Chelsea Green's 2008 Fall/Winter Catalog with Backlist.

1. Chelsea Green
Fall/Winter 2008

2. An Open Letter to
the Book Publishing Community
For more than 20 years, Chelsea Green has been the publishing leader for
books on the politics and practice of sustainable living. We are a founding member of
the Green Press Initiative and have been printing books on recycled paper since 1985,
when we published our first list. One of the books on that list was The Man Who Planted Trees,
an ecological fable by the great French writer Jean Giono, which has become one of the most
inspirational books about environmental restoration ever published. Since that time we have continued
to lead the industry both in terms of content – foundational books on renewable energy, green building,
organic agriculture, eco-cuisine, and ethical business – and in terms of environmental practice, printing 95% of
our books on recycled paper, containing a minimum 30% postconsumer waste and 100% whenever possible.
This past year we launched a Green Partnership Program, the first step in creating a “zero-waste” publishing model. A
key part of this initiative is eliminating the incredibly wasteful and inefficient practice of book returns. In exchange for
buying on a nonreturnable basis, our retail partners (now over 30 key independent bookstores around the country) receive
higher discounts, freight-free, carbon-offset shipping, and a host of other “preferred customer” benefits. The results to date
are impressive: an overall 87% increase in net sales over the same period the prior year, reductions in costly returns processing
and unnecessary shipping by both parties (our overall returns rate for last year was 18%), and a demonstration that doing the
environmentally responsible thing also benefits the bottom line, both for publisher and retailer. This is a perfect example of
what is called a “triple bottom line” approach, one that benefits people, planet, and profits – the emerging model for
sustainable business in the 21st century.
The book industry is poised to go green. The Green Press Initiative has made major progress in getting the largest houses
to sign on, and I applaud everyone for their efforts to increase recycled content, reduce energy use, and minimize waste.
But we can’t stop there. We need to take on the issue of returns and we need to do it now. Drastic climate change is
upon us, and we can no longer tolerate a system that overproduces, oversells, and overships 30-40% of its product,
a product – at least for now – that is made of paper and which requires enormous amounts of nonrenewable
energy to transport. And paper manufacturing is hardly benign: It is the fifth most energy-intensive industry –
ahead of aluminum and mining – and the fifth-highest emitter of toxic emissions, beating out hazardous
waste recovery, electrical equipment, and plastics.
There is no longer any reason to continue a practice that got its start in the Depression as a
way to sell crossword puzzle books! We need to come together and solve this problem
with a triple-bottom-line approach. Clearly there is a win-win solution, as we
have demonstrated with our Green Partnership Program. We welcome
other publishers and booksellers to join us in our efforts.
Margo Baldwin
President and Publisher
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3. contents
contents
02 Nature & Environment 02
Ethical Marketplace 19
Science/Sciencewriters 26
subjects
Gardening & Agriculture 29
Food/Health/Travel 43
Spirituality & Simple Living 49
Green Building 55
08 Renewable Energy 61
Politics & Social Justice 63
Chelsea Green Kids 67
Other Products 69
Holy Roller 02
Not One Drop 04
26 How the Rich Are Destroying the Earth 05
Exposed 06
Gaviotas 07
Spell of the Tiger 08
Journey of the Pink Dolphins 09
new releases
Green Living Handbook 10
The Transition Handbook 11
The Gort Cloud 19
21 A Bee’s-Eye View of and Inquiry
into the Nature of SLOW MONEY 20
Finding the Sweet Spot 21
Mortgage Free! 22
Companies We Keep 23
Thinking in Systems 26
Fresh Food from Small Spaces 29
Gaia’s Kitchen 43
29 Organic Places to Stay in the UK 43
The Local Foods Wheel 45
Open Spaces Sacred Places 49
Returning to My Mother’s House 51
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4. 02 memoir
New
HOLY ROLLER
Release
Growing Up in the Church of Knock Down, Drag Out;
or, How I Quit Loving a Blue-Eyed Jesus
-A Childhood Memoir-
Diane Wilson
In this rollicking memoir, Diane Wilson—a Texas Gulf Coast shrimper and the author of
the highly acclaimed An Unreasonable Woman—takes readers back to her childhood in rural
Texas and into her family of Holy Rollers. By night at tent revivals, Wilson gets religion
from Brother Dynamite, an ex-con who finds Jesus in a baloney sandwich and handles
masses of squirming poisonous snakes under the protection of the Holy Ghost. By day,
Wilson scratches secret messages to Jesus into the paint on her windowsill and lies down in
the middle of the road to see how long she can sleep in between passing trucks.
Holy Roller is a fast-paced, hilarious, sometimes shocking experience readers won’t soon
forget. It is the prequel to Wilson’s first book, telling the story of the Texas childhood
of a fierce little girl who will grow up to become An Unreasonable Woman, take on Big
Industry, and win. One of the best Southern writers of her generation, Wilson’s voice
twangs with a style and accent all its own, as true and individual as her boundless
originality and wild youth.
Praise for An Unreasonable Woman
“An Unreasonable Woman will stand as one of this nation’s
Pub Date: October 2008 greatest works of nonfiction. I have never read a book quite like
$24.95 US, $27.50 CAN • HC
this one, and worry already that I might not yet again.”
9781933392820
—Rick Bass, author of The Lives of Rocks and Colter
51/2 x 81/2 • 240 pages • B&W photo insert
“What a terrific book. I don’t often gush, but this book had me
Also by Diane Wilson
fascinated from the first page and whomper-jawed half the time. A
voice like Diane Wilson’s—working-class woman with five kids—is so
rare . . . And to write this well is a stunning achievement.”
