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Hollyhock cooks
Imagine the most delicious vegetarian food, gathered garden-fresh, and adorned with edible flowers: this is the famous food from Hollyhock in BC's Gulf Islands. Hollyhock Cooks for the first time showcases the best 200 Hollyhock recipes which include everything from soups and salads to entrees, d...
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Hollyhock
Join the Hollyhock chefs for an unbridled celebration of the beauty of fresh food, filled with imaginative ideas and an affectionate ode to the Hollyhock gardens. Over 200 globally inspired, uncomplicated recipes brimming with gourmet, seasonal flavors emphasize the versatility of whole grains, h...
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Tomatoes
Nutritious, versatile, and bursting with flavor, tomatoes are a perennial favorite of home gardeners and market farmers alike. Tomatoes: A Grower's Guide is packed with everything you need to know to guarantee a successful, plentiful, and profitable harvest using Jean-Martin Fortier's biointensiv...
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Building community
Building Community is a practical guide for local leaders working to build equitable, healthy, and sustainable communities. Featuring a chapter covering each of 12 Guiding Principles common to thriving communities, the book includes rich case studies and leaderships tools.
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Bioshelter market garden
This comprehensive manual contains a wealth of information on creating sustainable food systems based on permaculture principles. Through a detailed case study of Three Sisters Farm and its Bioshelter, Frey reveals the secrets of successful all-season market gardening.
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College without high school
College Without High School shows how independent teens can self-design their high school education by becoming unschooled. Students begin by defining their goals and dreams and then pursue them through a combination of meaningful and engaging adventures.
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Everyone wins - 3rd edition
This 3rd edition of the best-selling, Parent Choice Award-winning book Everyone Wins is an easy to use, quick reference guide featuring over 170 well-designed cooperative games and activities for and about children, education, and the actualization of social well-being in a diverse range of envir...
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Soil science for gardeners
Soil Science for Gardeners is an easy-to-read, practical guide to the science behind a healthy soil ecosystem and thriving plants. The book debunks common myths, explains soil science basics, and provides the reader with the knowledge to create a personalized soil fertility improvement program fo...
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The color of food
The Color of Food sheds light on the issues that lie at the intersection of race and farming. It challenges the status quo of agrarian identity for people of color, honoring a history richer than slavery and migrant labor. By sharing and celebrating their stories, this collection reveals the rem...
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Feed us with trees
We’re thinking about agriculture all wrong. Feed Us with Trees breaks down the stories trapping us in today’s ruinous food system and destroying our ecological health—and reminds us that all over the Northern Hemisphere, humans once grew our staple foods on perennial nut trees such as oaks, chest...
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Essential green roof construction
Essential Green Roof Construction is a comprehensive, in-depth guide to building simple green roofs for houses and small buildings. Packed with detailed photos, illustrations, case studies, and code compliance advice, it offers clear step-by-step instructions necessary to create your own living r...
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Growing and marketing ginseng, goldenseal and other woodland medicinals
Growing and Marketing Ginseng, Goldenseal and other Woodland Medicinals is the source for information on the production and sale of shade-loving medicinal herbs. This handbook is a complete guide to cultivation with best-management and business practices, case studies, references and a new sect...
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Cordwood building
From various wall-building methods and new mortar options to electrical wiring and code compliance, more than 12 new chapters cover the array of innovations in cordwood construction since the first release nearly 15 years ago. Cordwood Building remains the most comprehensive book available on ...
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Essential prefab straw bale construction
Essential PrefabStraw Bale Construction is an illustrated guide to pre-manufactured bale walls. This manual covers the properties, applications, specifications, code-compliance and climate data, with step-by-step instructions and budgeting information for this development in sustainable building.
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The art of creating workshops for women
Do you dream of offering inspiring gatherings where women can sink into their own creative depths? Let this essential guide be your mentor and companion on the journey to facilitating safe and sacred spaces where hearts are nourished, imaginations stirred, and creativity flourishes in the warmth ...
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Ecological footprint
Ecological overshoot is shaping the 21st century. In Ecological Footprint, Mathis Wackernagel advises us to run our economies on regeneration, rather than by liquidating the planet. He explains the key tool for the job – Footprint and biocapacity accounting – and how it applies to companies, citi...
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Inside out
Inside Out provides a road map for organizational change. Written for leaders championing diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in their workplace, its adaptive approach outlines the crucial steps towards dismantling institutional racism. An invaluable resource packed with practical tools a...
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The token
In The Token: Common Sense Ideas for Creating Diversity in Your Organization, your new token Black friend, Crystal Byrd Farmer, acts as the bridge between majority white organizations that are dedicated to social justice and affirmative action and the diverse people in community they want to recr...
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The two-wheel tractor handbook
Small but mighty — a comprehensive guide to the use of two-wheel tractors for highly productive gardens, landscapes, and farms TWO-WHEEL TRACTORS are multifunctional, economical, practical, maneuverable, portable, and low impact. Yet choosing the equipment is only half of it; the other half is i...
