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Crisis and Opportunity: Sustainability in American Agriculture. By John E. Ikerd. These essays describe what sustainable agriculture is, why it began, and how it can succeed. They outline the consequences of agricultural industrialization, and detail the methods that can restore economic viability, ecological soundness, and social responsibility to our agricultural system. Sustainable agriculture can become the foundation of a sustainable food system and a sustainable society. More…

Tough Choices: Facing the Challenge of Food Scarcity. By Lester Brown. This book explains why food scarcity will be the defining issue of the new era now unfolding, much as ideological conflict was the defining issue of the historical era that recently ended. More… | Lester Brown EcoSpeakers Info >>

Civic Agriculture: Reconnecting Farm, Food, and Community. By Thomas A. Lyson. Suggests ways to produce, process, and distribute food that represent a sustainable alternative to the socially, economically, and environmentally destructive practices associated with conventional large-scale agriculture. Describes how over the course of the last hundred years, a small-scale diversified system of farming became an industrialized system of production, and how this industrialized system has gone global. Argues that farming in the United States was modernized by employing the same techniques and strategies that transformed the manufacturing sector from a system of craft production to one of mass production. More…

The Ethical Gourmet. By Jay Weinstein. More and more of us want to ensure that what we eat doesn't deplete resources, cause animal or human suffering, or lead to pollution. At the same time, we also want delicious food. A guide for finding and cooking environmentally friendly and ethically produced foods, this book provides 100 healthy, sophisticated, and mouthwatering recipes and features creative ways to use eco-friendly vegetables and legumes, sustainable seafood, and humanely raised animals. More… | Jay Weinstein EcoSpeakers Info >>

Agroecology: The Ecology of Sustainable Food Systems. By Stephen R. Gliessman. Explores the environmental factors and complexities affecting agricultural crops and animals. It explains the importance of using an ecosystem framework to provide a basis for evaluating the long-term functioning of a chosen management strategy, for determining if a particular agricultural practice, input, or management decision contributes or detracts from sustainability. It also examines system level interactions, stressing the need for understanding the emergent qualities of populations, communities, and ecosystems as well as their roles in sustainable agriculture. More…

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At Home in the Vineyard: Cultivating a Winery, an Industry, and a Life. By Susan Sokol Blosser. This moving, evocative memoir, woven with lyrical descriptions of the sights and smells of vineyard life, tells the inspirational story of one woman's journey to success in an industry run mostly by men. She shares some special accomplishments: how she instituted values of environmental sustainability and social responsibility at the vineyard, integrated family and business life, and successfully brought the second generation on board. More… | Susan Sokol Blosser EcoSpeakers Info >>

Empty Harvest. By Bernard Jensen and Mark Anderson. Empty Harvest tells us about dangers in our agricultural system - about the demineralization of our soils, the declining nutritional value of our food, and the resulting weakening of our immune systems. More...

Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful in the Business of Flowers. By Amy Stewart. Takes us inside the world of hybridizers, geneticists, farmers, and florists around the world who have worked to invent, manufacture, and sell flowers that are bigger, brighter, and sturdier than anything nature could provide. What has been gained and what has been lost in tinkering with Mother Nature? Should we care that some roses have lost their scent? Or that most flowers are sprayed with pesticides? More… | Amy Stewart EcoSpeakers Info >>

Kitchen Literacy: How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes from and Why We Need to Get It Back. By Ann Vileisis. Where our foods are raised and what happens to them between farm and supermarket shelf have become mysteries. How did we become so disconnected? Kitchen Literacy delivers a powerful statement: what we don't know could hurt us. Industrialized eating is undeniably convenient, but it has also created health and environmental problems, including toxic pesticides and pollution from factory farms. More… | Ann Vileisis EcoSpeakers Info >>

Who Will Feed China? By Lester Brown. China's industrialization will lead to massive grain imports. Brown writes that the major world challenge in the future is not military aggression but, rather, food scarcity. More… | Lester Brown EcoSpeakers Info >>

The Wild Vegetarian Cookbook. By Steve Brill. Cooking found and gathered produce. Includes dozens of recipes using wild foods, and explains "what makes wild food special." For the vegetarian who is both health and environmentally conscious. More… | Steve Brill EcoSpeakers Info >>

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Beyond the Rangeland Conflict: Toward a West That Works. By Dan Dagget. How ranchers and environmentalists on the Western Range can work together to achieve common goals. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and in its third printing, this book describes ten ranchers, from Mexico to Montana, who decided to work with environmentalists rather than fight against them. More…

The Green Kitchen Handbook. By Annie Bond. Practical guide answers dozens of questions environmentally conscientious and curious cooks have wondered about for years, such as the geographic origin of common healthful foods, their processing or production, and what makes them healthful. More… | Annie Bond EcoSpeakers Info >>

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