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kesäkuu 29, 2012, 4:18 am

I am quite amazed by the fact that I don't have any of the books in the Top 10 of the group zeitgeist. Simply I haven't heard of most of the titles. How varied and "unorganized" this topic seems to be.

How do you fare? Have a look here to see the zeitgeist.

2MaureenRoy
Muokkaaja: helmikuu 16, 2015, 11:17 am

Signature, I don't have any of those either, but keep in mind that sustainability is a vastly wide and deep subject area. Many of those Top 10 books are more of what I would call think pieces. My interest in sustainability is more hands-on, since my family and I are starting a sustainable home and new garden this year. I probably have 30 books on the how-to aspect, and that will be about all for awhile, until we see further what our information needs will be. Fortunately, the US region we are moving to (NorCal) still has an active Grange organization, which is a real motherlode of information.

Edit April 2013: Here is what a thriving Grange organization looks like:

http://well95490.org/projects/local-food/food-projects/

The publishers of most of the books on that subject that I bought in the last year are Chelsea Green, Chapel Hill, and the progenitor of all U.S. publishing on sustainability, Rodale Press, online at: (http://www.rodaleinc.com/). Subject headings of those books are: organic gardening, vegetable gardening, seeds, natural foods, self-reliant living, and from Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle:

Agriculture--Appalachian Region, Southern--Anecdotes
Food Habits--Appalachian Region, Southern--Anecdotes

Edit on July 7th - from a standpoint of ethnolinguistic diversity, here are 5 sample titles: Campesino a Campesino: Voices from Latin America's Farmer to Farmer Movement for Sustainable Agriculture has a subject heading of "sustainable agriculture." The Penguin edition of The Hopi Survival Kit is the most authoritative version of Thomas E. Mails' transcription of the teachings of traditionally living Hopi elders for today's world. Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden: Agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians is written by a Caucasian anthropologist who presents this material just as it was told to him by the Native American woman he interviewed over a series of decades. From YouTube, we have a warning from our Elder Brothers who have lived in the highest reaches of the Colombian Andes for millenia, in an unchanged lifestyle, advising us on sustainability. This was an interview conducted by an intrepid BBC camera team:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2tIVwGwiDc
You would think that the topic of sustainability in the desert is a nonstarter, but from 2005 there's Sekem: A Sustainable Community in the Egyptian Desert, written by a physician activist.

Edit March 2013: The Mexican Kitchen Garden is a small book published by Andrews McMeel; it is from their "Ethnic Kitchen Garden Series" of titles. It's a 111-page hardcover work from 1998. Subject headings are:

Vegetable gardening -- United States
Vegetables -- United States
Vegetables -- Mexico
Mexican American cookery
Herb gardening

Specific vegetables are discussed, and how to grow them. Recipes, how to dry and store the herbs, seed and plant sources, and further readings are also included. The veggies are beans, cactus, chayote, corn, cucumber, garlic, jicama, onions, peppers, squashes and pumpkins, tomatoes and husk tomatoes.

Intentional communities that are sustainable include the Amish, most recently discussed in Seeds of the Kingdom: Utopian Communities in the Americas, the Mennonites ("Bart and Lydia: A Documentary of an Old Order Mennonite Couple who Raised their Thirteen Children in the Hills of Pennsylvania"), and the 1893 report of Alice Morse Earle on the colonial experience of daily life in Worcester, Massachusetts: Home Life in Colonial Days. See also the Edwin Tunis classic title Colonial Living for unparalleled illustrations of the methods of American colonial living. For non-religious intentional communities, all I can think of is Findhorn (http://www.findhorn.org/), for which the earliest title may be Paul Hawken's The Magic of Findhorn.

The list of verified (via birth certificates and other official records) centenarian global communities is rather short - it includes the Hunzas, whose traditional way of life is now vanishing, thanks to a highway built by the Pakistani government, and the Okinawans. The traditional (and sustainable) lifestyles of the Hunzas were first documented by J.I. Rodale in 1949: The Healthy Hunzas. The most authoritative books on Okinawan centenarians who follow traditional lifestyles are 1.The Okinawa Program: How the World's Longest-Lived People Achieve Everlasting Health--And How You Can Too; the same research team's latest book on this topic is 2.The Okinawa Diet Plan: Get Leaner, Live Longer, And Never Feel Hungry. The Okinawa Diet research website is (http://okicent.org/). A graphic aid to the Okinawa Diet food pyramid is at (http://okinawa-diet.com/okinawa_diet/okinawa_diet_food_pyramid.html).

It does seem that most subject headings in publishing use have not quite gotten to the heart of the matter, except perhaps for "self-reliant living."

Several authors of the books I own are also bloggers, such as Leda Meredith, author of The Locavore's Handbook -- that's in my To Be Read section, which is now more of a stack on the floor than a shelf. Her blog is:

http://ledameredith.net/wordpress/

The older classic work We Took to the Woods (1942) by Louise Dickinson Rich, is an account of her family's adventures, living in the remote backcountry of Maine, starting in the early 1930s. Subject heading for that book is:

Country Life -- Maine

The author Raj Patel has an article out in the Public Library of Medicine online, all about the new concept of food sovereignty:

http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1001223

Here is his website, which currently focuses on his latest book, The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy, which is where he first articulated his ideas on food sovereignty. Raj Patel is who I would like to be in my next life.

http://rajpatel.org/2009/10/27/the-value-of-nothing/

Edit on July 7th: On the topic of farmers' markets, 4 standout titles are Local Flavors: Cooking and Eating from America's Farmers Markets by Deborah Madison, The Farmer's Kitchen: The Ultimate Guide to Enjoying Your CSA and Farmers' Market Foods, Vertamae Cooks in the Americas' Family Kitchen (foreword by the late 60 Minutes reporter Ed Bradley) "as seen on Public Television," (author is Smart-Grosvenor, Vertamae) and last but hardly least, Vegan Soul Kitchen by the one and only Natural Gourmet Institute's student and chef, Bryant Terry, who hails from Oakland, California, whose other writings and doings are detailed on his website: http://www.bryant-terry.com/ (Just click on the word "author" on his homepage to see his list of titles.)

When I look at the LT complete Zeitgeist list (113 items), I have read the following: The One-Straw Revolution, Silent Spring, Ecotopia, The Urban Homestead, Four-Season Harvest, Wild Fermentation, Diet for a Small Planet, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, The New Laurel's Kitchen, Recipes for a Small Planet, Nourishing Traditions, The Omnivore's Dilemma, Peace is Every Step, An Inconvenient Truth.

On that Zeitgeist, I have the following comments:

1. Instead of "Long Emergency" (which is 1 of the 113 Zeitgeist books) I find the revised edition of When Technology Fails, by Matthew Stein, to be more comprehensive and more interview-based, which is helpful. Here is Stein's article on solar storms, etc...keep in mind, however, that his estimates regarding nuclear power plant impacts are only estimates...there is no public data on how much backup diesel fuel the NPPs have, so there's no point going ballistic about worst case scenarious without that kind of specific information. Link:

http://www.whentechfails.com/node/1545

Also see the June 2012 issue of National Geographic (it has the sun on the cover) for a general public overview of issues related to Solar Max. Keep in mind that the NASA forecast for the Solar Max aspect of our current solar cycle is 2013-2014, so we're not out of those woods yet. It's also worth finding that (June 2012) issue in a public library for the additional charts and graphs not included in the online version:

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2012/06/solar-storms/ferris-text

Also related to either Emergency Preparedness (or in a post-Fukushima world, the new normal) is the latest title from NY state nutritionist Sara Shannon, Radiation Protective Foods. Briefly, airborne radiation from Fukushima Daiichi has gone global, with no end in sight (thanks to the Japanese government encouraging the ongoing burning of radioactive rubble), so it would be inappropriate to exclude this title from a survey of the literature on sustainability. To be on the safe side, all of these emergency preparedness titles should be purchased as hardcopy, not as downloads. In addition, I am printing a hard copy of the LibraryThing Sustainability Group entries as of this month, to have handy in the event of earthquake, etc.

Wild Fermentation - great, but see also Sandor Ellix Katz's newest, The Art of Fermentation...it is his magnum opus - the breaking news is that it's the only book on fermentation ever to appear on the NYTimes bestseller list; it is hardcover, but worth every cent:

http://www.chelseagreen.com/bookstore/item/the_art_of_fermentation:hardcover/

Edit on July 6th: The Permaculture Book of Ferment and Human Nutrition by Bill Mollison, co-founder of the permaculture movement, has been out of print for years. Used copies, however, are now on sale on Amazon website for less than $60.00, which is a real steal, perhaps literally! since a number of library copies have turned up missing. Anyway I bought a copy 2 years ago; it is a fantastic treasure; it took a long peregrination around the world for Mr. Mollison to collect all of this lore. Its subject headings are:

Traditional Food Preservation
Food Science

Here's the link to find used copies of this book on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Permaculture-Book-Ferment-Human-Nutrition/dp/0908228066/re...

Nourishing Traditions - much of it is first-rate, but the sidebars are unfortunately both more controversial than the main text and are unreferenced...what was Sally Fallon thinking (with those sidebars)? Be aware that her institute is funded by dairy and meat industry groups.

