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In The New Normal, author David Wann challenges us to do some heavy lifting and transform our non-sustainable culture by transforming ourselves. For Wann, our current "old normal" lifestyle - buying water in disposable bottles, allowing the government to ignore global warming - will not preserve the planet. To nurture our world, he challenges us to rethink our lives, stand up for a healthy planet and move towards a "new normal" lifestyle in an agenda that includes:

• Initiating local business alliances that actively lobby for local buying.
• Creating an investment strategy that values the balance of nature.
• Supporting the design, manufacture, and use of products made with natural chemicals.
• Publicly advocating a more efficient use of water by placing a higher cultural value on wetlands, streams, rivers, and lakes.

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In the last decade, the celebration of organic foods, farmer's markets, and artisanal producers has dovetailed with a renewed passion for wild delicacies. On the forefront of this movement is longtime "huntress" Connie Green, who sells her gathered goods across the country and to Napa Valley's finest chefs including Thomas Keller and Michael Mina.

Taking readers into the woods and on the roadside, The Wild Table features more than 40 wild mushrooms, plants, and berries- from prize morels and chanterelles to fennel, ramps, winter greens, huckleberries and more. Grouped by season (including Indian Summer), the delectable recipes - from Hedgehog Mushroom and Carmelized Onion Tart and Bacon-Wrapped Duck Stuffed Morels, to homemade Mulberry Ice Cream - provide step-by-step cooking techniques, explain how to find and prepare each ingredient, and feature several signature dishes from noted chefs. Each section also features enchanting essays capturing the essence of each ingredient, along with stories of foraging in the natural world.

The Wild Table is an invitation to the romantic, mysterious, and delicious world of exotic foraged food. With gorgeous photography throughout, this book will appeal to any serious gatherer, but it will also transport the armchair forager and bring to life the abundant flavors around us.

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Growing a Garden City offers compelling photographs and personal narratives of community garden members, graduate students and first graders, a low-income senior and troubled teen, a foodie, a food bank officer, and many more. They describe their setbacks and successes involved with community gardening and show how to build on and emulate their achievements anywhere across the country and around the world.

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Chock-full of practical, thoughtful advice from seasoned crafters, Homemade contains more than 100 craft projects that require you to look no further than your very own home. As economic and environmental factors start to play a greater role in consumer decision-making, authors Ros Badger and Elspeth Thompson suggest an alternative to buying. Taking everyday objects from around their homes, they transform these objects into beautiful works of art, which reflect the love and care they put into their projects.

Divided into seasons, Homemade provides a year's worth of activities to improve your home. It gives sound advice on how to restore a garden table, make a patchwork wall, cook delicious pumpkin soup, and more. It also includes a section on homemade basics, which details how to sew, knit and crochet using a variety of patterns!

Homemade is the perfect gift for a friend interested in crafting, or a delightful treat for you and your family. With advice from Badger and Thompson, little additions to your home — like summer troughs full of flowers and natural cleaning products — will make all the difference. Your home and your family will thank you.

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The lost art of thrift is rediscovered in this cookbook through a wealth of fantastic recipes, from budget breakfasts — Spring Vegetable Frittata or French Toast with Polish Cherries — to easy midweek suppers, such as Thai Beef Salad or Linguine with Stilton and Onion. In a time when about a third of all the food purchased is thrown out, this book is ideal for anyone who is eager to cut out waste and make the most of everything bought.

With a full glossary of ingredients and ideas for how to use them, as well as a myriad of thrifty tips that promise to transform even the sorriest leftover into an inventive and tasty meal, this is a kitchen manual that no home can afford to be without.

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Are you weary of trying to get your children to eat something —anything — other than macaroni and cheese and chicken nuggets? Tired of worrying about their nutrition and struggling with them at every meal? The Cleaner Plate Club comes to the rescue. Authors Beth Bader and Alison Benjamin offer easy recipes and expert advice to help you find ways to get your kids to eat non-processed food and — guess what? — enjoy it! Their fresh ideas will help you present foods that are appealing to kids, eliminate food waste, and finally quit worrying about what your children eat. A must-have for any mom or dad, The Cleaner Plate Club is a recipe for healthier kids and happier parents.

