The token

In The Token: Common Sense Ideas for Creating Diversity in Your Organization, your new token Black friend, Crystal Byrd Farmer, acts as the bridge between majority white organizations that are dedicated to social justice and affirmative action and the diverse people in community they want to recr...

Making shift happen

To tackle our urgent environmental problems and achieve positive, durable change, we must design solutions based directly on how people think, make decisions, and act. Whether you're a practitioner or want to change your own behavior, Making Shift Happen is a roadmap that empowers you with tools ...

Think like a commoner, second edition

From relocalized food to open-source learning and beyond, millions of commoners worldwide are reinventing a timeless paradigm – the commons. Completely updated, Think Like a Commoner is a popular introduction to the growing global movement building practical, autonomous alternatives to the predat...

The end of education as we know it

Schools play a critical role in defining our relationship to people and planet, but modern education reinforces a paradigm based on coercion, extraction, and exploitation. The End of Education as We Know It is a guidebook for transforming society through complex systems-thinking and regenerative ...

Indigenomics

Indigenomics lays out the tenets of the emerging Indigenous economy, built around relationships, multigenerational stewardship, and care for all. Includes voices of leading First Nations business leaders. Powerful reading for business leaders, policymakers, and economists.

I want a better catastrophe

Reeling from a crisis of hope, lifelong activist Andrew Boyd seeks out today's leading climate thinkers, from collapse-psychologist Jamey Hecht to Indigenous botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer. "If it's the end of the world, now what?" he asks, as he steers us through our climate angst in search of a "...

The solutionary way

Deep polarization in our society prevents us from working collaboratively to solve the problems we face. The Solutionary Way offers a practical approach, providing clear and achievable methods to bridge divides, understand and address seemingly intractable challenges, and create positive change.

Facing the climate emergency, second edition

Facing the Climate Emergency offers a cure to climate anxiety. With the skill of a psychologist and the passion of an activist, Salamon helps readers process fear and grief and find their place in the climate movement. The second edition of this beloved book highlights the critical role of disrup...

The story is in our bones

A dominant, human-centered worldview has brought us to the brink of social, ecological, and climate collapse. Braiding poetic storytelling, deep cultural and climate justice analyses, and knowledge of Earth-centered cultures, The Story is in Our Bones opens a portal to restoration and justice bey...

The farmer's office, second edition

The Farmer's Office, Second Edition is the complete guide to starting, managing, and growing an agricultural or farm business. Fully updated and expanded to include tutorials on basic farm financial management, QuickBooks, business planning, navigating uncertainty, business growth, and thinking l...

Toward sustainable communities, fifth edition

Toward Sustainable Communities is the definitive guide to creating vibrant, healthy, equitable, and prosperous places. This completely revised 5th edition organizes community resources into 8 interrelated forms of capital, creating an innovative framework for maximizing social, economic, and envi...

Childhood unplugged

Reclaim childhood from digital devices—and rediscover the wonder of real life Screens dominate modern childhood. The average child spends 7.5 hours a day on digital devices, leaving parents worried about anxiety, disconnection, and lost creativity. Childhood Unplugged offers a proven path to recl...

Essential cob construction

Essential Cob Construction presents both hands-on and rigorous technical information on how to build code compliant, low-embodied carbon, and fire- and earthquake-resistant buildings from cob – a mix of clay, sand and straw. The definitive cob guide for engineers, architects, designers, contracto...

The berry grower

The Berry Grower is an innovative guide for small-scale growing and marketing of organic fruits and berries. Covers planning and strategy, organic soil care, profiles of profitable small fruits, cultivar selection, planting, organic weed and pest management, marketing strategies, and interviews w...

Coppice agroforestry

Coppice Agroforestry is a comprehensive guide to resprout silviculture – coppicing, pollarding, shredding, and pleaching hardwood trees for firewood, building materials, furniture, basketry, and more. Covers coppice history, biology, ecology, products, woodland economics, and agroforestry system ...

Power

Power traces how humans have come to overpower the earth's natural systems and to oppress one another, with catastrophic consequences. We must rapidly re-learn the lessons of power self-limitation rooted in evolution and human history if we are to stave off ecological and social collapse and enjo...

Civilizing the state

Civilizing the State explores the disintegration of the liberal state in the face of rising polarization and corporate power. Drawing on international examples of democratic citizen-powered alternatives, it offers a vision of a partner state that could enable equity and economic democracy, driven...

We’re all climate hypocrites now

We're All Climate Hypocrites Now reimagines what it means to be a "good environmentalist." Moving past carbon footprints, self-confessed eco-hypocrite Sami Grover takes a tongue-in-cheek approach, skewering those pointing fingers, celebrating those trying, and offering practical pathways to actua...

