10 best ebooks on sustainable food!

We're back again with our weekly ten recommendations on green ebooks!

This week I prepared a list of book recommendations on one of my favorite topics - sustainable food .

This list is based on my personal preferences - some of them are relatively old, but I still find them relevant and valuable.

The links of these ebooks are to Amazon.com and I apologize in advance to all the Nook, iPad, Kobo and Sony Reader owners. I hope you can easily find an ebook you'll like on other ebookstores. This is also the place to disclose that we're taking part in Amazon's affiliate program and therefore will receive a small percentage of every purchase made using these links. We hope you don't mind! You can find all the lists published so far on our recommended green ebooks webpage (see examples at the bottom of this post).

Without further ado, here's this week's list of 10 recommended green e-books on sustainable food:

1. The Dirty Life: A Memoir of Farming, Food and Love by Kristin Kimball - Scribner (October 12, 2010)

2. Fair Food: Growing a Healthy, Sustainable Food System for All by Oran Hesterman - PublicAffairs (May 31, 2011)

3. In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan - Penguin (January 1, 2008)

4. The Seasons on Henry's Farm: A Year of Food and Life on a Sustainable Farm by Terra Brockman and Deborah Madison - Agate Surrey (April 28, 2010)

5.Food Inc.: A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer-And What You Can Do About It by Karl Weber and Participant Media - PublicAffairs (May 5, 2009)

6. Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer by Novella Carpenter - Penguin (June 11, 2009)

7. The Town That Food Saved: How One Community Found Vitality in Local Food by Ben Hewitt - Rodale (March 16, 2010)

8. Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered by Woody Tasch - Chelsea Green Publishing (November 12, 2008)

9. Food Matters by Mark Bittman - Simon & Schuster (December 30, 2008)

10. Farmer Jane by Temra Costa - Gibbs-Smith (July 29, 2010)

More recommended green ebooks lists:

Best ebooks for green entrepreneurs

Best green marketing ebooks

Best green business ebooks

See you next week!

Yours,
Raz @ Eco-Libris

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Greenpeace is using Ken and Barbie to protest against Mattel's relationship with APP

What do you think of Barbie? Well, no matter what you have in mind, Greenpeace has news for you:

"Barbie has a nasty deforestation habit - she is trashing rainforests in Indonesia, including areas that are home to some of the last tiger, orang-utans and elephants, just so she can wrap herself in pretty packaging."

Apparently, Ken wasn't aware of it either:



Greenpeace started this campaign against Mattel, the manufacturer of Barbie, accusing it in contributing to deforestation in Indonesia "by using paper packaging for the world's most famous toy from Indonesia's most notorious rainforest destroyer Asia Pulp and Paper (APP)."

Not only that Greenpeace calls supporters to tell Mattel to stop destroying rainforests for toy packaging, but they also extended the protest to Mattel HQ, as our friend, Ralf Skar reported on Greenpeace USA website:

"Wearing baby blue formal wear, Ken and a few buddies paid a visit to the Mattel HQ in Los Angeles today. And, by ‘pay a visit’, I mean they climbed on top of the building, strapped on climbing gear, dangled off the roof outside the windows of awe-struck employees, and hung a 2,500 square foot banner reading “It’s OVER” for Barbie to see. I guess you could say the guy has a flair for the dramatic."

You can see photos of the protest at Mattel HQ on Greenpeace's flickr page.

More articles on Greenpeace and APP:

Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) - good or bad? ITS is saying APP is good and actually Greenpeace is bad!

Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) - good or bad? Rolf Skar of Greenpeace is replying to Ian Lifshitz

APP - good or bad? An interview with the sustainability manager of the world's most controversial paper company

Yours,
Raz @ Eco-Libris

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Love reading? Have a big book library? Check our monthly subscription option!

I'd like to remind you with a great option that is available on our website - monthly subscription.

If you have a big library at home and you want to green it up one bookshelf or bookcase at a time, balancing out 5 or 10 books every month on regular basis, can be a good fit for you.

The process is very easy and similar to one-time purchase: On the subscription page you choose how many books you want to balance out each month. Then just click on the 'Buy' bottom and complete the payment process on the PayPal page. That's it.

