GREEN LIBRARY
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GREEN LIBRARY
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PERIODICALS
| ARCHPAPER | The West architects newspaper | ||
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To conserve and restore natural ecosystems, focusing on birds, other wildlife, and their habitats for the benefit of humanity and the earth's biological diversity. A combination of science, education & policy expertise combine in efforts ranging from protection & restoration of local habitats to the implementation of policies that sustain us all. | ||
| Backyard Poultry | Only American publication that celebrates the chicken ONLY | ||
| Better Homes & Gardens | Nations premiere magazine, homeowner TV network, On-line resource | ||
| Builder Magazine | Provides home builders with home building news, home plans, home design ideas, and building product information | ||
| Condor Call | Newsletter of the Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties Sierra Club | ||
| Countryside | Established 1917. Serving that branch of the voluntary Simplicity movement seeking greater self-reliance (homesteading) with emphasis on home food production. | ||
| Dwell | Dwell Magazine: At Home in the Modern World | ||
| Ecolution | Ecolution Bulletin: The Eco-Home Journal | ||
| Eco Structure | Covers green building from all angles, providing information about diverse green-building techniques and rating systems | ||
| Edible OC | Edible Orange County ~ explores & celebrates history & passion for food, art & culture within the southern coastal & inland communities of OC, CA | ||
| EnviroBuilding | Environmental Building News: Building Green | ||
| EnviroDesign | Environmental Design & Construction | ||
| Fast Company | Deals with issues of sustainability and social responsibility | ||
| Fine Home Building | The mechanics of home building, sharing ideas & knowledge | ||
| Green American | Conservation organization working around the world to protect ecologically important lands and waters | ||
| Green Builder | Green Builder Magazine: True Green | ||
| Green Guide | Green News, Views, & Solutions from National Geographic | ||
| Green Home Building | America's Premier Green Homebuilding Resource | ||
| Green Solutions | California Green Solutions: Everything is Connected | ||
| Green Source | |||
| GRIT | Emphasizing community and a rural, back to basics, sustainable lifestyle | ||
| Healthy Living | The doctors' prescription for Healthy Living: Spotlighting companies committed to the principles of safe & healthy living | ||
| Herb Companion | The Herb Companion: Grow - Cook - Heal | ||
| Herbs for Health | Therapies, holistic practices, recipes, natural health remedies. | ||
| LEED Guide | The LEED Guide Magazine. Environmental issues & guidelines | ||
| Low Impact | Low Impact Living - Green & Clean. | ||
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An invaluable guide to leading a more sustainable life, covering fighting rising energy costs, protecting the environment, & avoiding spending on processed food. Dedicated to conserving our planet's natural resources while helping you conserve financial resources. | ||
| Mother Jones | A non-profit news organization that specializes in investigative, political, and social justice reporting | ||
| National Geographic | Supporting, Exploration, Education, and Conservation Since 1888. | ||
| National Parks | The magazine of the National Parks Conservation Association. | ||
| National Wildlife | National Wildlife Federation: To protect wildlife for our children's future. | ||
| Natural Awakenings | An indispensable personal resource for those seeking a healthy, natural lifestyle | ||
| Feel Good. Look Good. Do Good. Health. Fitness. Green Living. | |||
| Natural Home and Garden | Natural Homes Magazine. Natural products. Eco-friendly. | ||
| Natural Solutions | Vibrant health, balanced living, and natural solutions for your life. | ||
| Nature Conservancy | Conservation organization working around the world to protect ecologically important lands and waters | ||
| Ode Magazine | For Intelligent Optimists: Ordinary people who do extraordinary things | ||
| Organic Spa | Modern Green Living + Spa Wisdom | ||
| THE SIERRA CLUB MAGAZINE. Explore, Enjoy, and Protect the Planet. An indispensable guide for people who care deeply about nature. The country's oldest, largest, & most influential grassroots environmental group. | |||
| Solar Today | Solar Today Magazine - Technology news | ||
| Southern Sierran | To influence policies and decisions affecting the environment of North America and the rest of the world. | ||
| Sustainable Industries | The independent source for green business leaders | ||
| Ultimate Home Design | The Green Build and Universal Design Resource | ||
| Vegetarian Times | Eat Green, Live Well. Recipes, resources, features, & community. | ||
| VegNews | Vegetarian News - Think, Eat, Thrive: Food - Planet - Travel - Buzz | ||
| TIME MAGAZINE'S TOP 15 GREEN WEBSITES (Listed in no particular order) | |||
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BOOKS
| Floyd, Esme | Thoughtful, understandable, simple, & fun presentation of green ideas | |||
| 150 Best Eco-House Ideas | Ana Cristina G. Cañizares | Featuring an extensive collection of full-color photographs, features eco-friendly house designs created by internationally renowned architects and designers who have achieved practical, innovative, and stunning solutions adapted to the specific needs and tastes of their clients | ||
| 365 Ways to Live Green for Kids | Amsel, Sheri | Saving the Environment at home, school, or at play - every day | ||