An Inconvenient Truth - Now I know why Al Gore did not include many references when the book was published. Even an old copy of Physics For Future Presidents includes a trenchant analysis of An Inconvenient Truth. Turns out Al was doing a certain amount of cherry-picking of data; there are other issues with his thesis as well. Author of PFFP is a UC-Berkeley physics professor; latest version of his book is used in the course he teaches; title of the current version of his textbook is Physics and Technology for Future Presidents. It presents the physics without the math...an excellent idea for us non-math-majors. I can tell that the PFFP author is pro-nuclear, but it's hard to find an independent physicist who is anything but pro-nuclear.

The Urban Homestead writer has a blog:

http://urbanhomestead.org/

So does Barbara Kingsolver, author of Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. And many of her references are included on her blog:

http://www.animalvegetablemiracle.com/

Edit on July 6th: Here are some other publishers who are up to speed on sustainability topics:

Ten Speed Press, a Crown imprint:
http://www.randomhouse.com/crown/catalog/index.php?page=1&view=&genreid=...

From the UK, it's Green Books; one of their latest is The Handbook of Sustainability Literacy, and here's their overview on the topic of sustainability:
http://www.greenbooks.co.uk/Book/434/Sustainability.html

HarperBusiness has been publishing a surprising number of titles on sustainability and commerce, including a newly revised edition of Paul Hawken's magisterial The Ecology of Commerce, as well as EF Schumacher's Small is Beautiful:
http://www.harpercollins.com/searcheng/2pagesearchx.aspx?mode=search&search=...

Storey Publishing, LLC, has an interesting collection on sustainability, such as their 2008 title The Complete Compost Gardening Guide by Barbara Pleasant and Deborah L. Martin.

Alfred A. Knopf, in addition to being the first publisher of Julia Child, has published The Victory Garden Cookbook and The Victory Garden Fish and Vegetable Cookbook, written by Marian Morash.

Little Brown & Co. published The Victory Garden, written by James Underwood Crockett, host of the PBS TV series of "Crockett's Victory Garden." They also published The New Victory Garden, written by Bob Thomsen. All of the "Victory Garden" books are out of print, but some affordable used copies are still available from online sellers.

...On a deeper level, perhaps the biggest single driver of the last several decades' focus on sustainability are the analyses done by the Club of Rome, starting in the 1970s with Limits To Growth. Fortunately, the original authors provide a 2012 update, published, naturally, by Chelsea Green: Limits to Growth: the 30-Year Update .

6 months earlier, an equally useful work was published on this topic, written by a physicist, Ugo Bardi: The Limits to Growth Revisited. The Amazon review on such a technical subject is necessarily superficial, but see the 2 Amazon user reviews at the bottom of that page, especially the 2nd review, written by a mathematician:

http://www.amazon.com/Limits-Growth-Revisited-SpringerBriefs-Analysis/dp/1441994...

Today we prepared Cherry Bounce, an alcoholic drink that will be ready around New Year's Eve December 2012. The recipe is from The Food of a Younger Land, a 2009 book by Mark Kurlansky. This "recipe" dates back to Southern antebellum days: Take 1/2 bottle of leftover hard liquor (we used Irish whiskey), add pitted ripe cherries (we used Bing cherries) to fill the bottle. Make sure the cherries are covered in alcohol, then set aside the capped bottle for 6 months or so. Why do this now? Bing cherries are having their best season in years, at least in California, and the end of that season is now in sight. As usual, the best (and most affordable) cherries are found at farmers' markets. Cheers!

PS: Subject headings from The Food of a Younger Land are:

Cookery, American--History
Food Habits--United States--History
Cookery, American

Kurlansky's book is based on groups of recipes collected by the WPA (Works Progress Administration) project during the U.S. Great Depression. Due to the sudden end of the WPA, this particular writing project was never published, and languished in the Library of Congress until Kurlansky found it.

Ok, of these 40-some books, my favorite forthcoming sustainability title (due out on October 1, 2012) is Prefabulous + Almost Off the Grid: Your Path to Building an Energy-Independent Home, by Sheri Koones, with a foreword by Robert Redford. Librarything doesn't have an entry for Prefabulous, so the numbers are:
ISBN-10 is 1419703250 ISBN-13 is 978-1419703256
Here is the link for its Amazon website entry:

http://www.amazon.com/Prefabulous-Almost-Off-Grid-Energy-Independent/dp/14197032...

Edit on July 7th: PS: Forthcoming on November 1, 2012 from the University of Georgia Press is Black, White, and Green: Farmers Markets, Race, and the Green Economy, written by Alison Hope Alkon, a sociologist.

The only magazines I know that focus on sustainability are Urban Farm (http://www.hobbyfarms.com/urban-farm/home.aspx), Mother Earth News (http://www.motherearthnews.com/),Sustainable Living Magazine (http://www.sustainablelivingmagazine.org/), an online magazine called (http://www.gridphilly.com/), and ... about 63 million other entries - groan - according to StartPage search engine ... look them up yourselves, please! A magazine that is older than Mother Earth News is Foxfire, although I don't know if they still exist. But they published a series of books, beginning with Foxfire: Hog Dressing, Log Cabin Building, Mountain Crafts and Foods, Planting by the Signs, Snake Lore, Hunting Tales, Faith Healing, Moonshining, and Other Affairs of Plain Living(1972).

Evidently another major subject heading is homesteading. Amazon shows over 7,000 titles, 21 of which discuss homesteading in the 21st century. And for the most part, "off-the-grid" living titles are subsumed within the homesteading group. Lehman's non-electric catalog online has published a bunch of books for the home do-it-yourselfer: http://www.lehmans.com/store/Books?Args=

Edit on August 22, 2012: Lehman's will also send you a hard-copy catalog of their products if you register on their website. I just received their Fall/Winter 2012 print catalog ... new items include an oven that connects above your wood-burning stove, a compost accelerator, additional types of manually operated coffee (or spice) mills, fold-away pasta drying racks, and the Italian ("Fido" brand name) line of highest-quality space-saving squared-off heavyweight glass storage jars ... these jars have in recent years become very difficult to find otherwise ... look-alike Chinese products are (so far) not nearly durable enough. However, I don't recommend the Lehman's food products, which are totally non-organic and include quite a lot of sugary junk foods.

In 2011, Chelsea Green Publishers printed a book by Rob Hopkins, The Transition Companion: Making Your Community More Resilient in Uncertain Times. That title's subject heading include:

Community Development--Environmental Aspects
Sustainable Development
Sustainable Living
Energy Consumption--Social Aspects
Energy Conservation--Social Aspects
Energy Conservation--Citizen Participation
Energy Policy--Citizen Participation

Edit on July 23, 2012: An older subject heading to keep in mind that is related to sustainability is "market garden." Market gardens in the 20th century involved the growing of edible crops for direct sales to the public in season.

Looking over all the subject headings we have identified so far, the sheer history of sustainability practices in the U.S. and globally is a very significant factor. (To put it mildly, it wasn't always called sustainability.)

Online, here's a nonprofit sustainability group which summarizes interesting food crop research as documented in the science journal Nature:

http://sustainableweston.org/2011/11/05/how-to-feed-7-billion-of-us-without-ruin...

Also online, the Rodale Institute and its other affiliated websites produce a variety of articles and books on sustainability topics:

http://www.rodaleinstitute.org/

Edit April 2013: I just finished reading Better Off ... it is so worth reading ... it walks you through 18 months without electricity, one day at a time.

Better off: flipping the switch on technology by Eric Brende, an MIT graduate.

3signature103
heinäkuu 4, 2012, 9:31 am

Indybooks,
Thanks for the long, indepth and passionate reply.

Certainly there is a lot out there. It goes to show how diverse (read: eclectic) sustainbility really is, I guess.

Will go over some of this stuff in more detail when I have time.

4lizstansbridge
elokuu 5, 2012, 5:32 pm

But...
do you lead a good life or just read one????

5MaureenRoy
elokuu 6, 2012, 7:34 pm

Lizstansbridge, my family and I have a sustainable home in Northern California, and are setting up a greenhouse and garden now. That's how I already knew about the books and websites we discussed earlier in this thread. As you will see in this "Sustainability" group, some others have mentioned their efforts along those lines as well. It's a lot of work, but it does get results.

6lizstansbridge
elokuu 7, 2012, 6:11 pm

Indeed, I do it myself. Buy as little as possible, recycle, grow as much as possible, keep chooks, (the little loves!).
It ain't easy, but it is all about doing, not reading. (Although reading is the passion of my life)

7MaureenRoy
Muokkaaja: marraskuu 6, 2012, 11:20 am

Oops, the internet is unsustainable. The best summary article on that topic appears to be in Synthesis/Regeneration magazine Fall 2012. "...Data centers use as much electricity as small cities. ...If the internet were a country, it would be the 5th biggest power consumer. " Luckily that article is now online. Why it isn't making headlines everywhere, I can't imagine. I'm (ahem) logging off my computer after posting that link:

http://www.greens.org/s-r/59/59-06.html

Edit on November 6, 2012: Clearly, we all must make some use of the internet in order to keep current on sustainability. I'm now only using the internet for high-priority tasks that can't get done any other way.

8MaureenRoy
marraskuu 1, 2012, 7:39 pm

A book by Simon Ross and Joseph Kerski The Essentials of... the Environment was recommended as an introduction to the topic of sustainability. I'd say it's more than that ... more of a full-fledged field guide (alphabetized chapters, etc.).