Then, every month we'll balance out for you the number of books you chose by planting trees in developing countries with our planting partners. You will receive a confirmation email from PayPal following each monthly payment, and of course you will also receive our stickers on monthly basis.

And that's not all, if you're also a member at BookMooch.com, you will receive 1 bookmooch point for every 10 books you balance out!

If and when you'll decide that you want to suspend your subscription, you will be able to do it easily and quickly on PayPal website.

We are very happy to offer this option to all the eco-conscious readers out there who want to green up many of their books but want to do gradually. If you have any questions about the subscription option, please feel free to email me at: raz [at] ecolibris [dot] net.

Yours,
Raz @ Eco-Libris

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Book review of Green Your Home: The Complete Guide to Making Your New or Existing Home Environmentally Healthy

Today we have a guest book review of “Green Your Home: The Complete Guide to Making Your New or Existing Home Environmentally Healthy” written by Taylor Dardan.

Jeanne Roberts does an excellent job of explaining different ways to make your home environmentally friendly in this suggested bookstore purchase. In the 2008 release from Atlantic Publishing Company, Roberts does a great job of setting the tone for the rest of the book by explaining the evaporating resources of the earth at this moment. She then goes on to explain the main reason the energy and fuel are diminishing is because of inflated use of our resources.

Essentially this set up allows Roberts to name a great number of things that will help to reverse escalating temperature and the cut in our natural resources. Roberts’ structure of using large references at first is very effective, because it puts the reader in perspective. She is able to draw the reader’s attention to the world’s large scale problems, then goes on to talk about the detailed ways to make your own impact on the major issues. Among the things Roberts suggested were filling the home with eco-friendly appliances and using incandescent light bulbs to help cut down on the overall utility costs at home.

Roberts’ transition from global effect to work at home is excellent. She touches on how the most important aspect of going green is evaluating your own things and moving forward from there. Her description points towards the fact that making little changes at first is the best way to adapt to an eco-friendly lifestyle. She says that it would be more valuable to see what you can replace and reuse around your home, rather than take a large undertaking. Among her tips, she claimed that switching out appliances or household cleaners and other things that could be replaced for little to no cost in the long run were great things to start with around the house.

In the most detail possible, Jeanne Roberts also explains some of the more detailed levels in which you can take to make your home more sustainable and green. Among the things she describes is the process for replacing your roof or using eco friendly insulation and how they can have multiple benefits to your own home. Not only will they help with sustainability, but they could end up preventing possible things like radon, asbestos exposure, and volatile organic compounds.

Within the book, Roberts does an outstanding job of covering all the bases of making your home more eco-friendly. She not only describes small, simple steps but also delves into a number of larger projects that people could be interested in as well. Her ability to touch on nearly all the aspects of going green at home make this a great option for anyone looking into an environmental book, especially for someone wanting to get some good tips. Along with an excellent structure for providing the reader both knowledge and tips, Roberts ability to go into great detail with multiple methods of going green makes this a great purchase option in the bookstore.

Alternative to slash and burn focus of new documentary, Up in Smoke

I just got an update that this week, on Thursday June 9, The Economist Film Project will showcase a new documentary called Up in Smoke, about a British scientist, Mike Hands, who has perfected a sustainable alternative to slash and burn agriculture in the Amazon, and is working with farmers in Honduras to put it into practice.

The Economist Film project is a partnership between The Economist and PBS NewsHour that presents documentaries that address social, economic, political, cultural and environmental issues of international importance. A segment from Up in Smoke will air during PBS NewsHour and will be featured on the project’s Web site. The segment and film bring to light a revolutionary, proven approach to deforestation in the Amazon that has shown remarkable promise, but continues to struggle to receive adequate support from the international community.

Here's the trailer of this interesting film:



You can read more about it at http://www.indiegogo.com/Up-in-Smoke

Yours,
Raz @ Eco-Libris

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10 best ebooks for green entrepreneurs!

We're back again with our weekly ten recommendations on green ebooks!

This week I prepared a list of book recommendations for green entrepreneurs and those who wish to become ones. .

This list is based on my personal preferences - some of them are relatively old, but I still find them relevant and valuable.

