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Rainwater Harvesting for Chickens
Today's blog comes from Acquisitions Editor Rob West. He created a rainwater collection system for his brood of chickens with the help of Essential Rainwater Harvesting: A Guide to Homes-Scale System Design by Rob Avis and Michelle Avis of Verge Permaculture.
Homesteading often involves moving heavy objects – soil, wood chips, building materials, …
Twelve years to A Finer Future for all?
Guest blog from New Society Acquisition Editor Rob West.
As oil consumption skyrockets towards 100 million barrels …
Reflections of an Elder: The Pipeline Protest
The following post is from Helen Wilkes, the author of the upcoming book, The Aging of Aquarius: Igniting Passion and Purpose as an Elder. In The Aging of Aquarius, Helen offers inspiration and practical step to help reignite passion and sense of purpose, to effect real change int he world as an empowered elder.
In this post Helen describes her …
How GERTIE Came to Gabriola
Regular readers of our blog will know we are big GERTIE bus supporters. Right from the beginning, New Society Publishers has been part of the developing bus system - donating money, volunteer hours and helping spread the word on social media. We are even building a bus stop in memory of New Society Publisher co-founder Chris Plant. (but that's …
The Wisdom of Yogi Berra, The Secret to Partying, and More!
Bruce King, author of the newly released The New Carbon Architecture: Building to Cool the Climate, promises to share many things with us in his new book. In this joyful guest post, he shares the good news - the good climate news - of how buildings can be more than net zero and can actually extract carbon from the atmosphere.
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