a stark and honest look at the changing conditions of theworld, developing the skills necessary for responding to those conditions,and building a better future in whatever ways remain realistic and possible.

From the Introduction . . .

• Pub Date February 2010• $24.95 US, $30.95 CAN • Paper• ISBN 9781900322607• 61/4 x 91/4 • 224 pages • Nature/Environment


THE NEW FOOD GARDENReinventing the Garden for Productivity, Edibility, Sustainability, Beauty, and PleasureFrank Tozer

Edible, beautiful, functional, and sustainable.

This groundbreaking new book expands the concept of food gardening to embrace the wholegarden. The new food garden is centered around the intensive vegetable garden, but doesn’t stopthere. It puts hedges, ponds, pathways, arbors, lawns, roofs, and walls to work as additionalgrowing space for food plants. Fruit and nut trees, bush fruit, edible vines, perennial vegetables,herbs, annual crops, aquatic plants, weeds, and edible wild plants are used to increase the quanti-ty and variety of foods available with little extra work. The author doesn’t just look upon thegarden as a place to grow food, however; it is a place to be lived in and used, so he also concen-trates on making it beautiful, comfortable, and efficient. He describes practical ways in whichthe garden can help us to reduce our impact on the earth. Included is advice on making the gar-den pay for itself, or even to provide an income. The author’s ultimate aim is to change the waywe approach the garden so that it feeds, heals, and nurtures us. The productive garden should bean integral part of the home, and growing food should be a part of everyday life.

Green Man August 2010Gardening • Agriculture

THE VEGETABLEGROWERS HANDBOOKFrank Tozer

$22.95 US • PB • 97809773489308 x 11 • 192 pages B&W illustrations

•••Also by Frank Tozer•••

THE ORGANIC GARDENERS HANDBOOKFrank Tozer


THE USES OF WILD PLANTSUsing and Growing the Wild Plants of the United States and CanadaFrank Tozer

$24.95 US • PB • 97809773489098 1/2 x 11 • 264 pages B&W illustrations

• Pub Date August 2010• $29.95 US, $36.95 CAN • Paper• ISBN 9780977348947• 81/2 x 11 • 360 pages

B&W illustrations throughout• Gardening/Agriculture

Frank Tozer has been growing andusing all kinds of edible plants for overthirty years. His garden in the SantaCruz Mountains of California is anevolving mix of intensive vegetable garden, English cottage garden, ediblelandscape, forest garden, and wild foodplant garden. He is also the author ofThe Vegetable Growers Handbook, TheOrganic Gardeners Handbook and TheUses of Wild Plants.

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FRUIT, BERRY AND NUT INVENTORY, FOURTH EDITIONAn Inventory of Nursery Catalogs and Websites Listing Fruit, Berry and Nut Varieties by Mail Order in the United StatesCompiled and written by the staff at Seed Savers Exchange

Completely updated. An essential reference for all backyard fruit growers and commercial orchardists.

Fruit, Berry and Nut Inventory is a must-have reference for all backyard fruit growers and commer-cial orchardists who care about the rich diversity of fruit, berry, and nut varieties offered by mail-order nurseries in the United States. This comprehensive “catalog of catalogs” is now available inits newly updated fourth edition, which lists 275 nurseries offering nearly 8,750 varieties of fruits,berries, and nuts—everything from apples and bananas to tangerines and buartnuts.

The information presented in this book is so unique and invaluable that fruit growers every-where will turn to it again and again, looking for sources that offer rare nineteenth-centuryapples, or for descriptions of newly bred grapes, or even for unusual varieties of tropical fruits.Where else could you find sources for Maiden Blush apple (1817), African Rhino Hornbanana, Leningrad Giant currant, Adriatic fig, Pineapple grape, Dr. Beaumont macadamia,Choctaw pecan, or Yellow Egg plum?