—Molly Ivins, award-winning columnist and best-selling author
Diane Wilson, a fourth-generation
shrimper, began fishing the bays off the
AN UNREASONABLE WOMAN Gulf Coast of Texas at the age of eight.
A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, By twenty-four she was a boat captain.
Polluters, and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas
In 1989, while running her brother’s fish
Diane Wilson
house at the docks and mending nets,
Foreword by Kenny Ausubel
she read a newspaper article that listed
$27.50 US • HC • 9781931498883 her home of Calhoun County as the
$18.00 US • PB • 9781933392271 most polluted place in the country. Her
6 x 9 • 391 pages ensuing work on behalf of the people
and aquatic life of Seadrift, Texas,
An Unreasonable Woman is a novelistic tale of
where she still lives, has won her a number of awards, including the National
heroism and skulduggery that plays out against a
Fisherman Magazine Award, Mother Jones’s Hell Raiser of the Month, Louis Gibbs’
backdrop of colorful outlaw shrimpers and crooked
politicians, enviro-activists and informants, grudges Environmental Lifetime Award, Louisiana Environmental Action (LEAN)
and murder, betrayal and redemption. This book Environmental Award, Giraffe Project, Jenifer Altman Award, Blue Planet Award,
heralds the arrival of a vital new literary voice and
and Bioneers Award. She is cofounder of Code Pink and continues to lead the fight
introduces us to a daring, hopeful women’s activism
for social justice.
that the times demand.
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5. 03
memoir
from the book
Advance praise for Holy Roller
“How in the world does Texas turn out so many sassy, silver-tongued agitators like Ann
Richards, Molly Ivins—and now, Diane Wilson? Holy Roller helps answer that question . . .
Any reader who loves Harper Lee, Carson McCullers, or Flanner y O'Connor will find much
to savor and admire in this mesmerizing tale of growing up among shrimp fishermen on
the Texas bayous.”
—Lisa Alther, best-selling author of Kinfolks and Kinflicks
“This book is hothothot. Sizzling hot, hot as hellfire. Once again, Diane Wilson totally
enthralls me with her one-of-a-kind voice and exotic material. My mouth is agape.”
—Janisse Ray, author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
wife said Deuteronomy or Ecclesiastes. So the same girl won
H oly Rollers loved missionaries. Hey, I loved missionaries,
every time, and the pastor’s wife always handed her the same
too. They were the generals in God’s army. That’s why I was
prize—a scrapbook full of pictures of Christians wearing
a Junior Missionette (girls nine to twelve years old and namesakes
heavy coats at a revival somewhere in Alaska. We didn’t know
for the real thing). Missionettes always met on Sunday evening
who they were.
right before the night church service so we could get from one
church thing to the next church thing without indulging in any Being a Junior Missionette didn’t take up all my time. There
worldly nonsense like riding around in cars and chewing gum. was leftover time for the gypsy drawing. There was leftover
We all wore the same Missionette uniform, too. White shirt time for the windowsill messages. Then there was time for
(purity and submission), navy blue skirt (labor for the Lord), and hiding. But almost as good as the hiding was seeing how long
a little gold pin (golden streets of glory), stamped with an M in I could sleep in the middle of the road before a truck came. So
the middle, and pinned to our shoulder. We’d sit around a metal far I have made it six days with nothing major happening
table in an empty part of the church—ten little girls number- except the sun coming out from behind a cloud and blistering
painting Jesus’s face in oil and eating vanilla wafers and drinking me. I was a fierce little bump in the road, as any truck driver
red Kool-Aid until our lips were red as a horde of Jezebels. We would tell you. Anyhow, back to the hiding. I was hiding
had a huge responsibility on our little white shoulders. Just by under the kitchen table and Momma was slaving away over the
sitting there we were setting good examples and winning souls to stove and burning the fish when Sister Pearl shot into the
Christ and it was unfortunate that nobody could see us. kitchen and shouted, “Praise Jesus, Sister Goldie! The
missionaries are comin’!”
After the Jesus faces and the Kool-Aid ran out, the pastor’s wife
lined us up to test our memories on books of the Bible. My Sister Pearl was a big German lady with a white-crepe face and
limit was about seven. I’d go straight for the easy ones: Matthew, neck and she had more hair than me and Momma put together
Mark, Luke, and John. Then I’d hop over to what I called the and always wore it pinned up around her head like a crown of
devil chapters: Deuteronomy and Revelation. Finally, I gave up thorns. She also was a big house-cleaning fool with a huge
with the easiest one of all: Genesis. farmhouse with lots of rooms and front and back porches and
an attic that needed cleaning from top to bottom and behind
My momma was a serious, serious Christian woman with two
boards nailed to the wall and underneath iron bathtubs and in
preachers in the family, and a mother who obsessed over a
pitch-black closets, so I was watching her shoes and hoping
radio evangelist from San Antonio, but her emphasis was
she’d scoot right back to her farmhouse. But she leaned down
cleanliness was godliness and no body part was too low to be
and peeked under the table like she’d seen me just yesterday
in service, so she wasn’t much for batting books of the Bible
fooling around with the worst boys in town. “You know, Silver,
around with her kids. That was a huge waste of time! She
Jesus can see you under there. You can’t hide from Jesus.”
could have two lines of wash strung out before the pastor’s
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6. 04 nature & environment
New
NOT ONE DROP
Release
Betrayal and Courage in the Wake
of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
Riki Ott
Betrayed by oilmen’s promises in the 1970s, the people of Prince William Sound, Alaska,
awaken on March 14, 1989, to the nation’s largest oil spill. Not One Drop is an extraordinary
tale of ordinary lives ripped apart by disaster and of community healing through building
relationships of trust. This story offers critical lessons for a society traumatized by political
divides and facing the looming catastrophe of global climate change.