The links of these ebooks are to Amazon.com and I apologize in advance to all the Nook, iPad, Kobo and Sony Reader owners. I hope you can easily find an ebook you'll like on other ebookstores. This is also the place to disclose that we're taking part in Amazon's affiliate program and therefore will receive a small percentage of every purchase made using these links. We hope you don't mind! You can find all the lists published so far on our recommended green ebooks webpage.

Without further ado, here's this week's list of 10 recommended green e-books for green entreprenurs:

1. Revolution in a Bottle: How TerraCycle Is Redefining Green Business by Tom Szaky - Portfolio (February 18, 2009)

2. Finding the Sweet Spot: The Natural Entrepreneur's Guide to Responsible, Sustainable, Joyful Work by Dave Pollard - Chelsea Green Publishing (September 15, 2008)

3. Start Your Own Green Business by Entrepreneur Press and Rich Mintzer - Entrepreneur Press (March 1, 2009)

4. The Plot to Save the Planet: How Visionary Entrepreneurs and Corporate Titans Are Creating Real Solutions to to Global Warming by Brian Dumaine - Crown Business (June 24, 2008)

5. The Sustainable MBA: The Manager's Guide to Green Business by Giselle Weybrecht - Wiley (October 12, 2010)

6. 75 Green Businesses You Can Start to Make Money and Make a Difference by Glenn Croston - Entrepreneur Press (August 1, 2008)

7. The Secret Green Sauce - Best Practices for Growing Green Revenues by Bill Roth - Amazon Kindle Services (December 3, 2009)

8. Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the Worlds Problems by Michael Strong - Wiley (March 23, 2009)

9. Next Generation Business Strategies for the Base of the Pyramid: New Approaches for Building Mutual Value by Ted London and Stuart Hart - FT Press (November 5, 2010)

10. Green Venture Capital: Leading VCs on Analyzing Greentech Market Opportunities, Evaluating Investment Potential and Risks, and Predicting the Future for Green Investing (Inside the Minds) by Multiple Authors - West (June 21, 2009)

See you next week!

Yours,
Raz @ Eco-Libris

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The book "Your Brain on God" by Grandpa Tommy Halstead joins the 100 trees project!

We're happy to update you that the book "Your Brain on God: Algorithmic Psychology for Suffering Bio-Computers" by Grandpa Tommy Halstead, A must read for all students of human emotion, whether psych, cyber or suffering, has just joined the "100 Trees Project"!

This joint program was launched by Infinity Publishing, a leading self-publishing company together with Eco-Libris to promote environmental sustainability among its authors. Through the program, authors that publish with Infinity are able to plant 100 trees for the title they publish. These authors also have the option to add a special "100 trees planted for this book" logo to their book's design, as a way to showcase their commitment to environmental sustainability.

What's this book is about?
Tommy's book has created a revolution in theories of human choice and the emotive programming of computers, with a brilliant new frame for spiritual joy. Disciplines as far ranging as Psychology, Religion, Philosophy, Neuroscience, Computer Science, Decision Theory, Semiotics, Game Development, Death Counseling, Relationships, Law, Negotiation and Arbitration, and a dozen others have found Halstead's insights and frames novel and suggestive.

About the author: Tommy frequently muses about how his field of Emotive Programming -- algorithms that teach computers to feel-- might relate to a life torn apart by the loss of our loved ones, serious illness, destruction of the brain's higher functions in stroke, job loss, financial ruin, and other painful life changes. His creation of "Algorithmic Psychology" seminars worldwide has helped thousands look at life in a very different new frame, a frame in which life's painful events do not have to change our joy.

This is Your Brain on God is available for sale on Infinity's website.

Other books on the "100 Trees Project":

The Last Original Idea: A Cynic's View to Internet Marketing by Alan K'necht and Geri Rockstein

Buffalo on the Ridge by Deanna Meyer

What Love Is...A-Z by by Elle Febbo

Raven Wings and 13 More Twisted Tales

Ishift- Innovation Shift

Good Management is Not Firefighting

Play on Words

Yours,
Raz @ Eco-Libris

Eco-Libris: Promoting sustainable reading!