Anthony Flaccavento is the author of Healthy Food Systems: A Toolkit for Building Value Chains. He has published articles on sustainability and rural development in the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, and Solutions Journal. In 1995, he founded Appalachian Sustainable Development and now serves as the president of SCALE, Inc., a private consulting business that supports ecologically healthy economies. He is also an experienced organic farmer.
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Anthony Flaccavento: Building a Healthy Economy from the Bottom Up
The global economy has witnessed important changes in recent years. In the United States, enterprising communities have transitioned from tobacco farming to growing organic produce, from extractive f …
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Arne Naess: Life’s Philosophy
Now available in English for the first time, Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess’s meditation on the art of living is an exhortation to preserve the environment and biodiversity. As Naess approaches his …
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Dyana Z. Furmansky: Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy
Rosalie Edge (1877-1962) was the first American woman to achieve national renown as a conservationist. Dyana Z. Furmansky draws on Edge’s personal papers and on interviews with family members and ass …
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Bruce V. Foltz & John Chryssavgis: Toward an Ecology of Transfiguration
Can Orthodox Christianity offer spiritual resources uniquely suited to the environmental concerns of today? This book makes the case emphatically that it can indeed. In addition to being the first …
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Anne Rowthorn: Wisdom of John Muir
The Wisdom of John Muir marries the best aspects of a Muir anthology with the best aspects of a Muir biography. The fact that it is neither, and yet it is both, distinguishes this book from the man …
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Bill McKibben: Comforting Whirlwind
In The Comforting Whirlwind, acclaimed environmentalist and writer Bill Mc Kibben turns to the biblical book of Job and its awesome depiction of creation to demonstrate our need to embrace a bold new …
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Lisa Kivirist & John Ivanko: Rural Renaissance
In the ’60s it was called the ’back to the land’ movement, and in Helen and Scott Nearings’ day, it was ’living the good life.’ Whatever the term, North Americans have always yearned for a simpler wa …
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Andres R. Edwards: Thriving Beyond Sustainability
Every fifteen seconds on our Earth, a child dies from waterborne disease. Three times an hour, another species becomes extinct. Each day we consume eighty-five million barrels of oil and pump twent …
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Mallory McDuff: Sacred Acts
Stories from across North America of contemporary church leaders, parishioners and religious activists who are working to define a new environmental movement, where honoring the Creator means …
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Peter Barnes: Climate Solutions
Millions of Americans are demanding that all levels of governmentlocal, state, and federaltake immediate and effective action to fight climate change. But theres a big problem. Hundreds of policy …
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Greg Pahl: Biodiesel
For anyone who is trying to keep up with the extremely rapid developments in the biodiesel industry, the second edition of Biodiesel: Growing a New Energy Economy is an invaluable aid. The …
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Gary Paul Nabhan: Growing Food in a Hotter, Drier Land
How to harvest water and nutrients, select drought-tolerant plants, and create natural diversity
Because climatic uncertainty has now become ’the new normal, ’ many farmers, gardeners and orchard-k …
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Mary DeMocker: The Parents’ Guide to Climate Revolution
“Relax, ” writes author Mary De Mocker, “this isn’t another light bulb list. It’s not another overwhelming pile of parental ‘to dos’ designed to shrink your family’s carbon footprint through …
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Bill McKibben: Falter
A powerful call to arms from an eminent environmentalist
Thirty years ago, environmentalist Bill Mc Kibben’s bestselling The End of Nature – long regarded as a classic – was the first book to aler …
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Mike Berners-Lee & Duncan Clark: The Burning Question
The Burning Question reveals climate change to be the most fascinating scientific, political and social puzzle in history. It shows that carbon emissions are still accelerating upwards, following a …
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David Suzuki: The David Suzuki Reader
In this revised and expanded edition of his collected writings, David Suzuki continues to explore the themes that have informed his work for more than four decades — the interconnectedness of all thi …
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Vance Packard: The Waste Makers
An exposé of ’the systematic attempt of business to make us wasteful, debt-ridden, permanently discontented individuals, ’ The Waste Makers is Vance Packard’s pioneering 1960 work on how the rapid …
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Bill McKibben: Die taumelnde Welt
Im Jahr 1989 warnte Bill Mc Kibben mit seinem Buch »Das Ende der Natur« als einer der ersten vor dem Klimawandel. Sein neuer Aufruf ist umso dringender und weitreichender – die Menschheit ist dabei, …
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Bill McKibben: Eaarth
The bestselling author of Deep Economy shows that we’re living on a fundamentally altered planet and opens our eyes to the kind of change we’ll need in order to make our civilization endure.Twenty …
