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Congratulations to three of our authors who have just been recognized for their amazing contributions to changing the world "one book at a time"!

Franke James was honored at the Green Book Festival in San Francisco where her book was the winner in the Graphic Novel category. Weaving her art, daily life, and environmental activism together, storyteller and artist Franke James tells the inspiring story of her quest to go green in Bothered by My Green Conscience - a collection of five thought-provoking, inspiring, and creative visual essays.

Guy Dauncey took home a Silver Nautilus for The Climate Challenge: 101 Solutions to Global Warming which shows how to address the climate crisis at the personal, community, national or even global level.

And Chip Haynes has won the Silver Living Now award in the Outdoor Recreation category for The Practical Cyclist: Bicycling for Real People which takes a low-impact and reassuring approach to re-uniting people and their bikes.

Congratulations again to everyone - we think our authors are the greatest - good to know other people do as well!

Congratulations to three of our authors who have just won IPPY Awards in the Current Events category at the 2009 Independent Publisher Book Awards!

Dmitry Orlov took home a silver medal for Reinventing Collapse: Soviet Example and American Prospects - a darkly optimistic perspective on the decline of the American empire from the point of view of a eyewitness to the implosion of the Russian system.

Pat Murphy also claimed a silver for Plan C: Community Survival Strategies for Peak Oil and Climate Change which explains how changing our behavior in such key areas as food, health, housing and transportation is crucial to our survival.

And Sharon Astyk garnered a bronze for Depletion and Abundance - a unique contribution to the body of Peak Oil literature that examies the phenomenon from a woman's perspective with a focus on family response.

Congratulations again to everyone - great work!

Evolution's Edge: The Coming Collapse and Transformation of Our World by Graeme Taylor has won GOLD in the Independent Publisher's (IPPY) Book Outstanding Book of the Year Awards in the category "Most Likely to Save the Planet". Evolution's Edge was specially selected from over 4000 regular entries because it "exhibits the courage and creativity necessary to take chances, break new ground, and bring about change, not only to the world of publishing, but to our society."

Evolution's Edge explains not only why the collapse of our destructive global system is inevitable, but also why new systems-based ideas, values and technologies have the potential to create a sustainable civilization. Rapid transformation into a sustainable conserver society is possible by making a paradigm shift in the way we relate to nature and each other. The challenge is to quickly transform our current society by using systems thinking. Evolution's Edge is a practical guide full of constructive ideas and tools to help us do just that.

Author Graeme Taylor has been on a world tour furthering the work of his society, Best Futures. The goal of Best Futures is to support the emergence of a sustainable global system through providing people and communities with new tools, perspectives, and knowledge.

Beautifully lucid… If our children and grandchildren are to have a future worth living, we’re probably going to get there along the path this book describes. Written with charm and style and rich with insight, this book is highly recommended for anyone looking for reasons for hope. Thomas Homer-Dixon, award-winning author and Chair of Global Systems Studies at the Balsillie School of International Affairs

Congratulations to our four ForeWord Book of the Year finalists! ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Awards were established to bring increased attention to librarians and booksellers of the literary and graphic achievements of independent publishers and their authors. ForeWord is the only review trade journal devoted exclusively to books from independent houses.

ForeWord's unique awards process brings readers, librarians, and booksellers together to select their top categories as well as choose the winning titles. Their decisions are based on editorial excellence, professional production, originality of the narrative, author credentials relative to the book, and the value the book adds to its genre. Winning titles in the ForeWord awards expand a reader's world, introduce a voice society needs to hear, offer practical knowledge where none existed before, or simply entertain so compellingly that all distractions fall away.

Here's the list of New Society Publishers' authors and titles that received nominations:

• Sharon Astyk's Depletion and Abundance: Life on the New Home Front in the Environment category
• Graeme Taylor's Evolution's Edge: The Coming Collapse and Transformation of Our World in the Environment category
• Pat Murphy's Plan C: Community Survival Strategies for Peak Oil and Climate Change in the Environment category
• John Ivanko and Lisa Kivirist's ECOpreneuring: Putting Purpose and the Planet Before Profits in the Business and Economics category

Click on a cover to learn more about any of these great books!

     

     

Congratulations to three of our authors who have just won "IPPYS" at the 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards!

Richard Heinberg won a gold medal in Current Events for Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines which looks at the world we will inhabit beyond Peak Oil.

In the same category Clive Doucet took home the bronze for Urban Meltdown: Cities, Climate Change and Politics as Usual which argues that the key to climate change solutions lies in a new governance paradigm and fundamental changes to political thinking about growth and progress.

Our third winner is Stacy Malkan who won the silver medal in the Health/Medicine/Nutrition category for Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Truth About the Beauty Industry which presents a compelling case for giving cosmetics companies an extreme makeover.

Congratulations again to everyone - great work!