Author Riki Ott, a rare combination of commercial salmon “fisherm’am” and PhD marine
biologist, describes firsthand the impacts of oil companies’ broken promises when the Exxon
Valdez spills most of its cargo and despoils thousands of miles of shore. Ott illustrates in stir-
ring fashion the oil industry’s 20-year trail of pollution and deception that predated the tragic
1989 spill and delves deep into the disruption to the fishing community of Cordova over the
following 19 years. In vivid detail, she describes the human trauma coupled inextricably with
that of the sound’s wildlife and its long road to recovery.
Ott critically examines shifts in scientific understanding of oil-spill effects on ecosystems and
communities, exposes fundamental flaws in governance and the legal system, and contrasts
hard won spill-prevention and spill-response measures in the sound to dangerous conditions
on the Alaska pipeline. Her human story, varied background, professional training, and
activist heart lead readers to the root of the problem: a clash of human rights and corporate
power embedded in law and small-town life.
Pub Date: November 2008
Not One Drop is as much an example of how too many corporate owners and political leaders
$21.95 US, $23.95 CAN • PB
betray everyday citizens as it is one of the universal struggle to maintain heart, to find the
9781933392585
courage to overcome disaster, and to forge a new path from despair to hope.
6 x 9 • 320 pages • B&W photo insert
Also by Riki Ott
A commercial salmon “fisherma’am,”
Dr. Riki Ott (PhD in marine biology)
experienced firsthand the devastating
2005 Finalist,
effects of the Exxon Valdez oil spill—and
Benjamin chose to do something about it. Ott retired
Franklin Award from fishing and founded three nonprofit
SUSAN HARDING
organizations to deal with lingering harm.
Her previous book on the spill is Sound
Truth and Corporate Myth$. She lives in
Cordova, Alaska.
SOUND TRUTH AND CORPORATE MYTH$
The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
Praise for Sound Truth and Corporate Myth$
Riki Ott
Foreword by Walter Crinnion
$24.95 US • PB • 9780964522664
51/2 x 81/2 • 560 pages
“This book doesn’t just change our view of the Exxon Valdez spill; it
Tracing 15 years of lingering harm to humans
forces us to dramatically reassess the risks from petroleum and the
and wildlife from the Exxon Valdez oil spill,
enormous costs that industry is imposing on our health and planet.”
author Riki Ott reveals how corporate greed,
government shortsightedness, manipulation of
—Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., president, Waterkeeper Alliance
the truth, and the media have kept the public
from learning the deadly nature of polycyclic
aromatic hydrocarbons. Includes relevant
information and practical recommendations
for people and policy makers at this critical
juncture in the history of civilization.
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7. 05
nature & environment
New
HOW THE RICH ARE
Release
DESTROYING THE EARTH
Her vé Kempf
A best seller in France, and already translated into Spanish, Italian, Greek, and Korean,
Hervé Kempf ’s How the Rich Are Destroying the Earth now appears in its first English edition.
Bringing to bear more than twenty years of experience as an environmental journalist, Kempf
describes the invincibility that many of the world’s wealthy feel in the face of global warming,
and how their unchecked privilege is thwarting action on the single most vexing problem
facing our world.
In this important primer on the link between global ecology and the global economy, Kempf
makes the following observations: First, that the planet’s ecological situation is growing ever
worse, despite the efforts of millions of engaged citizens around the world. And second,
despite environmentalists’ emphasis that “we’re all in the same boat,” the world’s economic
elites—who continue to benefit by plundering the environment—have access to “lifeboats”
that insulate them from the resulting catastrophes.
Societies have not been able to effectively combat the expanding ecological crisis because it
is intimately linked to the social crisis in which the ruling form of capitalism has been
organized to impede democratic initiatives. This link explains the failure to make progress
against the greatest emergency of our time, because in this relationship the oligarchy plays an
essential and destructive role. For this reason, solving the ecological crisis depends on
disrupting the power of the world’s elite.
We cannot understand the entwined ecological and social crises, Kempf argues, if we don’t see
Pub Date: September 2008 them as the two sides of the same disaster—a disaster that comes from a system piloted by a
$12.95 US, $14.50 CAN • PB dominant social strata that has no drive other than greed, no ideal other than conservatism,
9781603580359 no dream other than technology. But Kempf also calls for measured optimism: “Despite the
53/8 x 83/8 • 160 pages scale of the challenges that await us, solutions are emerging and—faced with the sinister
prospects the oligarchs promote—the desire to remake the world is being reborn.”
“[A] bombshell book.” —Louis-Gilles Francoeur,
Le Devoir (Montréal, Québec)
“An intellectually original and undeniably
pugnacious endeavor.” —Patrick Piro, Politis
Hervé Kempf has more than 20
“An invigorating book, to be read at once.” —L'Ecologiste
years of experience as a reporter.
He is the environmental editor of Le
Monde, France’s most influential daily
newspaper, and the founder of “A vigorous indictment against the ‘neoliberal
Reporterre, a Web site devoted to ideology,’ guilty of driving the planet towards
discussion about the environment and
its own destruction.” —Olivier Nouaillas, La Vie
social justice. He lives in France.
“Stunning survey . . . great journalism.”
—Anne Crignon, Le Nouvel Observateur
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8. 06 nature & environment
New in
Paperback
EXPOSED
The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products
and What’s at Stake for American Power
Mark Schapiro
“A gripping new book” —The Economist
From tainted pet food to toxic toys, Americans can thank the successful lobbying efforts of the
U.S. chemical industry for the secret ingredients in everyday products that have been linked to
rising rates of infertility, endocrine system disruptions, neurological disorders, and cancer.
