Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Audio Version

A Year Of Food Life

READ BY THE AUTHORS: BARBARA KINSOLVER, STEVEN L. HOPP AND CAMILLE KINGSOLVER
Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver returns with her first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat. With characteristic poetry and pluck, Barbara Kingsolver and her family sweep readers along on their journey away from the industrial-food pipeline to a rural life in which they vow to buy only food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle makes a passionate case for putting the kitchen back at the center of family life and diversified farms at the center of the American diet. 14.5 hours, 12 compact discs.

HarperAudio 2007 14.5 HOURS Audio

$24.95 (in stock)

Arrowhead To Hand Axe

In Search Of Ecological Gu Idance

BY KEITH HELMUTH
Helmuth's agrarian, woodland childhood, Mennonite culture of community service, encounters with stone age tools, environmental education, family economics, farming business and career in community development combine with the Quaker ethos to create his ecological world view. Equity, peace and the integrity of Creation become a single, multi-faceted vision that brings the conundrum of economics into full view. He talks of religion and the market economy being in dialogue. He speaks of fatalism and acknowledges that for him pondering the beauty of the cosmos and the nurturing earth renew faith. For the author Quaker testimonies gain new focus within the ecological worldview.

Argenta Friends Press 2004 44 PP. Paper

$4.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Awakening To Earth

Natural Awareness As A Spiritual Practice

BY BILL CAHALAN
A collection of essays and activities designed to help the reader to practice natural awareness.

FCUN 2001 24 PP. Paper

$4.00 (in stock)

Be Ye Perfect

The Quaker Call To Wholeness Together With Returning To Right Relationship: Where On Earth Are We?

BY LISA LOFLAND-GOULD
The Walton lecture of 2002 given to Southeastern Yearly Meeting. Lisa Lofland Gould looks at our relationship with the earth and our Quaker faith. Also includes her second lecture to the yearly meeting: "Returning to right relationship: Where on earth are we?"

Southeastern Yearly Meeting 2002 37 PP. Paper

$4.00 (in stock)

Bioshelter Market Garden

A Permaculture Farm

BY DARRELL FREY
Darrell Frey, owner of the successful Three Sisters Farm and organic market in Pennsylvania, presents an extensive explanation of a successful permaculture farm in action. Frey discusses diverse aspects, from soil to efficient design to farm education, always with careful stewardship of the environment in mind.

New Society Publishers 2011 463 PP. Paper

$34.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

The Body Of God

An Ecological Theology

BY SALLIE MCFAGUE
Plenary Speaker at the 2006 FGC Gathering, award-winning theologian Sallie McFague here develops a striking and novel vision of the universe, one that takes seriously and radically both contemporary science and the incarnational commitments of the Christian tradition.

Augsburg 1993 274 PP. Paper

$18.00 (in stock)

Building The Green Economy

Success Stories From The Grassroots

BY KEVIN DANEHER, SHANNON BIGGS, JASON MARK
GREEN ACRES IN THE WINDY CITY: URBAN FARMING GROWS FOOD IN CHICAGO, IS A CHAPTER ON LADONNA REDMOND'S PROJECT, SHE IS A 2011 FGC GATHERING PLENARY PRESENTER. Building The Green Economy shows how community groups, families, and individual citizens have taken action to protect their food and water, clean up their neighborhoods, and strengthen their local economies. Their unlikely victories over polluters, unresponsive bureaucracies, dramatize the opportunities and challenges facing the local green economy movement.

PoliPoint Press 2007 282 PP. Paper

$16.00 (in stock)

Caring For Creation

Reflections On The Biblical Basis Of Earthcare

BY LISA LOFLAND GOULD
This book encourages us to seek the spiritual roots of a healthy relationship between humans and the rest of creation. Drawing insights from many parts of the Bible, as well as from her background as a biologist, Lisa Gould shows that the Scriptures can be a valid guide to living in right relationship not only with other people, but with the whole community of life. She includes a study guide for use in adult religious education. Our last copies - This book is now out of print.

