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Lean Logic is David Fleming's masterpiece, the product of more than thirty years' work and a testament to the creative brilliance of one of Britain's most important intellectuals.
A dictionary unlike any other, it leads readers through Fleming's stimulating exploration of fields as diverse as culture, history, science, art, logic, ethics, myth, economics, and anthropology, being made up of four hundred and seventy-two engaging essay-entries covering topics such as Boredom, Community, Debt, Growth, Harmless Lunatics, Land, Lean Thinking, Nanotechnology, Play, Religion, Spirit, Trust, and Utopia.
The threads running through every entry are Fleming's deft and original analysis of how our present market-based economy is destroying the very foundations—ecological, economic, and cultural— on which it depends, and his core focus: a compelling, grounded vision for a cohesive society that might weather the consequences. A society that provides a satisfying, culturally-rich context for lives well lived, in an economy not reliant on the impossible promise of eternal economic growth. A society worth living in. Worth fighting for. Worth contributing to.
The beauty of the dictionary format is that it allows Fleming to draw connections without detracting from his in-depth exploration of each topic. Each entry carries intriguing links to other entries, inviting the enchanted reader to break free of the imposed order of a conventional book, starting where she will and following the links in the order of her choosing. In combination with Fleming's refreshing writing style and good-natured humor, it also creates a book perfectly suited to dipping in and out.
The decades Fleming spent honing his life's work are evident in the lightness and mastery with which Lean Logic draws on an incredible wealth of cultural and historical learning—from Whitman to Whitefield, Dickens to Daly, Kropotkin to Kafka, Keats to Kuhn, Oakeshott to Ostrom, Jung to Jensen, Machiavelli to Mumford, Mauss to Mandelbrot, Leopold to Lakatos, Polanyi to Putnam, Nietzsche to Næss, Keynes to Kumar, Scruton to Shiva, Thoreau to Toynbee, Rabelais to Rogers, Shakespeare to Schumacher, Locke to Lovelock, Homer to Homer-Dixon—in demonstrating that many of the principles it commends have a track-record of success long pre-dating our current society.
Fleming acknowledges, with honesty, the challenges ahead, but rather than inducing despair, Lean Logic is rare in its ability to inspire optimism in the creativity and intelligence of humans to nurse our ecology back to health; to rediscover the importance of place and play, of reciprocity and resilience, and of community and culture.
Lean Logic is a comfort in disorientating times. A book to keep at your side. A dictionary of empowerment.
Hardcover $49.95
With detailed recipes for ferments, infusions, spices, and other preparations
Wild foods are increasingly popular, as evidenced by the number of new books about identifying plants and foraging ingredients, as well as those written by chefs about culinary creations that incorporate wild ingredients (Noma, Faviken, Quay, Manreza, et al.). The New Wildcrafted Cuisine, however, goes well beyond both of these genres to deeply explore the flavors of local terroir, combining the research and knowledge of plants and landscape that chefs often lack with the fascinating and innovative techniques of a master food preserver and self-described "culinary alchemist."
Author Pascal Baudar views his home terrain of southern California (mountain, desert, chaparral, and seashore) as a culinary playground, full of wild plants and other edible and delicious foods (even insects) that once were gathered and used by native peoples but that have only recently begun to be re-explored and appreciated.
For instance, he uses various barks to make smoked vinegars, and combines ants, plants, and insect sugar to brew primitive beers. Stems of aromatic plants are used to make skewers. Selected rocks become grinding stones, griddles, or plates. Even fallen leaves and other natural materials from the forest floor can be utilized to impart a truly local flavor to meats and vegetables, one that captures and expresses the essence of season and place.
This beautifully photographed book offers up dozens of creative recipes and instructions for preparing a pantry full of preserved foods, including Pickled Acorns, White Sage-Lime Cider, Wild Kimchi Spice, Currant Capers, Infused Salts with Wild Herbs, Pine Needles Vinegar, and many more. And though the author's own palette of wild foods are mostly common to southern California, readers everywhere can apply Baudar's deep foraging wisdom and experience to explore their own bioregions and find an astonishing array of plants and other materials that can be used in their own kitchens.
The New Wildcrafted Cuisine is an extraordinary book by a passionate and committed student of nature, one that will inspire both chefs and adventurous eaters to get creative with their own local landscapes.
Hardcover $40.00
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas has spent a lifetime observing other creatures and other cultures, from her own backyard to the African savannah. Her books have transported millions of readers into the hidden lives of animals—from dogs and cats to deer and lions. She's chronicled the daily lives of African tribes, and even imagined the lives of prehistoric humans. She illuminates unknown worlds like no other. Now, she opens the doors to her own.
Dreaming of Lions traces Thomas's life from her earliest days, including when, as a young woman in the 1950s, she and her family packed up and left for the Kalahari Desert to study the Ju/Wa Bushmen. The world's understanding of African tribal cultures has never been the same since. Nor has Thomas, as the experience taught her not only how to observe, but also how to navigate in male-dominated fields like anthropology and animal science and do what she cared about most: spending time with animals and people in wild places, and relishing the people and animals around her at home.
Readers join Thomas as she returns to Africa, after college and marriage, with her two young children, ending up in the turmoil leading to Idi Amin's bloody coup. She invites us into her family life, her writing, and her fascination with animals—from elephants in Namibia, to dogs in her kitchen, or cougars outside her New England farmhouse. She also recounts her personal struggles, writing about her own life with the same kind of fierce honesty that she applies to the world around her, and delivering a memoir that not only shares tremendous insights, but also provides tremendous inspiration.
Dreaming of Lions, originally published in hardcover as A Million Years With You, is slightly updated and includes a powerful new afterword by the author.
Paperback $17.95
Agriculture is rightly blamed as a major culprit of our climate crisis. But in this groundbreaking new book, Eric Toensmeier argues that agriculture—specifically, the subset of practices known as "carbon farming"—can, and should be, a linchpin of a global climate solutions platform.
