Books
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The Atlas of Climage Change
Mapping the World’s Greatest Challenge, 3rd Edition
$21.95This highly acclaimed atlas (winner of Planeta Environment Book of the Year, it says!) distills the vast science of climate change, providing a reliable and insightful guide to this rapidly growing...
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Weighing In
Obesity, Food Justice, and the Limits of Capitalism
$26.95Weighing In takes on the "obesity epidemic," challenging many widely held assumptions about its causes and consequences. Julie Guthman examines fatness and its relationship to health...
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Breaking Through Concrete
Building An Urban Farm Revival
$29.95People have always grown food in urban spaces—on windowsills and sidewalks, and in backyards and neighborhood parks—but today, urban farmers are leading an environmental and social movement that...
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Tropic of Chaos
Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence
$25.99From Africa to Asia and Latin America, the era of climate wars has begun. Extreme weather is breeding banditry, humanitarian crisis, and state failure. In Tropic of Chaos, investigative...
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Autonomy, Solidarity, Possibility
The Colin Ward Reader
$21.95Widely regarded as Britain’s most influential anarchist thinker for over half a century, Colin Ward’s work ranges in scope from urban planning to deschooling, from mutualism to...
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Housing Reclaimed
Sustainable Homes for Next to Nothing
$24.95For most of human history, our homes were built by hand from whatever local materials were available. Since the Industrial Revolution, however, most housing has become little more than quickly...
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Urban Agriculture
Ideas and Designs for the New Food Revolution
$21.95From the author of Guerrilla Gardening: A Manualfesto!!You don't have to journey to a rural paradise to find the farm of the future. It's your neighbor's suburban lawn, the roof of...
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The Devil's Milk
A Social History of Rubber
$24.95Capital, as Marx once wrote, comes into the world "dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt." He might well have been describing the long, grim history of rubber. From the...
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The New Food Garden
Growing Beyond the Vegetable Garden
$29.95This groundbreaking new book expands the concept of food gardening to embrace the whole garden. The new food garden is centered around the intensive vegetable garden, but doesn't stop there. It...
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Dry Run
Preventing the Next Urban Water Crisis
$24.95In the Age of Scarcity now upon us, fresh water shortages are an increasingly serious global problem. With water restrictions emerging in many developed countries and water diversions for...
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