Backyard and commercial growers concerned with the loss of biodiversity will deeply appreciateFruit, Berry and Nut Inventory. Fruit breeders, plant collectors, and amateur growers can tell quicklywhich varieties are being offered by only one or two companies and need to be purchased whilesources still exist and permanently maintained to prevent being lost forever. Everything commerciallyavailable can be scanned to find varieties perfect for specific climates or resistant to local diseases andpests. Northern and high-altitude growers can use the book to find exceptionally hardy, short-seasonvarieties that will survive and mature in their locations. Orchards, nurseries, and botanical gardenscan use it to find sources for unique plant material.

The fruits, berries, and nuts available today are the result of centuries of collection and amateurdevelopment, further refined by the world’s finest breeding programs. Growers and breeders havedeveloped regionally adapted varieties with superior taste, disease resistance, and countless othervirtues. Fruit, Berry and Nut Inventory opens the orchard’s gate and invites us to discover them.

Seed Savers Exchange Available NowGardening • Agriculture

Seed Savers Exchange is a nonprofit organization whosemembers are dedicated to the preservation and distributionof heirloom seeds. Founded in 1975, the organization islocated at Heritage Farm, near Decorah, Iowa. Seed Saversis the largest nongovernmental seed bank in the UnitedStates, with many thousands of heirloom varieties of seeds,whose goal is making varieties accessible to the public. Inaddition, the organization maintains a Historic Orchard thatcontains hundreds of nineteenth-century–era apples. Formore information about Seed Savers Exchange, or how tobecome a member, visit www.seedsavers.org.

SEED TO SEEDSeed Saving and GrowingTechniques for Vegetable GardenersSuzanne Ashworth


•••Also from Seed Savers Exchange•••

GARDEN SEED INVENTORY, SIXTH EDITIONAn Inventory of Seed Catalogs Listing AllNonhybrid Vegetable Seeds Available inthe United States and CanadaSeed Savers Exchange

$26.00 US • PB • 97818824246038 1/2 x 11 • 504 pages B&W illustrations

• Pub Date Available Now• $24.00 US, $30.00 CAN • Paper• ISBN 9781882424610

[Previous ISBN 9781882424573]

• $30.00 US, $36.95 CAN • Hardcover• ISBN 9781882424627

[Previous ISBN 9781882424566]• 81/2 x 11 • 384 pages• Gardening/Agriculture


Being able to “read” the landscape while on a walk islike suddenly seeing the world in color after a lifetime ofblack and white.

Permanent Publications February 2010Nature • Environment

THE LIVING LANDSCAPEHow to Read and Understand ItPatrick WhitefieldForeword by Ben Law

Patrick Whitefield shares a lifetime’s knowledge of the myriad interactions that go to make up thefascinating and varied landscapes we see all around us. He will inspire you to reconnect with theland as a living entity, not a collection of different scenery, and develop an active relationship withnature and the countryside.

The Living Landscape opens with a chapter on how to go about reading the landscape. The fol-lowing chapters then go on to look in detail into landscape formation, from rocks, through soil,to vegetation, and the intricate web of interactions among plants, animals, climate, and peoplethat makes the landscape around us. Each chapter is interspersed with diagrams, sketches, andnotes that Patrick has taken over two decades of living and working in the countryside.

This book invites you to engage actively with nature and experience it firsthand. Understandinghow landscapes evolve is a useful skill for landscape designers, gardeners, and farmers large andsmall, but it is also a life-enhancing skill all of us can enjoy. Whitefield offers us the enduringpleasure that costs nothing and yet offers everything.

Patrick Whitefield is one of Europe’sforemost authors, teachers, and practi-tioners of temperate-climate permacul-ture. Patrick’s previous books include:Permaculture in a Nutshell, The EarthCare Manual, How To Make a ForestGarden, and Tipi Living.

