Imagine you are first in line at a potluck buffet. The spread includes not just food and water, but all the materials needed for shelter, clothing, healthcare, and education. How do you know how much to take? How much is enough to leave for your neighbors behind you - not just the six billion people, but the wildlife, and the as-yet-unborn?

In the face of looming ecological disaster, many people feel the need to change their own lifestyles as a tangible way of transforming our unsustainable culture. Radical Simplicity is the first book that guides the reader to a personal sustainability goal, then offers a process to monitor progress to a lifestyle that is equitable amongst all people, species, and generations. It employs three tools to help readers begin their customized journey to simplicity:

• It builds on steps from Your Money or Your Life so readers can design their own personal economics to save money, get free of debt, and align their work with their values.
• It uses refined tools from Our Ecological Footprint so readers can measure how much nature is needed to supply all they consume and absorb their waste.
• And by advocating time alone in wild nature, it opens readers to another reality with humanity as one species among many on a complex and inter-related planet.

Combining lyrical narrative, compassionate advocacy and absorbing science, Radical Simplicity is a practical, personal answer to 21st century challenges that will appeal as much to Cultural Creatives and students as to spiritual seekers, policy makers and sustainability professionals.

Jim Merkel quit his job as a military engineer following the Exxon Valdez disaster, and has since worked to develop tools for personal and societal sustainability. He founded the Global Living Project to further this work, and conducts workshops around North America on this topic.

The essential, cut-to-the-chase handbook to the Pacific Crest Trail, based on the comprehensive Wilderness Press guidebooks to the PCT. Packed with trail-tested features, it and rsquo;s useful both on and off the trail.

• Pre-trip planning for resupply stops
• Setting daily on-the-trail mileage goals by knowing trail gradient and the locations of campsites, water sources, and facilities
• Easily calculating distances between any two points on the trail
• Planning both north-bound and south-bound hiking trips

Whether you and rsquo;re hiking the entire PCT or just sections of it, the first step of the journey begins with this book.

and ldquo;After years of study and research I found there was one element playing a central role in maintaining healthy cells. That element is enzymes. An enzyme is a general term for a protein catalyst made within the cells of a living thing. Simply put it is an element necessary for a living thing to live. and quot;

Translated into English for the first time is the book that has taken Japan by storm, selling 100,000 copies every month for the past year.

In The Enzyme Factor, Dr. Hiromi Shinya presents his research, grounded in his 45 years of medical practice in the United States and Japan. This research supports the idea of a miracle enzyme out of which all the enzymes the body needs are produced. He suggests cancer and other diseases occur when this key enzyme is depleted and cannot properly do its job. In this book he clearly shows how what we eat affects that key. Dr. Shinya and rsquo;s science is clearly explained and easy to understand. The suggestions for diet and lifestyle based on this science are simple and easy to follow. Even those who think they know everything about how to eat right will be surprised when they discover what is really healthy.

This simple health regime has led hundreds of his patients, many suffering from cancer and other life-threatening diseases, to perfect health.

Inside The Enzyme Factor you will discover:

and bull; How to look younger and delay aging
and bull; How to live strengthen your body and rsquo;s natural defenses.
and bull; Why there has been no relapse of cancer when patients follow the Shinya Diet and amp; Health Regimen.
and bull; How to become a healthy 100 year old
and bull; Misconceptions with many dietary trends
and bull; What your intestinal traits can teach you about your health
and bull; Why drinking milk will cause osteoporosis
and bull; How your body will become oxidized if you eat oxidized foods
and bull; Why eating the meat of animals that have a higher body temperature than humans pollutes the blood
and bull; The inseparable relationship between the human body and the land
and bull; How love activates the immune system

This is a new, important and affordable approach to health care in America by the world and rsquo;s leading gastroenterologist, and inventor of colonoscopic surgery, who has spent his life in empirical research on the subject of human digestion. If we follow Dr. Shinya and rsquo;s health prescription we will lose weight, be fit, save money and enjoy a long and healthy life.