FCUN 1999 96 PP. Paper

$8.50 (in stock)

Charles Lathrop Pack

Timberman, Forest Conservationist, And Pioneer In Forest Education

BY ALEXANDRA EYLE
Charles Lathrop Pack (1857-1937) made his fortune from ruthlessly exploiting inherited forests in Michigan, then suddenly in 1908 he changed his spots and became a conservationist, donating large sums to preserving forests and studying them. As president of the American Forestry Association his methods were still a bit dictatorial and he left to found and fund the American Tree Association. He also founded what was to become the "Victory Garden" movement. A fascinating tale of a contradictory man.

Syracuse University Press 1994 312 PP. Cloth

$4.50 (in stock)

The Comforting Whirlwind

God, Job And The Scale Of Creation

BY BILL MCKIBBEN
In The Comforting Whirlwind, acclaimed environmentalist and writer Bill McKibben turns to the biblical book of Job and its awesome depiction of creation to demonstrate our need to embrace a bold new paradigm for living if we hope to reverse the current trend of ecological destruction. With reference to the consequences of our poorly considered and self-centered environmental practices-global warming, ozone degradation, deforestation-McKibben combines modern science and timeless biblical wisdom to make the case that growth and economic progress are not only undesirable but deadly.

Cowley Publications 2005 73 PP. Paper

$13.95 (in stock)

The Commonwealth Of Life

Economics For A Flourishing Earth, Second Edition

BY PETER G BROWN
Canadian Quaker Peter G. Brown identifies three challenges that lay ahead of us; to decide what our minimal obligations to each other and the natural world are, to redefine and reshape the institutions of economics, government, and civil society to reflect those obligations; and imagine a new way for nations to interact and enable these changes to occur across the globe. In this new edition he expands on the idea that the Earth is for the use of all species, not just human needs.

Black Rose Books 2008 221 PP. Paper

$19.95 (in stock)

A Conservationist Manifesto

BY SCOTT RUSSELL SANDERS
As an antidote to the destructive culture of consumption dominating American life today, Quaker Scott Russell Sanders calls for a culture of conservation that allows us to savor and preserve the world, instead of devouring it. How might we shift to a more durable and responsible way of life? What changes in values and behavior will be required? Ranging geographically from southern Indiana to the Boundary Waters Wilderness and culturally from the Bible to billboards, Sanders extends the visions of Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and Rachel Carson to our own day.

Indiana University Press 2009 256 PP. Paper

$19.95 (in stock)

Eaarth

Making A Life On A Tough New Planet

BY BILL MCKIBBEN
Twenty years ago, with The End of Nature, Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about global warming. Those warnings went mostly unheeded; now, he insists, we need to acknowledge that we've waited too long, and that massive change is not only unavoidable but already under way. Our old familiar globe is suddenly melting, drying, acidifying, flooding, and burning in ways that no human has ever seen. We've created, in very short order, a new planet, still recognizable but fundamentally different. We may as well call it Eaarth.

St Martins 2011 272 PP. Paper

$14.99 (in stock)

Earthcare For Friends

A Study Guide For Individuals And Faith Communities

EDITED BY LOUIS COX, INGRID FABIANSON, SANDRA MOON FARLEY, RUAH SWENNERFELT
This study guide is designed to help Friends understand specific ways that human activities have been despoiling the Earth; different ways of living and thinking that can bring harmony among humans and between humans and the natural world; why stewardship is necessary for a vital relationship with God and with others; and how Earthcare is a natural expression of the historic Quaker testimonies of peace, equality, justice, simplicity, and integrity. Earthcare for Friends provides adult education materials including articles, queries, sources of inspiration, Earthcare resources, and activities to illustrate basic ecological issues. Also included is a packet of pamphlets on Earthcare issues.