• Pub Date February 2010• $37.95 US, $46.95 CAN • Paper• ISBN 9781856230438• 6 x 9 • 360 pages • 50 color photos

and 140 B&W line drawings• Nature/Environment

PERMACULTURE IN A NUTSHELLPatrick Whitefield

$9.00 US • PB • 97818562300325 1/8 x 7 3/4 • 84 pages B&W illustrations

•••Also by Patrick Whitefield•••

HOW TO MAKE A FOREST GARDENPatrick Whitefield

$30.00 US • PB • 97818562300878 x 11 • 184 pages B&W photographs • charts • graphs

“The knowledge of reading the landscape brings us within it . . . In his clear andaccessible style, Patrick offers the reader not just the breadth of his knowledgebut the first steps on a journey to become part of our landscape again.”—From the Foreword by Ben Law


THE ALTERNATIVE KITCHEN GARDENAn A-ZEmma Cooper

A concise, valuable, and practical guide—as well as a lovely read that you can dip in and out of.

Permanent Publications February 2010Gardening • Agriculture

The Alternative Kitchen Garden is an evolving idea of what a kitchen garden could be in thetwenty-first century: organic, environmentally sustainable, resilient, and about localizing at leastsome of our food production. It’s also a place not only for learning and practicing growing skillsbut also for enjoying ourselves and having fun. The Alternative Kitchen Garden is the ideal com-panion for anyone getting dirt under their fingernails for the first time and full of fascinatingideas and experiments for the adventurous gardener.

A self-confessed “cyber geek,” Emma documents the transformation of her “ropey old lawn withpotholes and brambles” into a fertile and abundant permaculture plot via Internet radio and apopular blog site. Eight years of her postings and stories have been collected in here, illustratedwith beautiful color photographs and arranged into easily accessible alphabetical order. TheAlternative Kitchen Garden: An A-Z covers subjects as diverse as growing achocha (a forgottenIncan crop) to zucchinis. Emma’s style, is light and friendly, yet at the same time informative andbased on personal experience—you feel you could actually be sitting in the garden chatting faceto face as she shares her knowledge and experience.

• Pub Date February 2010• $27.95 US, $34.95 CAN • Paper• ISBN 9781856230469• 6 x 8 • 376 pages

190 color photos• Gardening/Agriculture

Author, blogger, and host of a regularonline radio show that draws an audi-ence from all over the world, EmmaCooper is inspirational and funny aswell as being a mine of informationwho connects with many types of peo-ple and online communities. She livesin the UK.


THROUGH THE EYE OF A NEEDLE The True Story of a Man Who Went Searching for Meaning—and Ended Up Making His Y-frontsJohn-Paul Flintoff

John-Paul Flintoff was the archetypal mindless consumeruntil one day he set out to find a purpose in life—anddecided to make his own clothes.

• Pub Date February 2010• $14.95 US, $17.95 CAN • Paper• ISBN 9781856230452• 5 x 8 • 236 pages • 16 B&W photos• Sustainable Living

Permanent Publications February 2010Sustainable Living

Through the Eye of a Needle is a brilliant account of his journey—illuminating, enchanting, andoften extremely funny—arguing that the way we look at clothing influences the way we look atthe environment, the economy, and life itself. Few books written in our soulless times have suchpotential to transform people’s minds so completely—while also making them laugh.

His encounters are by turns humorous and enlightening. He meets BBC TV’s Jeremy Clarkson,Hollywood superstars Richard Gere and Daryl Hannah, spiritual teachers, politicians, call-centerand sweatshop workers, artists, Transition Town leader Rob Hopkins, Prince Charles’s own SavileRow tailor, and many others.

John-Paul Flintoff is a well-known writerfor Britain’s best-selling paper, The SundayTimes, and a regular broadcaster. Hiswriting has attracted compliments from thedocumentary maker Michael Moore, thestage and film director Richard Eyre, andthe late Nobel Prize–winner Harold Pinter(“Very good, very funny . . . in fact, itmade me laugh”). He has also worked asa bin man, scuba diver, poet, taxi driver,assistant undertaker, tailor, gardener, high-wire window cleaner, very amateurboxer, and rat catcher.

