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1) Folks, this ain't normal: a farmer's advice for happier hens, healthier people, and a better world

Author

Salatin, Joel

Publisher

Center Street

Pub. Date

2011.

Language

English

Book
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Central - Adult Nonfiction

635.048 SALAT

Pub. Date	Edition	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
2011.	First edition.	Center Street	xvi, 361 pages ; 24 cm	English	Available Central - Adult Nonfiction 635.048 SALAT	More Info Place Hold

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Farmer Joel Salatin is the 21st century's thinking man's farmer who believes that the answer to rebuilding America is to start with the family farm and for those farms to thrive, we all need to learn how to eat naturally again. Salatin's solutions as presented in the book are very simple and easy to implement in any American household, whether in the suburbs of Chicago, the mountains of Colorado, or urban life in New York City. On topic with today's...

2) Edible: a celebration of local foods

Author

Ryder, Tracey

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons

Pub. Date

[2010]

Language

English

Book
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Central - Adult Nonfiction

641.5973 RYDER

Pub. Date	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
[2010]	John Wiley & Sons	xi, 324 pages : color ; 26 cm	English	Available Central - Adult Nonfiction 641.5973 RYDER	More Info Place Hold

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A gorgeous full-color celebration of North America's local food heroes and traditions. Offers profiles of farmers, artisans, chefs, and organizations that are making a difference, and shares eighty seasonal recipes that highlight the very best local foods across the country.

3) The unsettlers: in search of the good life in today's America

Author

Sundeen, Mark

Publisher

Riverhead Books

Pub. Date

2016.

Language

English

Book
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Cherrydale - Adult Nonfiction

640 SUNDE

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Pub. Date	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
2016.	Riverhead Books	324 pages ; 24 cm	English	Available Cherrydale - Adult Nonfiction 640 SUNDE Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold

4) Big green cookbook: hundreds of planet-pleasing recipes & tips for a luscious, low-carbon lifestyle

Author

Newgent, Jackie

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons

Pub. Date

[2009]

Language

English

Book
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Central - Adult Nonfiction

641.5973 NEWGE

Pub. Date	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
[2009]	John Wiley & Sons	xiii, 386 pages ; 24 cm	English	Available Central - Adult Nonfiction 641.5973 NEWGE	More Info Place Hold

5) Simple prosperity: finding real wealth in a sustainable lifestyle

Author

Wann, David

Publisher

St. Martin's Griffin

Pub. Date

2008.

Language

English

Book
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Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction

306.0973 WANN

Pub. Date	Edition	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
2008.	First edition.	St. Martin's Griffin	xviii, 282 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm	English	Available Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction 306.0973 WANN	More Info Place Hold

6) Radical homemakers: reclaiming domesticity from a consumer culture

Author

Hayes, Shannon

Publisher

Left to Write Press

Pub. Date

[2010]

Language

English

Book
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Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction

640 HAYES

Pub. Date	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
[2010]	Left to Write Press	xiv, 300 pages ; 23 cm	English	Available Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction 640 HAYES	More Info Place Hold

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"Radical Homemakers is about men and women across the U.S. who focus on home and hearth as a political and ecological act; who center their lives around family and community for personal fulfillment and cultural change"--P. [4] of cover.

7) Live sustainably now: a low-carbon vision of the good life

Author

Coplan, Karl S

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Pub. Date

[2020]

Language

English

Book
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Central - Adult Nonfiction

640.286 COPLA

Pub. Date	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
[2020]	Columbia University Press	xiv, 208 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm	English	Available Central - Adult Nonfiction 640.286 COPLA	More Info Place Hold

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"Any realistic response to climate change will require reducing carbon emissions to a sustainable level. Yet even people who already recognize that the climate is the most urgent issue facing the planet struggle to understand their individual responsibilities. Is it even possible to live with a sustainable carbon footprint in modern American society--much less to live well? What are the options for those who would like to make climate awareness part...

8) Local: the new face of food and farming in America

Author

Gayeton, Douglas

Publisher

Harper Design

Pub. Date

Language

English

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Glencarlyn - Adult Nonfiction

338.19 GAYET

Pub. Date	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
©2014.	Harper Design	271 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm	English	Available Glencarlyn - Adult Nonfiction 338.19 GAYET	More Info Place Hold

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Educates, engages, and asks people to pay closer attention to how they eat, what they buy, and their responsibly for creating a healthier, safer food system in America.