While the U.S. Congress stalls in the face of these dangers, the European Union has chosen to
act. Strict consumer-safety regulations have forced multinationals to manufacture safer products
for European consumers, while lower U.S. standards allow them to continue selling unsafe
products to Americans. Schapiro’s exposé shows that short of strong government action, the
United States will lose not only its ability to protect citizens from environmental hazards but
also, as economic priorities shift, whatever claim it has to commercial supremacy. Increasingly,
products on American shelves are equated with serious health hazards, hazards that the
European Union is legislating out of existence in its powerful trading bloc, a lead that even
China is beginning to follow. Schapiro illustrates how the blowback from weak regulation at
home carries a steep economic, as well as environmental, price.
In Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What’s at Stake for American Power,
investigative journalist Mark Schapiro takes the reader to the front lines of global corporate
and political power, where tectonic battles are being waged that will determine the physical
and economic health of our children and ourselves.
Pub Date: January 2009
$22.95 US, $29.95 CAN • HC
9781933392158
$16.95 US, $18.50 CAN • PB
9781603580588
6 x 9 • 224 pages
2008 Nautilus Book
Awards Silver Winner
“In this smart and timely new book, Mark Schapiro . . . examines
the widening gap between American and EU chemical and
environmental regulation, cogently arguing that although the
United States used to be a leader in environmental protection,
the power has shifted across the Atlantic.” —ForeWord Magazine
“Americans’ confidence in their government-sanctioned environmental
and consumer protections receives another blow in investigative
Mark Schapiro is editorial director of
the Center for Investigative Reporting. He reporter Schapiro’s exposé.” —Publishers Weekly
has written extensively on foreign affairs
and his work has appeared in Harper’s,
The Nation, Atlantic Monthly, the New
“[Schapiro’s] startling message is that by lagging behind on
York Times Magazine, and other publica-
tions, and he has reported stories for environmental innovation, American industries are jeopardizing
FRONTLINE/World, NOW with Bill
their financial future.” —San Francisco Chronicle
Moyers, and public radio’s Marketplace.
Schapiro lives in San Francisco, California.
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9. 07
nature & environment
10th
Anniversary
Edition
GAVIOTAS
A Village to Reinvent the World
Alan Weisman
New afterword by the author
By the author of the national best seller
The World Without Us
Los Llanos—the rain-leached, eastern savannas of war-ravaged Colombia—are among the
most brutal environments on Earth and an unlikely setting for one of the most hopeful
environmental stories ever told. Here, in the late 1960s, a young Colombian development
worker named Paolo Lugari wondered if the nearly uninhabited, infertile llanos could be
made livable for his country’s growing population. He had no idea that nearly four decades
later, his experiment would be one of the world’s most celebrated examples of sustainable
living: a permanent village called Gaviotas.
In the absence of infrastructure, the first Gaviotans invented wind turbines to convert mild
breezes into energy, hand pumps capable of tapping deep sources of water, and solar collectors
efficient enough to heat and even sterilize drinking water under perennially cloudy llano skies.
Over time, the Gaviotans’ experimentation has even restored an ecosystem: in the shelter of
two million Caribbean pines planted as a source of renewable commercial resin, a primordial
rain forest that once covered the llanos is unexpectedly reestablishing itself.
Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez has called Paolo Lugari “Inventor of the World.”
Lugari himself has said that Gaviotas is not a utopia: “Utopia literally means ‘no place.’ We
call Gaviotas a topia, because it’s real.”
Relive their story with this special 10th-anniversary edition of Gaviotas, complete with a
Pub Date: October 2008
$16.95 US, $18.95 CAN • PB new afterword by the author describing how Gaviotas has survived and progressed over the
9781603580564 past decade.
6 x 9 • 244 pages • Photos & diagrams
Previous edition: 9781890132286
“In the wake of the fall of so much idealism in Latin America, it is wonderful to
discover this luminous book about a luminous place in eastern Colombia. Alan
Weisman takes us to Gaviotas via many stories—stories that make the path
completely engrossing.”
RONN SPENCER
—Julia Alvarez, author of In the Time of the Butterflies and A Cafecito Story
“Gaviotas is the ongoing saga of what real, hands-on sustainability means,
calluses and all, practiced in the most demanding social and environmental
Author of the critically acclaimed New
York Times best seller The World circumstances conceivable.”
Without Us, Alan Weisman is an —Paul Hawken, author of The Ecology of Commerce and Natural Capitalism
award-winning journalist whose reports
have appeared in Harper’s, the New
York Times Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, “Gaviotas is not merely a book of hope, but a story of twists and turns that
Discover, and Orion, among others, remind us just how rich the human spirit and a human community can be.
and on National Public Radio. A former
Weisman himself proves again that he is among the best journalist essayists
contributing editor to the Los Angeles
North America has offered to the world toward the end of this millennium.”
Times Magazine, he is a senior radio
—Gary Paul Nabhan, author of Coming Home to Eat and Why Some Like It Hot
producer for Homelands Productions
and teaches international journalism at
the University of Arizona. He lives in
western Massachusetts.