| 47 Things You Can Do for Environment | Potronis / Buck | Things you can do to help the environment | ||
| Addicted to Mediocrity |
Schaeffer, Franky |
Takes Christians to task for their flawed views of God, art and man/ If the book is at times stinging in its criticism
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| Against Thrift | Livingston, James | Why consumer culture is good for the economy, the environment, and your soul | ||
| All About Building Waterfall, Ponds... | Shrock / Ortho Books | A practical guide to adding both still (ponds) and moving (water features to any garden). | ||
| Backyard Medicine: Harvest and Make Your Own Herbal Recipies |
Bruton-Seal, Julie and Matthew |
Packed with nearly 300 color photographs and over 120 herbal remedies that you can make yourself. It gives a fascinating insight into the literary, historic, and world-wide application of the fifty common plants that it covers |
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| The Backyard Homestead |
Madigan, Carleen |
Home-produced food almost always begins in the vegetable garden. Planning charts and a thorough vegetable-by-vegetable growing guide are accompanied by simple techniques for canning, drying, and freezing the garden's bounty |
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| Bringing Nature Home | Douglas W. Tallamy and Rick Darke | How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants, it's not too late to save the ecosystem-sustaining matrix of insects and animals, and the solution is as easy as replacing alien plants with natives. | ||
| California Native Plants for the Garden | Carol Bornstein, David Fross and Bart O'Brien | features more than 500 of the best California native plants for gardening in Mediterranean-climate areas of the world. illustrated with 450 color photos, this reference book also includes chapters on landscape design, installation, and maintenance | ||
| The Charcoal Forest | Beth A. Peluso and Lynn Purl | How Fire Helps Animals & Plants explores the new habitat created by the fire. Focusing on the Northern Rocky Mountains of the United States and Canada | ||
| Complete Root Cellar Book |
MacKenzie, Jennifer and Churchill, Glenn |
The art, science & romance of building and stocking a root cellar. Illustrated guides and recipes. |
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| Cook Without a Book | Anderson, Pam | Quick formulas for satisfying vegetarian & vegan dishes | ||
| Design Like You Give a Damn | Kate Stohr and Cameron Sinclair |
Architectural Responses To Humanitarian Crises by Architecture for Humanity, a compendium of innovative projects from around the world that demonstrate the power of design to improve lives. |
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| Eco Mind | Lappe, Frances Moore | Changing the way the think to created the world we want. Also authored "Diet for a Small Planet." | ||
| EcoBeauty |
Cox, Lauren and Cox, Janice |
Guide to beautifying scrubs, rubs, masks and bath bombs made of natural ingredients | ||
| Eco House Book |
Conran, Terence | Environmental decisions for home improvements |
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| Edible Landscaping |
Creasy, Rosalind |
A comprehensive Encyclopedia of Edibles provides horticultural information, culinary uses, sources, recommended varieties; appendices covering basics of planting, maintenance, control of pests using organic & environmentally friendly practices. |
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| Energy Free | Ann V. Edminster and Peter Yost | Homes for a Small Planet designed to equip building professionals and homeowners alike with a toolkit for creating homes that use no more energy than they produce | ||
| The Garden Primer | Damrosch, Barbara | The most comprehensive, entertaining, down-to-earth one-volume gardening reference ever | ||
| Good House, Bad House | Shipley, Matt | Understand how to make your house more comfortable, healthy, safe, durable, and energy efficient | ||
| Green to Gold | Esty/Winston | "The definitive book on the greening of business." | ||
| Green Building A-Z | Yudelson, Jerry | Understanding the language of green building | ||
| Healing Remedies Sourcebook |
Shealy, C. Norman |
1000+ natural remedies to naturally treat Stress, anxiety, depression, headaches, allergies, common cold, high blood pressure / more |
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| Healthy Living | Russell | What the Bible says about healthy living: Three principles that will change your diet and improve your health | ||
| Healthy Living Cookbook | Egan/Cataldo | How to prepare meals, snacks and desserts based on the principles outlined in the Bible | ||
| Housing Reclaimed |
Focusing on the use of salvaged and reclaimed materials with case studies. |
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| Holy Shit | Logsdon, Gene | Managing manure to save mankind: The inside story of manure-our greatest, yet most misunderstood, natural resource. | ||
| Home Work | Kahn, Lloyd | Continued odyssey of finding and exploring the most magnificent & unusual hand-built houses in existence | ||
| The Homemade Pantry |
Wing, Charlie |
101 Foods You Can Stop Buying and Start Making. Inspires you to step inside your kitchen, take a look around, and change the way you relate to food | ||
| Householder's Guide | Fasenfest, Harriet | Takes up the banner of progressive homemaking and urban farming as a way to confront the political, social, and environmental issues facing the world | ||
| Housing Reclaimed |
Kellner, Jessica |
Focusing on the use of salvaged and reclaimed materials for non-conventional home builders | ||
