The World Without Us

A FASCINATING GLIMPSE OF THE EARTH IF HUMANS VANISHED TODAY

"On the day after humans disappear, nature takes over and immediately begins cleaning house - or houses, that is. Cleans them right off the face of the earth. They all go."

What if mankind disappeared right now, forever ... what...

Alan Weisman
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Botanical Dyes: Plant-to-Print Dyes, Techniques and Projects

Botanical Dyes features recipes and top tips on everything you need to know to make your own natural dyes.

The process of turning plants into print can help you reconnect with nature, find a creative outlet and develop a mindful sense of presence. It also promotes an awareness...

Babs Behan
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My Name is Chellis and I’m in Recovery from Western Civilization

What is the relationship between addiction and the ecological crisis? How can we use the lessons of individual recovery to address our collective need to heal society and the Earth? Chellis Glendinning goes beyond the personal to the very heart of Western civilization to answer these questions, and she shows...

Chellis Glendinning
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The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact

In this latest New York Times bestseller by the authors of Switch and Made to Stick, Chip and Dan Heath explore why certain brief experiences can jolt, elevate and change us - and how we can learn to create such extraordinary moments in our own life and work.

What if a teacher...

Chip & Dan Heath
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Made to Stick – Why Some Ideas Take Hold and Others Come Unstuck

Why does fake news stick while the truth goes missing?

Why do disproved urban legends persist? How do you keep letting newspapers and clickbait sites lure you in with their headlines? And why do you remember complicated stories but not complicated facts?

Over ten years...

Chip & Dan Heath
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A Small Farm Future – Making the Case for a Society Built Around...

“Chris Smaje…shows that the choice is clear. Either we have a small farm future, or we face collapse and extinction.”—Vandana Shiva

“Every young person should read this book.”—Richard Heinberg

In a groundbreaking debut, farmer and social scientist Chris Smaje argues that organizing society around small-scale farming offers the soundest, sanest...

Chris Smaje
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Civilized to Death -The Price of Progress

Most of us have instinctive evidence the world is ending—balmy December days, face-to-face conversation replaced with heads-to-screens zomboidism, a world at constant war, a political system in disarray. We hear some myths and lies so frequently that they feel like truths: Civilization is humankind’s greatest accomplishment. Progress is undeniable. Count...

Christopher Ryan
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2040 – A Handbook for the Regeneration

The future can't be predicted but it can be envisioned and brought lovingly into being.' Donella Meadows Like most of us, Damon Gameau has spent most of his adult years overwhelmed into inaction by the problem of climate change and its devastating effects on the planet. But when Damon became...

Damon Gameau
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Growing a Revolution – Bringing Our Soil Back to Life

For centuries, agricultural practices have eroded the soil that farming depends on, stripping it of the organic matter vital to its productivity. Now conventional agriculture is threatening disaster for the world's growing population. In Growing a Revolution, geologist David R. Montgomery travels the world, meeting farmers at the forefront of...

David R. Montgomery
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How Shall I Live My Life? On Liberating the Earth From Civilization

In this collection of interviews, Derrick Jensen discusses the destructive dominant culture with ten people who have devoted their lives to undermining it. Whether it is Carolyn Raffensperger and her radical approach to public health, or Thomas Berry on perceiving the sacred; be it Kathleen Dean Moore reminding us that...

Derrick Jensen
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Thinking in Systems – A primer

The co-author of the international best-selling book Limits to Growth, Donella Meadows is widely regarded as a pioneer in the environmental movement and one of the world's foremost systems analysts . Her posthumously published Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving...

Donella Meadows
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Dirt to Soil – One Family’s Journey into Regenerative Agriculture

Gabe Brown didn't set out to change the world when he first started working alongside his father-in-law on the family farm in North Dakota. But as a series of weather-related crop disasters put Brown and his wife, Shelly, in desperate financial straits, they started making bold changes to their farm....

Gabe Brown
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Don’t Think of An Elephant – Know Your Values and Frame the Debate

Ten years after writing the definitive, bestselling book on political debate and messaging, George Lakoff returns with new strategies about how to frame today's essential issues. Called the "father of framing" by the New York Times, Lakoff explains how framing is about ideas-ideas that come before policy, ideas that make...

George Lakoff
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Less is More – How Degrowth Will Save the World

Our planet is in trouble. But how can we reverse the current crisis and create a sustainable future? The answer is- DEGROWTH.

Less is More is the wake-up call we need. By shining a light on ecological breakdown and the system that's causing it, Hickel shows how we can bring...