I’m sitting on the Northern Line, on the City branch, in the middle of rushhour, on a carriage crowded with people dressed in smart clothes, withexpensive accessories.

I used to be just like these people, and wore the same kind of clothes.

Not any more.

These days I tend to wear home-made. Today, every item of clothing on mehas either been made from scratch, or significantly modified or repaired.

Not that I would expect you to notice: indeed, I try to make the clothes lookjust as good as the ones I used to buy. If I didn’t, my wife might not let meout of the house in them.

But there’s no point making clothes yourself and keeping it secret. Not if youwant the whole world to start doing the same. Not if you believe as I dothat home-made, locally sourced clothes are as important to the survival ofour species as home-grown, locally sourced food; and similarly good foryour wallet at a time when the economy is in collapse. Not if you believethat the act of making clothes is its own reward—an outlet for creativity andempowerment that used to be enjoyed by every person on the planet.

From the Prologue . . .


BIRTHRITESRituals and Celebrations for the Child-bearing Years Jackie Singer

An inclusive and sympathetic workbook for anyonewishing to create personal rituals and celebrations thatmark the many different events surrounding all areas ofbecoming a parent.

Permanent Publications March 2010Parenting • Spirituality

Birthrites offers practical advice for potential parents. However, rather than concentrating solelyon pregnancy, birth, and motherhood, this book also explores “Becoming a Father,” “Adoption,”and “Miscarriage” (to name but a few). Jackie Singer emphasizes the importance of ritual andceremony in marking life-changing events, and sharing this experience with others. The suggest-ed ceremonies are varied in nature, ensuring wide-ranging appeal. Some simply involve quietcontemplation, whereas others incorporate a specific activity. Throughout the book, Singeremphasizes the individuality and adaptability of ceremony; nothing is set in stone. The author’spersonal experiences are interspersed with quotes and real-life accounts. Singer provides reassur-ance and support in this relaxed, friendly guide and achieves a considered balance between prac-ticality and sensitivity. Birthrites identifies an ancient facet of human activity forgotten by someof us and overlooked by many. Far too often in modern life, the importance of pausing forthought is disregarded. “[Though] as the human experience of fertility and reproduction is med-icalized in our current times, it still remains an area of profundity . . . Whether we have a needto express joy, seek guidance, or grieve our losses, working with ritual can give us the means toengage more fully with the mysteries of birth, death, and transformation.” —Maddy Harland,editor of Permaculture Magazine

Jackie Singer studied at OxfordUniversity and at the Central School ofSpeech and Drama in London. Overthe next fifteen years she led creativeand therapeutic projects with a widevariety of community groups. Jackiehas always found ritual important formarking changes in her own life, andhelpful for moving through difficulttimes. In 2001 she began offering herservices as a celebrant to facilitateother people to experience the benefitsof nondenominational ceremony. Shelives in Oxford, England.

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• Pub Date March 2010• $19.95 US, $24.95 CAN • Paper• ISBN 9781856230490• 61/4 x 8 • 208 pages • Two-color through-

out with fourteen line drawings• Parenting/Spirituality

Sacred to our ancestors, the tree is a universal symbol of life, with its rootsin the matter of the world and its branches stretching to the heavens. Giventhat each human will use the resources from many trees in its lifetime (theaverage American uses the equivalent of nine mature pine trees each year,just for paper), what better to do on the arrival of a child than plant a tree?

Planting a tree may be prompted by the desire to give the child a connectionto a place where he can go to remember his roots. In a mobile society, this iseasier said than done. We rarely have easy access to land where planting atree would be appropriate, and we don’t often stay in the same place longenough to see a tree grow to maturity. Still, even if the child cannot visit hisown tree throughout his life, making an early relationship of this kind maywell awaken in him a capacity to connect with nature at other times and inother places.

FROM THE BOOK . . .

