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  • ArtMill

    A Story of Sustainable Creativity in Bohemia

    by Barbara Benish ...
    The story starts in totalitarian darkness (Czechoslovakia before 1989) and gradually lays out a groundwork for how creativity within community can influence and change society. All of this is rooted in the connection to the natural world, be it local sustainable farming practices, rural innovations, or international policies with governmental bodies on the global level. The book is a success story ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Art, Farming and Food for the Future

    Transforming Agriculture

    by Barbara L. Benish, Nathalie Blanc ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
    This book explores the impact of artistic experiments in inspiring people to turn away from current food consumerism and take an active role in preserving, sustaining, and protecting the environment.As artists are expanding their practice into social justice and community concerns, erasing traditional forms of expression and integrating others, the culture around food and its production has been ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Form, Art and the Environment

    Engaging in Sustainability

    Edited by Nathalie Blanc, Barbara Benish ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Culture and Sustainable Development
    Form, Art and the Environment: Engaging in Sustainability adopts a pluralistic perspective of environmental artistic processes in order to examine the contributions of the arts in promoting sustainable development and culture at a grassroots level and its potential as a catalyst for social change and awareness.This book investigates how community arts, environmental creativity, and the changing ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

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  • 140 Artists' Ideas for Planet Earth

    by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Kostas Stasinopoulos ...
    Through 140 drawings, thought experiments, recipes, activist instructions, gardening ideas, insurgences and personal revolutions, artists who spend their lives thinking outside the box guide you to a new worldview; where you and the planet are one.Everything here is new. We invite you to rip out pages, to hang them up at home, to draw and scribble, to cook, to meditate, to take the book to your ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Eating Our Way Toward Civilization: How food processing shaped human body, mind and cultures

    by Nataly Sielicki ...
    In the series of short essays the author overviews works of anthropologists, archeologists, cultural sociologists, historians and gastronomists who argue that the cooking played a significant role in human evolution and history, and sometimes even whole Empires "were built not by the sword but by the spoon". The ancient and modern cuisines bear a deep imprint of the civilizations they appeared and ... Read more

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  • Against Urbanism

    by Franco La Cecla ...
    Translated by Mairin O'Mahony ...
    After demolishing the myth of the rock star architect with his book Against Architecture (PM Press, 2012, also available), Franco La Cecla now explores the decisive challenges that cities are going to have to confront in the near future. Urban planning and development has become increasingly inadequate in response to the daily realities of life in our cities. Human, economic, ethnic and ... Read more

    $9.09 CAD

  • We Are 'Nature' Defending Itself

    Entangling Art, Activism and Autonomous Zones

    by Isabelle Fremeaux, Jay Jordan ...
    Series series Vagabonds
    In 2008, as the storms of the financial crash blew, Isabelle Fremeaux and Jay Jordan deserted the metropolis and their academic jobs, traveling across Europe in search of post-capitalist utopias. They wanted their art activism to no longer be uprooted.They arrived at a place French politicians had declared lost to the republic, otherwise know as the zad (the zone to defend): a messy but ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Day the World Stops Shopping

    by J.B. Mackinnon ...
    **A FINALIST FOR THE 2021 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S AWARD FOR NONFICTIONIn a brilliant work of imaginative non-fiction, prize-winning author J.B. MacKinnon asks what would happen--to our economy, our ecology, our products, our selves--if we stopped consuming so much? Is that alternative world one we might actually want to live in?**"We can't stop shopping. And yet we must. This is the consumer dilemma. ... Read more

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  • Bicycle Diaries

    by David Byrne ...
    **“...an engaging book: part diary, part manifesto.”—The GuardianA round-the-world bicycle tour with Talking Heads co-founder David Byrne, one of the most original artists of our day.**Urban bicycling has become more popular than ever as recession-strapped, climate-conscious city dwellers reinvent basic transportation. In this wide-ranging memoir, artist/musician and co-founder of Talking Heads ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • A Plea for the Animals

    The Moral, Philosophical, and Evolutionary Imperative to Treat All Beings with Compassion

    by Matthieu Ricard ...
    Every cow just wants to be happy. Every chicken just wants to be free. Every bear, dog, or mouse experiences sorrow and feels pain as intensely as any of us humans do. In a compelling appeal to reason and human kindness, Matthieu Ricard here takes the arguments from his best-sellers Altruism and Happiness to their logical conclusion: that compassion toward all beings, including our fellow animals, ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Slow Food Nation

    Why Our Food Should Be Good, Clean, and Fair

    by Carlo Petrini ...
    Translated by Clara Furlan, Jonathan Hunt ...
    By now most of us are aware of the threats looming in the food world. The best-selling Fast Food Nation and other recent books have alerted us to such dangers as genetically modified organisms, food-borne diseases, and industrial farming. Now it is time for answers, and Slow Food Nation steps up to the challenge. Here the charismatic leader of the Slow Food movement, Carlo Petrini, outlines many ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • Eat the Rich

    A Treatise on Economics

    by P. J. O'Rourke ...
    A New York Times bestseller: "The funniest writer in America" takes on the global economy ( The Wall Street Journal).In this book, renowned political humorist P. J. O'Rourke, author of Parliament of Whores and How the Hell Did This Happen? leads us on a hysterical whirlwind world tour from the "good capitalism" of Wall Street to the "bad socialism" of Cuba in search of the answer to an age-old ... Read more

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