Jason Hickel
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Into the Forest

Set in the near-future, Into the Forest is a powerfully imagined novel that focuses on the relationship between two teenage sisters living alone in their Northern California forest home.

Nell and Eva live alone in the forest. Recently orphaned and completely isolated, they struggle for normality in a...

Jean Hegland
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Teaming with Microbes: The Organic Gardener’s Guide to the Soil Food Web

When we use chemical fertilizers, we injure the microbial life that sustains plants, and then become increasingly dependent on an arsenal of toxic substances. Teaming with Microbes offers an alternative to this vicious circle, and details how to garden in a way that strengthens, rather than destroys, the soil food...

Jeff Lowenfels
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Primitive Technology – A Survivalists Guide to Building Tools, Shelters & More in...

From the craftsman behind the popular YouTube channel Primitive Technology comes a practical guide to building huts and tools using only natural materials from the wild.

John Plant, the man behind the channel, Primitive Technology, is a bonafide YouTube star. With almost 10 million...

John Plant
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The Humanure Book – Shit in a Nutshell

This is the 4th edition of a self-published book that no respectable publisher would touch with a ten-foot shovel. The 1st edition was published in 1994 with a print run of 600 copies, which the author expected to watch decompose in his garage for the rest of his life. Now,...

Joseph Jenkins
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Doughnut Economics – 7 ways to think like a 21st Century Economist

In Doughnut Economics, Oxford academic Kate Raworth identifies the seven critical ways in which mainstream economics has led us astray - from selling us the myth of 'rational economic man' to obsessing over growth at all costs - and offers instead an alternative roadmap for bringing humanity into a sweet spot...

Kate Raworth
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Eat My Shadow – Book I

20 years ago the world went quiet. Father is stranded between the living world and the lost, he saw the end and he can’t let it go. Finn was a child when it collapsed. He’s the young green vines growing up through the ribcage of a lost civilisation.

It’s 2053,...

Linda Cockburn
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The Quiet Revolution: Debt Free & Working Less, How Our Species Survives

Wipe all debt - we're drowning in it. It's time to rest - we're working the planet and ourselves to death. We need a growthless economy, one that incentivises human and planetary flourishing. We need to embrace Reciprocity, giving back at the rate we take. It's how nature works. We...

Linda Cockburn
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Living the Good Life – Revamped: How One Family Changed Their World From...
Can you live off a suburban block? Trev, Linda and 6 year old Caleb decided to find out and went 6 months without spending a dollar. They had Possum the goat for milk and cheese, chooks for eggs, grew their own fruit and veggies
and bartered...
Linda Cockburn & Trev Wittmer
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The Way Home – Tales of Life Without Technology

No running water, no car, no electricity or any of the things it powers: the internet, phone, washing machine, radio or light bulb. Just a wooden cabin, on a smallholding, by the edge of a stand of spruce. In this honest and lyrical account of a remarkable life without modern...

Mark Boyle
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Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming

The 100 most substantive solutions to reverse global warming, based on meticulous research by leading scientists and policymakers around the world

For the first time ever, an international coalition of leading researchers, scientists and policymakers has come together to offer a set of realistic and bold solutions to climate...

Paul Hawken
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How to Stop Fascism – History – Ideology – Resistance

The bestselling author of PostCapitalism offers a guide to resisting the far right

The far right is on the rise across the world. From Modi's India to Bolsonaro's Brazil and Erdogan's Turkey, fascism is not a horror that we have left in the past; it is a recurring nightmare...

Paul Mason
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Clear Bright Future – A Radical Defence of The Human Being

How do we preserve what makes us human in an age of uncertainty? Are we now just consumers shaped by market forces? A sequence of DNA? A collection of base instincts? Or will we soon be supplanted by algorithms and A.I. anyway?

In Clear Bright...

Paul Mason
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Postcapitalism – A Guide to Our Future

We know that our world is undergoing seismic change--but how can we emerge from the crisis a fairer, more equal society?

Over the past two centuries or so, capitalism has undergone profound changes--economic cycles that veer from boom to bust--from which it has always emerged transformed and strengthened. Surveying...

Paul Mason
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Flatpack Democracy 2.0 – Power Tools for Reclaiming Local Politics

As our faith in our political system and politicians continues to plummet and climate change escalates, an alternative that empowers local people to rescue their own communities is vital. How can politics be reclaimed by the people? This is the question Flatpack Democracy 2.0 sets out to answer. Fed up...