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Anthony Flaccavento: Building a Healthy Economy from the Bottom Up
The global economy has witnessed important changes in recent years. In the United States, enterprising communities have transitioned from tobacco farming to growing organic produce, from extractive …
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Bill McKibben: Hundred Dollar Holiday
Too many people have come to dread the approach of the holidays, a season that should — and can — be the most relaxed, intimate, joyful, and spiritual time of the year. In this book, Bill Mc Kibben …
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Daniel L. Brunner & Jennifer L. Butler: Introducing Evangelical Ecotheology
Today’s church finds itself in a new world, one in which climate change and ecological degradation are front-page news. In the eyes of many, the evangelical community has been slow to take up a call …
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Bill McKibben & Bill McKibben: Falter
’This is Bill Mc Kibben at his glorious best. Wise and warning, with everything on the line. Do not miss it’ Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything and The Shock Doctrine Thirty years ago, …
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Bill McKibben: Maybe One
From the groundbreaking, bestselling author of The End of Nature, a controversial and provocative book arguing that to help the planet we should begin to voluntarily limit our numbers. Bill Mc …
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Fletcher Harper: GreenFaith
God is calling us to live differently. The challenges we face are imminent. Green Faith provides vision, inspiration, and practical tools to help you build your faith while inhabiting a creation that …
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Bill McKibben: Oil and Honey
Bestselling author and environmental activist Bill Mc Kibben recounts the personal and global story of the fight to build and preserve a sustainable planet.Bill Mc Kibben is not a person you’d expect …
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M Jackson & Bill McKibben: While Glaciers Slept
While Glaciers Slept weaves together the parallel stories of what happens when the climates of a family and a planet change. M Jackson, a noted scientist and National Geographic Expert, reveals how …
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Bill McKibben: Eaarth
Twenty years ago, in The End of Nature, Bill Mc Kibben offered one of the earliest warnings about global warming. Those warnings went mostly unheeded; now, he argues, we need to acknowledge that …
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Jeremy N. Smith: Growing a Garden City
Fifteen peopleplus a class of first graderstell how local food, farms, and gardens changed their lives and their community…and how they can change yours, too.Growing a Garden City includes: Fifteen …
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Guy Waterman & Laura Waterman: The Green Guide to Low-Impact Hiking and Camping
’A classic of backpacking literature’ (Backpacker), now updated with a brand-new foreword by environmentalist and best-selling author Bill Mc Kibben Originally published as
Backwoods Ethics in 1979, …
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Erv Schroeder: The Memory of Stone
This intimate portrait of the Colorado Plateau celebrates the landscape in photographs and writing. Erv Schroeder’s photographs bear witness to the primordial forces of the earth—the raw power that m …
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ML Lincoln: Wrenched from the Land
Wrenched from the Land features sixteen interviews with some of the most iconic eco-warriors to put themselves on the line for their beliefs. The activists featured in this book are inspired by the l …
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Lisa E. Dahill & Jim B. Martin-Schramm: Eco-Reformation
In 2017 Christians around the world will mark the five hundredth anniversary of the Reformation. In the midst of many appeals for reformation today, a growing number of theologians, scholars, and …
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David L. O’Hara & Matthew T. Dickerson: Downstream
Downstream: Reflections on Brook Trout, Fly Fishing, and the Waters of Appalachia is a mosaic combining nature writing, fly-fishing narrative, memoir, and philosophical and spiritual inquiry. …
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Helen Caldicott: Loving This Planet
Conversations on sustainability, renewable energy, and other pressing issues: “A level of intellectual discussion all too absent in our national discourse.” —Booklist A …
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John E. Carroll: Sustainability and Spirituality
This groundbreaking book explores the inherent interconnectedness of sustainability and spirituality, acknowledging the dependency of one upon the other. John E. Carroll contends that true ecological …
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Joshua Kahn & Stephen D’Arcy: Line in the Tar Sands
Tar sands “development” comes with an enormous environmental and human cost. In the tar sands of Alberta, the oil industry is using vast quantities of water and natural gas to produce synthetic crude …
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Cynthia Kaufman: The Sea Is Rising and So Are We
The Sea is Rising and So Are We: A Climate Justice Handbook is an invitation to get involved in the movement to build a just and sustainable world in the face of the most urgent challenge our species …
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Joshua Kahn Russell: Line In The Tar Sands
The fight over the tar sands in North America is among the most epic environmental and social justice battles of our time, and it is one of the first that has managed to quite explicitly marry …
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Bill McKibben: Idea Can Go Extinct
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.An Idea Can Go Extinct is Bill Mc Kibben’s impassioned, groundbreaking account of how, by changing the earth’s …
