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Albert Bates, who wrote Monday's preparedness post, has just been awarded The Gaia Award, 2012 from Danish foundation, Gaia Trust. Gaia Trust is a charitable entity supporting sustainability projects around the world including Global Ecovillage Network and Gaia Education. 

Congratulations Albert!  In today's press release announcing the award …

New Society Publishers will be Living the New Economy, November 19-25th at Granville Island, Vancouver, B.C.  For seven days, we will be sharing ideas with the people, institutions and collaborators that are bringing the New Economy to life.

Organized by the Healing Cities Institute, this event is bringing together entrepreneurs, First Nations …

 Michael Lewis, co-author of The Resilience Imperative: Cooperative Transitions to a Steady State Economy  and Executive Director of the Canadian Center for Community Renewal,  joins 114 Canadians who were nominated to take part in a formal training offered by the Honourable Al Gore, former Vice-President of the United States, and Nobel Prize …

Today's winner of a copy of The Resilience Imperative in our Win a #BookaDay for the Month of May is Teresa M.

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Franke James, author of Bothered by My Green Conscience is at it again - this time with  a topic near and dear to our heart - the use of environmentally responsible paper and other forest products. Since 2001, New Society has published all of our titles on acid-free paper that is FSC-certified, 100% old growth forest-free (100% post-consumer …