Peter Macfadyen
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Flatpack Democracy – A DIY Guide to Creating Independent Politics

Britain today has a dysfunctional political system. Many politicians are making decisions to meet their own needs or those of their party, not the needs of the people they serve. This guide is based on what is happening in Frome, Somerset. After years of missed opportunities, a group of local...

Peter Macfadyen
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Local Money – How to Make it Happen in Your Community

The economic crisis and the bailing out of the banks by taxpayers has made us all aware of the vulnerability of our financial system. We need to think urgently about how to reclaim the power that the bankers hold. In past recessions and depressions across the world, communities have done...

Peter North
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Hope in the Dark – The Untold History of People Power

At a time when political, environmental and social gloom can seem overpowering, this remarkable work offers
a lucid, affirmative and well-argued case for hope.
Hope in the Dark traces a history of activism and social change over the past five decades – from the fall of the Berlin...

Rebecca Solnit
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The Transition Town Handbook – From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience

Move from feeling anxious about the oil crisis to developing a positive visions and taking traction action to create a more self-reliant existence with this ground-breaking book.

We live in an oil-dependent world, and have become reliant in a very short space of time, using vast reserves of oil...

Rob Hopkins
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From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create...

The founder of the international Transition Towns movement asks why true creative, positive thinking is in decline, asserts that it's more important now than ever, and suggests ways our communities can revive and reclaim it.

In these times of deep division and deeper despair, if there is a consensus...

Rob Hopkins
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The Good Ancestor

How can we be good ancestors?

From the first seeds sown thousands of years ago, to the construction of the cities we still inhabit, to the scientific discoveries that have ensured our survival, we are the inheritors of countless gifts from the past. Today, in an age driven by the...

Roman Kznarnic
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Utopia for Realists – and how we can get there

A Sunday Times Bestseller
We live in a time of unprecedented upheaval, with questions about the future, society, work, happiness, family and money, and yet no political party of the right or left is providing us with answers. Rutger Bregman, a bestselling Dutch historian, explains that it...

Rutger Bregman
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Humankind – A Hopeful History

It's a belief that unites the left and right, psychologists and philosophers, writers and historians. It drives the headlines that surround us and the laws that touch our lives. From Machiavelli to Hobbes, Freud to Dawkins, the roots of this belief have sunk deep into Western thought. Human beings, we're...

Rutger Bregman
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Flourish: Design Paradigms for Our Planetary Emergency

Regenerative design and architecture What will it take to restore balance to our world, repair past injustices, and support future generations' survival? Reaching beyond 'sustainability', 'regenerative' practice is increasingly named as a new goal, but what does this emerging term really mean? And which key mindset shifts might enable truly...

Sarah Ichioka
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The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the...

We live in a world of seeds. From our morning toast to the cotton in our clothes, they are quite literally the stuff and staff of life: supporting diets, economies, and civilizations around the globe. Just as the search for nutmeg and pepper drove the Age of Discovery, coffee beans...

Thor Hanson
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Living Democracy – An Ecological Manifesto for the End of the World As...

The way we glow when having a great conversation, building off each other’s ideas, finding solutions we can all be satisfied with. The way we spark together when marching and chanting in protest. This is living democracy.

Yes, the world looks bleak. Across our society there’s a mounting...

Tim Hollo
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Prosperity without Growth: Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow – 2nd Ed

The publication of Prosperity without Growth was a landmark in the sustainability debate. Tim Jackson’s piercing challenge to conventional economics openly questioned the most highly prized goal of politicians and economists alike: the continued pursuit of exponential economic growth. Its findings provoked controversy, inspired debate and led to a new wave...

Tim Jackson
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Man’s Search For Meaning

One of the outstanding classics to emerge from the Holocaust, Man's Search for Meaning is Viktor Frankl's story of his struggle for survival in Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps. Today, this remarkable tribute to hope offers us an avenue to finding greater meaning and purpose in our own lives.

Viktor E. Frankl
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Talking to my Daughter – A Brief History of Capitalism

Why is there so much inequality? In this intimate and accessible book, world famous economist Yanis Varoufakis sets out to answer his daughter Xenia's deceptively simple question. Drawing on memories of her childhood and a variety of well-known tales - from Oedipus and Faust to Frankenstein and The Matrix -- 

Yanis Varoufakis
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Sapiens – A Brief History of Humankind

What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens?

Yuval Noah Harari challenges everything we know about being human.

Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it- us.

In this bold and provocative...

Yuval Noah Harari
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