Gathering: Memoir of a Seed Saver, by Diane Ott Whealy

51QdEtnfOqL._SL500_ I recently read a fascinating account of the growth of the seed savers movement in the United States. Diane Ott Whealy, who wrote Gathering: Memoir of a Seed Saver, is one of the founders of the Seed Savers Exchange, which [...]

The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight

255110507_d0ab9e6a5f The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight, by Thom Hartmann, is a depressing book and an optimistic one.  I found it both VERY depressing and VERY optimistic. When a friend offered to lend it to me,  I wasn’t going to take [...]

The Cul-de-Sac Syndrome, by John Wasik

Fancy_Malagasy_Brick_House_in_Antananarivo_Madagascar “Turning Around the Unsustainable American Dream” is the subtitle of The Cul-de-Sac Syndrome (Amazon link) which my husband and I have just been reading. Kelly’s green home building blog has a long review of it, so I just want to [...]

Climate Change in Prehistory

Prehistory-draa7 Yesterday, I wandered over to my husband Kelly’s bookshelf in search of something to read. I came away with Climate Change in Prehistory: The End of the Reign of Chaos by William J. Burroughs. In the pages I have read [...]

The Cheap-Ass Curmudgeon’s Guide to Dirt (Building, That Is)

Milyanfan-adobe-bricks-8038 The Cheap-Ass Curmudgeon’s Guide to Dirt: Hand-Building with Adobe, Papercrete, Paper-Adobe, and More, by Michael Van Hall, is a delight. This downloadable ebook will take you through the steps to make your own simple dirt structure. He doesn’t go into [...]

The Audacity of Simplicity, a New Book by Tim Boston

Peak_of_Simplicity_by_burnintree.02 My husband Kelly heard about The Audacity of Simplicity and passed news of it on to me. I didn’t want to wait till I had read it to get the word out about it…looks very timely and got good reviews. Here’s [...]