9) Dude making a difference: bamboo bikes, dumpster dives and other extreme adventures across America

Author

Greenfield, Rob

Publisher

New Society Publishers

Pub. Date

[2016]

Language

English

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Westover - Adult Nonfiction

917.3 GREEN

Pub. Date	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
[2016]	New Society Publishers	271 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm	English	Available Westover - Adult Nonfiction 917.3 GREEN	More Info Place Hold

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"You want to do something for the planet, but what? Change a light bulb, install a low-flow faucet, eat organic? How about ride 4,700 miles across America on a bamboo bicycle, using only water from natural sources, avoiding fossil fuels almost completely, supplying your few electrical needs with solar power and creating nearly zero waste? Sound crazy? Maybe. But not if you're Rob Greenfield. Then it sounds like a pretty amazing way to bring your message...

10) Cabin fever: a suburban father's search for the wild

Author

Montgomery-Fate, Tom

Publisher

Beacon Press

Pub. Date

2011.

Language

English

Book
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Central - Adult Nonfiction

333.72 MONTG

Pub. Date	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
2011.	Beacon Press	xv, 207 pages ; 22 cm	English	Available Central - Adult Nonfiction 333.72 MONTG	More Info Place Hold

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"A modern Walden--if Thoreau had had three kids and a minivan--Cabin Fever is a serious yet irreverent take on living in a cabin in the woods while also living within our high-tech, materialist culture. Tom Montgomery Fate turns Thoreau's immortal statement "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately" on its head with the phrase, "I got married and had children because I wished to live deliberately." Though he spends half his time...

11) Back to basics: a complete guide to traditional skills

Publisher

Skyhorse Publishing

Pub. Date

[2014]

Language

English

Book
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Central - Adult Nonfiction

640.973 BACKT 2014 4th ed.

Pub. Date	Edition	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
[2014]	Fourth edition, updated and revised.	Skyhorse Publishing	528 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm	English	Available Central - Adult Nonfiction 640.973 BACKT 2014 4th ed.	More Info Place Hold

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Offers information and instructions on living a greener, more self-sufficient lifestyle, including how to build a log cabin, how to raise livestock, and how to make candles.

12) We are as gods: back to the land in the 1970s on the quest for a new America

Author

Daloz, Kate

Publisher

PublicAffairs

Pub. Date

c2016.

Language

English

Book
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Central - Adult Nonfiction

306.0973 DALOZ

Pub. Date	Edition	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
c2016.	First Edition.	PublicAffairs	xii, 355 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm	English	Available Central - Adult Nonfiction 306.0973 DALOZ	More Info Place Hold

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"Between 1970 and 1974 ten million Americans abandoned the city, and the commercialism, and all the inauthentic bourgeois comforts of the Eisenhower-era America of their parents. Instead, they went back to the land. It was the only time in modern history that urbanization has gone into reverse. Kate Daloz follows the dreams and ideals of a small group of back-to-the-landers to tell the story of a nationwide movement and moment. And she shows how the...

13) The big tiny: a built-it-myself memoir

Author

Williams, Dee

Publisher

Blue Rider Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA)

Pub. Date

[2014]

Language

English

Book
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Central - Adult Biography

B WILLIAM D

Pub. Date	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
[2014]	Blue Rider Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA)	288 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm	English	Available Central - Adult Biography B WILLIAM D	More Info Place Hold

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"A personal memoir about downsizing and the author's experience building her own home and living the minimalist lifestyle"--

14) No impact man

Publisher

Oscilloscope Pictures

Pub. Date

2010.

Language

English

DVD
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Central - Adult DVD

DVD DOCS NOIMP

Pub. Date	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
2010.	Oscilloscope Pictures	1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.	English	Available Central - Adult DVD DVD DOCS NOIMP	More Info Place Hold

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Colin Beavan, a New York City writer and self-proclaimed liberal, has big plans for his new book. He decides on a grand experiment: to live one year with as little impact on the environment as possible. The problem is, the project requires his wife Michelle, an espresso-guzzling, Prada-worshipping business writer, and their young daughter to be fully on board. The family embarks on a year of no electricity, television, cars, toilet paper, elevators,...

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