Carbon farming is a suite of agricultural practices and crops that sequester carbon in the soil and in aboveground biomass. Combined with a massive reduction in fossil fuel emissions—and in concert with adaptation strategies to our changing environment— carbon farming has the potential to bring us back from the brink of disaster and return our atmosphere to the "magic number" of 350 parts per million of carbon dioxide. Toensmeier's book is the first to bring together these powerful strategies in one place, including in-depth analysis of the available research and, where research is lacking, a discussion of what it will take to get us there.
Carbon farming can take many forms. The simplest practices involve modifications to annual crop production. Although many of these modifications have relatively low sequestration potential, they are widely applicable and easily adopted, and thus have excellent potential to mitigate climate change if practiced on a global scale. Likewise, grazing systems such as silvopasture are easily replicable, don't require significant changes to human diet, and—given the amount of agricultural land worldwide that is devoted to pasture—can be important strategies in the carbon farming arsenal. But by far, agroforestry practices and perennial crops present the best opportunities for sequestration. While many of these systems are challenging to establish and manage, and would require us to change our diets to new and largely unfamiliar perennial crops, they also offer huge potential that has been almost entirely ignored by climate crusaders.
Many of these carbon farming practices are already implemented globally on a scale of millions of hectares. These are not minor or marginal efforts, but win-win solutions that provide food, fodder, and feedstocks while fostering community self-reliance, creating jobs, protecting biodiversity, and repairing degraded land—all while sequestering carbon, reducing emissions, and ultimately contributing to a climate that will remain amenable to human civilization. Just as importantly to a livable future, these crops and practices can contribute to broader social goals such as women's empowerment, food sovereignty, and climate justice.
The Carbon Farming Solution does not present a prescription for how cropland should be used and is not, first and foremost, a how-to manual, although following up on references in a given section will frequently provide such information. Instead, The Carbon Farming Solution is—at its root—a toolkit. It is the most complete collection of climate-friendly crops and practices currently available. With this toolkit, farmers, communities, and governments large and small, can successfully launch carbon farming projects with the most appropriate crops and practices to their climate, locale, and socioeconomic needs.
Toensmeier's ultimate goal is to place carbon farming firmly in the center of the climate solutions platform, alongside clean solar and wind energy. With The Carbon Farming Solution, Toensmeier wants to change the discussion, impact policy decisions, and steer mitigation funds to the research, projects, and people around the world who envision a future where agriculture becomes the protagonist in this fraught, urgent, and unprecedented drama of our time. Citizens, farmers, and funders will be inspired to use the tools presented in this important new book to transform degraded lands around the world into productive carbon-storing landscapes.
Hardcover $75.00 $48.75
We need a global energy revolution. In developed nations we are wasting massive quantities of energy providing heat and light to our homes and businesses while one and a half billion people have no access to electricity at all. The existing central-power-station model is based on old technology that spews carbon, energy, and money straight up the chimney.
Energy Revolution shows us how we can change all of this. Telling stories from around the world of the change that's already happening and drawing on two decades of his own unique experience, Howard Johns demonstrates how we can develop our own renewable-energy projects to provide local energy and create a new fleet of businesses.
He shows us how communities can build local energy solutions—renewable-power stations that will be a new form of building society where we come together to develop, finance, and construct the infrastructure that we and future generations so desperately need.
Howard Johns explains how to design, set up, and fund community energy systems, citing examples from countries that already have cut the amount of energy they use and supply their needs from renewable energy. These new systems will create new jobs and businesses, reduce energy imports, and create new local-investment models.
This handbook contains the map we need to change the system from the bottom up and make the next great leap forward to achieving clean, affordable energy. It covers everything needed to structure your community power company—the technology, site assessment, legal and business planning, fundraising and financial modeling, and putting people at the heart of your strategy. It's time to take control, re-localize, reduce costs and carbon emissions, and join the energy revolution.
Paperback $29.95
Runaway inequality is now America's most critical economic fact of life. In 1970, the ratio of pay between the top 100 CEOs and the average worker was 45 to 1. Today it is a shocking 829 to one! During that time a new economic philosophy set in that cut taxes, deregulated finance, and trimmed social spending. Those policies set in motion a process that greatly expanded the power of financial interests to accelerate inequality. But how exactly does that happen?
Using easy-to-understand charts and graphs, Runaway Inequality explains the process by which corporation after corporation falls victim to systematic wealth extraction by banks, private equity firms, and hedge funds. It reveals how financial strip-mining puts enormous downward pressure on jobs, wages, benefits, and working conditions, while boosting the incomes of financial elites.
But Runaway Inequality does more than make sense of our economic plight. It also shows why virtually all the key issues that we face—from climate change to the exploding prison population—are intimately connected to rising economic inequality.
Most importantly, Runaway Inequality calls upon us to build a common movement to tackle the sources of increasing income and wealth inequality. As the author makes clear, the problem will not cure itself. It will take enormous energy and dedication to bring economic justice and fairness back to American society.
The book is divided into four parts:
From the book: "There is nothing in the economic universe that will automatically rescue us from runaway inequality. There is no pendulum, no invisible political force that 'naturally' will swing back towards economic fairness. Either we wage a large-scale battle for economic, social, and environmental justice, or we will witness the continued deterioration of the world we inhabit. The arc of capitalism does not bend towards justice. We must bend it."
Paperback $19.95
Donors, leaders of nonprofits, and public policy makers usually have the best of intentions to serve society and improve social conditions. But often their solutions fall far short of what they want to accomplish and what is truly needed. Moreover, the answers they propose and fund often produce the opposite of what they want over time. We end up with temporary shelters that increase homelessness, drug busts that increase drug-related crime, or food aid that increases starvation.
How do these unintended consequences come about and how can we avoid them? By applying conventional thinking to complex social problems, we often perpetuate the very problems we try so hard to solve, but it is possible to think differently, and get different results.