Since I'm in the midst of writing a magazine analysis of the aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, I noticed some deficiencies, however, in the Ross/Kerski chapters on nuclear power (Chernobyl, nuclear power, nuclear waste). For example, while their word radionucleotide is a real word, it doesn't mean what they think it means. Granted, the subject of nuclear power plants and the environment is a vastly wide and deep one, but these particular chapters have some errors, which could for some readers end up making an admittedly confusing subject even less clear. Examples: 1) While much of the environmental contamination from the Chernobyl accident is due to the release of "cesium, strontium, and plutonium", other radioisotopes were released as well 2. While some of the exclusion zone habitats "are doing very well" some species in those habitats (certain bird species, etc., are having trouble with microcephaly (tiny heads), etc. Ongoing testing continues to show very mixed health status indicators in a great many species, meaning plants as well as animals. 3. It is true that a sarcophagus was built at Chernobyl to "entomb the reactor," however the reactor is far from hermetically sealed. In fact, as noted in the recent Popular Science magazine article (summer 2012) on the new sarcophagus being installed this year at Chernobyl, the existing sarcophagus allows birds to fly into and out of the destroyed reactor on a daily basis. The air goes in, the air goes out. The chapter on nuclear power does not mention that all fission reactors release radioactive material into their environment 24/7, does not mention that nuclear power is the only power-generating technology that is required to have an evacuation plan, and has an abbreviated list of human health effects of exposure to ionizing radiation. I am surprised to see that the "nuclear waste" chapter makes no mention of the UK's daily disposal of nuclear waste directly into the Irish Sea from its Sellafield nuclear reactor via a submerged pipe; that's an ongoing and heinous environmental insult. The U.S., of course, hardly has clean hands on the ocean disposal of (presumably) high-level radioactive waste .. many barrels of that waste have been dumped along many locations on the U.S. continental shelf ... some of those barrels floated, refusing to sink, and those sailors, wanting to go back to port, shot holes in the barrels, which promptly sank.

I do like the online resources the authors recommend on these topics, however. Those sites are informative and nonpartisan. The authors really should recommend some print resources as well for those chapters, but it's not a perfect world. I'll recommend lots of print resources in my forthcoming articles, a precious few that are actually neutral, the rest pro- and con- nuclear power.

The rest of this 318-page book looks totally solid. Thanks for recommending it.

9MaureenRoy
Muokkaaja: helmikuu 16, 2015, 11:21 am

New Society Publishers (in the U.S. and Canada) have 18 forthcoming titles on sustainability. Interestingly, one of those new titles is Sustainable Market Farming, by Pam Dawling, so apparently the 20th century subject heading of "market gardening" is undergoing a 21st century revival. Here's that announcement:

http://www.newsociety.com/Books/Upcoming

10MaureenRoy
marraskuu 9, 2012, 9:24 am

Again from New Society publishers is Life Rules: Nature's Blueprint for Surviving Economic and Environmental Collapse, whose author is Ellen LaConte, October 2012.

In an interview yesterday on the KPFA radiio station in Berkeley, CA, Dr. LaConte speculated that dark matter, both in the universe and in the "junk DNA" that scientists have not understood, dark matter is where spirit lives. Interesting.

Here is a link to the Amazon book description:

http://www.amazon.com/Life-Rules-Blueprint-Surviving-Environmental/dp/0865717265...

As one of the book's reviewers says, "LaConte sounds depths from which will spring new ways to see cities and buildings become tools for healing our planet."

... This is an urgently important book whose message is difficult to sum up in a few words, but if I had to retitle it, I'd call it "Deep Civilization."

11MaureenRoy
Muokkaaja: helmikuu 10, 2013, 5:40 pm

New sustainability title (January 2013): Walkable city: how downtown can save America, one step at a time, by Jeff Speck. Here a mini-review from OnEarth magazine:

http://www.onearth.org/article/walkable-city

Here's a BookTV video clip of the author talking about this book:

http://www.booktv.org/Program/14048/Walkable+City+How+Downtown+Can+Save+America+...

2nd new title (2012): Japanese farm food, by Nancy Singleton Hachisu. Nancy is an American who has lived with her Japanese husband and their extended family on his family farm in rural Saitama prefecture, north of Tokyo, for the last 24 years. The book's focus is on indigenous Japanese natural foods, from an omnivore point of view.

122wonderY
helmikuu 5, 2013, 2:48 pm

Walkable City by Jeff Speck

your touchstone didn't work, Indy.

13MaureenRoy
Muokkaaja: helmikuu 10, 2013, 5:40 pm

Yeah, it was a typo; my bad. Here a Barnes and Noble link as well:

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/walkable-city-jeff-speck/1111483349?ean=97803742...

I rarely buy anything from Amazon anymore after reading reports on Mother Jones website about their warehouse working conditions discovered by an undercover reporter.

14MaureenRoy
Muokkaaja: toukokuu 14, 2013, 4:03 pm

One of the greenest construction methods is building with cob. Here's the best book on that topic I found so far, loaded with color photos, which is probably why it costs $45. Title is Building with cob: a step-by-step guide. I discovered this topic while searching for a method of building a greenhouse that is affordable but will also stand up to black bears and deer in the neighborhood. (Deer, believe it or not, can leap up to a height of 6' or 7', while bears can climb anything they can get a claw in.)

You should be able to still find the Spring 2013 issue of Permaculture magazine on newsstands...it has a brilliant article on building a cob greenhouse. Since it's the current issue, it's not available yet on their website. Here is a link to a good summary article on small buildings from the Permaculture website. On their home page you can also see a list of their latest books.

http://www.permaculture.co.uk/articles/cheap-potentially-free-build-free-run-hou...

15MaureenRoy
Muokkaaja: kesäkuu 9, 2013, 8:08 pm

Spontaneous poster seen today on an overpass of the 405 freeway in Los Angeles:

"Worst Ancestors Ever"

Maybe so. But many of us have started doing something about that. Here's an April 2013 title from the WorldWatch Institute. Is Sustainability Still Possible? According to the book description I see on Amazon, the answer is yes, but only if we get on it.

I may have already added the following, but here it is again just in case: "A Rich Spot of Earth": Thomas Jefferson's Revolutionary Garden at Monticello

From Routledge Press we have the following and more:

The Water Footprint of Modern Consumer Society (April 2013) by Arjen Y. Hoekstra.

Reclaiming Food Security by Michael S. Carolan.

How to Account for Sustainability: A Business Guide for Measuring and Managing, by Laura Musikanski, published in 2012 by www.dosustainability.com website.

Planning For Sustainability: Creating Livable, Equitable, and Ecological Communities ...be aware that this is the 2nd edition of this acclaimed textbook, which will be published in July 2013.

Some of the above are not yet touchstoning here on LibraryThing, so here's the Amazon pages:

How to account for sustainability:

http://www.amazon.com/How-Account-Sustainability-Laura-Musikanski/dp/190929327X/...

The water footprint of modern consumer society:

http://www.amazon.com/Water-Footprint-Modern-Consumer-Society/dp/1849713030/ref=...

The Tiny House Revolution: A Guide to Living Large in Small Spaces May 2013 by Michael Holtby.

http://www.amazon.com/Tiny-House-Revolution-Living-Spaces/dp/148485490X/ref=sr_1...

16MaureenRoy
kesäkuu 28, 2013, 2:28 pm

The Self-Sufficient Home: going green and saving money, from author and teacher Christopher Nyerges, is a 265-page paperback that gives many innovative examples of solutions for heating and cooling, conserving water, alternative energy, composting and gardening, and efficient lighting options.

The publisher is Stackpole Books, online at: http://www.stackpolebooks.com

Subject headings are ecological houses, sustainable living, and dwellings--energy conservation.

Author website: http://www.christophernyerges.com

172wonderY
kesäkuu 29, 2013, 12:53 pm

Ordered all his books from the library. Thanks.

18MaureenRoy
Muokkaaja: heinäkuu 1, 2013, 6:30 pm

Barnes and Noble website (http://www.bn.com) appears to have a somewhat different set of books on sustainability than Amazon, or perhaps just organized differently. As of July 1, 2013, here are some books offered there under the apparently quite important term of "sustainable living." (Caution: bn.com also includes a few titles in this section that are really Not worth your time.) Ha, touchstoning is not working currently, or not working for most of this set of books anyway, so here are the publisher websites, or you can find them all on the BN website above:

From 2004:

The well received book on sustainability from bestselling author Fritjof Capra is titled The Hidden Connections: a science for sustainable living. OK, touchstoning works here, but the publisher is Anchor, just in case.

From 2009:

Ed Begley, Jr.'s guide to sustainable living. Published by Potter Style books, an imprint of Crown Publishing, nowadays subsumed within the Random House website:
http://www.randomhouse.com/book/10770/ed-begley-jrs-guide-to-sustainable-living

The Transition to Sustainable Living and Practice is the name of the volume. (It is Volume 4.) Advances in Sustainability and Environmental Practice is the name of the series. This is a pricey volume or item ($114.95), probably because it has been produced as a textbook, or at any rate as an academic offering. But I think it is of exceptional interest because the topic of the transition to sustainability is one on which very little has been written as of July 2013.
Publisher is: Emerald Group Publishing Limited, which is now changing its name and online platform. At this moment the link is:
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/books.htm?issn=2041-806X&volume=4
Authors are Liam Leonard and John Barry.

