The Food of a Younger Land is a partly-fascinating tour around the US during the depression. With a subtitle of A portrait of American food- before the national highway system, before chain restaurants, and...

When I was a children’s librarian, I used to do a lot of story hours for preschoolers. One book that was always a favorite was called The Judge. One person after another comes before the judge and says...

I was immediately drawn to the paradox of the title Meat: A Benign Extravagance, a book by Simon Fairlie published originally in the UK and then by Chelsea Green here in the US. I eat meat myself, and luckily...

Big Green Purse is a very useful book for shopping greener!Not just that, it’s also all about living more ecologically in general. I found a copy at one of the three public libraries I frequent, and have...

Hamlet’s Blackberry (Amazon link) is a book by William Powers which has a lot to say about simple living.  Subtitled  A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age, it talks about...

Many of the books on sustainable housing assume you are building a new home or can afford a bevy of solar panels. Here’s one for just about everyone. Its subtitle is 36 Remodeling Projects to Help Kick...