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The joy of conflict resolution
The Joy of Conflict Resolution helps readers better understand their conflicts through the lens of the "drama triangle" of victims, villains and heroes. Accessible, engaging and light-hearted, it provides proven and practical skills for moving beyond confrontation to resolve conflicts collabora...
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The school garden curriculum
The School Garden Curriculum provides an integrated K-8 framework and over 200 weekly lessons that weave science, permaculture, and environmental education into place-based, immersive learning. For teachers aiming to blend science and life skills while inspiring environmental stewardship.
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The web of meaning
Integrating modern science with traditional wisdom, The Web of Meaning investigates humanity's age-old questions—Who am I? Why am I? How should I live?—from a fresh perspective, laying down the foundation for a new worldview of interconnectedness that could foster sustainable flourishing on a ...
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The organic no-till farming revolution
The Organic No-Till Farming Revolution is the no-till chemical-free growing roadmap, showing how no-till lowers barriers to starting a small farm, reduces greenhouse gas emissions, increases efficiency and profitability, and promotes soil health. This hands-on manual is specifically written for n...
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The econest home
“Every aspect of creating a beautiful, sensible, and healthy home is explored and demonstrated with elegance and clarity.” —Martin Hammer, architect, co-director, Builders Without Borders An EcoNest is not just a home—it is a breathtakingly beautiful structure that nurtures health and embraces ec...
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Essential rammed earth construction
Essential Rammed Earth Construction covers design, building science, tools, and step-by-step building methods for building with rammed earth - and, gravel, and clay or lime/cement binder packed into forms - in any climate with an emphasis on cold climates.
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Essential composting toilets
Essential Composting Toilets is a streamlined, illustrated manual that takes a practical approach to system selection criteria, design, installation, and operation, while meeting universal health and safety objectives.
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Fruiting vegetables
Bursting with flavor and packing a powerful nutritional punch, tomatoes, peppers, squash, and other fruiting vegetables produce their prized harvests after flowering. Fruiting Vegetables covers everything you need to know to cultivate Jean-Martin Fortier's favorite varieties using his biointensiv...
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Power
Power traces how humans have come to overpower the earth's natural systems and to oppress one another, with catastrophic consequences. We must rapidly re-learn the lessons of power self-limitation rooted in evolution and human history if we are to stave off ecological and social collapse and enjo...
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Earthbag building
This highly illustrated guide includes all the tools, tricks, and techniques for building with bags filled with earth – or earthbags. The authors' "flexible form rammed earth technique" creates precision walls for constructing homes, outbuildings, garden walls, and much more.
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The story of upfront carbon
We must cut carbon emissions to halt climate change. But they aren't just produced by driving a car or heating a home. Upfront carbon – all emissions involved in manufacturing an item – can dwarf operating emissions, which is why when you look at the world through the lens of upfront carbon, ever...
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Practical no-till farming
Practical No-Till Farming is the ultimate guide to getting started with organic no-till growing methods. Coverage includes pros and cons of different no-till methods, customizing no-till for your farm, detailed how-to for each method, relative costs, handling pernicious weeds, and boosting soil h...
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The frugal homesteader
Equip your homesteading dreams with all the affordable DIY innovations, tips, and stories you need to successfully get you started growing your own food, connecting yourself and your kids with nature, and consuming less while producing more! A fun, inspirational, and educational guide to help you...
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The power manual
The Power Manual explores major concepts of power, with a focus on the dynamics of domination and liberation. The first part weaves together leading thinking on power and looks at how it is deployed and transformed in society. The back end provides practical workshop exercises for learning how t...
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Essential building science
Poor heat and moisture detailing are enemies of durability, comfort and efficiency in house design. Essential Building Science provides a visual, accessible introduction to the fundamentals of building physics and the skills to develop thermal and moisture strategies for creating better new bu...
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Freedom to learn
Freedom to Learn combines an application of behavioral science and neuropsychology to create a powerful process for classroom environments in which the universal needs of children are met and students want to succeed. Packed with practical teaching methods this guide gives teachers the tools to...
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The workshop book
Increasingly, people working in teams face complex issues that need resolving in an efficient, participatory manner that honors the group's diverse perspectives and individual creativity. The Workshop Book outlines the best practices of the workshop method and its use in consensus formation, plan...
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The mediator's handbook
The Mediator's Handbook presents a time-tested, step-by-step model for helping people work through conflict from first contact through reaching a lasting resolution. The Toolbox section details the skills mediators need to understand conflict,facilitate the process, and help participants make dec...
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Essential sustainable home design
Essential Sustainable Home Design walks homebuilders through designing an environmentally friendly home. Covering what makes a building green, a criteria matrix to guide design, material, and systems decisions, working with code officials, and choosing sustainable materials to keep the project ...