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Have a small patch of soil? Or just a window box? Not a problem. Garden Anywhere shows how anyone can create an oasis in the smallest of spaces. We're not talking just a simple pot of marigolds here. Garden Anywhere outlines everything an aspiring gardener needs to know to sow a bounteous, thriving garden. Alys Fowler, trained at the New York Botanical Garden, guides readers through the process from the ground up — from planning the garden to composting, pruning, harvesting and propagating. Stylish photos illustrate the how-tos while Fowler shares tips on creating gorgeous container gardens, herb gardens, kitchen gardens and more, without spending a fortune.

Alys Fowler trained at the New York Botanical Garden. Currently, she serves as head gardener at Berryfields, the location for BBC's Gardener's World television program. She resides in the United Kingdom.

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Organic food is synonymous with premium quality, the deepest, richest taste, conscientious farming, and optimum health. It’s what we need to feed our kids, what we deserve to feed ourselves. And no one is doing more to popularize organic food than author Myra Goodman in Food to Live By.

A dazzling full-color cookbook, Food to Live By offers an utterly appealing, new casual style of cooking based on using the best ingredients, organic or otherwise. Easy to prepare, the more than 260 recipes make a deliciously persuasive case for using flavorful, fresh, organic foods as often as possible.

Take the Sweet Corn Chowder, which uses not only corn kernels for the soup, but also the stripped cobs to make a rich, herb-scented broth. Or Ginger Carrot Soup, which proves how even familiar vegetables take on a whole new intensity and character when raised organically. Plus, throughout are Farm-Fresh Ingredient boxes — on sorrel, corn, asparagus, artichokes — cooking and shopping tips, and health notes.

About the authors:

Myra Goodman and her husband, Drew, founded Earthbound Farm in 1984. She's been creating her own recipes and cooking with their organic food ever since their first raspberry crop.

Linda Holland is a California-based food writer whose pieces have appeared in The New York Times and Gourmet.

Pamela McKinstry is the consulting chef of Earthbound Farm; previously, she owned and operated several restaurants on Nantucket.

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The South's favorite grain is gaining popularity throughout the country as today's top chefs and home cooks reinvent this simple, satisfying grain into Glorious Grits. Inspired by an Alabama family whose gristmill supplies organic grains to top chefs across the country, Glorious Grits will appeal to both beginning and expert cooks wanting to tease the palate as well as add healthy whole grains to their diets. Enjoy a taste of the South with more than 100 fresh, flavorful recipes for stone-ground grits, cornmeal and polenta.

From breakfast to lunch to dinnertime and dessert, Glorious Grits offers spectacular possibilities for putting whole-grain goodness on the table.

About the author:

Susan McEwen McIntosh knows her grits! Born and raised in the South, McIntosh worked for several years with the food staff of Southern Living magazine. She's watched as her brother produced grits, cornmeal and polenta from organic corn in his busy gristmill. After talking with notable chefs from coast to coast, she knows the secrets of transforming old-fashioned grits into new and sophisticated dishes. Now this registered dietitian and author of the first Cooking Light® Cookbook combines her knowledge of nutrition with a passion for cooking to present creative grits, cornmeal and polenta recipes for Southern food enthusiasts across the country.

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Lifelong gardener and landscape designer Barbara W. Ellis shares her appreciation for shady retreats and the cool outdoor relief they provide to otherwise sun-drenched backyards. The book's detailed plans for 20 shade-themed gardens include clear blueprints, full-color plant photographs and gorgeous oil paintings depicting the finished gardens. The book also features suggestions for bringing color into the shade; advice on how to use manufactured structures to create shady areas; and an encyclopedia of 100 shade-loving plants, plus another 100 plants that can be used to create shade and privacy.