From the Book - Regular Print
Introduction: My Friend the Beast / Stephen Morris ix --
Foreword: The New Village Green / Paul Freundlich xv --
Foreword: The New Village People xix --
Foreword: The New Village Library xix --
Above All, Be Kind / Zoe Weil 3 --
Sine Quammen Non / David Quammen 6 --
New Corn Moon / Jessica Prentice 11 --
Germs of Life / Lynn Margulis, Emily Case 15 --
How Insects Hunker Down for Winter / Madeline Bodin 18 --
Off-Map Nuggets / Chellis Glendinning 21 --
Next Year in the Garden / Stephen Morris 32 --
Conservation and the Economics of Solar Water Heating / Bob Ramlow 35 --
Agriculture: Civilization's "Great Mistake" / Kirkpatrick Sale 37 --
Truthdig Interview: Michael Pollan 40 --
Home Energy Diet / Paul Scheckel 43 --
Magical Flocks of Birds / Carrie Chandler 46 --
Birth of a Currency / Salt Spring Island Monetary Fund 56 --
Eight Things You Need to Know about the Shaky US Economy 59 --
My Saudi Arabian Breakfast / Chad Heeter 63 --
How Close to Catastrophe? / Bill McKibben 67 --
Stow Food Movement Has Global Outreach 81 --
Review of Look Homeward, America / Bill Kaufmann 84 --
Swami Calls for an Up-Wising / Swami Beyondanada 86 --
Float Like a Butterfly / Julia Butterfly Hill 91 --
5 One-Straw Revolution --
Clean the Air in your Home with Houseplants / Bill Wolverton 103 --
Too Good to Throw Away / Josh Wachtel 107 --
Rise and Fall of Raw Milk / Ron Schmid 117 --
What is Community Supported Agriculture / Robyn Van En 129 --
Communit Supported Energy 101 / Greg Pahl 132 --
Friends Meeting / Dave Smith 135 --
Memoirs of a Moderator / John McClaughry 138 --
Think Clean, Think Green / Cara Matthews 141 --
Neighborhood into an Eco-Hood! / Linda Buzzell-Saltzman 144 --
Think Globally, Eat Locally / Bennett & Massa-Gooch 147 --
Why Bike to Work / Alexander Asper-Nelson 149 --
On Biophilia and Houses / Alex Wilson 157 --
Your Green Home / Alex Wilson 160 --
Earth Roof Factor / Rob Roy 163 --
Precautionary Principle / Stephen Morris 166 --
A Book for the Generations / Davis Hollender, Doyle Hollender 167 --
Try a Solar Water Heater / Andrew Korfhage 171 --
Scoop on Dirt / Tamsyn Jones 174 --
Why Dry? / Eben Fodor 187 --
Green Weddings / Tracy Fernandez Rysavy 191 --
Safe Substitutes: Non-toxic Household Products / Davis & Turner 196 --
Sun, Fun, and Diversion / Sam Wilder 213 --
Jason and the Laundronauts / Jason Wentworth 217 --
Gardening When it Counts / Steve Solomon 221 --
Beyond Organic: Investing In Local Food / George Schenk 223 --
Timber Framing / Rob Roy 227 --
Plowboy Interview: Euell Gibbons 229 --
Bonds that Tie / Dan Chiras 246 --
Financial Independence - For Us Common Folk / Jane Dwinell 249 --
How The New Village Green was created 261 --
About Green Living Journal 265.