01-07 Nature’s Recipe Book: Life Shops at Home
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How would nature do it? Biomimicry is a revolutionary emerging science that models nature’s genius to design leading-edge technologies that work in harmony with nature, not against it. Janine Benyus, a “biologist at the design table,” shares mind-bending applications of nature’s time-tested recipes and survival tips. Transforming future technologies are the glue of the blue mussel, the beak of the kingfisher, and the interdependent roots of the Seven Sisters Oak. Buy it!
02-07 Global Warming: A Climate of Peril and Promise
While human activity continues to devastate the atmosphere, a countervailing movement is afoot, evident in the deployment of alternative energy technologies and shifts in the design of our society. Author Bill McKibben portrays a hopeful vision of how Americans can achieve greater satisfaction—environmentally, culturally and spiritually—as addressing global warming improves our lives and relationships to community. Buy it!
03-07 Thinking Like Cathedral Builders: Green Building for the Long Haul
Few people realize that poor design and inefficient buildings account for half America’s energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. Master builder John Abrams finds that tapping human ingenuity with a long view will serve future generations, the environment and the human spirit. The kind of green building Abrams employs necessarily addresses the architecture of communities, businesses and the human heart. Buy it!
04-07 Making Tomorrow Today: The Power of Youth
Dynamic young people are surmounting considerable social and economic obstacles by following their dreams to create a better world. Jessica Rimington, Rhummanee Hang, Thenmozhi Soundararajan, Manuel Francisco, Caleb Ryen, Amalia Anderson, and Lily Dong are enlivening the horizon of positive possibilities with grace, courage and boundless creativity. They’ll settle for nothing less than justice, cultural preservation, and the defense of wild lands. Buy it!
05-07 Going Local: From Wal-Mart to Small Mart
What are the hidden costs of lowest-cost products? Try socially irresponsible labor practices and environmental and community degradation, for starters. Author and economist Michael Shuman portrays how locally-owned businesses and localized economies are circulating innumerable benefits back into the community, while raising environmental quality and the quality of life. Buy it!
06-07 Indigenous Peace Technologies: The Ancient Art of Getting Along
How do we create peace? What can we learn from indigenous societies who have addressed this profound question over thousands of years? From North America to the Kalahari, Jeannette Armstrong, Marlowe Sam, Evan Pritchard, Kxao =Oma and Megan Biesele share powerful stories of how indigenous social technologies have succeeded in resolving conflict, and still are. Buy it!
07-07 A Fork in the Road: Make Friends with a Farmer
Local, organic food is growing in popularity by leaps and bounds. Beyond the benefits to the growers, our health and the land, could it become a matter of survival? Author and farmer Michael Ableman shares his cross-country journey celebrating the reverent reconnection with food and the land that is transforming how we will produce our future food.
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08-07 Heart to Heart: Women’s Leadership in Transforming Culture
All too often, there’s a disconnect between how women are portrayed in popular culture and the media, and how women see and portray themselves. Sarah Crowell, Joanna Macy, Susan Griffin, Sofía Quintero and Akaya Windwood take apart gender politics and put them back together with the emotional intelligence that is shifting the definition of power and fostering new models of women’s leadership. Buy it!
09-07 Green-Collar Justice: Another World Is Possible
One person’s trash is another person’s treasure, as the saying goes. Entrepreneur and activist Omar Freilla and “deconstruction” business owner Justin Green are solving for pattern: By working to eliminate waste, they are creating green collar jobs and improving the environment in some of the nation’s most underserved communities.
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10-07 Forest Lifeboat: From Spirit Bears to Victoria’s Dirty Secret
How do you go from being a passionate tree-hugger to a business-suited change-maker on behalf of the forests? Enter ForestEthics program director Tzeporah Berman. With a string of conservation successes, including the “Amazon of the North,” her inspiring story shows how innovative market-based strategies, strange bedfellows, and public embarrassment are powerful tools to preserve the wild places that provide our essential ecosystem services.
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11-07 War, Earth, and the Soul: The Warrior’s Path of Redemption
Is high-tech war that can annihilate human civilization and nature on a global scale really a viable response to conflict in the 21st century? The traumatic wounding of war is so deep that it calls for more than antidepressants or stress management. Dr. Edward Tick’s heart-rending experience shows us that transforming the demons of war can lead to a redemptive path of healing and reverence for life. Buy it!
12-07 Kicking the Habit: Sugar, Fat and Junk-Food Junkies
You do what you eat. Groundbreaking medical research now shows that what we eat is directly connected to how we behave. Maggie Adamek’s research for The Sugar Project tracks how the changing American diet has made profound health impacts on behavior, especially among our children. Transforming how we feed ourselves is showing that food is medicine that can change negative behavior dramatically. Buy it!
13-07 Intelligence In Nature: Coming Full Circle
What do octopuses, bees, plants and slime molds have in common with human beings? For one thing, they exhibit the ability to solve problems and make decisions. Author and anthropologist Jeremy Narby reveals his astonishing research on the profound intelligence active throughout nature. After all, how could people be intelligent if the nature that created us were not even more intelligent? Buy it!
