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Hope, Human and Wild: True Stories of Living Lightly on the Earth

10 best books like Hope, Human and Wild: True Stories of Living Lightly on the Earth (Bill McKibben): Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World, Broadsides from the Other Orders: A Book of Bugs, The Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices: Practical Advice from The Union of Concerned Scientists, In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology & the Survival of the Indian Nations, Bethlehem Road Murder, May All Be Fed: 'a Diet For A New World : Including Recipes By Jia Patton And Friends, Nothing Left Over: A Plain and Simple Life, How Shall I Live My Life?: On Liberating the Earth from Civilization, Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge, The Sustainability Revolution: Portrait of a Paradigm Shift

Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World
AuthorAlan Weisman
ISBN1890132284
This reminds me of Audre Lorde's quote, "The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house." So what tools should we use? And once the house is dismantled, what do we build instead? Using Gaviotas as a case study, it takes a whole lot of trial and error, and taking absolutely no ideas or assumptions...
Broadsides from the Other Orders: A Book of Bugs
AuthorSue Hubbell
ISBN0679400621
Hubbell channels Rachel Carson in this wonderful wandering through the bug world. She's environmentally conscious & given to almost poetic maundering about them, from the prettiest to the nastiest. Some passages would be almost pornographic out of context, but it's all good & very interesting....
The Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices: Practical Advice from The Union of Concerned Scientists
AuthorMichael Brower
From one of the most prestigious nonprofit organizations devoted to environmental issues comes a clear, practical, and rational overview of the relationship between consumers and the environment.
        
Paper or plastic? Bus or car? Old house or new? Cloth diapers or disposables?...
In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology & the Survival of the Indian Nations
AuthorJerry Mander
ISBN0844669512
Mander goes beyond television (which he proclaimed as being dangerous to personal health and sanity in Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television) to critique our technological society as a whole, challenge its utopian promises, and track its devastating impact on native cultures worldwide....
Bethlehem Road Murder
AuthorBatya Gur
ISBN0060954922
The body of a young Yemeni woman is discovered in the attic of a Bethlehem Road house, in a Jerusalem neighborhood famous for its impenetrability to outsiders. The victim, once a beauty, is no longer lovely -- her face has been brutally smashed.

More than the usual horror greets Chief Superintendent...
May All Be Fed: 'a Diet For A New World : Including Recipes By Jia Patton And Friends
AuthorJohn Robbins
ISBN0380719010
It was one of the books my doctor recommended to me before going vegan. I could have just dismissed it and went on to eat meat, but reading books such as this one really opened my eyes. I had no reason to turn back afterwards. It was educations, for a book from 1992, found in a bargain bin. There's a difference...
Nothing Left Over: A Plain and Simple Life
AuthorToinette Lippe
ISBN1939681251
Toinette Lippe, a prestigious book publisher and founder of Bell Tower publishing house, shares her life wisdom in Nothing Left Over. Her memoir speaks to living with full-tilt generosity and joy while not clinging to material clutter, resentments, and unfulfilled passions. "In truth, it is not...
How Shall I Live My Life?: On Liberating the Earth from Civilization
AuthorDerrick Jensen
ISBN1604860030
In this collection of interviews, Derrick Jensen discusses the destructive dominant culture with ten people who have devoted their lives to undermining it. Whether it is Carolyn Raffensperger and her radical approach to public health, or Thomas Berry on perceiving the sacred; be it Kathleen Dean...
Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge
AuthorVandana Shiva
ISBN0896085554
In this intelligently argued and principled book, internationally renowned Third World environmentalist Vandana Shiva exposes the latest frontier of the North's ongoing assault against the South's biological and other resources. Since the land, the forests, the oceans, and the atmosphere have...
The Sustainability Revolution: Portrait of a Paradigm Shift
AuthorAndres R. Edwards
ISBN0865715319
Sustainability has become a buzzword in the last decade, but its full meaning is complex, emerging from a range of different sectors. In practice, it has become the springboard for millions of individuals throughout the world who are forging the fastest and most profound social transformation of...
Green, Greener, Greenest: A Practical Guide to Making Eco-Smart Choices a Part of Your Life
AuthorLori Bongiorno
ISBN0399534032
How green can you be?

Green: Drive the speed limit
Greener: Drive a fuel-efficient car
Greenest: Bike or walk

The perfect guide to help readers decide how to best spend their time and money to protect the environment, Green, Greener, Greenest offers flexible tips for everyday...
Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do about It
AuthorAnna Lappé
ISBN1596916591
Beyond what we already know about "food miles" and eating locally, the global food system is a major contributor to climate change, producing as much as one-third of greenhouse gas emissions. How we farm, what we eat, and how our food gets to the table all have an impact. And our government and the food...
The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems
AuthorVan Jones
ISBN0061650757
Provocative, personal, and inspirational, The Green Collar Economy is not a dire warning but rather a substantive and viable plan for solving the biggest issues facing the country — the failing economy and our devastated environment. From a distance, it appears that these two problems are separate,...
Getting A Grip: Clarity, Creativity, and Courage in a World Gone Mad
AuthorFrances Moore Lappé
ISBN0979414245
Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity & Courage in a World Gone Mad is a little book with a big message. Frances Moore Lappe--author of fifteen books, including three-million-copy bestseller Diet for a Small Planet--distills her world-spanning experience and wisdom in a conversational yet hard-hitting...
Living Downstream: A Scientist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment
AuthorSandra Steingraber
ISBN0375700994
With this eloquent and impassioned book, biologist and poet Sandra Steingraber shoulders the legacy of Rachel Carson, producing a work about people and land, cancer and the environment, that is as accessible and invaluable as Silent Spring--and potentially as historic.

In her early twenties,...
Maizon at Blue Hill
AuthorJacqueline Woodson
ISBN0698119576
Maizon takes the biggest step in her life when she accepts a scholarship to boarding school and says good-bye to her grandmother and her best friend, Margaret. Blue Hill is beautiful, and challenging-but there are only five black students, and the other four are from wealthy families. Does Maizon belong...
The Small-Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses Are Beating the Global Competition
AuthorMichael H. Shuman
ISBN1576754669
Defenders of globalization, free markets, and free trade insist there's no alternative to mega-stores like Wal-Mart -- Michael Shuman begs to differ. In "The Small-Mart Revolution, Shuman makes a compelling case for his alternative business model, one in which communities reap the benefits of...
What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth
AuthorWendell Berry
ISBN1582436061
Over the years, Wendell Berry has sought to understand and confront the financial structure of modern society and the impact of developing late capitalism on American culture. There is perhaps no more demanding or important critique available to contemporary citizens than Berry’s writings —...
The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook: 77 Essential Skills to Stop Climate Change
AuthorDavid de Rothschild
The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook is the official companion volume to Live Earth concerts, 24 hours of nonstop concerts broadcast from around the world on July 7, 2007. The book presents 77 essential skills for stopping climate change—and for living through it. It is a fun, compelling,...
Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment
AuthorJames Gustave Speth
ISBN0300107765
Why we are failing to protect the global environment. What we can—and must—do to succeed.

This book will change the way we understand the future of our planet. It is both alarming and hopeful. James Gustave Speth, renowned as a visionary environmentalist leader, warns that in spite of...
Eco Barons: The Dreamers, Schemers, and Millionaires Who Are Saving Our Planet
AuthorEdward Humes
“Well written and compelling, Eco Barons gives the reader a first glimpse of the activists, philanthropists and gadflies who may well turn out to be the J.D. Rockefellers and Rachel Carsons of our time.”
—Cleveland Plain Dealer

 

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