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Who Will Feed China? By Lester Brown. Discusses the consequences for the world's food supply of rapidly increasing prosperity in China and the "Tiger" economies of the Far East. Argues that the prospects of food production keeping pace with growing population and growing consumer demands for protein are not good. Explains how China's industrialization will lead to massive grain imports and rising food prices, and how China's rising food prices will become the world's rising food prices. Asserts that the major world challenge in the future will not be military aggression but food scarcity. More… | Lester Brown EcoSpeakers Info >>

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 >>

The Incomparable Honeybee & the Economics of Pollination. By Reese Halter. How honeybees have shaped our planet for the past 110 million years. Describes their importance in pollinating more multi-billion-dollar crops and plants than any other living group. Explains how humans and honeybees have been inextricably linked since prehistoric times. Includes many interesting and humbling facts. For example, bees can count, they can vote, and honey has potent medicinal properties. It has anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, antifungal, antioxidant, and even antiseptic functions. More... | Reese Halter EcoSpeakers Info >>

Cool Cuisine: Taking The Bite Out of Global Warming. By Laura Stec and Eugene Cordero. Describes how our agrochemical food system affects global warming and how global warming affects the food system. Organized into three sections, one provides background on the global-warming problem, a second highlights solutions, and a third is a "culinary how-to," teaching simple techniques and tips. Includes innovative science, business issues, and savory recipes. An exploration that feeds mind and mouth with art, science, food lore, and culinary tips to cook a global cool cuisine. More... | Laura Stec EcoSpeakers Info >>

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Alcohol Can Be A Gas!: Fueling an Ethanol Revolution for the 21st Century. By David Blume. Explains the history, technology, and even the sociology of renewable fuels in a fashion that can be appreciated by expert and novice alike. Offers countless hands-on technical solutions ranging from home stills to for-profit manufacturing strategies. More… | David Blume EcoSpeakers Info >>

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 >>

Biodiesel America: How to Achieve Energy Security, Free America from Middle-east Oil Dependence And Make Money Growing Fuel. By Josh Tickell. Provides a fresh perspective on our oil-laden history (why America is more dependent on oil than any other nation), our present position of energy compromise, and the true potential for a fossil-fuel-free future. Shows that an abundance of available, economically viable, and profitable energy solutions exists. More… | Josh Tickell EcoSpeakers Info >>

Diet for a Poisoned Planet: How to Choose Safe Foods for You and Your Family. By David Steinman. An in-depth look at the contaminants in foods. Steinman also tells his own story of fishing in the Santa Monica Bay as a child and how he went on to testify before Congress as an expert witness on the contamination of his own body by the fish he ate. More… | David Steinman EcoSpeakers Info >>

The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms. By Amy Stewart. Takes us on a subterranean adventure and introduces us to our planet's most important gatekeeper: the humble earthworm. It's true that the earthworm is small, spineless, and blind, but its effect on the ecosystem is profound. Stewart investigates the earthworm's astonishing realm, talks to oligochaetologists who have devoted their lives to unearthing the complex web of life beneath our feet, and observes the thousands of worms in her own garden. More… | Amy Stewart EcoSpeakers Info >>

The Everything Vegetarian Cookbook: 300 Healthy Recipes Everyone Will Enjoy. By Jay Weinstein. Suggesting several delicious substitutes for meat in a variety of favorite dishes, this book features hundreds of recipes for dishes like mushroom-stuffed tomatoes, gazpacho, cumin-roasted butternut squash, and insalata caprese. For cooks with a variety of dietary constraints. Provides simple instructions for all kinds of vegetarian meals, including ovolacto, macrobiotic, vegan, and more. More... | Jay Weinstein EcoSpeakers Info >>

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 >>

From the Fryer to the Fuel Tank. By Josh Tickell and Kaia Tickell. Details all aspects of running diesel engines on vegetable oil. Includes information on biodiesel, the diesel fuel substitute made from new or used vegetable oil, as well as information on running any diesel engine on straight vegetable oil. Packed with history, information, instructions, photos, diagrams and resources. More... | Josh Tickell EcoSpeakers Info >>

From the Ground Up: The Story of a First Garden. By Amy Stewart. A chronicle of the seedlings and weeds, cats and compost, worms and watering that transform a tiny plot of earth into a glorious garden. From planting the seeds her great-grandmother sends to battling snails, gophers, and aphids, Stewart takes us on a tour of her coastal garden and shares the lessons she's learned the hard way. More… | Amy Stewart EcoSpeakers Info >>

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 >>

Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants in Wild (and Not So Wild Places). By Steve Brill and Evelyn Dean. Shows readers how to find and prepare more than five hundred different plants for nutrition and better health. More than 260 line drawings help readers identify the wide range of plants readily available underfoot and waiting to be harvested and used either as food or as a potential therapeutic. Both a field guide to nature's bounty and a source of intriguing information about the plants that surround us. More… | Steve Brill 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 >>

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 >>

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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