Handmade Holiday
In today’s Holiday Sale blog, Bevin Cohen, author of The Artisan Home Herbalist, offers up a thoughtful guide to holiday gift-giving – and a guide to infusing oils. Learn the…
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Five Tips for Hosting a More Purposeful, Eco-Friendly Gathering
Leor Rotchild, author of How We Gather Matters, offers his expert advice on hosting with purpose and sustainability in mind. These five tips will help you celebrate the season with…
Planting a “Forever Forest”
This holiday season, we invite readers to make, share, observe, and enjoy the gifts of a slowed-down, mindful season. Author Sami Grover (We’re All Climate Hypocrites Now) shares a creative…
Go Do Something!
Steven Earle, author of ‘Runaway Climate’ and ‘A Brief History of the Earth’s Climate’, shares the inspiring story of a small island community that chose to confront climate change directly…
Promoting Peace: Judith Plant’s Perspective on Nonviolent Communication
Throughout the evolution of New Society, from our activist roots in the 1970s through activist trade publishers for the past 40 years, a defining thread has been nonviolent protest and…
Why I Love Foraging: A Small Sample of Reasons
Cutting grocery bills and your carbon footprint, while adding healthy, seasonal food to your diet and connecting with the land in your region all seem like pretty great motivations to…
Natural Plasters and Climate Change: Plastering in a New Paradigm
Tina Therrien, co-author of Essential Natural Plasters, has been working with natural plasters for decades. Today, Tina examines the role of natural plasters in adapting buildings within the context of…
Let’s Fight the Fire, Not Each Other
There is so much that is heartbreaking, infuriating, depressing, about the latest gruesome turning of the knife in the ever more tangled story of Palestine/Israel. It feels like it could…
This Tool Will Make Screen-Free Parenting Far Easier
In this guest post, Katherine Martinko, author of Childhood Unplugged, offers a powerful tool to help reduce screen time for kids while opening up a whole new world of skills.…
Why is Escaping Overshoot Necessary?
People make and use artifacts of all kinds which massively amplify our demands on the environment through resource extraction, processing, manufacturing, distribution, use, and disposal. Hence, the capacity of the…
How Does Composting Affect Climate Change?
In Compost Science for Gardeners, author Robert Pavlis offers a science-based approach to help home gardeners choose the best method for their situation. For today’s blog, Robert looks at the…
Gardening in the Wake of Climate Change
Robert Pavlis, author of Plant Science for Gardeners, talks about the topic of gardening and how to do it in the context of climate change.
Edible Laneways
Whether you have an urban property, a suburban homestead, or a rural farm, edible laneways are a great way to affordably and efficiently incorporate edible ecosystems and garden benefits into…