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Stepping Lightly

Stepping Lightly

Simplicity for People and the Planet

While the voluntary simplicity movement has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years, it is still often stereotyped as being mainly concerned with a thrifty lifestyle. But simple living has much deeper implications than just cleaning closets or …

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The Integral Urban House: Self Reliant Living in the City

The Integral Urban House: Self Reliant Living in the City

The Integral Urban House: Self Reliant Living in the City is a comprehensive guide to achieving a completely sustainable urban lifestyle by creating a mini-ecosystem where residents grow their own fruits and vegetables, raise chickens, rabbits, and …

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Sustainable Communities: A New Design Synthesis for Cities, Suburbs and Towns

Sustainable Communities: A New Design Synthesis for Cities, Suburbs and Towns

This classic text is a practical vision of how different types of communities can make the transition to a sustainable way of life that balances production and consumption, reduces resource waste and produces long-term social and ecological health.

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The Ecology Of Hope

The Ecology Of Hope

Communities Collaborate for Sustainability

by Ted Bernard & Jora Young
foreword by Wes Jackson

The Ecology of Hope is a remarkably upbeat account of a number of communities where collaboration among different factions and interest groups has led to breakthrough consensus on plans for achieving sustainability. The authors reveal the hopeful …

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Healing the Wounds

Healing the Wounds

edited by Judith Plant

Twenty-five activist authors--including Ursula LeGuin,Vandana Shiva, Margot Adler and Joanna Macy--striveto unite the visions and energies of the feminist andecological perspectives. Healing the Wounds drawstogether the personal, political and …

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Home! A Bioregional Reader

Home! A Bioregional Reader

By providing tools to understand the land we live on and the sources of its natural regeneration, the more than 40 contributors to Home! open up new possibilities for the creation of cultures inkeeping with the requirements of the natural world. …

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Webs of Power

Webs of Power

Notes from the Global Uprising

In Webs of Power, Starhawk provides an overview ofthe complex political and economic powers opposed bythe anti-globalization movement, explores the debatebetween violent and nonviolent tactics, defines aneconomy of true abundance and shows how we …

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The Natural Step Story

The Natural Step Story

Seeding a Quiet Revolution

Few organizations have been as influential as The Natural Step in empoweringand inspiring people to design a more sustainable world. In The NaturalStep Story, Dr. Karl-Henrik Robèrt describes first hand the evolution ofthe Natural Step framework …

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