Advance Praise for The Enzyme Factor

and quot;...(Dr. Shinya) identifies a precursor enzyme that the body converts to specific types of enzymes as they are needed to support, maintain or repair the body and its functions. Shinya broadly discusses how enzymes work and are exhausted by poor lifestyle habits, medications, environmental pollution, electromagnetic waves and daily stress, and provides simple directives for holistically accessing the power of enzymes. and hellip;The real message of Shinya and #39;s book is that lifestyle is essential to health. and hellip;(many) may welcome his unorthodox approach. and quot; - Publishers Weekly

Storey and #39;s Country Wisdom Bulletins contain practical, hands-on instructions designed to help you master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. From traditional skills to the newest techniques, Storey and #39;s Bulletins provide a foundation of earth-friendly information for the way you want to live today.

Abandoned lots and litter-strewn pathways, or rows of green beans and pockets of wildflowers? Graffiti-marked walls and desolate bus stops, or shady refuges and comfortable seating? What transforms a dingy, inhospitable area into a dynamic gathering place? How do individuals take back their neighborhood?

Neighborhoods decline when the people who live there lose their connection and no longer feel part of their community. Recapturing that sense of belonging and pride of place can be as simple as planting a civic garden or placing some benches in a park.

The Great Neighborhood Book explains how most struggling communities can be revived, not by vast infusions of cash, not by government, but by the people who live there. The author addresses such challenges as traffic control, crime, comfort and safety, and developing economic vitality. Using a technique called and quot;placemaking and quot;-- the process of transforming public space -- this exciting guide offers inspiring real-life examples that show the magic that happens when individuals take small steps, and motivate others to make change.

This book will motivate not only neighborhood activists and concerned citizens but also urban planners, developers and policy-makers.

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Come with us and explore the fascinating world of plants, the producers and providers of energy to the world's host of living organisms - humans and animals alike!

Lesson Plans Included:

• The Importance of Tropisms (Grades 3-8)
• Plant Vocabulary (Grades K-12)
• Biomes of the World (Grades 3-8)
• Plant Anatomy, Structure and Function (Grades K-12)
• The Life Tree... If Trees Could Talk (Grades K-12)
• The Empty Pot (Grades K-5)

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Who says that all possible social and political systems have already been invented? Or that work -- or marriage, or environmentalism, or anything else -- must be just what they are now?

This book is a conceptual toolbox for imagining and initiating radical social change. Chapters offer specific, focused, and shareable techniques:

• Seeking a Whole Vision: creating a pull and not just a push toward change.
• Generative thinking: Looking for and quot;Seeds and quot; and and quot;Sparks and quot;, Stretching and Twisting Ideas, and Going Two Steps Too Far.
• Looking for Unexpected Openings: and quot;Weeds and quot; and and quot;Wild Cards and quot;, Inside Tracks, Leverage Points, and Hidden Possibilities.
• Working at the Roots: Reconstructing the built world, cultural practices, even worldviews.
• Building Momentum: Playing to our Strengths; Reclaiming the Language; and quot;Allying Everywhere and quot;; Doing it Now, Going for Broke...

Leap-frogging new kinds of cars and better mass transit in turn, why not a world in which and quot;transportation and quot; itself is unneeded?

What about remaking New Orleans as a floating city, or putting only extreme surfers in the path of hurricanes?

And why not dream of the stars? The question is not whether radical change is coming. It is already well underway. The only question is who will make it. Why not us?

Anthony Weston is Professor of Philosophy at Elon University in North Carolina, where he teaches Ethics, Environmental Studies, and and quot;Millennial Imagination and quot;. He is the author of ten other books including Back to Earth, Jobs for Philosophers, and Creativity for Critical Thinkers.

This radical treatise on public education has been a New Society Publishers and #39; bestseller forover 10 years! Thirty years of award-winning teaching in New York City and #39;s public schools led John Gatto to the sad conclusion that compulsory governmental schooling does little but teach young people to follow orders as cogs in the industrial machine. In celebration of the ten-year anniversary of Dumbing Us Down and to keep this classic current, we are renewing the cover art, adding new material about John and the impact of the book, and a new foreword.

John Gatto has been a teacher for 30 years and is a recipient of the New York State Teacher of the Year award. His other titles include A Different Kind of Teacher (Berkeley Hills Books, 2001) and The Underground History of American Education (Oxford Village Press, 2000).

In an era of dwindling resources, water is poised to become the new oil as the entire world now faces the reality of a decreasing supply of clean water. To avert a devastating shortage, we must not only look at alternate water sources for existing structures, we must also plan our new developments differently.