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10. 08 nature & environment
From the author of the best-selling The Good Good Pig,
SPELL OF THE TIGER
The Man-Eaters of Sundarbans
Sy Montgomer y With a new afterword by the author
A book that earned Sy Montgomery her status as one of the most celebrated wildlife writers
of our time, Spell of the Tiger brings readers to the Sundarbans, a vast tangle of mangrove
swamp and tidal delta that lies between India and Bangladesh. It is the only spot on earth
where tigers routinely eat people—swimming silently behind small boats at night to drag
away fishermen, snatching honey collectors and woodcutters from the forest. But, unlike in
other parts of Asia where tigers are rapidly being hunted to extinction, tigers in the
Sundarbans are revered. With the skill of a naturalist and the spirit of a mystic, Montgomery
reveals the delicate balance of Sundarbans life, explores the mix of worship and fear that
offers tigers unique protection there, and unlocks some surprising answers about why people
at risk of becoming prey might consider their predator a god.
Pub Date: February 2009
$16.95 US, $18.50 CAN • PB
9781603580595
51/2 x 81/2 • 240 pages • Color photo insert
“Sy Montgomery puts the fear of God into you with her tales of the
great mangrove swamp of Sundarbans.” —Los Angeles Times
PHEBE LEWAN
“Spell of the Tiger is a splendid, transcendental book, distilled like
brandy. Lovers of nature should love it.”
“Part Indiana Jones, part Emily Dickinson,”
—Edward Hoagland
as the Boston Globe describes her,
Sy Montgomery is an author, naturalist, doc-
umentary scriptwriter, and radio commentator
“In a spiritual comprehension, people of the Sundarbans know that
who has traveled to some of the world’s most
remote wildernesses for her work. She has without the tiger, their human world is incomplete.” —Time
worked in a pit crawling with 18,000 snakes
in Manitoba, been hunted by a tiger in India,
swum with pink dolphins in the Amazon, and
“Clear, emotionally telling and always right to the point, her
been undressed by an orangutan in Borneo.
accounts of the other forms of life are without peer.”
She is the author of 13 award-winning books,
—Farley Mowat, author of Never Cry Wolf
including her national best-selling memoir, The
Good Good Pig. Montgomery lives in
Hancock, New Hampshire.
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11. 09
nature & environment
two highly acclaimed books back in print!
JOURNEY OF THE PINK DOLPHINS
An Amazon Quest
Sy Montgomer y
With a new introduction by the author
When Sy Montgomery ventured into the Amazon to unlock the mysteries of the little-
known pink dolphins, she found ancient whales that plied the Amazon River at dawn and
dusk, swam through treetops in flooded forests, and performed underwater ballets with their
flexible bodies. But she soon found out that to know the botos, as the dolphins are locally
called, you must also know the people who live among them. And so in Journey of the Pink
Dolphins, Montgomery—part naturalist, part poet, part Indiana Jones—winds her way
through watery tributaries and riverside villages, searching for botos and hearing the tales of
locals who believe these ethereal dolphins are shape-shifters—creatures that emerge from the
water as splendidly dressed men or women only to enchant their human onlookers, capture
their souls, and then carry them away to the Encante, an underwater world. Montgomery
takes readers on four separate journeys, exploring the river-dwelling dolphins’ natural
history, chronicling their conservation pressures, unraveling their prehistoric roots, and
visiting with shamans who delve into the Encante.
Pub Date: February 2009 “One of the most brilliant books of our time.”
$19.95 US, $21.95 CAN • PB —Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, author of The Tribe of Tiger
9781603580601
51/2 x 81/2 • 320 pages • Color photo insert
“I started to read this book at six in the morning and did not move
out of my chair for the rest of the day. I did not lose a day; I
gained a whole world.”
—Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, author of When Elephants Weep
“Montgomery’s smart, bighearted book reminds us that there are
still places whose sheer existence is cause for wonder.”
—New York Times Book Review
“A rich odyssey both real and mythical.”
—Christian Science Monitor
“The voyage is the ultimate in extreme . . . Deadly possibilities and
impossible-to-imagine rewards lurk around the river’s bend . . .
[Montgomery] writes with flair and with an ease that makes you
feel like she’s sitting next to you, telling you her stories.”
—USA Today
DENNIS OTTEN WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
COURTESY
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12. 10 nature & environment
New
Release
GREEN LIVING HANDBOOK
A 6-Step Program to Create an
Environmentally Sustainable Lifestyle
David Gershon
Now, in an expanded edition, Green Living Handbook (originally called EcoTeam) is available to
the trade for the first time. The original book has been translated into 22 languages, and with
more than 250,000 copies sold through its unique grassroots distribution model, David
Gershon’s in-depth program for sustainable living is the fulcrum of a global movement that is
changing the way the world thinks about going green.
Green Living Handbook has been driving environmental-behavior change in cities, faith
communities, universities, and businesses for over a decade. Much more than another
collection of eco-tips for the newly green, this illustrated workbook walks readers step-by-step
through a comprehensive lifestyle transformation program that has proven it can get results.
Thousands of past participants of the program have reduced their environmental footprint by
25 percent on average.
In a time when more and more Americans are seeking sustainable lifestyles, this first trade
edition of Green Living Handbook is perfectly poised to help thousands of Americans translate
their good intentions into action and contribute to a sustainable future for us all.
Pub Date: September 2008
$14.95 US • PB • 9780963032744
8 x 11 • 160 pages
EMPOWERMENT INSTITUTE
“Green Living Handbook is the first step-by-step plan for turning
David Gershon is the author of nine
environmental concern into action.” —The Chicago Tribune
books, including the best-selling
Empowerment: The Art of Creating
Your Life As You Want It. The founder
“A movement . . . of unquestionable zeal is challenging consumption
and CEO of Empowerment Institute, he
at the grassroots . . . Local support groups called EcoTeams are
is one of the world’s leading authorities
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transformation. He has lectured at material that flows in and out of homes.” —The New York Times
Harvard, MIT, and Duke and served as
an advisor to the Clinton White House
and the United Nations on behavior
change and sustainability issues. He
lives with his wife, Gail Straub, in the
Hudson River Valley of New York.