Systems Thinking for Social Change enables readers to contribute more effectively to society by helping them understand what systems thinking is and why it is so important in their work. It also gives concrete guidance on how to incorporate systems thinking in problem solving, decision making, and strategic planning without becoming a technical expert.
Systems thinking leader David Stroh walks readers through techniques he has used to help people end homelessness and increase affordable housing, improve public health, strengthen public education and access to early childhood development services, protect child welfare, reform the criminal justice system, resolve identity-based conflicts, and more.
The result is a highly readable, effective guide to understanding systems and using that knowledge to get the results you want.
Two Percent Solutions for the Planet profiles fifty innovative practices that soak up carbon dioxide in soils, reduce energy use, sustainably intensify food production, and increase water quality. The "two percent" refers to: the amount of new carbon in the soil needed to reap a wide variety of ecological and economic benefits; the percentage of the nation's population who are farmers and ranchers; and the low financial cost (in terms of GDP) needed to get this work done.
As White explained in Grass, Soil, Hope, a highly efficient carbon cycle captures, stores, releases, and recaptures biochemical energy, mitigating climate change, increasing water storage capacities in soil, and making green plants grow. Best of all, we don't have to invent anything new—a wide variety of innovative ideas and methods that put carbon back into the soil have been field-tested and proven to be practical and profitable. They're mostly low-tech, too, relying on natural resources such as sunlight, green plants, animals, compost, beavers, creeks, and more.
In Two Percent Solutions for the Planet, White expands what he calls the "regenerative toolbox," to include holistic grazing, edible forests, biochar, weed-eating livestock, food co-ops, keyline plowing, restoration agriculture, bioenergy, aquaponics, animal power, Farm Hack, bees, bears, wildlife corridors, rainwater harvesting, native seeds, and various other projects from across the United States, as well as in Canada, Europe, and Australia. These short, engaging success stories will help readers connect the dots between diverse, exciting, and pragmatic practices, and inspire them to dig deeper into each individual story and concept, energized by the news that solutions abound.
With information on siting, planting, tending, harvesting, processing, and brewing
It's hard to think about beer these days without thinking about hops.
The runaway craft beer market's convergence with the ever-expanding local foods movement is helping to spur a local-hops renaissance. The demand from craft brewers for local ingredients to make beer—such as hops and barley—is robust and growing. That's good news for farmers looking to diversify, but the catch is that hops have not been grown commercially in the eastern United States for nearly a century.
Today, farmers from Maine to North Carolina are working hard to respond to the craft brewers' desperate call for locally grown hops. But questions arise: How best to create hop yards—virtual forests of 18-foot poles that can be expensive to build? How to select hop varieties, and plant and tend the bines, which often take up to three years to reach full production? How to best pick, process, and price them for market? And, how best to manage the fungal diseases and insects that wiped out the eastern hop industry one hundred years ago, and which are thriving in the hotter and more humid states thanks to climate change? Answers to these questions can be found in The Hop Grower's Handbook—the only book on the market about raising hops sustainably, on a small scale, for the commercial craft beer market in the Northeast.
Written by hop farmers and craft brewery owners Laura Ten Eyck and Dietrich Gehring, The Hop Grower's Handbook is a beautifully photographed and illustrated book that weaves the story of their Helderberg Hop Farm with the colorful history of New York and New England hop farming, relays horticultural information about the unusual hop plant and the mysterious resins it produces that give beer a distinctively bitter flavor, and includes an overview of the numerous native, heirloom, and modern varieties of hops and their purposes. The authors also provide an easy-to-understand explanation of the beer-brewing process—critical for hop growers to understand in order be able to provide the high-quality product brewers want to buy—along with recipes from a few of their favorite home and micro-brewers.
The book also provides readers with detailed information on:
• Selecting, preparing, and designing a hop yard site, including irrigation;
• Tending to the hops, with details on best practices to manage weeds, insects, and diseases; and,
• Harvesting, drying, analyzing, processing, and pricing hops for market.
The overwhelming majority of books and resources devoted to hop production currently available are geared toward the Pacific Northwest's large-scale commercial growers, who use synthetic pesticides, fungicides, herbicides, and fertilizers and deal with regionally specific climate, soils, weeds, and insect populations. Ten Eyck and Gehring, however, focus on farming hops sustainably. While they relay their experience about growing in a new Northeastern climate subject to the higher temperatures and volatile cycles of drought and deluge brought about by global warming, this book will be an essential resource for home-scale and small-scale commercial hops growers in all regions.
Paperback $34.95
The Low-Tech, No-Grow-Lights Approach to Abundant Harvest
Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening offers good news: with nothing more than a cupboard and a windowsill, you can grow all the fresh salad greens you need for the winter months (or throughout the entire year) with no lights, no pumps, and no greenhouse.
Longtime gardener Peter Burke was tired of the growing season ending with the first frost, but due to his busy work schedule and family life, didn't have the time or interest in high-input grow lights or greenhouses. Most techniques for growing what are commonly referred to as "microgreens" left him feeling overwhelmed and uninterested. There had to be a simpler way to grow greens for his family indoors. After some research and diligent experimenting, Burke discovered he was right—there was a way! And it was even easier than he ever could have hoped, and the greens more nutrient packed. He didn't even need a south-facing window, and he already had most of the needed supplies just sitting in his pantry. The result: healthy, homegrown salad greens at a fraction of the cost of buying them at the market. The secret: start them in the dark.
Growing "Soil Sprouts"—Burke's own descriptive term for sprouted seeds grown in soil as opposed to in jars—employs a method that encourages a long stem without expansive roots, and provides delicious salad greens in just seven to ten days, way earlier than any other method, with much less work. Indeed, of all the ways to grow immature greens, this is the easiest and most productive technique. Forget about grow lights and heat lamps! This book is a revolutionary and inviting guide for both first-time and experienced gardeners in rural or urban environments. All you need is a windowsill or two. In fact, Burke has grown up to six pounds of greens per day using just the windowsills in his kitchen! Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening offers detailed step-by-step instructions to mastering this method (hint: it's impossible not to succeed, it's so easy!), tools and accessories to have on hand, seeds and greens varieties, soil and compost, trays and planters, shelving, harvest and storage, recipes, scaling up to serve local markets, and much more.
