Curations from the Human Jungle
[Silverbelle Ivy contacted us to suggest that we make this guide available to readers of this Digest. Since we know that some of our Great Ape brethren review this journal while sipping their morning brew-- full disclosure, many of our postings are created whilst partaking of same-- we agreed. Coffee goes great with bananas. Here's... Continue Reading →
[As a publisher of "books for sustainable living" at Chelsea Green, we had a group of how-to books that we informally called "things that we forgot," i.e. valuable lessons from the past that we have forgotten culturally. These can be positive (organic gardening) or negative (extinction caused by self-pollution). These ancient farming practices in Peru... Continue Reading →
["Feeling Good About Wood" is one of the sales campaign slogans that I came up with when I was selling woodstoves for a living with Vermont Castings. In the early days of the business, which was spawned by the 1st Arab Oil Embargo in 1973, the sales pitch was straightforward. "Save lots of money and... Continue Reading →
As usual, I didn’t do my due diligence. I had been so busy preaching the gospel of Chelsea Green being the nation’s leading publisher of information on the “ideas and practices of books for sustainable living” that I neglected to do a reality check. When I arrived at the company's modest offices in the red... Continue Reading →
[In 1991 I wrote this short (64 page) book on behalf of Real Goods Trading Corporation to show that "powering down" did not mean living without, but enjoying the world MORE by living with LESS. I've been selling the same idea ever since. It is a concept fundamental to what I am championing now through... Continue Reading →