•••Other EcoTeam books by David Gershon•••
Winner of the 2007
Independent Publisher
“Most Likely to
Save the Planet”
Book Award
JOURNEY FOR THE PLANET
LOW CARBON DIET
WATER STEWARDSHIP
A Kid’s Five-Week Adventure
A 30-Day Program to Lose 5000 Pounds
A 30-Day Program to Protect and
to Create an Earth-Friendly Life
David Gershon
Conserve Our Water Resources . . .
David Gershon
One Drop at a Time
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New
THE TRANSITION HANDBOOK Release
From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience
Rob Hopkins
Foreword by Richard Heinberg
We live in an oil-dependent world, arriving at this
level of dependency in a very short space of time
by treating petroleum as if it were in infinite
supply. Most of us avoid thinking about what
happens when oil runs out (or becomes
prohibitively expensive), but The Transition
Handbook shows how the inevitable and
profound changes ahead can have a positive
outcome. These changes can lead to the rebirth
of local communities that will grow more of their
own food, generate their own power, and build
their own houses using local materials. They can also
encourage the development of local currencies to keep
money in the local area.
There are now over 30 “transition towns” in the UK, Australia and New Zealand with
more joining as the idea takes off. They provide valuable experience and lessons-learned for
Pub Date: September 2008
those of us on this side of the Atlantic. With little proactive thinking at the governmental
$24.95 US, $27.50 CAN • PB
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9781900322188
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There is no more important book than this one for any community
seeking change toward ecological sustainability.”
—Jerry Mander, founder/director of the International Forum on
Globalization and author of In the Absence of the Sacred
Rob Hopkins is the founder of the
Transition Network. Having successfully
created an Energy Descent Plan for Kinsale
“If your town is not yet a Transition Town, here is guidance for
in Ireland, which was later adopted as
making it one. We have little time, and much to accomplish.”
policy by the town council, Rob moved to
—Richard Heinberg, from the foreword
Totnes in Devon and initiated Transition
Town Totnes, the first UK town to address
the issues of life after peak oil.
www.transitiontowns.org/totnes “This is much more than just a book. It is a manual for a
movement. And not just any movement, but one which—in
Richard Heinberg is Senior Fellow at avoiding the civilisational collapse threatened by the twin crises
the Post Carbon Institute. He is the author of peak oil and climate change—could prove to be the most
of several influential books on resource
important social force humanity has ever seen.”
depletion including Peak Everything:
—Mark Lynas, author of Six Degrees
Waking Up to the Century Of Declines.
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Recently
CLIMATE SOLUTIONS
A Citizen’s Guide: What Works,
Published
What Doesn’t, and Why
Peter Barnes
Foreword by Bill McKibben
Millions of Americans are demanding that all levels of government—local, state, and federal—take immediate
and effective action to fight climate change. But there’s a big problem. Hundreds of policy ideas are floating
about, and many of them aren’t very good. It’s quite possible that bad climate policy will result, and that many
years will then be lost before real emission reductions occur.
We can’t afford to let that happen. That’s why this citizen’s guide is so important. It explains in clear and
simple language what different climate policies will do—and what they won’t do. It tells you who’s
behind the policies, who’d pay for them, and who’d profit. It strips away the spin and tells you the key
facts you need to know.
“Peter Barnes is right. The best and most efficient way to reduce global
warming [is a] a cap-and-auction with dividends to all Americans. Read this
useful guide and see why.” —Robert B. Reich, professor of public policy,
University of California at Berkeley, and former U.S. Secretary of Labor
“This citizen’s guide demystifies climate policy so that you can play an active
role in forming it. We can’t wait any longer, and we can’t get it wrong.”
—Bill McKibben, from the foreword
$9.95 US • PB • 9781603580052
5 x 8 • 110 pages • Illustrations throughout
STRANGERS DEVOUR THE LAND
Boyce Richardson
Foreword by Winona LaDuke
Revised Edition
With a new introduction by the author
First published in 1974, Strangers Devour the Land has become recognized as the magnum opus among
the numerous books, articles, and films produced by Boyce Richardson over two decades on the
subject of indigenous people. Its subject, the long struggle of the Crees of James Bay in northern
Quebec—a hunting and trapping people—to defend the territories they have occupied since time imme-
morial, came to international attention in 1972 when they tried by legal action to stop the immense
hydroelectric project the provincial government was proposing to build around them.
The Crees argued that the integrity of their vast wilderness was essential to their way of life, but the
authorities at first did not accept their knowledge of the land and its animals as authentic. Richardson,
who sat through the many months of the trial, has mingled the scientific and Cree testimony given in
court with his own interviews with Cree hunters, and experiences in gathering information and shooting
films, to produce a classic account of cultures in collision.
In a new introduction, he reveals that the Crees—now receiving immense sums of money as compensation
for the loss of their lands—appear to be doing well, and to be in the process of joining modern, technological
culture, while retaining the spiritual base of their traditional lives.
