New Sustainability books at Kits Library


New Books and DVD's on Sustainability at VPL - Kits Branch


The Abundant Community: Awakening the Power of Families and Neighbourhoods
Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're in Without Going Crazy
All New Square Foot Gardening: Grow More in Less Space
All That We Share: A Field Guide to the Commons
Art of the Commonplace: Agrarian Essays

Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
Building Green: A Complete How-To Guide to Alternative Building Methods - Earth Plaster, Straw Bales, Cordwood, Cob, Living Roofs

Creating Cohousing: Building Sustainable Communities

EcoCities: Rebuilding Cities in Balance with Nature
Edible Wild Plants: Wild Food From Dirt to Plate
The Ecotechnic Future: Envisioning a Post-Peak World
The End of Nature

Future Scenarios: How Communities Can Adapt to Peak Oil and Climate Change

Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times
Global Warning DVD (3 films - A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash, The Refugees of the Blue Planet, Manufactured Landscapes)
The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community 
The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems

High Steaks: Why and How to Eat Less Meat 
Homegrown Whole Grains: Grow, Harvest, and Cook Wheat, Barley, Oats, Rice, Corn and More
Humanizing the Economy: Co-operatives in the Age of Capital

Joanna Macy: The Work That Reconnects DVD

Less Is More: Embracing Simplicity for a Healthier Planet, a Caring Economy and Lasting Happiness

Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World

Northwest Green Home Primer: Hundreds of Ideas for Building, Remodeling, and Buying Green

On Bicycles: 50 Ways the New Bike Culture Can Change Your Life 
One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming

Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability
Permaculture: The Growing Edge: Exploring Real Solutions to Our Grave Ecological Crisis DVD
The Permaculture Handbook: Garden Farming for Town and Country
Power from the People: How to ORGANIZE, FINANCE, and LAUNCH Local ENERGY Projects
The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil DVD
Putting Food By

The Resilience Imperative: Cooperative transitions to a Steady-State Economy 
The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times

Sacred Economics: Money, Gift & Society in the Age of Transition
Seed to Seed: Seed Saving Techniques for the Vegetable Gardener
Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet
Slow is Beautiful: New Visions of Community, Leisure, and Joie de Vivre
Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in a World of Climate Crisis
Sowing Seeds in the Desert: Natural Farming, Global Restoration, and Ultimate Food Security

This Changes Everything: Occupy Wall Street and the 99% Movement
Toolbox for Sustainable City Living: A Do-It-Ourselves Guide
Toward Sustainable Communities: Solutions for Citizens and Their Governments 

Urban Food Revolution: Changing the Way We Feed Cities 

What We Leave Behind
Wild Harvest: Edible Plants of the Pacific Northwest

Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money, and Achieving Financial Independence

Note: The library already carries The Transition Handbook and The Transition Companion. Check them out and then check 'em out.