QEW 2004 254 PP. Spiral Bound

$18.00 (in stock)

Earthlight

Spiritual Wisdom For An Ecological Age

EDITED BY ANTHONY MANOUSOS AND CINDY SPRING
"'How shall the heart be reconciled to its feast of losses?' K. Lauren DeBoer invokes this question by Stanley Kunitz to introduce this beautiful collection of essays, interviews, and poems about spiritual ecology, all originally published in the Quaker magazine, Earthlight. How shall the heart be reconciled to the loss of the giant sequoias? DeBoer asks. The buffalo? Our 20,000 fellow species that are gone for good? How, indeed. The authors featured here have all plumbed the deep sorrow of our `ecological age,' as well as the joyful abundance and mystery of our world. Each guides readers down a different path to a tender, if bittersweet, spiritual relationship with the Earth." - Yes

Friends Bull. 2007 360 PP. Paper

$20.00 (in stock)

Eco-economy

Building An Economy For The Earth

BY LESTER BROWN
Lester Brown argues that, like the Sumerian and Mayan civilizations, our economy is fast destroying its environmental support systems, threatening future generations. The challenge is to restructure the global economy, replacing our fossil fuel-based, automobile-centered, throwaway economy with a new one that is environmentally sustainable. Brown outlines his vision of the new economy.

Norton 2001 224 PP Paper

$15.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

The End Of The Long Summer

Why We Must Remake Our Civilization To Survive On A Volatile Earth

BY DIANNE DUMANOSKI
"A splendid book. We cannot now stop global change, but we can adapt and survive. Crucial to survival is the need to understand our planet, and Dianne Dumanoski's powerful book is the best guide that I have seen. It is a delight to read and clearly written in the best tradition of great American journalism." James Lovelock

Crown a division of Random House 2009 311 PP. Cloth

$25.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Envisioning A Moral Economy - Php 405

BY TOM HEAD
What is the place of moral values in the way we structure our economy? Should the teachings of Jesus and other faith traditions be considered when we address such questions as: How is work fashioned? Where do we live? What do we own? Quaker economist Tom Head explores how we might think about our economy-and its purposes-in new ways by including religious sources of wisdom and morality in our vision of a just and humane economic future.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2010 35 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

Feeding People Is Easy

BY COLIN TUDGE
Colin Tudge has worked with British Quakers in this field. Here he shows that it would be possible to feed the world, forever, without damaging the environment or cruelty to animals. The book shows how governments and the food industry have created the major problems so much of the world faces today. It proposes a new global food chain based on principles of sound biology and justice.

Pari Publishing 2007 155 PP. Paper

$16.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Field Notes From A Catastrophe

Man, Nature, And Climate Change

BY ELIZABETH KOLBERT
Long known for her insightful and thought-provoking political journalism, author Elizabeth Kolbert now tackles the controversial and increasingly urgent subject of global warming. In what began as groundbreaking three-part series in the New Yorker, for which she won a National Magazine Award in 2006, Kolbert cuts through the competing rhetoric and political agendas to elucidate for Americans what is really going on with the global environment and asks what, if anything, can be done to save our planet. Now updated and with a new afterword, Field Notes from a Catastrophe is the book to read on the defining issue and greatest challenge of our times.

Bloomsbury 2006 240 PP. Paper

$13.95 (in stock)

Fixing Climate

What Past Climate Changes Reveal About The Current Threat - And How To Counter It

BY WALLACE S. BROECKER
A collaboration between an earth scientist and a science writer. Fixing Climate takes an unconventional approach to the vitally important issue of global warming. Wallace Broecker warned about the possible consequences of global warming decades before the concept entered popular consciousness. The time to reduce carbon emissions has already passed in his opinion, and large and small scale projects to reduce carbon dioxide directly are needed. Told by skilled science journalist Robert Kunzig, Fixing Climate is a timely and informative story that makes for riveting reading.

Hill and Wang 2008 272 PP. Cloth

$25.00 (in stock)

Folks, This Ain't Normal

A Farmer's Advice For Happier Hens, Healthier People, And A Better World

BY JOEL SALATIN
Salatin, hailed by the "New York Times" as "Virginia's most multifaceted agrarian since Thomas Jefferson [and] the high priest of the pasture" and profiled in the Academy Award nominated documentary "Food, Inc." and the bestselling book "The Omnivore's Dilemma," understands what food should be: Wholesome, seasonal, raised naturally, procured locally, prepared lovingly, and eaten with a profound reverence for the circle of life. And his message doesn't stop there. From child-rearing, to creating quality family time, to respecting the environment, Salatin writes with a wicked sense of humor and true storyteller's knack for the revealing anecdote.10% off RSP.