“Richardson delivers a stunning parable of dissimilar societies on a
collision course . . . It must not be ignored.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer
$25.00 US • PB • 9781603580045
6 x 9 • 376 pages • 8 B&W photos
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SIPPEWISSETT
B est seller
THE MAN WHO PLANTED TREES
Or, Life on a Salt Marsh A story by Jean Giono
Tim Traver Wood engravings by Michael McCurdy
Illustrations by Bobbi Angell New foreword by Wangari Maathai
New afterword by Andy Lipkis
$22.50 US • HC • 9781933392141
$16.95 US • PB • 9781933392783 $10.00 US • PB • 9781933392813
51/2 x 81/2 • 260 pages 6 x 9 • 72 pages • Wood engravings
Jean Giono’s extraordinary fable brings to life a shepherd who plants one
Tim Traver’s Sippewissett is heir to a rich history of nature writing.
hundred acorns a day for thirty years. The shepherd’s tireless efforts
Akin to classics like Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac and Annie
transform the countryside, revitalize his community, and teach us about
Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, the book forms an eloquent bridge
hope, humanity, and our own ability to create change in the world.
between ecology and memory, science and art. Traver alternates
between remembrances of the Cape Cod salt marsh where he spent his This special twentieth-anniversary edition of The Man Who Planted Trees
boyhood summers and the history of Sippewissett, a place that has includes an inspiring foreword by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari
been studied by many of America’s great biologists, from Louis Agassiz Maathai, whose Green Belt Movement has planted millions of trees and
to Rachel Carson. brought new hope to women and families in Kenya. The afterword by
TreePeople founder Andy Lipkis tells his own true story of planting trees in
the unlikely ecosystems of Los Angeles and provides practical resources for
taking action in our communities. This edition is printed on 100 percent
Also Available in Hardcover
recycled paper.
Released on National Arbor Day,
April 29, 2005, our best-selling
•••Other Editions•••
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edition of The Man Who Planted
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Trees, with a foreword by Wangari
•Audio Edition: THE MAN WHO PLANTED TREES • Jean Giono, and Robert J. Lurtsema
Maathai, winner of the 2004 Nobel
$16.00 US • CD-Audio • 40 min • 9780930031763
Peace Prize and founder of the
African Green Belt Movement. •THE MAN WHO PLANTED TREES GIFT SET • $25.00 US • 40 min CD + HC edition • 9781931498814
ISBN: 9781931498722
•••Other NATURE & ENVIRONMENT Titles•••
A CAFECITO STORY
EL CUENTO DEL CAFECITO
Julia Alvarez
and Bill Eichner
Bilingual Edition
$10.00 US • PB • 9781931498067
6 x 9 • 78 pages
•GAIAN DEMOCRACIES: Redefining Globalisation and People-Power
Roy Madron and John Jopling • $14.95 US • 6 x 8 • PB • 160 pages • 9781903998281
Not a political or environmental polemic,
•ECOVILLAGE LIVING: Restoring the Earth and Her People
A Cafecito Story is instead a poetic,
modern fable about human beings at Edited by Hildur Jackson and Karen Svensson
their best. The challenge of producing
$24.95 US • 53/ x 81/ • PB • 96 pages • 9781903998168
8 2
coffee is a remarkable test of our ability
to live more sustainably, caring for the
•DESIGN OUTLAWS ON THE ECOLOGICAL FRONTIER • Edited by Chirs Zelov and Phil Cousineau
land, growers, and consumers in an
enlightened and just way. B&W photographs and illustrations
$21.95 US • 8 x 11 • PB • 464 pages • 9780965030625
A CAFECITO STORY • English Edition
•EARTH SONGS: A Resurgence Anthology of Contemporary Eco-Poetry • Edited by Peter Abbs
Julia Alvarez
$16.95 US • 6 x 9 • PB • 208 pages • 9781903998175
Woodcut Illustrations by Belkis Ramírez
•FIELD DAYS: An Anthology of Poetry • Edited by Angela King and Susan Clifford for Common Ground
$14.95 US • HC • 9781931498005
$14.95 US • 6 x 9 • PB • 160 pages • 9781890132255
6 x 9 • 64 pages
•THE RIVER’S VOICE: An Anthology of Poetry • Edited by Angela King and Susan Clifford
$10.00 US • PB • 9781931498548
$16.95 US • 6 x 9 • PB • 302 pages • 9781890132699
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Great Books by Derrick Jensen
B est seller
B est seller
LISTENING TO THE LAND THE CULTURE OF MAKE BELIEVE A LANGUAGE OLDER THAN WORDS
Conversations about Nature,
Derrick Jensen Derrick Jensen
Culture, and Eros
Derrick Jensen $25.00 US • PB • 9781931498579 $20.00 US • PB • 9781931498555
6 x 9 • 720 pages 6 x 9 • 412 pages
$20.00 US • PB • 9781931498562
6 x 9 • 336 pages At once a beautifully poetic memoir and
What begins as an exploration of the
an exploration of the various ways we
lines of thought and experience that run
In this far-ranging and heartening
live in the world, A Language Older
between the massive lynchings in early
collection, Derrick Jensen gathers
Than Words explains violence as a
twentieth-century America to today’s
conversations with environmentalists,
pathology that touches every aspect of
death squads in South America soon
theologians, Native Americans,
our lives and indeed affects all aspects of
explodes into an examination of the very
psychologists, and feminists, engaging
life on Earth.
heart of our civilization.
some of our best minds in an exploration
of more peaceful ways to live on Earth.
“Derrick Jensen tears our illusions from us with his
shocking yet graceful prose.”
—Francis Moore Lappé
THE OTHER SIDE OF DARKNESS
Derrick Jensen
WELCOME TO THE MACHINE
WALKING ON WATER
$25.00 US • CD-Audio • 9781931498593
Science, Surveillance, and
Reading, Writing, and Revolution
the Culture of Control
Derrick Jensen Here for the first time is Derrick Jensen
Derrick Jensen and George Draffan live, recorded at several of his standing-
$15.00 US • PB • 9781931498784
room-only performances.
