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I just received an e-mail that 3 of our favourite New Society authors (Richard Heinberg, Chellis Glendinning and Lyle Estill) are appearing in a new documentary entitled What a Way To Go: Life at the End of Empire. From the website: "Disturbing, compassionate, sometimes humorous personal essay about coming to grips with climate change, resource …

The blog has been quiet for the past few days because we were off displaying New Society books at West Coast Green in San Francisco. I had hoped to post entries from the road, but the show was hopping and we were busy all the time. It was great to see so many of our authors there - Paula Baker-Laporte (Prescriptions for A Healthy House), John …

Today we have our first ever video post, featuring Chris O'Brien, author of Fermenting Revolution speaking about "Sudstainability", otherwise known as how to drink beer and save the world. Bottoms up!

This just in from Chellis Glendinning, author of Chiva, Off the Map and the recently re-released My Name is Chellis and I'm in Recovery from Western Civilization.

Compañeras y compañeros,

I am thrilled to tell you that the radio documentary KUNM news director Jim Williams and I have been working on lo-these-many-months is about to air!

It is …

For Canadian readers, CBC Radio One's BC Almanac on Tuesday, Aug. 28 from 1:30 to 2pm will feature David Tracey, author of Guerrilla Gardening speaking about random acts of gardening and inviting people to call in with examples of places where they stepped beyond the bounds of their own property to do good. David is as witty a speaker as he is an …