Center Street 2011 384 PP. Cloth

$23.69 (in stock)

Fueling Our Future

A Dialogue About Technology, Ethics, Public Policy, And Remedial Action

EDITED BY JUDY LUMB
In Fueling Our Future, Quakers expert in both the technical and ethical issues, provide key information, critical analysis and thoughtful dialogue on choices for our energy future. This is the first of a series of pamphlets from the Quaker Institute for the Future. Coordinated by Ed Dreby and Keith Helmuth.

Producciones de La Hamaca 2009 68 PP. Paper

$9.00 (in stock)

The Future Of Nature

Writing On A Human Ecology From Orion Magazine

SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY BARRY LOPEZ
Less an anthology than a vision statement, this timely collection challenges the division of human society from the natural world that has often characterized traditional environmentalism. Edited and introduced by Barry Lopez, The Future of Nature encompasses such topics as local economies, the social dynamics of activism, America's incarceration society, naturalism in higher education, developing nations, spiritual ecology, the military-industrial landscape, and the persistent tyranny of wilderness designation. Featuring the fine writing and insights for which Orion is famous, this book is required reading for anyone interested in a livable future for the planet.

Milkweed Editions 2007 304 PP. Paper

$18.00 (in stock)

Genetically Modified Crops

Promises, Perils, And The Need For Public Policy

BY ANNE MITCHELL, PINAYUR RAJAGOPAL, SUSAN HOLTZ
This Quaker Institute for the Future booklet assesses the record of GM crops and the role of public policy in their regulation. It places biotechnology within an ethical context of concern for equity, the environment, and the common good and presents a framework for understanding the varieties of biotechnologies and for gauging strategic action on public policy. This pamphlet will be helpful for understanding biotechnology issues and for guidance on engaging these issues at the level of public policy for the common good.

Quaker Institute for the Future 2011 68 PP. Paper

$9.00 (in stock)

Getting Started In Permaculture

MARS, ROSS AND JENNY
Australian teachers Ross and Jenny Mars have produced an accessible but comprehensive introductory guide to gardening in efficient and environmentally-friendly ways. This book teaches through presenting 50 do-it-yourself projects, from tire ponds to shadehouses.

Chelsea Green Publishing 2007 102 PP. Paper

$14.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

The Global Citizen's Handbook

Facing Our World's Crises And Challenges

BY THE WORLD BANK
Not all Friends are fans of the World Bank but this book does have authoritative statistics on current global challenges such as AIDS, poverty, migration, CO2 emissions, and population pressures. Country comparisons, key social development indicators, including economic growth, life expectancy, infant mortality, safe water, population below the poverty line, and energy efficiency They are presented in clear maps, graphs, and photographs, the hard facts you need to know about the critical issues of our time and the consequences of inaction.

Collins 2007 144 PP. Paper

$6.00 (in stock)

Goatwalking

A Guide To Wildland Living - A Quest For The Peaceable Kingdom

BY JIM CORBETT
SECONDHAND: Good condition with jacket. This extraordinary testament is at once practical, political, and personal. Jim Corbett, a well-known Friend, spent much of his life as a cowboy, sheep and goat herder, range analyst, and teacher of wildland symbiotics. Goatwalking is a moving record of Corbett's quest to break through dogma and societal constraints and find a way to live in harmony with wildlife, wildlands, and oneself. Like Thoreau, Corbett seeks the connection between right livelihood and authentic communion. Limited number of copies, out of print book.

Viking 1991 237 PP. Cloth

$12.00 (in stock)

God's Spirit In Nature

Php 336

BY JUDITH BROWN
Learning to move from anger and despair to sacredness and love, Judith presents her meditations as she practices being present in God's world.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1998 32 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

The Green Belt Movement

Sharing The Approach And The Experience

BY WANGARI MAATHAI
The Green Belt Movement, begun by Wangari Mathai, inspired local African women to plant and nurture seedlings to try to reforest Kenya. Rewarded for the efforts by small amounts of cash and the trees' produce, it has been a tremendous success. Millions of trees and life opportunities have grown out from the seedlings of trees.

Lantern Books 2003 117 PP. Paper

$16.00 (in stock)