What's up with white women?

What's Up with White Women? is a guide for white women to strengthen their anti-racism practices. A powerful model using self-reflection and real-life stories of white women's experiences with sexism and white privilege gives them the tools to cultivate genuine partnerships with Black, Indigenous...

The web of meaning

Integrating modern science with traditional wisdom, The Web of Meaning investigates humanity's age-old questions—Who am I? Why am I? How should I live?—from a fresh perspective, laying down the foundation for a new worldview of interconnectedness that could foster sustainable flourishing on a ...

A brief history of the earth's climate

A Brief History of the Earth's Climate is an accessible, illustrated, myth-busting guide to the natural evolution of the Earth's climate over 4.6 billion years, how and why human-caused global warming and climate change is different and more dangerous, and how to counter skeptics and deniers with...

Transformative learning

Transformative Learning presents a "learn-by-doing" pedagogy informed by ecology and developed over thirty years at Schumacher College that integrates head, heart, and hands into multi-disciplinary education for living in harmony with others and the Earth.

Our ecological footprint

Our Ecological Footprint presents an internationally-acclaimed tool for measuring and visualizing the resources required to sustain our households, communities, regions and nations, converting the seemingly complex concepts of carrying capacity, resource-use, waste-disposal and the like into a gr...

Creating a life together

Creating a Life Together provides step-by-step practical information on how to establish an intentional community. It deals with structural, interpersonal and leadership issues, decision-making methods, vision statements, and the development of a legal structure, as well as profiling model comm...

Microhydro

Microhydro features the smallest version of the renewable engery technology dubbed the simplest, most reliable and least expensive way to generate power off grid. Highly illustrated and practical, it is a complete guide to designing and constructing reliable hydroelectric power systems.

Being the change

How a climate scientist and suburban father cut his climate impact down to one tenth the US average and became happier because of it. Being the Change merges science, spirituality, and practical knowledge to offer a deeply optimistic message: living without fossil fuels is not only possible, i...

Power from the wind - 2nd edition

Becoming the kind father

This guide offers helpful insight for the millions of men who want to become kinder human beings. A must-read for every woman who loves an angry or emotionally distant man.

Finding community

Finding community is as critical as obtaining food and shelter, since the need to belong is what makes us human. Iintentional communities or ecovillages are an appealing choice for like-minded people who seek to create a family-oriented and ecologically sustainable lifestyle—a lifestyle they are...

The big book of nature activities

The average child can identify over 300 corporate logos, but only 10 native plants or animals. This is a comprehensive guide for parents and educators to help youth develop a deeper appreciation of the natural world. This amazing compendium is packed with seasonal games, crafts, skills, stories a...

Uprooting racism - 4th edition

There's a long tradition of white people opposing racism-but there are also many excuses we give for not getting involved. Now in a fully updated 4th edition, Uprooting Racism is the supportive, practical go-to guide for helping white people work with others for equal opportunity, democracy, and...

The biology of wonder

What is life? In The Biology of Wonder , scientist Andreas Weber resolves this fundamental enigma, arguing that humans, like all living beings, are creative, evolutionary forces who cannot exist apart from nature.

The empowerment manual

The Empowerment Manual is a comprehensive guide for collaborative groups seeking to organize with shared power and bottom-up leadership to foster vision, trust, accountability and responsibility for social change.

The food forest handbook

Grow a Thriving, Edible Backyard Ecosystem Turn any yard into a productive, low-maintenance food forest that produces fresh fruit, nuts, and vegetables year after year—while regenerating soil, attracting pollinators, and building climate resilience. Perfect for urban lots, suburban yards, or rur...

Invest like you give a damn

Invest Like You Give a Damn is a different kind of investment book. It tells stories of people just like you who give a damn but who stomped the devil of inertia to align their money with their values. Complete step-by-step guidance from one-click investing to deep-dive portfolio building. It's t...

The better world handbook

The Better World Handbook is directed toward those who care about creating a more just, sustainable and socially responsible world but don't know where to begin. Substantially updated, this revised best-seller now contains more recent information on global problems, more effective actions, and ...

Earth repair

From contaminated urban lots to polluted waterways and oil spills, how can we transform toxic landscapes and respond to environmental disasters positively and effectively? Earth Repair is packed with accessible, and practical tools for healing and regenerating ecosystems to create thriving, ferti...

Humanizing the economy

The cooperative sector boasts 800 million people worldwide, and the UN has declared 2012 to be the year of the co-op. Humanizing the Economy demonstrates how co-operative models for economic and social development are showing the way toward a more equitable future.