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	Building With Vision: Optimizing and Finding Alternatives to Wood Combining environmental philosophy, practical information and dynamic visuals, Building with Vision makes accessible many solutions to wasteful tree-dependent construction and design. In addition to identifying the benefits, challenges, and applications of the recommended alternatives to contemporary American construction, this book details building methods to minimize wood waste, maximize efficiency, and emphasize the unique aesthetic properties of non-wood materials. Part resource guide, part...	$22.00 Add:
	CAFO Reader: The Tradegy of Industrial Animal Factories The CAFO Reader is a collection of essays by more than 30 of today's leading thinkers on one of the most important environmental and ethical issues of our time: the rise of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, or CAFOs, where increasing amounts of the world's meat, dairy, eggs, fish, and seafood are produced. June, 2010 480 pages, 6" x 9" Edited by Daniel Imhoff ISBN-978-0-9709500-5-5	$21.95 Add:
	CAFO: The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories CAFO: The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories provides an unprecendented view of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations - a.k.a. CAFOs - where increasing amounts of the world's meat, milk, eggs, and fish are produced. Featuring more than 30 essays by today's leading thinkers on food and agriculture and more than 450 images from photographers across the globe, CAFO takes readers on a behind-the-scenes journey into the alarming world of animal factory farming. August, 2010 400 pages, 12"...	$50.00 Add:
	Farming and the Fate of Wild Nature: Essays on Conservation-based Agriculture Farming and the Fate of Wild Nature addresses an urgent and complex issue facing communities throughout the world: the need for heightened land stewardship and conservation in an era of diminishing natural resources. This book takes up where its predecessor, the award-winning Farming with the Wild left off. Featuring a wide-range of in-depth essays, articles, and other materials by authors such as Wendell Berry, Michael Pollan, Barbara Kingsolver, Ted Williams, and Rick Bass, this book...	$16.95 Add:
	Farming with the Wild: Enhancing Biodiversity on Farms and Ranch A new vision for a more environmentally beneficial and sustainable agriculture is emerging. Such a vision begins with farms that gracefully meld within landscapes, pulsing with a wide range of native species. It combines implementation of landscape-level restoration efforts, natural systems farming research, and the community spirit of farmers' markets and local watershed stakeholders groups. Presenting an inspiring and unique look at this new conservation-based agriculture, Farming with the...	$29.95 Add:
	Food Fight: A Citizen's Guide to the Farm Bill The Farm Bill is perhaps the single most significant land use legislation enacted in the United States, yet many citizens remain unaware of its power and scope. With subsidies ballooning toward $25 billion per year, the Farm Bill largely dictates who grows what crops, on what acreage, and under what conditions, all with major impacts on the country's rural economies, health and nutrition, and biodiversity. As debate and wrangling over the 2007 Farm Bill intensifies, Food Fight offers a highly...	$16.95 Add:
	Food Fight: The Citizen's Guide to the Next Food and Farm Bill Published September, 2011 Written by Daniel Imhoff Designed by Roberto Carra Foreword by Michael Pollan Introduction by Fred Kirschenmann A Watershed Media book ISBN-9780970950079	$19.95 Add:
	Making Better Concrete - Guidelines to Using Fly Ash for Higher Quality, Eco-Friendly Structures You may have heard of "high volume fly ash concrete", but until now there has been no easy guide to how to use it! Making Better Concrete is written by a practicing structural engineer after using and learning about fly ash concrete from the academic experts, concrete suppliers, engineers and architects who have studied, developed and used it. This isn't just for people who want to "build green" - this is for people who want to build better concrete.	$20.00 Add:
	Paper or Plastic: Searching for Solutions to an Overpackaged World This deceptively simple supermarket choice echoed in the title symbolizes the dilemma of a society on a collision course with the planet's life-support systems. Do we clear-cut forests, process pulp, and bleach it with chlorine to make paper bags? Or do we make a pact with demon hydrocarbon, refining ancient sunlight into handy plastics? About half the total volume of America's municipal solid waste is packaged - at least 800 pounds per person each year - and the "upstream" costs in...	$16.95 Add:
	Smart By Nature: Schooling for Sustainability Smart by Nature: Schooling for Sustainability is an initiative for the Center for Ecoliteracy written by Michael K. Stone and edited by Watershed Media. This book provides information, inspiration, and support to the vital movement of K-12 educators, parents, and others who are helping young people gain the knowledge, skills, and values essential to sustainable living. Published in September, 2009 224 pages Written by Michael K. Stone, Center for Ecoliteracy Foreward by Daniel Goleman Edited by...	$24.95 Add:

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