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Compost science for gardeners
Compost Science for Gardeners demystifies the full range of composting methods and helps readers determine or select the best technique for their situation. This comprehensive, plain-language, science-based book covers everything from the inputs required to the beneficial impacts on the environme...
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Earth-sheltered houses
The time-tested, easy-to-learn construction techniques described in Earth-Sheltered Houses will give readers to confidence with their own building projects, backed up by a resources section that lists all the latest products such as waterproofing membranes, types of rigid insulation and draina...
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Vegetable garden tools
Often overlooked by home and market gardeners alike, tools are essential to growing success. Vegetable Garden Tools: A Grower's Guide will help you select the right equipment for your situation based on the principles of "The Fortier Method," Jean-Martin Fortier's proven formula for small-scale, ...
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Making better buildings
Making Better Buildings systematically describes the real-world implications of the most popular green and natural building materials and techniques, objectively presenting the pros, cons and overall viability of each. An indispensable resource.
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The rocket mass heater builder's guide
A rocket mass heater is an earthen masonry heating system which provides clean, and efficient warmth for your home, while using 70-90% less fuel than a woodstove. Fully illustrated, The Rocket Mass Heater Builder's Guide combines comprehensive design, construction and installation instructions w...
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The aging of aquarius
The Aging of Aquarius takes readers on a journey to find a new identity and passion and purpose in retirement. From gardening clubs to political campaigning, to social investing and creative work, it offers inspiration, practical steps, and resources.
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The art of natural building-second edition-completely revised, expanded and updated
This full-color encyclopedic resource is for anyone interested in buildinglow-cost, environmentally sensible structures. This illustrated collection from over 50 leading voices illuminates dozens of eco-friendly building techniques, and showcases applications of natural building techniques to cr...
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The garden tool handbook
Searching for efficient, cost-effective ways to level up your growing? The Garden Tool Handbook is the essential guide to choosing the right tool for the right job at the right time. Covers must-have equipment, supplies, and techniques for every task from planting to harvest for farms, homesteads...
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Kids these days
Examining everything from social media, overprotection, and environmental toxins, to the erosion of connection and failings of the mental health industry, Kids These Days draws on cutting-edge research and casts a critical eye on the adolescent mental health crisis, presenting solutions for raisi...
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The end of education as we know it
Schools play a critical role in defining our relationship to people and planet, but modern education reinforces a paradigm based on coercion, extraction, and exploitation. The End of Education as We Know It is a guidebook for transforming society through complex systems-thinking and regenerative ...
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Widening circles
In this absorbing memoir, well-known eco-philosopher, activist, and Buddhist scholar Joanna Macy recounts her adventures of mind and spirit in the key social movements of our time. Macy’s autobiography reads like a novel as she reflects on how her multi-faceted life experiences enriched her servi...
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The modern homesteader's guide to keeping geese
Well-raised geese are the ultimate homesteading companion, providing weed control, eggs, entertainment, and more. The Modern Homesteader's Guide to Keeping Geese covers everything you need to know from selecting breeds, feeding, housing, and animal health, to how geese can benefit your land as wo...
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Essential cordwood building
Cordwood building – log-ends set in insulated mortar – is an economical, low-impact building method. Essential Cordwood Building is the first fully illustrated, step-by-step guide for design, material specification, construction, detailing, maintenance, and code compliance of cordwood. For bot...
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Mobilizing the green imagination
Leapfrogging today's desperate attempts to "green" the status quo, Mobilizing the Green Imagination invites us to remake environmentalism from the inside out. The perfect antidote to pessimistic "gloom and doom" scenarios, this book opens up ways to transform our cities, our stuff, and our experi...
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Microbe science for gardeners
Microscopic organisms are as important to plant growth as water and light. Microbe Science for Gardeners highlights the essential role of microbes in plant biosystems and health, provides practical how-to gardening advice for enhancing plant microbiomes and preventing disease, and debunks common ...
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Renewal
Renewal explores the science behind why being in nature makes us feel alive and helps us thrive. Backed by cutting-edge research in cognitive science, Edwards weaves stories that reveal nature's genius, its effect on our lives, and how cultivating an emotional bond with nature benefits us and the...
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I'm right and you're an idiot - 2nd edition
This fully updated 2nd edition grapples with the desperate state of current public discourse. Through interviews and wisdom from outstanding thinkers, it shows that deliberately polluted conversations can discourage people from taking action on critical issues, and demonstrates how we can become ...
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The emergent agriculture
Written from the vantage point of a farmer-ecologist, The Emergent Agriculture describes how industrial agriculture is being replaced by an emerging system of local production. The new paradigm celebrates craftsmanship and resiliency, and honors the growers who feed the soil and nourish the bo...
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Making shift happen
To tackle our urgent environmental problems and achieve positive, durable change, we must design solutions based directly on how people think, make decisions, and act. Whether you're a practitioner or want to change your own behavior, Making Shift Happen is a roadmap that empowers you with tools ...
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