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In these chapters, the Karmapa shares his vision for bringing social action into daily life, on a scale we can realistically manage through the choices we make every day - what to buy, what to eat, and how to relate honestly and bravely with our friends and family and coworkers. His fresh and encouraging perspective shows us that we have the strength to live with kindness in the midst of the many challenges we face as socially and environmentally conscious beings.

Nearly every US city would like to be more walkable - for reasons of health, wealth, and the environment - yet few are taking the proper steps to get there. The goals are often clear, but the path is seldom easy. Jeff Speck’s follow-up to his best-selling Walkable City is the resource that cities and citizens need to usher in an era of renewed street life. Walkable City Rules is a doer’s guide to making change in cities, and making it now.    

In the 1970s, Dolly Freed lived off the land dirt cheap and plum easy. Living in their own house on a half-acre lot outside of Philadelphia for almost five years, Dolly and her father produced their own food and drink and spent roughly $700 each per year. Thirty years later Dolly Freed's Possum Living is as fascinating and pertinent as it was in 1978. Tin House is reissuing the survivalist classic with a foreword by David Gates and an afterword by the author.

Marine algae are the supreme eco-engineers of life: they oxygenate the waters, create habitat for countless other organisms, and form the base of a food chain that keeps our planet unique in the universe as we know it. In this audiobook Josie Iselin explores both the artistic and the biological presence of 16 seaweeds and kelps that live in the thin region where the Pacific Ocean converges with the North American continent - a place of incomparable richness.  

Framed by the author’s personal experience with backyard hens, Chickens: Their Natural and Unnatural Histories explores the history of the chicken from its descent from the dinosaurs to the space-age present. En route, Lembke surveys chickens in ancient Greece, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the 19th century, and modern times, including the role of chickens in Jewish and Muslim practices. She also investigates the birds’ contributions to science and their jaunty appearances in literature.

With real-world considerations in mind, disaster preparedness consultant David Black shows us how to stay alive when tragedy strikes. His step-by-step actions can help us make it safely through a variety of crises, from catastrophic weather to terrorism to civil unrest. Black presents tailor-made plans for individuals, businesses, organizations, small groups, and communities to follow, in all regions of the country and broken down by type of emergency and environment.

A poet at heart, Amy Minato rejects her life of consumption in Chicago to go back to nature - specifically, to a commune in Oregon, where she rediscovers herself. She also cops occasionally to the pretentiousness of her mission, and laughs along with the listener at her attempts to be both environmentally friendly and sane, considering the fact that she’s moved in with a bunch of strangers in a remote locale. 

A fórmula para encontrar a felicidade está ao alcance de todos.   

In Svezia si coltiva un'arte silenziosa chiamata döstädning, che consiste nel fare letteralmente pulizia degli oggetti accumulati durante l'arco della vita, prima che di questo compito gravoso debba occuparsi qualcun altro al posto nostro. La scelta di eliminare gli oggetti non più necessari ha sorprendenti effetti benefici e può essere intrapresa a qualsiasi età o fase della vita, ma dovrebbe essere colta il prima possibile per goderne appieno.

Il y a quelque chose de pourri au royaume du bio. Voilà pourquoi, après le constat alarmant dressé dans "Vous êtes fous d'avaler ça !", son premier best-seller, et les solutions concrètes pour manger sainement apportées dans "Et maintenant on mange quoi ?", Christophe Brusset part en croisade contre les "imposteurs du bio".

Both a practical guide and the story of a personal journey from helplessness to empowerment, Plastic-Free is a must-read for anyone concerned about the ongoing health and happiness of themselves, their children, and the planet.

The Agile City engages the fundamental question: what to do about it? Journalist and urban analyst James S. Russell argues that we'll more quickly slow global warming - and blunt its effects - by retrofitting cities, suburbs, and towns. The Agile City shows that change undertaken at the building and community level can reach carbon-reduction goals rapidly. Adapting buildings (39 percent of greenhouse-gas emission) and communities (slashing the 33 percent of transportation related emissions) offers numerous other benefits that tax gimmicks and massive alternative-energy investments can't match.

In Driving the Future Oge portrays a future where clean, intelligent vehicles with lighter frames and alternative power trains will produce zero emissions and run at 100+ mpg. With electronic architectures more like that of airplanes, cars will be smarter and safer, will park themselves, and will network with other vehicles on the road to drive themselves.

Vivimos rodeados de plástico, ajenos a su toxicidad. Lo utilizamos constantemente en nuestro día a día: para almacenar alimentos, embotellar agua, transportar nuestras compras, etc., sin tener en cuenta el devastador impacto que tiene en la naturaleza y en nuestra salud. ¿Qué podemos hacer para solucionarlo? Yurena González lleva años viviendo una vida más eco, sin plástico y sin generar basura, y sin renunciar un ápice a su comodidad. ¿Cómo lo ha conseguido?

Why a unicycle? Why a cross-country trip? Why leave a prominent New York magazine and return to the simple life in Kentucky? Reminiscent of classic literary travelogues, Mark Schimmoeller's Slowspoke: A Unicyclist's Guide to America takes listeners on an inward, emotional journey as he inches across landscapes and communities from North Carolina to Arizona. Schimmoeller became inspired by his unicycle as an adolescent.

Renewable energy is good for your wallet. Those who see that opportunity are already seizing it … all the way to the bank. Green Is Good is a no-nonsense guide to how you, the average American, can easily incorporate clean energy and energy efficiency into your daily life and in the process save money, make money, and help wean your community off fossil fuels.

Tenemos la capacidad de levantarnos cada día y renacer, desde las cenizas, como el ave fénix, solo tenemos que permanecer abiertos a que la sincronicidad se presente y estar al unísono con el universo y con nuestro interior. Todo se integra y se sincroniza para que la felicidad se manifieste. Para encontrar y mantener el balance, la paz interna es imprescindible. Si por alguna razón no sentimos esta paz debemos buscar los elementos que se interponen para que aflore y podamos ser capaces de sentirla en su real magnitud.

Le confort d'une vie conventionnelle, ma maison, tout, sauf mon travail ! Et je suis partie vivre en camion, puis équipée seulement d'un hamac, dans les forêts et montagnes alentour. Je m'isolais, pensant que rien ne pouvait m'arriver. J'étais loin de me douter des défis, des rencontres et des émotions qui m'attendaient! Mais surtout, j'ignorais jusqu'à l'existence de l'habitat de mes rêves.

Ökologisch sinnvoll zu handeln und gleichzeitig ökonomisch erfolgreich zu wirtschaften, muss kein Widerspruch sein. Längst gibt es Unternehmen, die Nachhaltigkeit und Wirtschaftlichkeit in ihren Geschäftsmodellen miteinander in Einklang bringen. Denn zaudern und auf politische Vorgaben warten gilt nicht: Wer heute schon die Weichen für ein nachhaltiges Wirtschaften von morgen stellen will, muss selbst aktiv werden.

Eigentlich ist es uns allen klar: Wir sollten mehr für die Umwelt tun. Wenn da nur nicht unser innerer Schweinehund wäre... Marco von Münchhausen zeigt, wie man diesen inneren Schweinehund zähmen und sogar dazu bringen kann, in kleinen Schritten nachhaltig aktiv zu werden.