Chelsea Green Publishing: 239 books
by David Easton
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2007
The Rammed Earth House is an eye-opening example of how the most dramatic innovations in home design and construction frequently have their origins in the distant past. By rediscovering the most ancient of all building materials —earth—forward-thinking homebuilders can now create structures that...
Alone and Invisible No More
How Grassroots Community Action and 21st Century Technologies Can Empower Elders to Stay in Their Homes and Lead Healthier, Happier Lives
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
In Alone and Invisible No More, physician Allan S. Teel, MD, describes how to overhaul our eldercare system. Based on his own efforts to create humane, affordable alternatives in Maine, Teel's program harnesses both staff and volunteers to help people remain in their homes and communities. It offers...
Street Farm
Growing Food, Jobs, and Hope on the Urban Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Street Farm is the inspirational account of residents in the notorious Low Track in Vancouver, British Columbia—one of the worst urban slums in North America—who joined together to create an urban farm as a means of addressing the chronic problems in their neighborhood. It is a story of recovery,...
Slowspoke
A Unicyclist's Guide to America
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
Why a unicycle? Why a cross-country trip? Why leave a prominent New York magazine and return to the simple life in Kentucky?
Reminiscent of classic literary travelogues, Mark Schimmoeller’s Slowspoke: A Unicyclist’s Guide to America takes readers on an inward, emotional journey as he inches...
Flying Blind
One Man's Adventures Battling Buckthorn, Making Peace with Authority, and Creating a Home for Endangered Bats
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
When Middlebury writing professor Don Mitchell was approached by a biologist with the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department about tracking endangered Indiana bats on his 150-acre farm in Vermont's picturesque Champlain Valley, Mitchell's relationship with bats—and with government—could be characterized...
by Edward Hoagland
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
Called the best essayist of his time by luminaries like Philip Roth, John Updike, and Edward Abbey, Edward Hoagland brings readers his ultimate collection. In Sex and the River Styx, the author's sharp eye and intense curiosity shine through in essays that span his childhood exploring the woods in...
Eager
The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
WINNER of the 2019 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
Washington Post “50 Notable Works of Nonfiction”
Science News “Favorite Science Books of 2018”
Booklist “Top Ten Science/Technology Book of 2018”
"A marvelously humor-laced page-turner about...
Miraculous Abundance
One Quarter Acre, Two French Farmers, and Enough Food to Feed the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
The Bec Hellouin model for growing food, sequestering carbon, creating jobs, and increasing biodiversity without using fossil fuels
When Charles and Perrine Hervé-Gruyer set out to create their farm in an historic Normandy village, they had no idea just how much their lives would change. Neither...
Lynn Margulis
The Life and Legacy of a Scientific Rebel
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Tireless, controversial, and hugely inspirational to those who knew her or encountered her work, Lynn Margulis was a scientist whose intellectual energy and interests knew no bounds. Best known for her work on the origins of eukaryotic cells, the Gaia hypothesis, and symbiogenesis as a driving force...
A Man Apart
Bill Coperthwaite’s Radical Experiment in Living
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
A story of friendship, encouragement, and the quest to design a better world
A Man Apart is the story—part family memoir and part biography—of Peter Forbes and Helen Whybrow’s longtime friendship with Bill Coperthwaite (A Handmade Life), whose unusual life and fierce ideals helped them...
A Sanctuary of Trees
Beechnuts, Birdsongs, Baseball Bats, and Benedictions
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
As author Gene Logsdon puts it, "We are all tree huggers." But not just for sentimental or even environmental reasons. Humans have always depended on trees for our food, shelter, livelihood, and safety. In many ways, despite the Grimm's fairy-tale version of the dark, menacing forest, most...
by Derrick Jensen
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
At once a beautifully poetic memoir and an exploration of the various ways we live in the world, A Language Older Than Words explains violence as a pathology that touches every aspect of our lives and indeed affects all aspects of life on Earth. This chronicle of a young man's drive to transcend domestic...
Being Salmon, Being Human
Encountering the Wild in Us and Us in the Wild
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
*Nautilus Award Silver Medal Winner, Ecology & Environment *
In search of a new story for our place on earth
Being Salmon, Being Human examines Western culture’s tragic alienation from nature by focusing on the relationship between people and salmon—weaving together key narratives...
Not in His Image
Gnostic Vision, Sacred Ecology, and the Future of Belief
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2006
Basing much of Not in His Image on the Nag Hammadi and other Gnostic writings, John Lamb Lash explains how a little-known messianic sect propelled itself into a dominant world power, systematically wiping out the great Gnostic spiritual teachers, the Druid priests, and the shamanistic healers of Europe...