Planting a Tree


THE WOODLAND HOUSEBen LawForeword by Kevin McCloud

Designed as a dual-purpose book, The Woodland House is both a volume for the armchairenthusiast and an inspirational guide for those wishing to build a similar structure. Beautifullyillustrated with more than 100 color photos, this step-by-step guide shows how Ben built hishome, hewn from his own woodland, for under $45,000. It covers the basics of self-buildingand gives full details of the evolving design process, the identifying of materials, costs, projectmanagement, and the actual building stages, from foundations and frames, through to interiorfeatures. Includes a seven-year update detailing the extension of the house, natural insulationtrials, and round-wood engineering calculations.

The building of Ben’s house was filmed for the Grand Design television series and has proved to bethe most popular program of the series. He has also been featured on the Discovery Channel andHome & Garden Network’s The World’s Most Extreme Homes.

A practical manual, as well as the story of one manrealizing a lifetime dream to build a sustainable home.

Permanent Publications February 2010Green Building

Ben Law is an innovative woodsman of twenty-plus years and a woodlandsexpert held in the highest regard. He isthe author of The Woodland Way andThe Woodland Year and lives with hiswife, Bev, at Prickly Nut Wood, inEngland.

“The quaint wooden house in Prickly Nut Wood is no fairytale concoction—it is an icon of the movement to combine ecology and ethics in design.”—The Guardian

“A fascinating chronicle of a dream. It’s to the point, with clear photography links and information.”—Good Woodworking

• Pub Date February 2010• $29.95 US, $36.95 CAN • Paper• ISBN 9781856230445

[Hardcover ISBN 9781856230315]• 81/4 x 10 • 104 pages

107 color photos and 10 line drawings• Geen Building

THE WOODLAND WAYA Permaculture approach toSustainable Woodland mamagement Ben Law

$36.95 US • PB • 97818562300946 1/2 x 9 1/4 • 231 pages B&W photos • charts

•••Also by Ben Law•••

THE WOODLAND YEARBen Law

$39.95 US • HC • 97818562303398 1/2 x 10 1/2 • 176 pages 318 color photos

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EARTH USER’S GUIDE TO PERMACULTURE(Second Edition)By Rosemary Morrow, Illustrated by Rob Allsop

• Pub Date December 2009• $34.95 US • Paperback• ISBN # 9781856230513• 8 1/2 x 11 • 288 pages

22 colour photographs

The principle for permaculture is simple: provide back to the earth what we take from it to cre-ate a sustainable environment. The three principle aims are: Care for people; Care for the earth;and Redistributing everything surplus to one’s needs.

This completely revised and updated edition of Rosemary Morrow’s highly successful EarthUser’s Guide to Permaculture is a straight-forward manual of practical permaculture.Fundamentally, permaculture is design science and in this new edition design is emphasized.This book will be most beneficial if you apply it to the space where you live and work. Thesame principles apply for becoming more sustainable and living lightly whether you live in asmall city apartment with a balcony, in a house with a garden in the suburbs, or on acreage inthe country.

Included in this new edition are chapters on seed-saving, permaculture at work, integrated pestmanagement, information about domestic as well as rural water usage, a non-destructiveapproach towards dealing with weeds and wildlife, and designing to withstand a disaster.

Earth User’s Guide to Permaculture is suitable for beginners as well as experienced permaculturefutures.”

A simple guide for being more sustainable and illus-trates how to assess and design a permaculture gardenof any size, whether you live in a small city apartment,in a house or on acreage in the country.

Rosemary Morrow has qualifi-cations in agriculture, horticulture,rural sociology and adult educa-tion. She is a highly regarded per-maculture teacher and has beenpractising and teachingin Australia and overseas for 20years.

Rob Allsop’s warm and accessi-ble illustrations support Rosemary’spractical approach to permacul-ture.

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THE SYSTEMS THINKING PLAYBOOKExercises to stretch and build learning and systems thinking capabilitiesLinda Booth Sweeney and Dennis Meadows

This book has become a favorite of K–12 teachers, university faculty, and corporate consultants. Itprovides short gaming exercises that illustrate the subtleties of systems thinking. The companionDVD shows the authors introducing and running each of the thirty games.