Paperback $29.95 $19.47
eBook $29.95 $19.47
A practical, systems-based approach for a more sustainable farming operation
To many people today, using the words "factory" and "farm" in the same sentence is nothing short of sacrilege. In many cases, though, the same sound business practices apply whether you are producing cars or carrots. Author Ben Hartman and other young farmers are increasingly finding that incorporating the best new ideas from business into their farming can drastically cut their wastes and increase their profits, making their farms more environmentally and economically sustainable. By explaining the lean system for identifying and eliminating waste and introducing efficiency in every aspect of the farm operation, The Lean Farm makes the case that small-scale farming can be an attractive career option for young people who are interested in growing food for their community. Working smarter, not harder, also prevents the kind of burnout that start-up farmers often encounter in the face of long, hard, backbreaking labor.
Lean principles grew out of the Japanese automotive industry, but they are now being followed on progressive farms around the world. Using examples from his own family's one-acre community-supported farm in Indiana, Hartman clearly instructs other small farmers in how to incorporate lean practices in each step of their production chain, from starting a farm and harvesting crops to training employees and selling goods. While the intended audience for this book is small-scale farmers who are part of the growing local food movement, Hartman's prescriptions for high-value, low-cost production apply to farms and businesses of almost any size or scale that hope to harness the power of lean in their production processes.
Paperback $29.95
eBook $29.95 $23.96
Understanding Roots uncovers one of the greatest mysteries underground—the secret lives and magical workings of the roots that move and grow invisibly beneath our feet.
Roots, it seems, do more than just keep a plant from falling over: they gather water and nutrients, exude wondrous elixirs to create good soil, make friends with microbes and fungi, communicate with other roots, and adapt themselves to all manner of soils, winds, and climates, nourishing and sustaining our gardens, lawns, and woodlands.
Understanding Roots contains over 115 enchanting and revealing root drawings that most people have never seen, from prairies, grasslands, and deserts, as well as drawings based on excavations of vegetable, fruit, nut, and ornamental tree roots. Every root system presented in this book was drawn by people literally working in the trenches, sketching the roots where they grew.
The text provides a verydetailed review of all aspects of transplanting; describes how roots work their magic to improve soil nutrients; investigates the hidden life of soil microbes and their mysterious relationship to roots; explores the question of whether deep roots really gather more unique nutrients than shallow roots; shares the latest research about the mysteries of mycorrhizal (good fungal) association; shows you exactly where to put your fertilizer, compost, water, and mulch to help plants flourish; tells you why gray water increases crop yields more than fresh water; and, most importantly, reveals the science behind all the above (with citations for each scientific paper).
This book contains at least eighty percent more new information, more results of the latest in-depth and up-to-date explorations, and even more helpful guidelines on roots than the author's previous book (Roots Demystified: Change Your Garden Habits to Help Roots Thrive). This is not a revised edition—it's a whole new stand-alone book.
Paperback $24.95
Reinventing economic development as if small business mattered
In cities and towns across the nation, economic development is at a crossroads. A growing body of evidence has proven that its current cornerstone—incentives to attract and retain large, globally mobile businesses—is a dead end. Even those programs that focus on local business, through buy-local initiatives, for example, depend on ongoing support from government or philanthropy. The entire practice of economic development has become ineffective and unaffordable and is in need of a makeover.
The Local Economy Solution suggests an alternative approach in which states and cities nurture a new generation of enterprises that help local businesses launch and grow. These cutting-edge companies, which Shuman calls "pollinator businesses," are creating jobs and the conditions for future economic growth, and doing so in self-financing ways.
Pollinator businesses are especially important to communities that are struggling to lift themselves up in a period of economic austerity, when municipal budgets are being slashed. They also promote locally owned businesses that increase local self-reliance and evince high labor and environmental standards.
The book includes nearly two dozen case studies of successful pollinator businesses—in the United States and abroad—that are creatively facilitating business and neighborhood improvements, entrepreneurship, local purchasing, local investing, and profitable business partnerships. Examples include Main Street Genome (which provides invaluable data to improve local business performance), Supportland (which is developing a powerful loyalty card for local businesses), and Fledge (a business accelerator that finances itself through royalty payments). It also shows how the right kinds of public policy can encourage the spread of pollinator businesses at virtually no cost.
Paperback $19.95
eBook $19.95 $15.96
We Don't Quit! describes the crucial role the United Auto Workers (UAW) union has played in the global struggle for workers' rights. At a time when labor's power seems to be waning, the book establishes the UAW's vigorous internationalism as a counterbalance to corporate globalization and anti-worker repression by foreign governments. The UAW joined independent black unions in South Africa in the struggle against apartheid. It supported the Solidarity union in Poland that toppled the communist regime there. In Central America, the UAW stood up for workers targeted by death squads. In moving detail, author Don Stillman describes the UAW's efforts to win freedom for imprisoned worker activists in Burma, China, Nigeria, Indonesia, and Mexico. In addition, he outlines how the support of German workers helped the UAW organize workers in North Carolina in the face of a harsh anti-union campaign. At a time when corporations operate without national boundaries, We Don't Quit!charts a path for workers to join together across borders to preserve and expand workers' rights.
Paperback $25.00
Heat, electricity, transportation, food, wastewater, and solid-waste management—in ways that cause near-zero harm, reduce cost of living, increase security, freedom, and quality of life.