Design for Water is an accessible and clearly written guide to alternate water collection, with a focus on rainwater harvesting in the urban environment. The book:

• outlines the process of water collection from multiple sources -- landscape, residential, commercial, industrial, school, park and municipal systems
• provides numerous case studies
• details the assembly and actual application of equipment
• includes specific details, schematics and references.

All aspects of rainwater harvesting are outlined, including passive and active system set-up, storage, stormwater reuse, distribution, purification, analysis and filtration. There is even a section on rainwater harvesting for wildlife.

In addition to rainwater, there are several affordable and accessible alternate sources, including cooling tower bleed-off water, air conditioning condensate, gray water, and fog collection.

Design for Water is geared to providing those making development decisions and guidelines with the information they need to set up passive harvesting techniques. The book will especially appeal to engineers, landscape architects, municipal decision-makers, developers and land-owners.

Heather Kinkade-Levario is a land use planner in Arizona and the author of the award-winning Forgotten Rain. She is president of Forgotten Rain L.L.C., a rainwater harvesting and stormwater reuse company.

An intentional community is a group of people who have chosen to live or work together in pursuit of a common ideal or vision. An ecovillage is a village-scale intentional community that intends to create, ecological, social, economic, and spiritual sustainability over several generations.

The 90s saw a revitalized surge of interest in intentional communities and ecovillages in North America: the number of intentional communities listed in the Communities Directory increased 60 percent between 1990 and 1995. But only 10 percent of the actual number of forming-community groups actually succeeded. Ninety percent failed, often in conflict and heartbreak. After visiting and interviewing founders of dozens of successful and failed communities, along with her own forming-community experiences, the author concluded that and quot;the successful 10 percent and quot; had all done the same five or six things right, and and quot;the unsuccessful 90 percent and quot; had made the same handful of mistakes. Recognizing that a wealth of wisdom were contained in these experiences, she set out to distill and capture them in one place.

Creating a Life Together is the only resource available that provides step-by-step, practical and quot;how-to and quot; information on how to launch and sustain a successful ecovillage or intentional community. Through anecdotes, stories, and cautionary tales about real communities, and by profiling seven successful communities in depth, the book examines and quot;the successful 10 percent and quot; and why 90 percent fail; the role of community founders; getting a group off to a good start; vision and vision documents; decision-making and governance; agreements; legal options; finding, financing, and developing land; structuring a community economy; selecting new members; and communication, process, and dealing well with conflict. Sample vision documents, community agreements, and visioning exercises are included, along with abundant resources for learning more.

Diana Leafe Christian offers workshops nationwide on the process of forming new ecovillages and intentional communities. She has edited Communities magazine since 1993, and is a member of Earthaven Ecovillage in North Carolina.

(11 Pages)

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Nothing is more crucial to the survival of any living organism than the health of the environment it lives in. Celebrate Earth Day by introducing your children to Earth's wonders, to the dangers that threaten them, and to the human actions that can protect them.

and nbsp;

• Earth's Biomes (Grades K-12)
• The Web of Life (Grades K-5)
• Global Warming (Grades 3-12)
• Water Works (Grades K-8)
• Energy Matters (Grades 6-8)
• Recycle, Reuse, Reduce (Grades K-5)
• Why the Frogs are Dying (Grades 3-8)
• News About the Environment (Grades 9-12)

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Each unit contains explanitory content, online resource links, book suggestions, 6-8 lesson plans and 2-10 worksheets. Days and days of learning and exploration within each unit!

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GREAT for homeschoolers and teachers!

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NO SHIPPING COSTS!

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HOW TO RECYCLE ORGANIC HOUSEHOLD WASTE

A comprehensive guide on home composting with worms. and nbsp; Everything you need to know including worm anatomy and living conditions and how to build and maintain a successful worm composting system. and nbsp; What worms to buy, how to set the system up and how to deal with pests and amp; problems. and nbsp; and nbsp;Also, of interest to and nbsp;many, is and nbsp;a and nbsp;section on MONEY FOR WORMS that explains and nbsp;how to breed and pack worms for sale.

This is a and nbsp;very useful book for the home gardener but also a serious look at a way we can all recycle our organic household waste into nutrient-rich vermicast to feed our gardens and lawns. and nbsp; It and #39;s an excellent resource for schools, environmental/waste management and nbsp;groups and garden clubs too.