The thirty games are classified by these areas of learning: Systems Thinking, Mental Models,Team Learning, Shared Vision, and Personal Mastery. Each description clearly explains when,how, and why the game is useful. There are explicit instructions for debriefing each exercise aswell as a list of all required materials. A summary matrix has been added for a quick glance at allthirty games. When you are in a hurry to find just the right initiative for some part of yourcourse, the matrix will help you find it.

Linda Booth Sweeney and Dennis Meadows both have many years of experience in teaching com-plex concepts. This book reflects their insights. Every game works well and provokes a deep varietyof new insights about paradigms, system boundaries, causal-loop diagrams, reference modes, andleverage points. Each of the thirty exercises here was tested and refined many times until it became areliable source of learning. Some of the games are adapted from classics of the outdoor educationfield. Others are completely new. But all of them complement readings and lectures to help partici-pants understand intuitively the principles of systems thinking.

30 exercises that take systems thinking out of the realmof computers and equations and into the tangible world.

Chelsea Green January 2010Systems Thinking • Education

“I tried out the first five exercises last night in my class and they workedbeautifully!!! The facilitation went smoothly. These exercises are very effective in helping others learn the key concepts of systems thinking.” —Carol Ann Zulauf, Professor, Organizational Behavior, Suffolk University

Dennis Meadows received the 2009 Japan Prize for his contributions to world peace and sustainabledevelopment. He has authored or coauthored ten books, including the international bestseller Limits to Growth, and numerous educational games, which have been translated into more than fifteen lan-guages for use around the world. He has received four honorary doctorates for his contributions toenvironmental education.

Linda Booth Sweeney, EdD, is a researcher and writer dedicated to making the principles of systemsthinking and sustainability accessible to children and others. She has worked with Outward Bound, theSloan School of MIT, and Schlumberger Excellence in Educational Development, or SEED. She is theauthor of Connected Wisdom: Living Stories about Living Systems; When a Butterfly Sneezes: A Guidefor Helping Children Explore Interconnections in Our World Through Favorite Stories; The SEED WaterBook; and numerous articles in academic journals and newsletters. Sweeney received her doctorate ineducation from Harvard University and lives outside Boston, Massachusetts. More information is avail-able at www.lindaboothsweeney.net.

• Pub Date January 2010• $70.00 US, $84.00 CAN • Paper with DVD• ISBN 9781603582582

[Previous ISBN 9780966612776]• 6 x 9 • 256 pages

B&W illustrations throughout• Systems Thinking/Education

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CITY21The Search for the Second EnlightenmentPhil Cousineau and Christopher ZelovForeword by Dr. William J. Cohen

A companion book to the nine-episode film.

The Knossus Project April 2010Architecture • Green Design

Christopher Zelov is the founder of The Knossus Project,a research and development enterprise dedicated to producingcustom artifacts in the realms of Education Film, Fine-artPublishing, and Green Design.

City21 arises from a worldwide learning journey that was transmuted into cinematic compositionilluminating some of the key perspectives and initiatives that are reshaping the ethos of the 21stcentury city.

The underlying quest of the writers is to reframe the conventional and uninspiring visions of theurban future with an unprecedented combination of fresh, invigorating, sustainable, economicallyviable, and life-enhancing concepts.

Some of the themes explored in the book, in an effort to loosen the geometric and economicgrip on the urban imagination, are:

• The Sacred Origins of the City—city plans through time• The City as Memory Theater—David Mayernik’s timeless cities: useful knowledge

transmitted through the generations• Regenerative Design—nature and architecture: the transformation of the Biosphere2

Project into eco-village design • The Creative Green City—The Lighthouse Project in Glasgow • Findhorn—the art of creating eco-villages• Magical Architecture—the underground city of Damanhur, Italy• The Utopian Imagination—poetry and architecture: The Open City Project in Ritoque, Chile• Stewart Brand—the long now perspective

Dr. William J. Cohen is an Associate Professor of Practice, Department of Community and Regional Planning,School of Environmental Design at Temple University. He is also the author of the forthcoming book TheEcological Imperative: Ian McHarg’s Legacy in Environmental Planning and Education.