From January 2013:

Gardening by cuisine: an organic-food lover's guide to sustainable living, by Patti Moreno. http://www.gardengirltv.com is the author website. http://www.sterlingpublishing.com is the publisher website.

Make your own magic soil: life's lessons on sustainable living, author is Patricia Johnson, publisher is XLibris:
http://www2.xlibris.com

From mid-2013:

40 projects for building your backyard homestead: a hands-on, step-by-step sustainable-living guide. Author is David Toht. Publisher website is:
http://www.creativehomeowner.com

Sustainable living: practical eco-friendly tips for green living and self-sufficiency in the 21st century, by Sustainable Stevie. Publisher website: http://www.createspace.com

The Resilient Farm and Homestead: an innovative permaculture and whole systems design approach, by Ben Falk. Publisher is Chelsea Green.

Voices of the Food Revolution: you can heal your body and your world. Authors are John Robbins and Ocean Robbins. Publisher is Conari Press.

19MaureenRoy
Muokkaaja: heinäkuu 4, 2013, 2:45 pm

Edit on July 3, 2013:
Oldie but goodie from 1997:
How to grow fresh air: 50 house plants that purify your home or office. Author is B.C. Wolverton, a scientist who used to be with NASA. He ran the studies that this book is based on. Later, I bought several of the plants he recommends...it works!

from 2011:

Gathering: memoir of a seed saver. Author is Diane Ott Whealy. 256 pages, hardcover. Interestingly, this book was published by Seed Savers Exchange.

From 2012:

Cooler smarter: practical steps for low-carbon living; expert advice from the Union of Concerned Scientists

/ Seth Shulman et al. (Is this a corporate author or just an editor, or perhaps nothing at all?)

Subject headings:
1. sustainable living -- United States
2. environmental protection -- United States -- citizen participation

Keywords (tags): climate change, global warming, carbon footprint, greenhouse gas emissions, eco-friendly, energy efficient, sustainability, greening your home, organic food, LEED certified

Japanese farm food. Author is Nancy Singleton Hachisu. Hardcover, 386 pages, publisher is Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC; Kansas City MO.

Author website: http://www.nancysingletonhachisu.com/

20parkbenchbruce
heinäkuu 2, 2013, 10:46 pm

Hi,
The Hidden Connections: A Science for Sustainable Living is by one of my favourite authors but I was unaware of this book. Good suggestion to check here as well- thanks.

Your thread might like a free release report just released from our Climate Commission. http://climatecommission.gov.au/report/the-critical-decade-2013/. The commission has Tim Flannery author of The Weather Makers. http://www.theweathermakers.org/about/

21MaureenRoy
heinäkuu 3, 2013, 4:34 pm

ParkBenchBruce and everyone, I sent a question this morning to the librarians at the Library of Congress about the genre of sustainability. I wanted their advice for us on optimizing searches for relevant titles. They should have a reply for us by Friday July 12, 2013. Have a great July 4th weekend.

22MaureenRoy
Muokkaaja: elokuu 7, 2013, 7:36 pm

The bad news is: Still no reply from the Library of Congress! So maybe they're as stumped as I am. The good news is: Here's a bunch more Sustainability Titles I found at the Institute for Solar Living in Hopland, CA (north of Santa Rosa and just south of Ukiah):

Recycled robots: 10 robot projects. Author is Robert Malone. For kids 8 and up. Publisher: Workman Publishing Company, 2012. Here's the Amazon link:

http://www.amazon.com/Recycled-Robots-10-Robot-Projects/dp/0761154663/ref=sr_1_1...

Seaweed, salmon, and manzanita cider: a California Indian feast Published 2008 by the Heyday Institute (founded 1974 in Berkeley, CA).
Publisher website: http://www.heydaybooks.com
Subject headings: 1. Indian cookery 2. Indians of North America -- Food -- California 3. Indians of North America -- California -- Social Life and customs.

Habitat for Humanity How to build a house. Rev. 2008 ... make sure you get the latest version.

Practical green remodeling by Barry Katz.

Small green roofs: low-tech options for greener living by Nigel Dunnett et.al.

Green roof plants: a resource and planting guide

The Green roof manual: a professional guide to design, installation, and maintenance

The Outdoor shower

The Hand-sculpted house: a practical and philosophical guide to building a cob cottage

Build your own barrel oven, by Man and Eva Edelson, 2012, http://www.handprintpress.com
That title isn't touchstoning, so here's its page from the publisher:
http://www.handprintpress.com/bookstore/build-your-own-barrel-oven/

Wow, I was planning on building an earth oven, but I didn't know about barrel ovens ... these look better than earth ovens!

Downsizing your home with style - from 2007.

Cutting your car use from 2006 -- the touchstoning book may not be the book I saw, which was written by Randall Ghent. Well, maybe they're both good. The Ghent book was the one I saw at the Solar Living Institute...it looks good.

Techno-fix: why technology won't save us or the environment -- from 2011.

Fostering sustainable behavior: an introduction to community-based social marketing. Here is the publisher detail page from New Society Publishers:
http://www.newsociety.com/Books/F/Fostering-Sustainable-Behavior
Note that this is the Third Edition. Author is Doug McKenzie-Mohr.

Fruit, berry and nut inventory. I am not positive that the touchstoned title is correct. Here is the publisher page, so you can compare:
http://www.seedsavers.org/onlinestore/SSE-Books/
The seedsavers' exchange title is the 4th edition, 2009.

Bringing it to the table: on farming and food from 2009, by the one and only Wendell Berry.

Here's my favorite title from all those I saw that day at the Institute for Solar Living bookstore:

The Green belt movement: sharing the approach and the experience. From 2003, it is written by the Nobel Peace Prize winner, Wangari Maathai. Published by Lantern Press.

Recycled home: transform your home using salvaged materials Published 2012 UK, by Laurence King Publishing.

Lunch box envy: an adventure in healthy eating. Did not touchstone, so this is copyright 2013 by The North Coast Co-op. They may have self-published...anyway, here is their website:
http://www.northcoastco-op.com/. Worst case scenario is you may have to buy a copy of the book from The Institute for Solar Living.

The Produce bible -- from 2007, published by Stewart, Tabori and Chang.

Less is more, published 2009 by New Society...is not touchstoning, so here's the publisher detail page:
http://www.newsociety.com/Books/L/Less-is-More

Healing lyme: natural healing and prevention of lyme borreliosis and its coinfections. A 2005 edition. Note that the foreword is by Wendy Leffel, MD.

A feast of weeds: a literary guide to foraging and cooking wild edible plants It's published by the UC Press, as in University of California; I think their publishing house is in Berkeley, CA.

Backyard foraging: 65 familiar plants you didn't know you could eat -- published 2013.

Wild flavors: one chef's transformative year cooking from Eva's farm -- published 2011.

Roots: the definitive compendium with more than 225 recipes ...oh!! This is what I want for Christmas! Expensive, but a mammoth production that is totally worth it, and the full listing of root crops is otherwise "unobtanium" as I could prove to you from my existing cookbook collection.
Publisher is Chronicle Books 2012. Includes many recipes.

The Resilient farm and homestead

The Real Goods independent builder

Off the grid homes: case studies for sustainable living

23MaureenRoy
Muokkaaja: elokuu 10, 2013, 2:21 pm

August 2013 - Library of Congress has weighed in on searching for titles on sustainability. Their advice:

"The literature on the various aspects of sustainability is huge, and there is no way to get a simple overview, even of book literature alone (not including journal articles, dissertations, newspapers, films, etc.) You can get an overview, at least of the various subject headings used by the Library of Congress:

Go to http://catalog.loc.gov
Choose "Basic" search (not "Guided" search)
Click on the "Subject Keyword" option above the dotted line.
Type this: sustainab?

"This search yields over 3,600 subject headings" (for all the headings that are variations of "sustainability" or "sustainable.")

... "Two specialized encyclopedias may be of use in providing an overview:

Encyclopedia of sustainability / Robin Morris Collin, Robert William Collin; Santa Barbara CA; Greenwood Press; c2010. 3 vol. : ill. ; 26cm.

America goes green: an encyclopedia of eco-friendly culture in the United States Kim Kennedy White, editor; Leslie A. Duram, contributing editor. Santa Barbara CA ABC-CLIO c2013. 3 vol., 1279p.: ill.;26cm.
ISBN: 9781598846577

"Oftentimes the individual articles in such encyclopedias provide concise lists (rather than printouts of "everything") of highly recommended sources on the particular topics of the articles.

"You may also want to check if any local academic or public library subscribes to the EBSCO database _Environment Complete_:

http://www.ebscohost.com/academic/environment-complete

"(This is not a freebie on the Internet -- it requires a subscription.)"

25MaureenRoy
huhtikuu 13, 2015, 8:00 pm

See the website of US publisher Timber Press for a huge variety of new titles on aspects of sustainability:

http://www.timberpress.com/books/start_community_food_garden/joy/9781604694840

26MaureenRoy
Muokkaaja: toukokuu 9, 2015, 7:41 pm

May 2015 -- the book I have been waiting for has finally been completely updated in a huge new edition: The solar living source book. LT touchstoning is wrong as of today, because this new 14th edition was issued in December 2014. The number of pages has more than doubled, the solar electricity sections and onsite water storage for the home sections are now huge, comprehensive, and completely authoritative. Hint: Currently you will get $5 off the book purchase price if you buy it in person at the Solar Living Institute in Hopland, CA, 15 miles south of Ukiah, which is the county seat of Mendocino County, California. Here's more information on that book, and the following page is invaluable to book-ordering librarians, because you can get summaries of all the sustainability books newly arrived at the Solar Living Institute:

http://realgoods.com/solar-living-sourcebook

272wonderY
toukokuu 10, 2015, 10:07 am

>26 MaureenRoy: Yay! My library system already has 4 copies.