It is becoming increasingly obvious that the way we are living is not sustainable. We perceive that our high-consumption lifestyles are contributing to ever more pollution of our air, water, and soil; ever more destruction of rain forests and mountains; more devastating hurricanes, tornadoes, flooding, and drought; and the depletion of soils and aquifers. Even our planet's vast oceans are being degraded by overfishing, acidification from fossil fuels, and millions of tons of toxic trash.
Green Light at the End of the Tunnel contains some stunning information about the harm we caused by how we live, and some even more stunning information about solutions that are available today: truly sustainable, reliable solutions that can reduce harm and cost to nearly zero.
Anna Edey, author of Solviva, shows how homeowners can reduce by up to eighty percent the cost of electricity, driving, comfort, hot water and wastewater management, and produce or procure much of their food without the use of fossil fuels or pesticides—all while increasing food security and creating stronger local economies. It also contains fifty pages of unique Solviva designs drawn to scale and many more pages of conceptual drawings.
Paperback $35.00
A new approach to growing local medicine, including information on geo-authenticity, wildcrafting, and developing a good business plan
Both a business guide and a farming manual, The Organic Medicinal Herb Farmer will teach readers how to successfully grow and market organic medicinal Western herbs.
Whether you're trying to farm medicinal plants, culinary herbs, or at-risk native herbs exclusively or simply add herbal crops to what you're already growing, successful small-scale herb farmers Jeff and Melanie Carpenter will guide you through the entire process—from cultivation to creating value-added products.
Using their Zack Woods Herb Farm in Vermont as a backdrop, the Carpenters cover all the basic practical information farmers need to know to get an organic herb farm up and running, including:
• Size and scale considerations;
• Layout and design of the farm and facilities;
• Growing and cultivation information, including types of tools;
• Field and bed prep;
• Plant propagation;
• Weed control, and pests and diseases;
• Harvesting, as well as wild harvesting and the concept of geo-authentic botanicals;
• Postharvest processing; and,
• Value-added products and marketing.
The authors also provide fifty detailed plant profiles, going deeper into the herbs every farmer should consider growing. In an easy-to-understand, practical, and comprehensive manner, readers will learn how to focus on quality over quantity, and keep costs down by innovating with existing equipment, rather than expensive technology.Market farmers who have never before considered growing medicinal herbs will learn why it's more important to produce these herbs domestically.
The Organic Medicinal Herb Farmer makes a convincing case that producing organic medicinal herbs can be a viable, profitable, farming enterprise. The Carpenters also make the case for incorporating medicinal herbs into existing operations, as it can help increase revenue in the form of value-added products, not to mention improve the ecological health of farmland by encouraging biodiversity as a path toward greater soil health.
Paperback $39.95
Why does knowing more mean believing—and doing—less? A prescription for change
The more facts that pile up about global warming, the greater the resistance to them grows, making it harder to enact measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and prepare communities for the inevitable change ahead.
It is a catch-22 that starts, says psychologist and economist Per Espen Stoknes, from an inadequate understanding of the way most humans think, act, and live in the world around them. With dozens of examples—from the private sector to government agencies—Stoknes shows how to retell the story of climate change and, at the same time, create positive, meaningful actions that can be supported even by deniers.
In What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming, Stoknes not only masterfully identifies the five main psychological barriers to climate action, but addresses them with five strategies for how to talk about global warming in a way that creates action and solutions, not further inaction and despair.
These strategies work with, rather than against, human nature. They are social, positive, and simple—making climate-friendly behaviors easy and convenient. They are also story-based, to help add meaning and create community, and include the use of signals, or indicators, to gauge feedback and be constantly responsive.
Whether you are working on the front lines of the climate issue, immersed in the science, trying to make policy or educate the public, or just an average person trying to make sense of the cognitive dissonance or grapple with frustration over this looming issue, What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming moves beyond the psychological barriers that block progress and opens new doorways to social and personal transformation.
This book uncovers the biggest scientific fraud of our age. It tells the fascinating and frequently astounding story of how the massive enterprise to restructure the genetic core of the world's food supply came into being, how it advanced by consistently violating the protocols of science, and how for more than three decades, hundreds of eminent biologists and esteemed institutions have systematically contorted the truth in order to conceal the unique risks of its products–and get them onto our dinner plates.
Altered Genes, Twisted Truth provides a graphic account of how this elaborate fraud was crafted and how it not only deceived the general public, but Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Barack Obama and a host of other astute and influential individuals as well. The book also exposes how the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was induced to become a key accomplice--and how it has broken the law and repeatedly lied in order to usher genetically engineered foods onto the market without the safety testing that's required by federal statute. As a result, for fifteen years America's families have been regularly ingesting a group of novel products that the FDA's own scientific staff had previously determined to be unduly hazardous to human health.
By the time this gripping story comes to a close, it will be clear that the degradation of science it documents has not only been unsavory but unprecedented--and that in no other instance have so many scientists so seriously subverted the standards they were trained to uphold, misled so many people, and imposed such magnitude of risk on both human health and the health of the environment.
Paperback $21.95
In the eyes of many people, the practices of forestry and farming are mutually exclusive, because in the modern world, agriculture involves open fields, straight rows, and machinery to grow crops, while forests are primarily reserved for timber and firewood harvesting. Farming the Woods invites a remarkably different perspective: that a healthy forest can be maintained while growing a wide range of food, medicinal, and other non-timber products. While this concept of "forest farming" may seem like an obscure practice, history indicates that much of humanity lived and sustained itself from tree-based systems in the past; only recently have people traded the forest for the field. The good news is that this is not an either-or scenario; forest farms can be most productive in places where the plow is not: on steep slopes, and in shallow soils. It is an invaluable practice to integrate into any farm or homestead, especially as the need for unique value-added products and supplemental income becomes more and more important for farmers.