Phil Cousineau is a screenwriter, cultural tour leader, and host forLinkTV. He is the author of several books, including Once andFuture Myths and Soul Moments.

• Pub Date April 2010• $20.00 US, $24.95 CAN • Paper• ISBN 9780965030670• 9 x 11 • 208 pages • 125 color photos• Architecture/Green Design

ALSO AVAILABLE:CITY21: Multiple Views on Urban Future• $25.00 US, $30.95 CAN • DVD• ISBN 9780965030663 • 2 Hours • Architecture • Green Design

Educator’s Special: City21 plus Extra Content• $35.00 US, $43.50 CAN • DVD• ISBN 9780615335650 • 6 Hours • Architecture • Green Design


CUISINE FOR WHOLE HEALTHRecipes for a Sustainable LifePauli Halstead

As a Bay Area and Wine Country chef and caterer for more than thirty years, Pauli Halsteadserved up stellar cuisine at many of California’s world-class wineries, at elegant country wed-dings, and for private clients. Now, in Cuisine for Whole Health, Halstead shares what shelearned about nourishment along the way: that the foods our ancestors ate – wild-caught fish,grass-fed meats, pastured poultry and dairy products, and organic vegetables, nuts, seeds andberries – are still the best choices for optimizing physical and mental health. Cuisine for WholeHealth presents a straightforward argument for a diet that is gluten-free, refined-free, chemical,antibiotic and hormone-free, and Halstead includes many simple and delicious recipes honedfrom her years as a world-class chef.

Topics include:• How to successfully minimize carbohydrates• Optimum daily protein requirements• Oils and fats that improve nutrition• Key ingredients and where to purchase them• Foods to avoid• How to save money by eating sustainably• Why eating sustainably is kinder to the planet

Recipes include:• Poached Duck Eggs with Spinach and Parmesan Zabaglione• Wild Rice and Turkey Salad with Cranberries and Mint• Curried Onion and Ginger Soup• Wild-Caught Hickory Grilled Salmon with Pistachio Sauce and Grilled Vegetables• Baked Cilantro Chicken with Tomato-Avocado Salsa• Macadamia Chicken with Tangerine-Ginger Sauce• Hawaiian Red Snapper with Sweet and Sour Marinade

A Cookbook to Improve Health, Boost Energy, Cultivate a Positive Outlook, and Save Money.

Hood River Press December 2009Food • Cooking

• Pub Date January 2010• $29.95 US, $36.95 CAN • Paper• ISBN 9780615299594• 7 x 9 • 312 pages • Color photos• Food/Cooking

Pauli Halstead has been a Bay Areaand Wine Country chef for over 30years, beginning with her San Franciscorestaurant, Pauli's Cafe in 1975. Asowner of the successful Napa Valleycatering company, The Best ofEverything, Pauli provided stellar cuisinefor many of California’s world classwineries, elegant country weddings andprivate clients. Pauli now resides inWalnut Creek, California where sheteaches classes and consults with peoplein their homes on how to transition to ahealthier eating lifestyle.


ASIAN VEGETABLES A Guide to Growing Fruit, Vegetables and Spices from the Indian SubcontinentSally Cunningham

Don't just eat Indian food—grow it!

eco-logic books February 2010Gardening

Asian Vegetables is a unique and fascinating book that broadens the kitchen gardener’s horizonsand genuinely says something new.

Asian Vegetables brings together a wealth of information on over 40 varieties of fruit, vegetablesand spices that are grown on the Indian subcontinent and form a distinctive part of the uniquecuisine in that part of the world.