28MaureenRoy
Muokkaaja: tammikuu 7, 2016, 3:17 pm

Well, the above-mentioned Solar Living Institute is doing an uneven job at listing new titles, so here are some, new in 2016, that I recommend:

Foodopoly Here's the publisher's description: http://thenewpress.com/books/foodopoly

New in 2016, only the subject heading Sustainable Living finds the following titles:

The ultimate guide to natural farming and sustainable living: permaculture for beginners. Author is Nicole Faires, Publisher is Skyhorse.
The same author and publisher has a separate new title: The ultimate guide to urban farming: sustainable living in your home, community and business.

Sustainable agriculture, by Carol Hand

Grow native: bringing natural beauty to your garden. Author is Lynn M. Steiner.

The Eco-Home Design Guide: Principles and Practice for New-Build and Retrofit. Author is Christopher Day.

Woodland Craft, by Ben Law.

Little House Living: guide to a make-your-own frugal, simple and self-sufficient life. Author is Melissa A. Arink.

29MaureenRoy
Muokkaaja: huhtikuu 19, 2016, 12:35 pm

The struggle to understand the focus and scope of individual copyrighted works on sustainable living now has a new friend. Google just won its epic court battle with some authors on its scanned excerpts of copyrighted materials. Google will now be able to post those excerpts on its website, thus providing what they call a card catalog for the digital age. Link:

http://nation.com.pk/snippets/19-Apr-2016/google-wins-copyright-battle-over-book...

In other words, the "aboutness" of works on sustainability and sustainable living just got a whole lot easier to understand. Google's excerpts from sections of those books will more clearly demonstrate the scope and contents of those works.

30MaureenRoy
Muokkaaja: marraskuu 4, 2016, 2:45 pm

Fall 2016 -- Better Than New: Lessons I've Learned From Saving Old Homes (And How They Saved Me), by Nicole Curtis. It focuses on home remodeling via restoration, not replacement. Here is the book description from its publisher:

https://www.workman.com/products/better-than-new-1

31MaureenRoy
Muokkaaja: joulukuu 19, 2016, 10:15 am

To be published in March 2017 by Chelsea Green is Letter to a Young Farmer, with a foreword by Wendell Berry:

http://www.chelseagreen.com/letter-to-a-young-farmer

322wonderY
joulukuu 19, 2016, 11:08 am

>31 MaureenRoy: Ah! Gene Logsdon was an Ohioan, thus most of his titles are available in my library system. I've ordered one to read, and perhaps you can nudge me when this new title is out, in case I forget to look for it.

33MaureenRoy
Muokkaaja: joulukuu 19, 2016, 11:31 am

"Top 10" Recommended Gardening Books, as of December 2016, by the Press-Democrat newspaper, in Sonoma County, CA, in northern California. I am listing these titles because California is where I live, and this state contains a number of severe gardening challenges not adequately explored by most gardening books. These titles were published starting in 2000:

Great Garden Companions, Western Garden Book of Edibles, Attracting Beneficial Bugs to your Garden, Pruning & Training (wrong book touchstoned ... see my own LT page where I just added a few different useful versions of several books from this "Top 10" list.), What's Wrong With My Plant? (And How do I Fix It?), The California Wildlife Habitat Garden, The Bee-Friendly Garden, Gaia's Garden, California Native Plants for the Garden, The Complete Guide to Saving Seeds.

Probably I cannot remind anyone about anything in the coming year because we are moving...

PS: There is a new edition out for Sandor Felix's first book Wild Fermentation, but he has listed a new co-author, Sally Fallon, whose organization has deep financial ties with the meat and dairy industry. ... be careful out there with such a "new edition" of Wild Fermentation.

342wonderY
joulukuu 19, 2016, 11:36 am

>33 MaureenRoy: Curious enough to order both the 2003 and the 2016 editions to see what's what.

Yay moving! Are you going someplace exciting?

35MaureenRoy
joulukuu 19, 2016, 1:02 pm

The current online security advice is to not disclose one's location, but we will have a sunny back yard, and among the first items to be moved there will be the earthboxes we bought in 2000 ... unfortunately, they are now much more pricey. I will also build a raised garden for asparagus ... tired of paying too much for asparagus that in many cases is not the best.

36MaureenRoy
Muokkaaja: helmikuu 4, 2017, 4:14 pm

A bestseller in Germany, and now climbing the US bestseller charts, is The Hidden Life of Trees. Here is the US distributor's overview for this book:

http://www.pgw.com/home/titlesearch.aspx?ISBN=978-1-77164-248-4

The NY Times article on the new book The Power of Off (the NYT byline is from Jane Brody) is titled Curbing Our Digital Dependence. The book is not touchstoning ... its author is Nancy Colier, who is a licensed clinical social worker. Publisher is Sounds True (paperback). Author website:

http://nancycolier.com/

38MaureenRoy
helmikuu 20, 2017, 9:49 am

February 20, 2017: Here is an astounding article via the BBC on plant communication:

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141111-plants-have-a-hidden-internet

If this communication pathway exists, that suggests there are more advantages than anyone thought in growing food plants in common ground, either in a greenhouse or in a single-plot vegetable garden. Cool.

392wonderY
helmikuu 28, 2017, 9:03 am

I subscribe to a daily email from permies.com, but I hadn't participated in their forum until today when I wanted to add a comment.

Registering to become a member, one has to agree to the terms of use.
Totally succinct:

"Be nice."

https://permies.com/forums/jforum

40MaureenRoy
maaliskuu 2, 2017, 4:55 pm

Letter to a young farmer is now in print, in hardcover and E-book formats:

http://www.chelseagreen.com/letter-to-a-young-farmer

412wonderY
maaliskuu 2, 2017, 5:02 pm

>40 MaureenRoy: Thanks for the reminder. My library has a copy.

42MaureenRoy
Muokkaaja: maaliskuu 24, 2017, 12:07 pm

The New York Times has a favorable review of the following new book. Here is that publisher page:

http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/rob-dunn/never-out-of-season/97803162607...

43MaureenRoy
Muokkaaja: heinäkuu 20, 2017, 5:39 pm

Announced in April 2017 by the one and only Paul Hawken, Project Drawdown presents and supports all the things that can be done by individuals and groups to slow or even reverse climate change, without the involvement of government. Its companion book is Drawdown: the most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming.

Please see the documentary films/media thread in our LT Sustainability group for a link to the C-SPAN BookTV introductory video of Project Drawdown, hosted by Paul Hawken.

44MaureenRoy
Muokkaaja: tammikuu 23, 2018, 9:31 pm

Paul Hawken's 2017 book Drawdown is on the NYTimes bestseller list. I gave away two copies today, one to a neighbor who owns a solar panel installation business, the other a friend who has fruit tree acreage and has a booth at our local farmers' market. After I explained to them the book's main goal, the change of expressions on their faces was interesting ... for both, it went from polite to stunned to impassioned. This is going to be one of those books with tremendous word-of-mouth appeal.

Calling all librarians: Please make sure to order a copy of Drawdown for your organization. Order spec's are below.

Full title: Drawdown : The most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming / edited by Paul Hawken.
Other titles: Draw down
Description: New York, New York : Penguin Books (2017) Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017007034 (print) | LCCN 2017007803 (ebook) | ISBN 9780143130444 (pbk.) | ISBN 9781524704650 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Climate change mitigation. | Global warming - Prevention.
Classification: LCC TD171.75 .D73 2017 (print) | LCC TD171.75 (ebook) | DDC 363.738/746-dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017007034

109876543

In addition, be aware that the paperback edition has color photographs. The pages of the paperback edition are printed on heavy paper stock, possibly using acid-free paper.

Exhaustive support documentation for each of the 100 solutions, including references, methodologies used, graphs, charts, and much more, are on the book's companion website:

http://www.drawdown.org

Fall 2017, video clip from The Bill Maher TV show, where Bill interviews Paul Hawken about Project Drawdown:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1wXHx2DsSU

45MaureenRoy
syyskuu 7, 2017, 7:38 pm

A companion paperback book is now in print and in bookstores for the American documentary film of the same name:

An Inconvenient Sequel : Truth to Power

46MaureenRoy
Muokkaaja: lokakuu 2, 2017, 12:33 pm

Selected fall titles for sustainable living:

Growing a revolution: bringing our soil back to life

Human scale revisited: a new look at the classic case for a decentralist future

Grocery: the buying and selling of food in America

A crack in creation: gene editing and the unthinkable power to control evolution

A presentation on BookTV, aired October 1, 2017, about verified information on concerns and scientific questions about GMO technology:

https://www.c-span.org/video/?432111-2/altered-genes-twisted-truth

Of the two books in that genre he recommends, the first is his own book, written for the general public. The second is for an academic audience.

They are: Altered genes, twisted truth, and GMO myths & truths.

472wonderY
lokakuu 2, 2017, 12:06 pm

>46 MaureenRoy: Ordering the first one.