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David Miller: Solved
If our planet is going to survive the climate crisis, we need to act rapidly.Taking cues from progressive cities around the world, including Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, Oslo, Shenzhen, and …
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David Miller: Solved
If our planet is going to survive the climate crisis, we need to act rapidly.Taking cues from progressive cities around the world, including Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, Oslo, Shenzhen, and …
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Eileen Crist & H. Bruce Rinker: Gaia in Turmoil
Essays link Gaian science to such global environmental quandaries as climate change and biodiversity destruction, providing perspectives from science, philosophy, politics, and technology.Gaian …
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Fred Bahnson & Norman Wirzba: Making Peace with the Land
God is reconciling all things in heaven and on earth.We are alienated not only from one another, but also from the land that sustains us. Our ecosystems are increasingly damaged, and human bodies are …
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Brian Kateman: Meat Me Halfway
We know that eating animals is bad for the planet and bad for our health, and yet we do it anyway. Ask anyone in the plant-based movement and the solution seems obvious: Stop eating meat. But, for …
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Bill McKibben: End of Nature
One of the earliest warnings about climate change and one of environmentalism’s lodestars’Nature, we believe, takes forever. It moves with infinite slowness, ’ begins the first book to bring climate …
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John Chryssavgis & Bruce V. Foltz: Toward an Ecology of Transfiguration
Can Orthodox Christianity offer spiritual resources uniquely suited to the environmental concerns of today? This book makes the case emphatically that it can indeed. In addition to being the first …
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Posters for the Planet
These 50 full-color tear-out posters feature original artwork that conveys the urgent need to take action to combat climate change. Whether you’re an activist, a student, or are looking for the perfe …
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David Suzuki: The Sacred Balance, 25th anniversary edition
“The Sacred Balance has a beautiful spirit.”—E.O. Wilson
With a new foreword from Robin Wall Kimmerer, New York Times-bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass—and an afterword from Bill Mc Kibben— …
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Murray Bookchin: Our Synthetic Environment
Originally published in 1962,
Our Synthetic Environment explores the negative effects that chemicals and other toxins in the environment have on human health. From the degradation of our food and …
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Mark Martin: I’m With the Bears
The size and severity of the global climate crisis is such that even the most committed environmentalists can drift into a state of denial. The award-winning writers collected here have made it their …
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Tom Engelhardt: The World According to Tomdispatch
Tomdispatch.com has established itself as the go-to blog for contemporary US politics, and the favored website for leading commentators; its powerful, no-holds-barred essays resonate throughout the …
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Kyle T. Kramer: Time to Plant
Writer, teacher, and farmer Kyle T. Kramer presents the honest, humorous, and uplifting story of coming to know God and himself and beginning to understand life as prayer in A Time to Plant: Life …
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Henry David Thoreau: Walden: With an Introduction and Annotations by Bill McKibben
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David W. Orr: Democracy in a Hotter Time
The first major book to deal with the dual crises of democracy and climate change as one interrelated threat to the human future and to identify a path forward.Democracy in a Hotter Time calls for …
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Ellen Bernstein: Toward a Holy Ecology
The Song of Songs is among the most accessible of all biblical books. It is also the most deeply ecological text of the canon, yet few people are aware of the Song’s ecological message. The intention …
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David Miller: Solved
If our planet is going to survive the climate crisis, we need to act rapidly.Taking cues from progressive cities around the world, including Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, Oslo, Shenzhen, and …
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David Miller: Solved
If our planet is going to survive the climate crisis, we need to act rapidly.
Taking cues from progressive cities around the world, including Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, Oslo, Shenzhen, and Syd …
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BF Nagy: Proven Climate Solutions
Fifteen climate experts combine forces to present a plan for slowing and ultimately preventing further destruction to our planet.As governments and businesses continue to set climate goals for …
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€32.03
Christianity Today: Stewards of the Earth
Fifty years of evangelical thought on creation care
Evangelicals have a complex relationship with environmentalism. Some lament the church's apparent disinterest in humanity's negative …
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Bill McKibben: Wandering Home
"[Mc Kibben is] a marvelous writer who has thought deeply about the environment, loves this part of the country, and knows how to be a first-class traveling companion."-Entertainment Weekly …
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