Each plant comes together with details of what to look for when buying, the different varietiesavailable, their nutritional value, comprehensive cultivation instructions, useful colour photo-graphs and much more. Most can be grown almost anywhere, though some will grow best andthrive in the warmer, wetter parts of this country. The author Sally Cunningham has personallyresearched, grown, cooked and eaten every plant mentioned in this book.

With this unique guide both the experienced gardener and those new to growing will bring vari-ety and a fresh, new dimension to the food on their plates and the plants in their garden.

• Pub Date February 2010• $24.95 US, $30.95 CAN • Paper• ISBN 9781899233168• 61/2 x 91/2 • 132 pages

Full-color photos throughout• Gardening

Sally Cunningham has been a profes-sional organic gardener for nearly 30years. She has been Deputy HeadGardener at the prestigious RytonOrganic Gardens and worked on avariety of public gardening projects.Her work with the Plantcultures projectgave her an opportunity to fulfill a life-long ambition. What started out as fas-cination with the huge variety of freshproduce on sale in the Asian shopsand market stalls, has turned into herlife’s work, researching, writing about,cooking and growing these deliciousvegetables, fruits and spices.

A bold, ingenious look at how—and when—U.S. citizens might prosecute their former president for crimes committed in office.

When journalist-turned-lawyer Charlotte Dennett became outraged that Bush White Houseofficials were acting above the law, she did something that surprised even herself. While run-ning for a state attorney general seat, she pledged to prosecute George W. Bush for murder ifelected. She lost the race, but found a nationwide movement—one that continues its quest tohold leaders accountable to U.S. law and preserve a Constitutional presidency.

In The People v. Bush, Dennett recounts her seminal effort to make Bush answerable for sendingtroops to Iraq on false pretenses, introduces readers to a world where the actions of a few canindeed empower the many, and reports on the current state of the movement to hold Bushaccountable for high crimes and misdemeanors.

Dennett’s wild ride through politics began when she read in The Prosecution of George W. Bushfor Murder, by lawyer Vincent Bugliosi, that a state attorney general could prosecute George W.Bush—should one take up the cause. Soon after, Dennett launched her attorney-general race inVermont, signed up Bugliosi as her special prosecutor in the event that she won, and togetherthe two made headlines across Vermont and the nation.

Dennett’s book also explores the tenacity of other Americans who launched grassroots cam-paigns to prosecute or impeach Bush, as well as Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy, who proposeda Truth Commission.

With these stories and her own, Dennett shows that it’s not just possible but necessary to holdhigher-ups responsible for heinous acts—not out of revenge, but to preserve justice and defendthe Constitution.

Charlotte Dennett, author andattorney, has been practicing lawin Vermont since 1997 with anemphasis on personal injury litiga-tion and suing the governmentunder the Freedom of InformationAct. She’s also been a reporter inthe Middle East and is the coau-thor with her husband, GerardColby, of Thy Will Be Done—TheConquest of the Amazon: NelsonRockefeller and Evangelism in theAge of Oil. She and her husbandlive in Cambridge, Vermont.

“What our political culture is missing most is exactly what Charlotte Dennett hasprovided here: a credible, inspiring blueprint for restoring accountability to ourpolitical system.”—Glenn Greenwald, former Constitutional lawyer and Salon columnist

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“George Bush took America to war in Iraq on a lie, causing incalculable death, hor-ror and suffering. In this very important and consequential book, Charlotte Dennett .. . informs all who care deeply about this country what has to be done so that itnever happens again.”—Vincent Bugliosi, attorney and bestselling author of The Prosecution of GeorgeW. Bush for Murder and Helter Skelter

“In a time when too few take even a small risk for larger principles, we can alllearn something from this conscientious and resolute woman.”—Russ Baker, Investigative journalist and author of Family of Secrets: The BushDynasty, America’s Invisible Government, and the Hidden History of the LastFifty Years

THE PEOPLE V. BUSHOne Lawyer’s Campaign To Bring the President to Justice and theNational Grassroots Movement She Encounters along the WayCharlotte Dennett

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