48MaureenRoy
Muokkaaja: marraskuu 9, 2017, 2:58 pm

Forthcoming in late 2017 and beyond:

Growing sustainable children: a garden teacher's guide, by Ronni Sands and Willow Summer.

Sustainable landscape construction, Third Edition: a guide to green building outdoors, by Kim Sorvig and J. William Thompson.

Sustainable adobe: the art and technique of adobe construction, by Paul A. Elsner. (Note: Be aware that adobe construction will require extensive reinforcement to be an appropriate construction method in earthquake country, and perhaps in hurricane country as well.)

The backyard homestead seasonal planner: what to do & when to do it in the garden, orchard, barn, pasture & equipment

Non-touchstoning titles can be found recently added in my own LT personal library.

My biases in selecting these materials include English language editions, more affordably priced books (except some academic titles), hardcover or paperback books rather than ebook-only editions, and a focus on newer information ... which is especially important given that so many recent titles in this genre are rehashes, attempting to cash in on this genre in a parasitic way. My other bias is in selecting titles related to food and cooking ... I look for titles that focus in a healthier direction, such as lower on the food chain, a focus on lower-fat foods, and ideally no financial connection with the animal products industry ... also ideally the food and cooking titles should contain some authoritative references. Edit: It is also important that the author, if photographed, is either of normal weight, or not tremendously so if overweight.

49MaureenRoy
lokakuu 23, 2017, 8:14 am

Oct. 23, 2017: At the internet archive, here is one title I hadn't seen before on growing food in urban settings:

https://archive.org/details/Continuous_Productive_Urban_Landscapes_Designing_Urb...

Later on, I will spend more time combing thru that site.

50MaureenRoy
Muokkaaja: marraskuu 9, 2017, 4:50 pm

Titles seen this week at the gift shop at Densanso Gardens park in Los Angeles county: Citizen scientist: searching for heroes and hope in an age of extinction ... from 2016, details on publisher's www.theexperimentpublishing.com website. Gardening for butterflies: how you can attract and protect beautiful, beneficial insects. The rooftop beekeeper: a scrappy guide to keeping urban honeybees publisher's www.chroniclebooks.com website. Deerproofing your yard & garden,and from 2011, a different book -- 50 beautiful deer-resistant plants: the prettiest annuals, perennials, bulbs and shrubs that deer don't eat ... for that book, note that it includes annuals, perennials, shrubs, ferns, herbs and grasses. Cattail moonshine & milkweed medicine: the curious stories of 43 amazing North American native plants.

And three more: Worms at work: harnessing the awesome power of worms with vermiculture and vermicomposting; Musings of an energy nerd: toward an energy-efficient home; Indoor edible garden: creative ways to grow herbs, fruits, and vegetables in your home

Any books not touchstoning are listed in my LT book collection.

51MaureenRoy
marraskuu 23, 2017, 6:44 pm

Reviewed in the NYTimes on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, Nov. 23, 2017:

The Water will come: rising seas, sinking cities, and the remaking of the civilized world, published by Little, Brown:

https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jeff-goodell/the-water-will-come/978031...

Published by The New Press, in October 2017: The Climate swerve: reflections on mind, hope, and survival, by Robert Jay Lifton.

In the 100 Notable Books of 2017, the NYTimes includes two works of fiction about survival after catastrophes: The Book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch. Future home of the living god, by Louise Erdrich.

52MaureenRoy
Muokkaaja: marraskuu 29, 2017, 12:45 pm

A range of new and other 21st century titles on sustainable fashion for the general public: Eco-chic: the fashion paradox; Slave to fashion; Slower style: the amazing future of sustainable fashion; Fixing fashion: rethinking the way we make, market, and buy our clothes; Overdressed: the shockingly high cost of cheap fashion; To die for: is fashion wearing out the world?; Naked fashion: the new sustainable fashion revolution; Stitched-up: the anti-fashion revolution; Wear no evil: how to change the world with your wardrobe; Eco-chic: the fashion paradox. Any books that did not touchstone are in my personal LT collection.

53MaureenRoy
tammikuu 24, 2018, 7:35 pm

As of January 2018, sustainable living titles newly in print for the general public:

Children living in sustainable built environments: new urbanisms, new citizens from Routledge Press; Life without plastic: the practical step-by-step guide to avoiding plastic to keep your family and the planet healthy from Page Street Publishing; Worms eat my garbage: 35th anniversary edition; Essential cordwood building: the complete step-by-step guide from New Society Publishers; Practical organic gardening: the no-nonsense guide to growing naturally from Cool Springs Press; Think globally, garden locally: an investigation of urban gardening, sustainable agriculture, and healthy pollinators.

54MaureenRoy
Muokkaaja: tammikuu 24, 2018, 8:04 pm

As of January 2018, forthcoming titles for the general public:

Healing houseplants: caring for houseplants and how they care for you from SkyHorse Publishing. Author is Michelle Polk, a licensed herbalist. The Suburban micro-farm: modern solutions for busy people from Twisted Creek Press, author is Amy Stross, whose personal site is www.tenthacrefarm.com online. Grow what you love: 12 food plant families to change your life from Firefly Books; author is Emily Murphy, who has academic credentials; a beautifully organized book; her own site is http://passthepistil.com online. Living well now and in the future: why sustainability matters from MIT Press, Feb. 9, 2018 pub date per Amazon. Ecovillages around the world: 20 regenerative designs for sustainable communities from Findhorn Press, author is Frederica Miller. Backyard bounty: the complete guide to year-round gardening in the Pacific Northwest. The Ever curious gardener: using a little natural science for a much better garden from New Society Publishers; author is Lee Reich (has a PhD in horticulture). The vegan cook & gardener from Permanent Publications; author is Piers Warren.

Titles not touchstoning are in my personal LT collection.

55MaureenRoy
Muokkaaja: huhtikuu 28, 2018, 7:26 pm

Good news and bad news on the category of Green Kitchens: As of April 2018, here is my overview of three popular books on this subject, plus I am ordering 4 more titles, and will be adding those names here as well. The bad news is that the three popular books have weaknesses, pretty big ones. I will be writing up some kitchen notes ... time will tell.

The Green Kitchen Handbook by Annie Berthold-Bond is my favorite title on the subject of green kitchens. It has a wonderful foreword by Meryl Streep, co-founder of the group Mothers and Others for a Livable Planet. It is, however, copyrighted 1997, so it lacks the latest topics. Even so, it is *far* and away the best title in English on this subject. For example, their analysis of refrigerator issues is still correct, even prescient. Data on radiation concerns, mostly completely avoided in other green books, is fully addressed here, from radon to food irradiation. Only the natural radiation present in granite kitchen counters escapes discussion, a point not widely known in 1997.

Annie Berthold-Bond's 2010 update, True Food: 8 simple steps to a healthier you, is published by National Geographic Books, which apparently skipped the book editing step ... there are serious mistakes, omissions, and the added recipes are incredibly high in fat. (Eye-popping amounts of oil, milk, cheese, eggs, butter and sugar are used in almost all the recipes.) I cannot recommend this book. The authors make frequent use of maple syrup and balsamic vinegar, yet neglect to mention the widespread contamination issues with both of those foods. On page 198, the authors claim that whole wheat flour has 16 grams of fiber (per one cup); on page 203, they say that one cup of whole wheat flour has 14 grams of fiber ... which one is correct? The authors don't say. On page 30, they proclaim that freezing food preserves the most nutrients, although the age-old food drying method may actually have the overall nutritional edge. Their advice on methods for freezing foods is spread throughout the book, with no mention of the ongoing environmental and economic cost of powering a large freezer. Also unmentioned in this book is the vitamin loss in frozen green vegetables... close to half the vitamin E and K and folic acid nutrients are lost after these foods spend several weeks in a freezer. On page 95, the authors mention that mint repels mice, but are apparently unaware that balsam fir oil is the only natural product certified by the US EPA to repel mice. There is an index, but it reveals the complete absence of some key sections, such as energy and biodynamic gardening, and weak sections like sweeteners and drinking water. There is no list of references. Etcetera.

Deborah Eden Tull's The Natural Kitchen: your guide to the sustainable food revolution does include a reference section (from mostly online sources) plus an excellent glossary, but lacks an index. This author lived for over 10 years in a sustainable community in the California mountains, a zen hermitage. Her section on drinking water is larger and more specific than True Food above, but it also contains quite a few errors. Some of her recipes feature raw kale, which she does not always recommend cooking, yet raw vegetables from the Brassica family pose quite a strain on the human thyroid gland. She recommends the use of microfiber cloth for cleaning, but she seems unaware that microfiber is produced with nanotechnology. Several recipes use seaweed, but there is no mention in this book from 2010 of the "new normal" need to test seaweed for radiation contamination, following the 2011 onset of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The author cautions that soy products can depress the thyroid gland, yet makes no mention of naturally fermented soy products (miso, tempeh, natto, and naturally brewed soy sauce) that have no adverse effect on the thyroid gland. A few recipes are included, most of them quite high in fat. The rice recipes specify white rice and some frozen vegetables. The theme of mindfulness is beautifully laid out in this book, with many examples. Beginning on page 31, the author explores ways to use recycled plastic, yet seems unaware of the human health risks of doing so, detailed in the landmark 1998 book Our Stolen Future.