Many already know that daily indulgences we take for granted such as coffee, chocolate, and many tropical fruits, all originate in forest ecosystems. But few know that such abundance is also available in the cool temperate forests of North America. Farming the Woods is the first in-depth guide for farmers and gardeners who have access to an established woodland and are looking for productive ways to manage it. Authors Ken Mudge and Steve Gabriel describe this process as "productive conservation," guided by the processes and relationships found in natural forest ecosystems.
Farming the Woods covers in detail how to cultivate, harvest, and market high-value non-timber forest crops such as American ginseng, shiitake mushrooms, ramps (wild leeks), maple syrup, fruit and nut trees, ornamental ferns, and more. Comprehensive information is also offered on historical perspectives of forest farming; mimicking the forest in a changing climate; cultivation of medicinal crops; creating a forest nursery; harvesting and utilizing wood products; the role of animals in the forest farm; and how to design and manage your forest farm once it's set up. This book is a must-read for farmers and gardeners interested in incorporating aspects of agroforestry, permaculture, forest gardening, and sustainable woodlot management into the concept of a whole-farm organism.
Paperback $39.95 $25.97
The essential progressive guide for the issues that define our future: climate, inequality, immigration, health care, and more
Ten years after writing the definitive, international bestselling book on political debate and messaging, George Lakoff returns with new strategies about how to frame today's essential issues.
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Changing attitudes to self-reporting
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Published Date: 25 October 2013
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Newspaper Date: 25 October 2013
Newspaper Citation: The Times, 25 October 2013, pg 56
Author: James Dean
Jurisdiction: England; Northern Ireland; Scotland; Wales
Related Legislation: Bribery Act 2010
Corporate Crime analysis: What effect has the reversal of the self-reporting guidance had on the investigation of criminality by corporate bodies? David McCluskey and Catherine Fischl of Peters & Peters say that although there are now fewer guarantees available to the self-reporting company, there are still serious advantages in self-reporting.
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SFO advises companies to self-report fraud
The Times, 25 October 2013: Bribery and corruption should not be reported to the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is the advice corporate lawyers are giving companies according to David Green, director of the SFO. Mr Green has reversed guidance in 2013, put in place by his predecessor Mr Alderman, which allowed companies to self-report irregularities to face civil charges rather than criminal.
How has the guidance changed?
In a speech made on 24 October 2013, the director of the SFO clarified his position in relation to self-reporting by corporate bodies. Whereas under the former director the guidance contained an implied presumption that self-reported conduct would be dealt with by civil settlement, David Green changed the guidance in October 2012. One year on, the position remains the same--whether or not the SFO prosecute a corporate body in a given case will be governed by the Code for Crown Prosecutors, Guidance on Corporate Prosecutions and, where relevant, the Joint Prosecution Guidance of the Director of the SFO and the Director of Public Prosecutions on the Bribery Act 2010.
In his recent speech David Green made clear that, in accordance with the Code for Crown Prosecutors, the question the SFO will ask itself is whether there is sufficient evidence to prosecute, and if so, is a prosecution in the public interest?
The position on self-reporting is made clear in the Guidance on Corporate Prosecutions. It will only be taken into account as a factor against the public interest in prosecuting where it is clear that there has been:
'A genuinely proactive approach adopted by the corporate management team when the offending is brought to their notice, involving self-reporting and remedial actions, including the compensation of victims. In applying this factor the prosecutor needs to establish whether sufficient information about the operation of the company in its entirety has been supplied in order to assess whether the company has been proactively compliant. This will include making witnesses available and disclosure of the details of any internal investigation.'
What should companies do when they suspect fraud?
Although there are now fewer guarantees available to the self-reporting company, there are still serious advantages in self-reporting. David Green highlighted these in his speech as follows:
· a self-report at the very least mitigates the chances of a corporate body being prosecuted--it opens up the possibility of civil recovery or a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA)
· there is the moral and reputational imperative--it is the right thing to do and it demonstrates that the corporate body is serious about behaving ethically
· if the corporate body chooses to bury the misconduct rather than self-report, the risk of discovery is unquantifiable--there are so many potential channels leading to exposure:
· whistle-blowers
· disgruntled counterparties
· cheated competing companies
· other criminal justice agencies in the UK
· overseas agencies in communication with SFO, and
· the SFO's own developing intelligence capability, to name but a few
· if criminality is buried and then discovered by any of the above routes, the penalty paid by the corporate body in terms of shareholder outrage, counterparty and competitor distrust, reputational damage, regulatory action and possible prosecution, is surely disproportionate
· last but not least, burying such information is likely to involve criminal offences related to money laundering under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, ss 327-329
The message is clear--though self-reporting does not guarantee a civil settlement, criminality is difficult to bury, and the consequences of being discovered to have failed to self-report could be much more serious than if the company had reported its own criminality straight up. Therefore, when companies suspect criminality or have it brought to their attention through whistle-blowing, alerts from their own procedures or otherwise, the decision of whether to self-report or not must be considered at the earliest stage.
David Green made clear that companies should self-report as soon as they suspect that an offence has been committed as waiting for a full investigation to be carried out could leave the company vulnerable to having the criminality alerted to the SFO by other means. The need to quickly make strategic decisions highlights the importance of having specialist lawyers, with experience of dealing with the prosecuting agencies, on board as soon as criminality is suspected to ensure the best possible outcome.
Presenting a cooperative and open face to the SFO increases the chances of being seen to have taken a 'genuinely proactive approach' which may move the SFO to take civil action rather than to prosecute. David Green was at pains to point out that, despite the reduced certainty for self-reporters, the SFO continues to receive self-reports from companies. It is undoubtedly the case, as Mr Green made clear, that the number of self-reports by companies will increase when DPAs become an option in February 2014.
What are your predictions for the future?
