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A Menagerie In Revolt: Selected Writings - Don Lacoss (Afterword By), Benjamin Peret, and Franklin Rosemont (Introduction by)
This collection is based on the pioneering anthology of Péret's writings that first appeared in August 1970 in the SDS journal Radical America, introduced by Franklin Rosemont. This new, expanded and illustrated edition includes a selection of peret's incomparable poetry and stories, a wide range of crtiical essagys of hte practice of poetry, the struggle against capitalism, slave revolts in B...
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How the Rich Are Destroying the Earth - Greg Palast (Foreword by) and Herve Kempf
Bringing to bear more than twenty years of experience as an environmental journalist, Kempf describes the invincibility that many of the world's wealthy feel in the face of global warming, and how their unchecked privilege is thwarting action on the single most vexing problem facing our world.


In this important primer on the link between global ecology and the global economy, Kempf makes the follo...
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Columbus and other Cannibals: The Wtiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism - Jack D. Forbes and Derrick Jensen (Introduction by)
Celebrated Native American thinker Jack D. Forbes's Columbus and Other Cannibals was one of the founding texts of the anticivilization movement when it was first published in 1978. His history of terrorism, genocide, and ecocide told from a Native American point of view has inspired America's most influential activists for decades. Frighteningly, his radical critique of the modern "civilized" lifestyl...
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Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis - Vandana Shiva
A must-read for anyone who takes the future of the planet seriously, Soil Not Oil dares us to imagine a world where people matter more than profits.


With Soil Not Oil, Vandana Shiva brilliantly reveals what connects humanity's most urgent crises—food insecurity, peak oil, and climate change—and why any attempt to solve one without addressing the others will getus nowhere....
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SVO: Powering Your Vehicle with Straight Vegetable Oil - Forest Gregg
Is straight vegetable oil for you? Packed with expert technical advice and practical tips, SVO stands out as the only book that explains exactly what is necessary to convert a diesel vehicle and how to do it properly. An experienced designer and researcher in the straight vegetable oil field, author Forest Gregg has sorted through the mass of inrofmation about straight vegetable oil and presents the b...
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Toolbox for Sustainable City Living - Juan Martinez (Illustrator), Stacy Pettigrew, and Scott Kellogg
When people envision food production or toxic cleanups, the last setting most likely imagine is New York City. But with more than half the world's population now residing—and struggling to survive—in cities, we can no longer afford to think of sustainability as something that applies only to forests and fields. We need sustainable living right where so many of us are: in urban neighborhoods. B...
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Weird Weather: Everything You Didn't Want to Know About Climate Change but Probably Should Find Out - George Monbiot (Introduction by) and Kate Evans
One of England' s most talented young comic artists offers up a scathingly funny and carefully researched exploration of climate change, presenting it to readers through the eyes of an idealistic adolescent, a fat cat businessman, and a mad scientist. The book explains the science behind global warming, shows how it is progressing, and says what is being and not being done to stop the problem. Detailed refer...
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Sharing the Harvest: A Citizen's Guide to Community Supported Agriculture - Elizabeth Henderson, Robyn Van En (Contributor), and Joan Dye Gussow (Foreward by)
To an increasing number of American families the CSA (community supported agriculture) is the answer to the globalization of our food supply. The premise is simple: create a partnership between local farmers and nearby consumers, who become members or subscribers in support of the farm. In exchange for paying in advance—at the beginning of the growing season, when the farm needs financing—CSA mem...
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The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor - Les Leopold
In this compelling biography—The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor—author and labor expert Les Leopold recounts the life of the late Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers International Union leader, his struggle to address the unconscionable toxic exposure of tens of thousands of workers—a fight that led to the passage of the Occupational Safety and Health Act and his work alongside nuc...
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Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water - Maude Barlow
Scientists call them "hot stains"—the parts of the earth running out of clean, drinkable water. They now include northern China, large areas of Asia and Africa, the Middle East, Australia, the Midwestern United States, and sections of South America and Mexico. How did the world's most vital natural resource become so imperiled? And what must we do to pull back from the brink? Essential reading for all ...
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