56MaureenRoy
Muokkaaja: huhtikuu 25, 2018, 5:02 pm

Plowman's folly is a classic US book from the 20th century on no-till farming.

Revised and updated in 2017, Self-sufficiency for the 21st century is extremely comprehensive, and includes many color photos of the topics in each section. A wonderfully authoritative book.

57MaureenRoy
Muokkaaja: toukokuu 6, 2018, 9:21 am

Decades ago, the chemical taxol, a cancer-fighting drug, was isolated from the Pacific yew tree (Taxis brevifolia), an evergreen of an ancient global vintage. Since the discovery of taxol, environmentalists have started sounding an alert about the need to conserve this tree, since so many yew trees are needed to produce one batch of taxol. If you live in one of the geographic ranges where yew trees can grow, please consider getting some yew saplings and starting your own yew community. Here are three general books on the subject:

Two books are by the ethnobotanist Fred Hageneder: From 2014: Yew (botanical); from 2011: Yew: a history. From 1999, Martha M. Christy's book on the connection between yew trees and taxol: The Pacific yew story: how an ancient tree became a modern miracle.

As noted in Britannica online, various incredibly ancient species of yew tree are distributed across the Earth's Northern hemisphere:
https://www.britannica.com/plant/Pacific-yew

58MaureenRoy
Muokkaaja: kesäkuu 27, 2018, 7:32 pm

From 2010, Four fish: the future of the last wild food.

From 2011, a prescient dystopian novel about the United Kingdom ... a precursor of the BREXIT movement? Fugue for a darkening island ... also available in an omnibus edition of two novels by Christopher Priest -- Inverted World and Fugue for a Darkening Island.

No immediate danger: Volume one of Carbon Ideologies is by William T. Vollman.

No good alternative: Volume two of Carbon Ideologies will be published by Viking on June 5, 2018:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/566482/no-good-alternative-by-william-t...

New in fiction, The Overstory, winner of the National Book Award. That's what I am now reading ... a magical tale.

59MaureenRoy
Muokkaaja: kesäkuu 7, 2018, 11:50 am

From Earth Island Journal, here is a well-informed review of The Overstory. I agree 100% with that reviewer's findings:

http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/eij/article/its_not_the_trees_that_...

60MaureenRoy
Muokkaaja: kesäkuu 28, 2018, 9:06 am

A 400+ page omnibus edition containing two classic titles in one: The Good Life: Helen and Scott Nearing's 60 years of self-sufficient living.

That edition is in my personal LT collection. Related books, films, and other materials are on the similarly named website: http://www.goodlife.org

Be a hobbit, save the earth: the guide to sustainable shire living; Shireness Publishing; December 2014; 564 p. $24.99; paperback. A Life less throwaway: the lost art of buying for life; Ten Speed Press; June 19, 2018; 304 p.; $15.00; paperback; also see website and Twitter feed BuyMeOnce.

Forthcoming:

On October 30, 2018: the hardcover edition of How to give up plastic: a guide to saving the world, one plastic bottle at a time. Author is Will McCallum, Head of Oceans at Greenpeace, it contains key methods I have not seen in print before. Publisher is Penguin Life; 208 p; $11.03; hardcover. ISBN-10 0241363217 ISBN-13 978-0241363218

61John5918
kesäkuu 26, 2018, 12:11 am

>60 MaureenRoy:

Thanks for mentioning Helen and Scott Nearing. Their books made a great impression on me when I first came across them around 25 years ago. When we moved house recently they came out of storage and are now sitting on my bookshelf. Time to re-read them, perhaps.

62MaureenRoy
elokuu 17, 2018, 1:37 pm

The 2009 2nd edition (480 pages, paperback only?) of Nikki and David Goldbeck's most recent book Healthy Highways, a travel companion for many US highways and their vegetarian food options, is self-published thru the couple's website:

http://healthyhighways.com/?page_id=492

That website also lists their many other published titles, as well as a blog and much other information. Their publications are endorsed by Jane Brody, the NYTimes food writer. Their first bestselling cookbook (Wholefoods...) is good but dated ... it's vegetarian but heavy on dairy, with outdated assumptions on the need for protein in the diet. If you are on a lowfat diet, there are ways to adapt those recipes. (In recent years, the United Nations has confirmed that human beings can actually thrive on a diet containing as little as nine grams of protein per day.)

63MaureenRoy
Muokkaaja: elokuu 17, 2018, 5:20 pm

As of August 15, 2018, these are are all forthcoming titles: (Starting on this date, my most highly recommended titles will include ISBN numbers.)

Building a sustainable home: practical green design choices for your health, wealth, and soul, by Melissa Rappaport Schifman, an environmentalist and MBA. Recommended by the former CEO of Seventh Generation. This book incorporates the LEED rating system. Skyhorse Publishing, 224 p., PB. Published August 21, 2018. ISBN-10: 1510733442 ISBN-13: 978-1510733442

Published Oct. 9, 2018: The Frugal Homesteader: living the good life on less, by John Moody and Joel Salatin. New Society Publishers, PB, $24.99

Published Sept. 4, 2018: Working reclaimed wood: a guide for woodworkers, makers, and designers, by Yoav Liberman. Pub: Popular Woodworking Books, Hardcover, 160 p., $26.99

Published: Feb. 21, 2019: Carrots don't grow on trees: building sustainable and resilient communities, by Robert Turner. Pub: Discovery Books, LLC, PB, $16.95 250. p

Published: April 9, 2019: Natural Gourmet Institute Cookbook: over 150 vegan recipes and techniques for a healthful, whole foods, plant-based lifestyle, by Chloe Coscarelli and and Natural Gourmet Institute. Pub: Clarkson Potter, Hardcover, 352 p., $35.00 ISBN-10: 1524759813 ISBN-13: 978-1524759810

Published Oct. 9, 2018: Urban Farming 2nd Ed by Thomas Fox. Pub: CompanionHouse Books, 416 p., PB, $24.99

Published Nov. 8, 2018: Reduce, Reuse, Reimagine: sorting out the recycling system, by Beth Porter. (Beth is Climate & Recycling Director of Green America.) 218 p., Hardcover, $34 ISBN-10: 153810539X ISBN-13: 978-1538105399

Published March 29, 2019: Daily Bread, by Gregg Segal. Photo compositions of children's weekly self-reported diets. "The colorful and hyper-detailed results tell a unique story of multiculturalism and how we nourish ourselves at the dawn of the 21st century." Pub: powerHouse Books, $40 Hardcover, 120 p. ISBN-10: 1576879119 ISBN-13: 978-1576879115

Published April 1, 2019: What is energy and how might we think about it? by Sanford Kwinter and Kiel Moe. Many others contributed short sections of this book. Kwinter works at the Pratt Institute. (Currently, this title is the #1 ranked release in the Amazon category of Energy-Efficient Remodeling & Renovation.) Pub: Actar PB, 192 p. $29.95 ISBN-10: 1940291453 ISBN-13: 987-1940291451

Published May 7, 2019: Peace, Love, and Fibre: Over 100 High-Fibre Recipes, by Mairlyn Smith, a professional home economist in Canada ... she is the author of six award-winning cookbooks. Pub: Appetite by Random House. $28.00 PB, 256. p ISBN-10: 0147530926 ISBN-13: 978-0147530929

Most of these not touchstoning, because of future publication dates ... I have added these titles to my personal LT account.

64MaureenRoy
Muokkaaja: marraskuu 25, 2018, 7:39 pm

Calling all librarians, Saturday, November 24, 2018:

In the USA, the Trump administration yesterday released the following 1,700 page report compiling approx. nine years of globally generated data collected by hundreds of scientists on the environmental, health and economic factors at risk if there is no mitigation of Earth's climate change. There were zero administration announcements to go with that release, which occurred in the early Friday morning hours of a major US holiday weekend (Thanksgiving). CNN and other US and European news outlets immediately started to raise questions about whether this government timing represents an attempt to bury this document. Report link:

https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/downloads/?

The first question this 1,656 page report raises for me is how best to make it accessible to the public and to interested non-profit groups, such as environmentalists, US college students whose major is sustainability (such as SUNY, St. Olaf's College, others), US Congress members, Senators, and their staffs, plus ad hoc events such as One City One Book, etc. If a lot of embedded scientific formulas are included in the text, I would suggest avoiding smaller E-book readers, for one, since I find it chaotic having to skip thru two (or even three) pages just in order to understand technical formulas, graphs, tables, and the like.

Publishing format options include: 1) Staying with the electronic format, but recommending larger E-book reading screens like regular monitors, iPads, larger notebook computers, and the like. For group discussions and classes, a multimedia projector might be the way to go. Presumably the electronic format is the easiest to translate for the large number of other countries interested in this report, and easiest to raise font size for low-vision library customers. 2) Cheaper hardcover formats, as in Perma-bound, etc., in a multi-volume set, would be more expensive but would allow photo-copying without having the binding fall apart. 3) Plastic-coated paperback covers, again in a multi-volume set, might be least expensive of all, with unknown durability risks. 3) If hard-copy publishing is involved, advice from IFLA would be very helpful, as well as the potential involvement of ALA's publishing office or interested others such as the University of Chicago Press (near the Obama Presidential Library, which might be able to coordinate some of these decisions since the document began under US President Obama's second term), or even the University of California Press, which both California governors would probably support using for that type of publishing project. 4) Since hundreds of co-authors are involved, would a cataloging choice of "corporate author" be appropriate?