$18.00 US • PB • 9781931498524
51/2 x 81/2 • 232 pages
53/8 x 83/8 • 304 pages
Walking on Water is a startling and
A hard-hitting look at the way technology
provocative look at teaching, writing,
is used as a machine to control us and our
creativity, and life by a writer increasingly
environment.
recognized for his passionate and
articulate critique of modern civilization.
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Great Books from
the Trust for Public Lands
CONSERVATION FINANCE HANDBOOK THE GREAT REMEMBERING COMING TO LAND IN A
How Communities Are Paying for Parks TROUBLED WORLD
Peter Forbes
and Land Conservation
Peter Forbes, Kathleen Dean
Kim Hopper and Ernest Cook $14.95 US • PB • 9780967280615
Moore, and Scott R. Sanders
51/2 x 81/2 • 112 pages • B&W photographs
$21.95 US • PB • 9780967280646
$16.95 US • PB • 9780967280691
6 x 9 • 156 pages An activist’s exploration of the meaning
51/2 x 81/4 • 144 pages
of land to our culture. It is a also a call
The essential and trusted guide for any
to land conservationists to redefine the The work of conserving land, species, and
conservation organization for planning
promise of their work as the building of ways of life is more urgent and vital than
and winning public finance campaigns.
relationships between land and people. ever before. In three powerful essays, three
The Conservation Finance Handbook
influential writers and thinkers explore
carefully illustrates all parts of the process,
the meaning of land conservation and
including how to analyze and measure
community life and reflect upon the vital
public opinion, design a winning ballot
importance of healing divisions in culture,
measure, and run a successful campaign.
consumption, and the fate of our earth.
OUR LAND, OURSELVES THE STORY HANDBOOK
GROUNDSWELL
Readings on People and Place Language and Storytelling
Stories of Saving Places,
for Land Conservationists
Finding Community Edited by Peter Forbes,
Edited by Helen Whybrow
Ann Ambrecht Forbes,
Alix W. Hopkins
and Helen Whybrow
$14.95 US • PB • 9780967280622
$20.00 US • PB • 9781932807042
$16.95 US • PB • 9780967280608 51/2 x 81/4 • 112 pages • B&W photos
75/8 x 10 • 208 pages
5 x 7 • 240 pages
Contributors Tim Ahern, William
Written from a practitioner’s perspective,
Cronon, John Elder, Peter Forbes, Barry
A collection of diverse readings on the
Groundswell examines a diverse set of
Lopez, and Scott Russell Sanders present
meaning of people and place—themes
community-supported environmental
us with the power of stories, narratives
such as the protection of wilderness and
projects ranging from New York City’s
of people and places, and how those
the idea of the wild, the nature of home,
Bronx to Portland, Oregon. This book
stories can advance the work of land
the purpose of work, and the meaning of
will inspire you, especially if you have
conservation toward creating meaningful
community. These voices suggest a new
the passion and energy to make a
change in our culture.
way of viewing land conservation as the
difference in your community.
process of building values and positively
shaping human lives.
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THRILLCRAFT VOICES OF THE LAND EDENS LOST & FOUND
The Environmental Consequences of How Ordinary Citizens Are Restoring
Edited by Jamie Purinton
Motorized Recreation Our Great American Cities
Photographs by Charles Lindsay
Edited by George Wuerthner Harr y Wiland and Dale Bell
Foreword by Michael Pollan
with Joe D’Agnese
$60.00 US • HC • 9781933392660
$25.00 US • HC • 9781931498500
113/4 x 131/4 • 312 pages • Full color $40.00 US • HC • 9781931498890
10 x 10 • 84 pages
$25.00 US • PB • 9781933392264
Thrillcraft exposes the lasting damage 8 x 10 • 304 pages • Full color
With evocative photographs that detail
done to our land, water, and air from the
the intricacies of nature, Voices of the
growing plague of jet skis, quads, dirt Focusing on Chicago, Los Angeles,
Land encourages homeowners to be
bikes, dune buggies, snowmobiles, and Philadelphia, and Seattle, four cities that
responsive to the existing character and
other motorized recreational craft that are face vastly different challenges, Edens
ecology of the land as it becomes a home.
penetrating the last bastions of wild Lost & Found highlights the remarkable
America. In stark detail the book describes power of hope, pride, ingenuity, and
how offroad vehicle use is responsible for chutzpah that characterize a new era of
wildlife habitat fragmentation, disturbance collaboration between progressive city
of sensitive wildlife, soil erosion, spread of governments and their citizens.
invasive weeds, loss of silence, and water
and air pollution.
B est seller
HEALING LYME
WHAT CAN I DO? PINHOOK
Natural Healing and Prevention of
An Alphabet for Living Finding Wholeness in a Fragmented Land
Lyme Borreliosis and Its Coinfections
Lisa Harrow Janisse Ray
Stephen Harrod Buhner
Introduction by Roger Payne
$12.00 US • PB • 9781931498746
$19.95 US • PB • 9780970869630
$7.95 US • PB • 9781931498661 53/8 x 83/8 • 168 pages
6 x 9 • 288 pages
41/4 x 7 • 144 pages
In lyrical, down-home prose, Ray draws
This essential guide to Lyme infection and
The quintessential resource and reference together Pinhook Swamp’s need for
its treatment examines the leading research
guide for anyone concerned about the restoration and the human desire for
and tests and outlines the most potent
environment and interested in learning wholeness and wildness in our own lives
herbal medicines and supplements that
how to make a positive impact. and landscapes. An evocative paean to
offer help—either alone or in combination wildness and wilderness restoration with
with antibiotics. an extraordinary journey into southern
Georgia’s Pinhook Swamp.
Visit Lisa Harrow’s Sea Change Institute
to learn more about responsible living
www.seachangeinstitute.org
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