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Presenting the Wiser Living Book Series from Mother Earth News

Mother Earth News, the most-popular and longest-running sustainable living magazine, and New Society Publishers have teamed up to bring you 14 books containing the best advice on Green Living from a collection of respected authors with years of experience.

This expansive collection will help you with everything from reducing your dependence on non-renewable energy and mass-produced food, to learning how to remodel or design and build a home that treads lightly on the planet.

It’s time to discover how to adopt a more self-reliant lifestyle. And with recent trends in the cost of energy, the state of the environment, and the quality and safety of our food, a simplified way of living makes more and more sense every day.

 

 

Nature and Environment

 

Common Sense Forestry

 

by Hans Morsbach

Trees are the ultimate sunlight-harvesting machines. The care and nurturing of trees has been a recurring theme in Chelsea Green's publishing program, from The Man Who Planted Trees to Julia Alvarez's A Cafecito Story. The latest book, from Hans Morsbach, foregoes romance in favor of straightforward, practical knowledge.

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Now Earthbag Building: The Tools, Tricks and Techniques

 

by Kaki Hunter and Donald Kiffmeyer

Create a gorgeous and greener home with the help of this

350 page book. Includes energy-efficient, healthful and attractive

choices in building materials, heating and cooling systems and

appliances. Easy to read and well illustrated.

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More Straw Bale Building : A Complete Guide to Designing and Building with Straw

 

by Chris Magwood, Peter Mack and Tina Therrien

Straw bale houses are easy to build, affordable, super energy efficient, environmentally friendly, attractive and can be designed to match the builder's personal space needs, aesthetics and budget.

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Timber Framing for the Rest of Us: A Guide to Contemporary Post and Beam Construction

 

by Rob Roy

Many natural building methods rely upon the use of post and beam frame structures that are then in-filled with straw, cob, cordwood or more conventional wall materials. But traditional timber framing demands the use of finely crafted jointing and wooden pegs, requiring a high degree of craftsmanship and training, as well as much time and expense. However, there is another way…

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Green Remodeling: Changing the World One Room at a Time

 

by David Johnston and Kim Master.

Whether because of changing lifestyles or simply because existing houses are becoming outdated, millions of North Americans are renovating their homes every year, spending more money annually on renovation than on new-home construction. But renovations can be fraught with unintended consequences like indoor air pollution. How do you remodel in a healthy, environmentally friendly way?

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Homes that Heal (and those that don't) : How Your Home Could be Harming Your Family's Health

 

By Athena Thompson

Media reports focus increasingly on the declining health of children in industrialized countries. Asthma, autism, learning and behavior problems, and cancer are all on the rise. At the same time, there is consistent news about how poor indoor air quality, mold and how buildings can make people sick.

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Organic Gardening

 

 

Whole Foods and Cooking

 

 

GARDENING WHEN IT COUNTS: Growing Food in Hard Times

 

by Steve Solomon

Any family with access to 3,000 to 5,000 square feet of

garden space can cut its food costs in half by working an average of two

hours a day during the peak growing season. Written for the beginning

gardener, this book also has good advice for those with years of

experience.

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The Solar Food Dryer: How to Make and Use Your Own Low-Cost, High Performance, Sun-Powered Food Dehydrator.

 

by Eben Fodor

The Solar Food Dryer describes how to use solar energy to dry your food instead of costly electricity. With your own solar-powered food dryer, you can quickly and efficiently dry all your extra garden veggies, fruits and herbs to preserve their goodness all year long — with free sunshine!

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Renewable Energy

The Home Energy Diet: How to Save Money by Making Your House Energy-Smart

 

by Paul Scheckel

Control your home’s appetite for unnecessary energy consumption and save money. With rising energy costs, homeowners are beginning to examine the energy efficiency of their own homes, asking questions about where energy comes from and how much it costs, how to choose new appliances and what options exist for renewable energy.

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Microhydro: Clean Power from Water

 

by Scott Davis

Hydroelectricity is the world's largest — and cleanest — source of renewable energy. But despite lively interest in renewables generally, there is an information vacuum about the smallest version of the technology dubbed " the simplest, most reliable and least expensive way to generate power off grid. "

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The Homeowner’s Guide to Renewable Energy

 

by Dan Chiras

Dan Chiras is back with a hard-hitting book on lightening your tread on the earth. He tackles the problems and opportunities in changing your energy-use patterns based on the coming energy crisis and national and state rebates on renewable energy technologies.

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The Solar House: Passive Heating and Cooling

 

by Dan Chiras

Passive solar heating and passive cooling — approaches known as natural conditioning — provide comfort throughout the year while reducing, or eliminating, the need for fossil fuel. Yet while heat from sunlight and ventilation from breezes is free for the taking, few modern architects or builders really understand the principles involved.

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Community

Homesteading

 

 

Superbia! 31 Ways to Create Sustainable Neighborhoods

 

by Dan Chiras and Dave Wann

Superbia! is a book of practical ideas for creating more socially, economically and environmentally sustainable neighborhoods. It is about remaking suburban and urban neighborhoods to serve people better and to reduce human impact on the environment.

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Rural Renaissance: Renewing the Quest for the Good Life

 

by John Ivanko and Lisa Kivirist

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 yearned for a simpler way for decades. But how do you accomplish that today?

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