The logos at the bottom of the download page show that many US agencies were involved in the preparation of this report, from the EPA to the Pentagon to the National Academy of Sciences, etc.

Interested US libraries that will help make this report available to their clientele will include all public libraries, many academic libraries (especially those with GovDocs collections), Federal Depository Libraries, US Presidential libraries, for starters.

US media reaction:

From The Hill newspaper, in the US District of Columbia:

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/418076-five-major-takeaways-from-t...

From the Associated Press:

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/8990379-181/government-climate-report-warns-o...

From the US science journal Nature:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07483-x

Edit Nov. 25, 2018: In its first comments on this US Federal climate change report, White House staff attempted to dismiss it as a "worst case scenario." In the report sections I have read so far, however, I see no evidence of such a bias.

65MaureenRoy
Muokkaaja: kesäkuu 3, 2019, 3:15 pm

A wide consensus has recently emerged on the importance of the genre of climate fiction. Here are some examples of that discussion and recent titles:

Climate fiction titles:

The Salt Line, by Holly Goddard Jones, August 2018:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/549983/the-salt-line-by-holly-goddard-j...

The Wall, by John Lanchester, March 2019:

https://books.wwnorton.com/books/The-Wall/

Seven "cli-fi" novels recommended by Oprah magazine in March 2019:

https://www.oprahmag.com/entertainment/books/a26811549/climate-change-books/

Of those recommended, be aware that the novel New York 2140 presents the future in a tone that is preachy and dull ... I could not finish reading it.

Published as a periodic e-mail summary is Burning Worlds:

https://mailchi.mp/2b2da44a1de6/burning-worlds-climate-change-in-art-and-literat...

May 2019 Call For Papers in the genre of climate fiction:

https://www.fantastic-arts.org/2019/cfp-paradoxa-volume-31-climate-fiction/

Cli-fi short stories from 2019:

https://www.guernicamag.com/climate-fiction/

A blogger's best of 2018 list of climate fiction:

http://treesong.org/best-climate-fiction-of-2018

From Oxford University, a list of climate fiction authors and more:

https://oxfordre.com/literature/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.001.0001/acr...

From CNN, examples of how climate fiction can spark changes in public opinion and behavior:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/08/world/climate-change-movies-eprise/index.html

Forthcoming in August 2019: http://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/eden-brazil

66MaureenRoy
Muokkaaja: kesäkuu 3, 2019, 2:39 pm

Recent non-fiction titles on sustainability, the climate crisis, and related topics:

The newest book from Greta Thunberg -- this one is a compilation of her recent speeches: No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/315/315787/no-one-is-too-small-to-make-a-differe...

Titles recommended in the NYTimes Book Review by Dominique Browning, Associate Vice President of the Environmental Defense Fund:

Written for the UK and European climates, The Kitchen Garden by Alan Buckingham (DK, paper, $24.99):

https://www.dk.com/us/book/9781465479792-the-kitchen-garden/

Written for North American climates, Pruning simplified: a visual guide to 50 trees and shrubs, by Steven Bradley (Workman, paper, $19.95):

https://www.workman.com/products/pruning-simplified

The Tree Book, by leading authors in horticulture Michael A. Dirr and Keith S. Warren (Workman, $79.95):

https://www.workman.com/products/the-tree-book

A trilogy of books from the forestry professional Peter Wohlleben, the first being The Hidden Life of Trees: the illustrated version (Greystone, $35), and the second is titled The Inner Life of Animals. Third is The Secret Wisdom of Nature: trees, animals, and the extraordinary balance of all living things (Greystone, $24.95):

https://greystonebooks.com/collections/peter-wohlleben/products/the-hidden-life-...

Ancient methods of tree pruning -- coppicing and pollarding -- leave the tree roots in the ground, thus preventing soil erosion and protecting wildlife. A related new book is Sprout Lands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees, by William Bryant Logan (Norton, $27.95). (This book is based on field work in Spain, Japan, and California):

https://books.wwnorton.com/books/Sprout-Lands/

67John5918
elokuu 2, 2019, 1:11 pm

Pope Francis Recognises Jesuit Environmentalist (AMECEA)

Brother Vincent Soreng, S.J. received a letter of recognition from the Holy Father Pope Francis for his commitment to conserving the environment...

“For almost fifty years, you are working as a missionary in Africa, first in Sudan, then Zambia, finally in Tanzania and Kenya, with a keen eye on environmental conservation through the promotion of horticulture and forestry. You have quietly done these tasks with great dedication, consistency, commitment and amazing diligence,’’ the Pope’s letter read in part...

“In this case, My Dear Brother Vincent, your practical teaching by doing has double positive impact, first on the minds of the leaners around and secondly, on the sustainable beauty of the planet itself in preserving our common home for future generations”...

68MaureenRoy
syyskuu 17, 2019, 5:51 pm

September 2019, new climate fiction:

https://lithub.com/can-climate-fiction-be-hopeful/

69aspirit
lokakuu 11, 2019, 7:20 pm

The link in the opening post goes back to the group homepage instead of to Zeitgeist, here:

http://www.librarything.com/groups/sustainability/groupzeitgeist

70MaureenRoy
lokakuu 12, 2019, 7:24 pm

Aspirit and everyone, thank you for mentioning the zeitgeist link. This group was started by a different LT member (signature103) that I haven't seen much of on this LT site for years; he may be pursuing graduate studies in philosophy. Also, the zeitgeist feature is not much help, anyway, given the nature of sustainability, which is so extremely heterogeneous, with so many radically different facets. That's why I list new titles in this zeitgeist thread: 1) Not all new titles are listed here, because of the tidal wave of new materials constantly emerging for this genre ... and a considerable number of those new materials infringe heavily on the copyrights of previously published classic works. 2) The US Library of Congress could not give me any better guidelines (for the listing of new titles) than those I use here ... they confirmed the mammoth breadth and depth of this genre. 3) When subject headings are available, I include those, although many of those SHs seem almost chosen at random.

71MaureenRoy
joulukuu 9, 2019, 1:03 pm

More support from non-profit groups for the new genre of climate fiction:

https://www.nrdc.org/onearth/cli-fi-genre-gives-us-peek-planet-earth-2040

72MaureenRoy
Muokkaaja: helmikuu 20, 2020, 9:21 pm

This group of recommended non-fiction titles doesn't contain quite so many identifiers, because my family and I are almost halfway thru moving.

The Madhouse Effect, by (the noted climatologist) Michael E. Mann. Subtitle: how climate change denial is threatening our planet, destroying our politics, and driving us crazy. $18.95 PB; 240p. ISBN-10 0231177879 ISBN-13 978-0743442701

Frontier House, by Simon Shaw HB; 240p. $24.99 ISBN-10 0743442709 ISBN-13 978-0743442701

All Hell Breaking Loose: the Pentagon's perspective on climate change, by Michael T. Klare.
$27.44 HB; 304p. ISBN-10 1627792481 ISBN-13 978-1627792486

Bread, Wine, Chocolate: the slow loss of foods we love, by Preeti Simran Sethi.
$17.02 HB; 352p. ISBN-10 0061581083 ISBN-13 978-0061581083

Don't Even Think About It: why our brains are wired to ignore climate change, by George Marshall.
$17.78 HB; 272p. ISBN-10 9781632861023 ISBN-13 978-1632861023

The Great Derangement: climate change and the unthinkable, by Amitav Ghosh.
$11.88 HB; 176p. ISBN-10 9780226526812 ISBN-13 978-0226526812

The Green New Deal: why the fossil fuel civilization will collapse by 2028, and the bold economic plan to save life on Earth, by Jeremy Rifkin.
$15.89 HB; 304p. ISBN-10 1250253209 ISBN-13 978-1250253200

The Race For What's Left: the global scramble for the world's last resources, by Michael T. Klare.
$19.39 HB; 320p. ISBN-10 1250023971 ISBN-13 978-1250023971

Termites of the State: why complexity leads to inequality, by (the noted public economist) Vito Tanzi.
$21.10 HB; 454p. (Cambridge Univ. Press) ISBN-10 1108420931 ISBN-13 978-1108420938

73MaureenRoy
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74MaureenRoy
Muokkaaja: elokuu 15, 2020, 11:28 am

A generous book excerpt from a new 2020 book (The Good Ancestor: how to think long-term in a short-term world) on how to encourage and experience long-term thinking:

https://medium.com/the-long-now-foundation/six-ways-to-think-long-term-da373b337...

75John5918
joulukuu 21, 2020, 12:01 am

Wasn't sure where to post this reflection on environmental protection and the US Constitution. It recently came to my attention via Genesis Farm, an eco-spirituality centre in New Jersey, USA, close to the Delaware Water Gap, where I was privileged to spend a few months nearly thirty years ago. It was founded by Miriam MacGillis and is heavily influenced by the thinking of Thomas Berry.

The Constitutional Duty to Protect

As an attorney who worked within the NJDEP, Michael Diamond believed that the law could prevent corporate destruction of Earth’s air, soils, waters, and food. He left the DEP with a sure understanding about the gross deficiencies in our environmental laws and regulations. He then spent years examining the Constitution of the United States for better perspectives on how to truly bring about environmental security. This article is his most recent testament to the brilliance of the framers of our Constitution. They set forth a path we are to follow that will ensure our survival. This piece takes us down that path...

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