| The Hybrid House | Catherine Wanek | Designing with Sun, Wind, Water, and Earth highlights real people who have used a combination of design strategies to reduce their energy use - sometimes by as much as 90 percent! Wanek showcases sustainable new and renovated houses that incorporate natural building materials that will minimize a modern home's carbon footprint, while ensuring a healthy environment for residents | ||
| The Kind Diet |
Silverstone, Alicia |
A Simple Guide to Feeling Great, Losing Weight, and Saving the Planet |
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| Natural Building Companion |
Racusin, Jacob D. & McArleton |
Natural building philosophy, design, and technique |
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| Natural Kitchen | Tull, Deborah Eden |
Your guide to the Sustainable Food Revolution. Homesteaders Cookbook |
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| Natural Remodeling for the Not-So-Green House |
Venolia, Carol and Lerner, Kelly |
Starting with the gifts of your site and climate, this unique guide shows you how to dance with the natural elements, getting your heat and light from the sun, cooling from shade and breezes, water from the sky, and sensory nourishment from the earth | ||
| New Green Homes | Sergi Costa Duran and Bollini Liliana | The Latest in Sustainable Living presents the latest innovations in sustainable architecture and design. Projects include "green" houses, apartments, lofts, and cabins, and explore various aspects of environmentally-friendly design from its ecological and economical benefits to the factors that need to be considered when choosing materials, such as the amount of energy that went into manufacturing the product; its sustainability; the life-expectancy of its materials; and the question of if the materials used can be recycled or safely disposed of if they break down over time. | ||
| The New Solar Home | Stephen Snyder and Dave Bonta | Illustrates exceptional homes that are groundbreaking not only in their use of renewable energy but also in their commitment to recycling and repurposing materials | ||
| None of These Diseases | McMillen/Stern |
The Bible's health secrets for the 21st century *c- '63, '84,'2000 | ||
| Organic Lawn Care Manual | Tukey, Paul B. | Natural methods to keep yards healthy, inviting green & lush. |
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| Passive Solar Architecture | David A. Bainbridge and Ken Haggard |
Heating, Cooling, Ventilation, Daylighting and More Using Natural Flows. New buildings can be designed to be solar oriented, naturally heated and cooled, naturally lit and ventilated, and made with renewable, sustainable materials - no matter the location or climate. |
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| The Peaceable Forest |
Ely, Kosa
Ill. by Anna Johansson |
India's tale of kindness to animals - a message of compassion & kindness for children of all ages. |
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| Philosophy of Sustainable Design |
McLennan, Jason |
Outlines the major ideas and issues that have emerged in the growing movement of green architecture and sustainable design. A starting point for anyone involved in the building industry on a journey to learn how to build more responsibly. | ||
| Posture 4 Power |
Hercy, Stephen
Gremaud, Batista |
Whether you are a celebrity, housewife, professional or student, Hercy has transformed ordinary female bodies into confident walking models of feminine grace & beauty, & insignificant looking men into proud godlike Greek statues, INDEPENDENTLY OF A PERSONAL TRAINER |
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| Seaweed, Salmon, and Manzanita Cider |
Dubin, Margaret/ Ross, Sylvia |
A California Indian Feast: Insight into how Native American people created food from what flourished around them |
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| Silent Spring | Rachel Carson | Written over the years 1958 to 1962, it took a hard look at the effects of insecticides and pesticides on songbird populations throughout the United States, whose declining numbers yielded the silence to which her title attests. | ||
| Starater Vegetable Gardens | Pleasant, Barbara | How to start, maintain, and expand a bountiful vegetable garden in small, manageable spaces. | ||
| Tiny Homes, Simple Shelter |
Kahn, Lloyd |
The fifth in a series of building books by the godfather of hand-built shelter since 1970. He lives with his wife on a 1/2 acre homestead in northern California. |
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| Urban Farming | Fox, Thomas J. | Sustainable City Living in Your Backyard, in Your Community, and in the World: You don't have to own acreage to fulfill your dream of raising your own food. | ||
| Wind Energy Basics: Second Edition | Paul Gipe | A Guide to Home- and Community-Scale Wind-Energy Systems. Wind power can realistically not only replace the lion's share of oil-, coal-, and natural gas- fired electrical plants in the U.S., but also can add enough extra power capacity to allow for most of the cars in the nation to run on electricity | ||
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The Eco Outlet Bookstore: Smart choices aligning Economics & Ecology | ||
| HENNESY + INGALLS |
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Independent bookstores: Santa Monica, Hollywood. Art, Architecture. Interior Design. Photography. The Environment. |
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DIGITAL MEDIA
| Dust Bowl |
Experience the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history that nearly swept away the breadbasket of the nation |
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| Eyes of Thailand |  |