Once the relevant section of the Crime and Courts Act 2013 comes into force, the SFO will be able to enter into DPAs which will defer prosecutions against corporate bodies for fraud corruption, bribery and money-laundering in exchange for an agreement that they comply with a range of strict conditions ranging from compensation of victims to monitoring and financial penalties. If the corporate body has complied with all of the terms of the agreement there will be no prosecution at the end of the deferral period. However, if they are found not to have complied, the prosecution may proceed. David Green has labelled DPAs a 'very useful addition to the prosecutor's toolbox for use in appropriate circumstances', and it is likely these will be used in cases which would previously have been dealt with by way of civil settlement.
David Green has also suggested that the obvious way of increasing the number of corporate prosecutions would be to extend to other offences the principle contained in the Bribery Act 2010, s 7 (BA 2010) which creates the corporate offence of a company failing to prevent bribery by its employees. BA 2010, s 7 creates a defence for companies if they can prove they had adequate procedures in place designed to prevent those associated with them from undertaking such conduct. This effectively reverses the usual burden of proof under English law which, for corporate liability, requires proof that the 'controlling mind' of the company (which usually means board level management) was complicit in the criminal behaviour. In the absence of directly incriminating emails or records of other communications this can be extremely difficult to prove. If this proposed extension of BA 2010, s 7 were to be introduced, we would undoubtedly see many more corporate prosecutions.
Should firms make any changes to their anti-bribery and corruptions systems?
As BA 2010 came into force in 2011, firms should already have reviewed their anti-bribery and corruption policies to ensure the 'adequate procedures' defence would be available to them in the event of prosecution. Even before any further change in law, corporate counsel would be well advised to review all procedures for the detection of fraud and money-laundering thoroughly to ensure:
· offending behaviour is caught early
· investigations are carried out swiftly
· self-reporting is considered in a timely manner
The SFO's Guidance for Corporate Prosecutions makes clear that, along with other factors, 'the existence of a genuinely proactive and effective corporate compliance programme' would weigh against the public interest in a prosecution.
Though there has yet to be a corporate prosecution under BA 2010, this should not be cause for complacency. Since BA 2010 came into force, the SFO will be alerted to behaviour conducted from July 2011 which could be prosecuted under BA 2010 and they are clearly hungry to bring their first prosecution.
David McCluskey is a partner specialising in business crime litigation. His expertise covers large scale money laundering, insider dealing, corruption and complex fraud investigations.
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Corporate Crime analysis: David McCluskey, partner at Peters & Peters LLP specialising in business crime litigation, discusses the National Crime Agency's attempt to enforce asset recovery in the case of Israeli tycoon Israel Perry.
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NCA's powers to freeze worldwide assets tested in High Court
Independent, 25 October 2013: The National Crime Agency's (NCA) powers to freeze criminals' global assets are under scrutiny in the High Court, as it attempts to enforce the seizure of Israeli tycoon Israel Perry's worldwide assets.
What does this case tell us about the NCA's enforcement strategy?
The NCA plainly wishes to pursue asset recovery proceedings against the greatest number of defendants and in respect of the widest property that it can lawfully seize or recover.
The case also indicates that the NCA wishes to make greater use of civil recovery orders. These have the advantage that it is not necessary to convict a person under UK law in order to obtain such an order--it is merely necessary to prove that property is recoverable property under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, s 242 (POCA 2002). In this regard, the explanatory notes are inexcusably brief in describing the true effect of the amendments.
While the Crime and Courts Act 2013, s 48 (CCA 2013) does indeed deal with the Perry position(Perry v Serious Organised Crime Agency [2012]All ER (D) 252 (Jul)), CCA 2013, s 49 introduces wholesale changes which provide those pursuing a civil recovery investigation with sweeping powers that are ordinarily only available to those conducting a criminal investigation.
Thus a civil recovery investigation may now found applications for:
· production orders
· search warrants
· disclosure orders
· customer information orders
· account monitoring orders, and the like
These involve substantial invasions of the personal rights of individuals, which it is submitted are simply not justified in a non-criminal context.
The Perry amendments themselves closely reflect the structure of some criminal offences which are given extraterritorial effect in respect of those with a 'close connection' to the UK. See for instance the Bribery Act 2010. CCA 2013 goes further, however, and provides for property-related and conduct-related connections which may also confer jurisdiction on the court.
Why has this avenue been pursued after the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) lost in the Supreme Court?
Plainly, SOCA has made a good case for arguing that at the very least, recovery orders should be made extraterritorial in respect of citizens and residents of the UK, and where there is a property or conduct related connection to the UK.
SOCA has, rightly in my view, made a good case for arguing that there should be some limited extraterritorial application in respect of recovery orders. However the amendments in CCA 2013, s 49 go too far in my view, and risk once again blurring the distinction between a criminal and civil investigation, which I deal with further below.
What are the limits of the NCA's powers in relation to worldwide freezing of assets?
That depends on what kind of order is sought by the NCA. It must be borne in mind that Perry (and the subsequent amendments) only relate to civil recovery orders. The NCA has always had the power to obtain a restraint order against a person's assets worldwide where it is conducting a criminal investigation.
In this regard, it is worth highlighting the difference between the two regimes. Restraint orders may be obtained where a criminal investigation (or proceedings) has begun in England and Wales, and there are reasonable grounds to believe that an offender has benefited from his conduct.
Restraint orders operate in personam, in contrast to civil recovery orders which operate in rem. Thus a person served with a restraint order is under a personal duty to comply with that order--which may include not dealing with his assets wherever situated. A restraint order may even include an obligation to repatriate assets held outside the UK to within the jurisdiction.
In this regard, it is interesting that in the Court of Appeal (which ruled in favour of SOCA) Hooper LJ, in finding that civil recovery orders did have extraterritorial jurisdiction, 'derived support for his conclusions from analogies with the law of bankruptcy and from the practice of issuing worldwide freezing orders'.
Although not explicitly stated by the Supreme Court, it would seem that there is a more appropriate analogy to be drawn between worldwide freezing orders issued by the High Court and restraint orders. Both operate in personam, and the effect of breach by a person served personally with the order may include imprisonment for contempt of court.
