Simple Green Living » books http://simplegreenliving.com This is your tagline. Edit it at [Settings > Tagline] Mon, 21 May 2012 03:06:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://simplegreenliving.com http://simplegreenliving.com/wp-content/plugins/maxblogpress-favicon/icons/favicon-17.icoSimple Green Living Gathering: Memoir of a Seed Saver, by Diane Ott Whealyhttp://simplegreenliving.com/gathering-memoir-of-a-seed-saver-by-diane-ott-whealy/ http://simplegreenliving.com/gathering-memoir-of-a-seed-saver-by-diane-ott-whealy/#comments Thu, 01 Sep 2011 20:20:50 +0000 Zana Hart http://simplegreenliving.com/?p=2344 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 [...]

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]]> http://simplegreenliving.com/gathering-memoir-of-a-seed-saver-by-diane-ott-whealy/feed/ 0 The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlighthttp://simplegreenliving.com/the-last-hours-of-ancient-sunlight/ http://simplegreenliving.com/the-last-hours-of-ancient-sunlight/#comments Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:18:27 +0000 Zana Hart http://simplegreenliving.com/?p=675 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 [...]

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]]> http://simplegreenliving.com/the-last-hours-of-ancient-sunlight/feed/ 0 The Cul-de-Sac Syndrome, by John Wasikhttp://simplegreenliving.com/the-cul-de-sac-syndrome-by-john-wasik/ http://simplegreenliving.com/the-cul-de-sac-syndrome-by-john-wasik/#comments Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:23:57 +0000 Zana Hart http://simplegreenliving.com/?p=388 “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 [...]

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]]> http://simplegreenliving.com/the-cul-de-sac-syndrome-by-john-wasik/feed/ 0 Climate Change in Prehistoryhttp://simplegreenliving.com/climate-change-in-prehistory/ http://simplegreenliving.com/climate-change-in-prehistory/#comments Sat, 06 Jun 2009 03:24:52 +0000 Zana Hart http://simplegreenliving.com/?p=363 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 [...]

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]]> http://simplegreenliving.com/climate-change-in-prehistory/feed/ 0 The Cheap-Ass Curmudgeon’s Guide to Dirt (Building, That Is)http://simplegreenliving.com/the-cheap-ass-curmudgeons-guide-to-dirt-building-that-is/ http://simplegreenliving.com/the-cheap-ass-curmudgeons-guide-to-dirt-building-that-is/#comments Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:35:13 +0000 Zana Hart http://simplegreenliving.com/building-green/the-cheap-ass-curmudgeons-guide-to-dirt-building-that-is/ 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 [...]

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]]> http://simplegreenliving.com/the-cheap-ass-curmudgeons-guide-to-dirt-building-that-is/feed/ 0 The Audacity of Simplicity, a New Book by Tim Bostonhttp://simplegreenliving.com/the-audacity-of-simplicity-a-new-book-by-tim-boston/ http://simplegreenliving.com/the-audacity-of-simplicity-a-new-book-by-tim-boston/#comments Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:48:00 +0000 Zana Hart http://simplegreenliving.com/simple-living/the-audacity-of-simplicity-a-new-book-by-tim-boston/ 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 [...]

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]]> http://simplegreenliving.com/the-audacity-of-simplicity-a-new-book-by-tim-boston/feed/ 0 Home Work: Handbuilt Shelter – Great Idea Book for Green Buildinghttp://simplegreenliving.com/home-work-handbuilt-shelter-great-idea-book-for-green-building/ http://simplegreenliving.com/home-work-handbuilt-shelter-great-idea-book-for-green-building/#comments Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:20:00 +0000 Zana Hart http://simplegreenliving.com/your-home/home-work-handbuilt-shelter-great-idea-book-for-green-building/ Home Work: Handbuilt Shelter, by Lloyd Kahn, is a large paperback filled with two-page spreads of a wide variety of interesting homes from around the world. The earthbag-papercrete house that we built in Colorado is on pages 88 and 89, [...]

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]]> http://simplegreenliving.com/home-work-handbuilt-shelter-great-idea-book-for-green-building/feed/ 0 The Encyclopedia of Country Living, by Carla Emery: A Reviewhttp://simplegreenliving.com/encyclopedia-of-country-living-carla-emery-review/ http://simplegreenliving.com/encyclopedia-of-country-living-carla-emery-review/#comments Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:04:00 +0000 Zana Hart http://simplegreenliving.com/books-ebooks/the-encyclopedia-of-country-living-by-carla-emery-a-review/ I first bought the massive Encyclopedia of Country Living, by Carla Emery, over ten years ago. I kept it by my bedside for late-night reading because there was no pesky plot to keep me awake. I found it written in [...]

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]]> http://simplegreenliving.com/encyclopedia-of-country-living-carla-emery-review/feed/ 1 Our Top 25 Bestselling Books on Green Home Buildinghttp://simplegreenliving.com/top-25-bestselling-books-green-home-building/ http://simplegreenliving.com/top-25-bestselling-books-green-home-building/#comments Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:22:00 +0000 Zana Hart http://simplegreenliving.com/books-ebooks/top-26-bestselling-books-on-green-home-building/ My husband Kelly has a massive website on all aspects of natural building, greenhomebuilding.com and a smaller one, earthbagbuilding.com. The other day I got curious what the most popular books on green home building were, so I downloaded the stats [...]

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]]> http://simplegreenliving.com/top-25-bestselling-books-green-home-building/feed/ 0 Broken Open, by Elizabeth Lesser: A Help for Rough Times in Our Liveshttp://simplegreenliving.com/broken-open-by-elizabeth-lesser-a-help-for-rough-times-in-our-lives/ http://simplegreenliving.com/broken-open-by-elizabeth-lesser-a-help-for-rough-times-in-our-lives/#comments Sun, 08 Feb 2009 16:03:00 +0000 Zana Hart http://simplegreenliving.com/inner-life-spirituality/broken-open-by-elizabeth-lesser-a-help-for-rough-times-in-our-lives/ Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow, by Elizabeth Lesser, is a book about how “suffering and crisis transform us, humble us, and bring out what matters most in life.” The quote is from a man in the [...]

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