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| Falling Up |
A story from the streets. See also Stephon Litwinczuk, media producer at www.stephonlitwinczuk.com |
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| FUEL | DVD: In this enlightening documentary, filmmaker Josh Tickell paints a powerful portrait of America's growing--& alarming--dependence on foreign oil. On an 11-year journey in his biodiesel-converted van, Tickell unravels this addiction & discovers some viable alternatives for the future. Features interviews with leading policy makers, educators, and activists Woody Harrelson, Neil Young, & Willie Nelson. | |
| Forks over Knives | DVD: Examines the claim that most, if not all, of the degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting animal-based & processed foods. | |
| Green Living Project |
To educate and inspire individuals and communities to live a more sustainable lifestyle through stories focused on unique and diverse examples of sustainability from around the world |
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| Houston: We Have a Problem |
FILM / DVD: LIFE, LIBERTY, AND THE PURSUIT OF CHEAP ENERGY THE OIL INDUSTRY VOICES ITS SIDE IN THIS DOCUMENTARY FEATURE. |
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| If a Tree Falls | DVD: The remarkable story of the earth liberation front's rise and fall told through the transformation and radicalization of one of its members, | |
| Love Thy Nature |
A new film by Sylvie Rokab: It's not about saving the planet. It's about saving ourselves. |
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| MisLEAD | FILM: MisLEAD: America’s Secret Epidemic is a feature-length documentary film for theatrical release about the hidden epidemic of childhood lead poisoning in America today. | |
| Neness Media |
Transformative media producer: 1ness Media is dedicated to bring the visions, voices and visuals of those companies and entrepreneurs that are shaping this new world! | |
| No Impact Man | DVD/BOOK: For one year, Colin Beavan swore off plastic and toxins, turned off his electricity, went organic, became a bicycle nut, and tried to save the planet from environmental catastrophe while dragging his young daughter and his Prada-wearing wife along for the ride. | |
| Radiant Greens |
Dr. Tony O'Donnell, Health Reporter. Health books, equipment, supplements and products |
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| Vanishing of the Bees | FILM: Important & essential documentary -- if you like eating, see this film. |
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RADIO & TV
| EcoDivas TV | Our goal is to create awareness & build communities that focus on Eco film, fashion, cosmetics & food by sharing information from around the world. | |
| Get Green TV | Free green movies and pod casts. Green products and services. | |
| GoGreenAmericaTV | Creator/Host - Jeff Davis. Informative news and ideas through the website, twitter @greenamericatv and Go Green America TV | |
| Green Earth Radio | Radio Show: An award winning weekly program produced for Public Radio focusing on environmental education. The show offers current environmental news from experts on subjects such as alternative energy, green buildings, energy efficiency, endangered species, environmental protection, & more. | |
| Health Food News |
US News Bureau. Presswire: Organic, gourmet, whole foods, green press, food & beverage, health food, new food reviews, natural press. World wire service |
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| KPFK |
One of five radio stations in U.S. licensed to Pacifica Foundation, a non-profit focusing on promoting world peace through greater sharing of information and cultures. |
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| Natural News Radio | Radio Show: The best in health talk radio: Patrick Timpone, Robert Scott Bell, Linderman Unleashed, Mike Bundrent | |
| Organic Authority TV | Blip TV: Organic Authority TV-- organic food, recipes and green living made easy and delicious. | |
| Prescription 2000 |
Radio Show: On line broadcasts, book. "The greatest medicine of all is to teach people how not to need it." | |
| The Food Whisperer | Radio Show: A journey into our love affair with food. A passion for healthy living foretells a world rich with art and culture through the power of cuisine. | |
| Wellness Center- Fountain Valley |
Radio Show: Sharing the fun and inventive culinary recipes that are healthy yet affordable to fit any budget |
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ENVIRONMENTAL CURRICULA
| Audubon Society | Education & action, protection & restoration of bird & wildlife habitats | |
| California Wildlife Center | Taking responsibility for the protection of all native wildlife through rehabilitation, education and conservation | |
| Creation Care | Evangelical Environmental Network provides curriculum materials for churches & schools as well as a multi-media approach to activate environmental evangelicals | |
| Muse School |
Inspiring and preparing young people to live conscously with themselves, one another and the planet. Located between Malibu & Calabasas, CA. |
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| TOYMATO.COM | K-4 Green Living Curriculum promotes a balanced and healthy lifestyle, respect for the environment, responsible citizenship, & creative thinking | |
| Wildworks | Wildlife educational presentations for schools and special occasions. Provides lifetime care for non-releasable wild animals & to engender public respect & concern for nature through interactive wildlife educational presentations. |
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