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It is Day Five of our “A Book a Day for the Month of May” giveaway in support of May Occupy General Strike Action. The first week's daily giveaway is for a copy of The Empowerment Manual by Starhawk.  

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Today’s’ guest post comes from Mallory McDuff, the author of the soon to be released book Sacred Acts: How Churches are Working to Protects Earth’s Climate (April 2012), in which McDuff documents the many religious activists, church leaders and parishioners who are working to define a new environmental movement, where honoring the Creator …

Earlier this year we wrote about Franke James' struggles with the Canadian government in Franke James Blacklisted?. Franke continues to struggle to raise awareness of the issue of political interference in environmental communications. Yesterday New Society Publishers released the following statement:

PEN Canada and The Writers’ Union of Canada …

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 …

As most of you already know, the Harper government in Canada made an unprecedented move this Wednesday when it voted to defeat the Climate Change Accountability Act (Bill C-311) before the bill was even debated. Bill C-311 had already passed through the House of Commons to the Senate in the spring of last year. The government-appointed senators …