What are the challenges facing the NCA in this area?
The two main challenges are identification of property, and the exercise of proper jurisdiction over the relevant property and persons. To that extent the amendments may cause some confusion by their inclusion of clauses conferring jurisdiction by reference to the identity of those holding the property, who acquired it, or who committed the unlawful conduct. In my view those clauses do not change the fundamental nature of a recovery order namely that it operates in rem.
What are the possible wider implications of this case?
The case has served to further clarify and underline the distinction between asset recovery in a criminal context (the POCA 2002, Pts 2 and 7) and that in a non-criminal context (POCA 2002, Pt 5). In this regard it is important to note that the recent amendments have not sought to disturb the primary finding of the court in Perry, which is that civil recovery orders operate in rem whereas orders under POCA 2002, Part 2 operate in personam. This distinction becomes clearer when comparing the respective definitions of criminal/unlawful property and benefit in:
· Part 7--(s 340(5): A person benefits from conduct if he obtains property as a result of or in connection with the conduct, and
· Part 2--(s 242(1): A person obtains property through unlawful conduct (whether his own conduct or another's) if he obtains property by or in return for the conduct
The requirement for a greater nexus ('by or in return' versus 'as a result of or in connection with') between conduct and acquisition can be contrasted with the fact that POCA 2002, Pt 5 proceedings do not require proof of specific criminal conduct. This is part of the balancing exercise that must be undertaken between the need to confiscate criminal property and the need to respect property rights. By contrast, where a criminal offence of money laundering is charged under Pt 7, there is a looser connection between conduct and property, which need only be acquired 'in connection with' the conduct, albeit that this must be proved to a much higher standard.
What should lawyers do next?
There is likely to be much room for debate on the precise application of the criteria for what constitutes a 'connection' between the case and the 'relevant part' of the UK. In this regard it is worth noting that England and Wales on the one hand and Scotland on the other are treated no differently to other foreign jurisdictions in requiring there to be a connection between the case and the 'relevant part' ie where the order was made, whether it be England and Wales or Scotland.
There is also provision for jurisdiction according to whether property was within the jurisdiction, or whether it was recoverable property, even if for a limited period of time.
Close attention must be paid to the use of invasive powers such as search warrants, account monitoring orders, and the like. Appropriate cases may well see a challenge to the validity of such provisions, on the basis that they represent a disproportionate interference with personal and property rights in the circumstances of a non-criminal investigation.
Interviewed by Dave Thorley. The Views expressed by our Legal Analysis interviewees are not necessarily those of the proprietor.
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good product BUUUUTTTTTT Sandra from Fremont, CA on 04/15/2015 – Verified Buyer
I have waited since about Dec. 2014 to get this out of stock item, in fact 2 of them. I am a PostMark collector and need this for storing my many years worth , like 41 years worth,, of many many postmarks. I was so thrilled to finnaly obtain this as I have been on a list waiting. When they arrived they were beautiful, but the back sides weren't!! One back was totally off and the other was half off and had a big crack running side to side, all jagged. My husband is handy, but there was no way because of the very narrow backside to put these very small nails in it. So he used masking tape and taped it on all 3 sides. That part is ugly, but no one sees that.. There needs to be a change in the way they are put together and someone on this end of the line before shipping needs to check each one out and repair it before we see it!! Others have said the same thing as I read all ot the reviews. Wood is beautiful, the oak I got. Pros: Great that they were all put together already and we didn't need to do that part as we, mainly my husband has put lots of things together. Cons: the poor construction of the backsides and no quality control
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Exactly what we wanted Patricia from Louisville, KY on 01/28/2014 – Verified Buyer
This chest is exactly what we were hoping it would be for function, size, weight, and sale price . We needed a replacement for a bulky storage piece in our den. We are downsizing the clutter and this fits a hall wall near 3 doorways and stores our DVDs and CDs. We have had no problems with construction as some of the other reviews state and all of the drawers have stops except for the bottom row. That is a plus because you can remove the drawers on that row to check contents. We are extremely pleased with the oak chest: the color is a golden oak, the measurements stated are exact, and everyone who has seen it wants to know where in the world we found it!
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Very Unique but Poor Quality Nichole from Smithfield, NC on 04/24/2014 – Verified Buyer
The quality of this cabinet is fairly poor. It arrived with the plywood back falling off and several detached drawer bottoms. The wood on the bottom of the drawers is very thin and the drawer stops are nothing more than a small dowel which falls out quite easily. That said.... the piece is beautiful! I love how it looks and I get many compliments on it. I typically feel that form follows functions but not this time! I made the repairs I needed and I'm sure I will have to repair it many more times but it so unique I think it's worth it.
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Library drawers for media items, cool. Sherry from OK on 06/23/2014 – Verified Buyer
These are cute as can be. I ordered two to sit side by side in a hallway. Dvd's and cd's fit perfectly. It arrived assembled, praise Jesus. One chest had a split near the front corner. I simply used wood glue and it mended very well. I plan to paint them so they look like something stored in a barn from the old library. They are exactly what I needed. I'm very pleased I invested in them. They are cute, cute. And function beautifully.
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Buyer Beware! Linda from Coralville, IA on 09/18/2014 – Verified Buyer
I researched different website before buying with Wayfair. Other websites clearly identified the wood as birch. I wanted something more durable so went with the adverised "oak" with Wayfair. Upon receiving it, the back was completely off. All staples had pulled through "the wood" panel. I reglued and restapled. 2 screws were in the bottom of the box, came out during transit, and two were missing. Replaced the 4 screws. The "oak" wood applies to drawer fronts and top. Remainder of wood of unknown origin. I ordered the cherry finish which is burgandy, not cherry. To tone down the red, I added two coats of walnut stain/poly coat. So if you want to nearly redo this cabinet as I have then order from Wayfair, if not find another vendor. I wish I had. I gave two stars because it held all my CD, DVDs. It does that nicely.
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