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Jamie S. wins a copy of Share or Die, in our Win a #BookaDay for the Month of May in support of the #occupy movement.
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Books & Authors | Books
Radical Simplicity
Small Footprints on a Finite Earth
Imagine you are first in line at a potluck buffet. The spread includes not just food and water, but all the materials needed for shelter, clothing, healthcare, and education. How do you know how much to take? How much is enough to leave for your …
related subjects: Urban Issues
Real Goods Solar Living Sourcebook - Special 30th Anniversary Edition
The Complete Guide to Renewable Energy Technologies and Sustainable Living
Concerns over dwindling resources and environmental degradation are driving many to seek alternatives to our wasteful, polluting lifestyle. Clean technologies such as solar power, wind power and biodiesel fuel are soaring in popularity.
The Real …
related subjects: Sustainable Living , Energy
Reinventing Collapse
The Soviet Experience and American Prospects – Revised & Updated
The United States is in steep decline. Plagued by runaway debt, a shrinking economy and environmental catastrophes to rival Chernobyl, the US has been retracing the trajectory of the Soviet Union in the early 1980's toward national bankruptcy and …
related subjects: Post Carbon Prep / Peak Oil
The Resilience Imperative
Cooperative Transitions to a Steady-state Economy
We find ourselves between a rock and a hot place compelled by the intertwining forces of peak oil and climate change to reinvent our economic life at a much more local and regional scale. The Resilience Imperative argues for a major SEE (Social, …
related subjects: Environment & Economy
Reusing the Resource
Adventures in Ecological Wastewater Recycling
Water has been described as the 21st century oil. Water shortages, water quality and water rights are hot-button issues at the local, national and international levels. Climate change, population growth and contamination from industry, farms and …
related subjects: Green Building
Rhetoric for Radicals
A Handbook for Twenty-First Century Activists
Radicals have important messages to deliver but are often so caught up in the passion of their causes that they lose sight of effective communication -- which is their biggest tool. Crucial to the cause is the ability to speak with clarity and …
related subjects: Progressive Leadership
Richard Heinberg
Human Ecologist DVD
On the cusp of a world energy crisis, Richard Heinberg describes four possible scenarios for humanity.
Richard Heinberg gives a compelling chapter-by-chapter synopsis of his best-selling book Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World. He …
related subjects: Post Carbon Prep / Peak Oil
Ripples from the Zambezi
Passion, Entrepreneurship, and the Rebirth of Local Economies
After six years of economic development work in Africa, Ernesto Sirolli witnessed how little most foreign aid programs were actually doing for the people they hoped to help-from creating a communal tomato field on the banks of the Zambezi river …
related subjects: Progressive Leadership
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