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Guns, Germs, and Steel

от Jared Diamond • 2005

Eurasia had wheat and an east-west axis. The Americas didn't. Geography decided who conquered whom.

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🗺️ Macrohistory 🌍 Geographic Determinism 🧬 Biogeography 🔄 Cultural Evolution 🏛️ Human Prehistory

Потапящи

Guns, Germs, and Steel

Eurasia had wheat and an east-west axis. The Americas didn't. Geography decided who conquered whom.

от Jared Diamond 2005 498 страници

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🗺️ Macrohistory 🌍 Geographic Determinism 🧬 Biogeography 🔄 Cultural Evolution 🏛️ Human Prehistory

Fast Food Nation

от Eric Schlosser • 2001

A burger's hidden cost: exploited labor, factory farms, and meat that sickened half a million.

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🏭 Industrial Food System 🐄 Factory Farming ⚠️ Food Safety 👷 Labor Exploitation 🏢 Corporate Power

Fast Food Nation

A burger's hidden cost: exploited labor, factory farms, and meat that sickened half a million.

от Eric Schlosser 2001 400 страници

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🏭 Industrial Food System 🐄 Factory Farming ⚠️ Food Safety 👷 Labor Exploitation 🏢 Corporate Power

1493

от Charles C. Mann • 2011

Potatoes east, mosquitoes west: the biological upheaval set off by 1492 that still runs the world.

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🌿 Environmental History 🦟 Disease And Empire 🌽 Agricultural Revolution 🦠 Ecological Exchange 🧬 Big History

1493

Potatoes east, mosquitoes west: the biological upheaval set off by 1492 that still runs the world.

от Charles C. Mann 2011 836 страници

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🌿 Environmental History 🦟 Disease And Empire 🌽 Agricultural Revolution 🦠 Ecological Exchange 🧬 Big History

The Secret Life of Groceries

от Benjamin Lorr • 2020

Supermarket abundance rests on debt-bonded truckers, enslaved fishermen, and the illusion of choice.

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🛒 Grocery Industry ⛓️ Food Supply Chains ⚒️ Labor Exploitation ⚖️ Supply Chain Ethics 🧠 Consumer Psychology

The Secret Life of Groceries

Supermarket abundance rests on debt-bonded truckers, enslaved fishermen, and the illusion of choice.

от Benjamin Lorr 2020 336 страници

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🛒 Grocery Industry ⛓️ Food Supply Chains ⚒️ Labor Exploitation ⚖️ Supply Chain Ethics 🧠 Consumer Psychology

Who Owns England?

от Guy Shrubsole • 2019

The secret 1% who own half of England: unmasking the aristocrats, royals, and oligarchs.

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🏠 Land Ownership 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 English Land ✊ Land Reform 🔍 Investigative Journalism 💰 Wealth Inequality

Who Owns England?

The secret 1% who own half of England: unmasking the aristocrats, royals, and oligarchs.

от Guy Shrubsole 2019

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🏠 Land Ownership 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 English Land ✊ Land Reform 🔍 Investigative Journalism 💰 Wealth Inequality

The Vegetable Gardener's Guide to Permaculture

от Christopher Shein • 2013

Your garden as a forest: the permaculture design that feeds you while it rebuilds itself.

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🌎 Permaculture Design 🌳 Food Forests 🪱 Soil Building 🌱 Seed Saving 🏡 Garden Design

The Vegetable Gardener's Guide to Permaculture

Your garden as a forest: the permaculture design that feeds you while it rebuilds itself.

от Christopher Shein 2013 272 страници

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🌎 Permaculture Design 🌳 Food Forests 🪱 Soil Building 🌱 Seed Saving 🏡 Garden Design

The Lean Farm

от Ben Hartman • 2015

Toyota's efficiency system, adapted for the field: all the waste gone, none of the soul.

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🚜 Farm Management 🏭 Lean Methodology 🇯🇵 Toyota Production System 🔄 Continuous Improvement 🌱 Sustainable Agriculture

The Lean Farm

Toyota's efficiency system, adapted for the field: all the waste gone, none of the soul.

от Ben Hartman 2015 382 страници

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🚜 Farm Management 🏭 Lean Methodology 🇯🇵 Toyota Production System 🔄 Continuous Improvement 🌱 Sustainable Agriculture

Why Vegan?

от Peter Singer • 2020

Loving dogs while eating pigs is a prejudice, not a preference, with billions of victims.

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🐄 Animal Ethics 🏭 Factory Farming 🧠 Animal Sentience ⚖️ Utilitarianism 🍽️ Food Politics

Why Vegan?

Loving dogs while eating pigs is a prejudice, not a preference, with billions of victims.

от Peter Singer 2020 80 страници

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🐄 Animal Ethics 🏭 Factory Farming 🧠 Animal Sentience ⚖️ Utilitarianism 🍽️ Food Politics

Food Politics

от Robert Paarlberg • 2010

The hidden policy battles behind every bite, from farm subsidy wars to the GMO divide.

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🍽️ Food Politics 🌾 Agricultural Policy 🍞 Global Hunger 💵 Farm Subsidies 🚜 Industrial Agriculture

Food Politics

The hidden policy battles behind every bite, from farm subsidy wars to the GMO divide.

от Robert Paarlberg 2010 240 страници

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🍽️ Food Politics 🌾 Agricultural Policy 🍞 Global Hunger 💵 Farm Subsidies 🚜 Industrial Agriculture

You Can Farm

от Joel Salatin • 1998

No land? No problem. Three livestock enterprises turn a small farm profitable, stacked right.

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🌱 Regenerative Agriculture 🚜 Small-Scale Farming 💼 Farm Entrepreneurship 🏪 Direct-Marketing Farms 🐔 Pastured Livestock

You Can Farm

No land? No problem. Three livestock enterprises turn a small farm profitable, stacked right.

от Joel Salatin 1998 480 страници

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🌱 Regenerative Agriculture 🚜 Small-Scale Farming 💼 Farm Entrepreneurship 🏪 Direct-Marketing Farms 🐔 Pastured Livestock

The Unsettling of America

от Wendell Berry • 1977

America's farming crisis is really a crisis of character. The soil tells the story.

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🧑‍🌾 Agrarian Philosophy 🌍 Land Ethics 🚜 Farming Criticism 🏘️ Localism ⚖️ Moral Economy

The Unsettling of America

America's farming crisis is really a crisis of character. The soil tells the story.

от Wendell Berry 1977 246 страници

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🧑‍🌾 Agrarian Philosophy 🌍 Land Ethics 🚜 Farming Criticism 🏘️ Localism ⚖️ Moral Economy

The Omnivore's Dilemma

от Richie Chevat • 2015

Most of what you eat begins as corn, and the price tag hides the real cost.

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🍽️ Food Systems 🐄 Factory Farming 🇺🇸 American Diet 🗳️ Food Politics 🌾 Sustainable Agriculture

The Omnivore's Dilemma

Most of what you eat begins as corn, and the price tag hides the real cost.

от Richie Chevat 2015 352 страници

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🍽️ Food Systems 🐄 Factory Farming 🇺🇸 American Diet 🗳️ Food Politics 🌾 Sustainable Agriculture

Teaming with Nutrients

от Jeff Lowenfels • 2013

Plants eat through physics, chemistry, and fungi. Feed the biology, not just the soil.

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🌿 Organic Gardening 🧪 Soil Science 🔬 Plant Biology 🌱 Plant Nutrition 🕸️ Soil Food Web

Teaming with Nutrients

Plants eat through physics, chemistry, and fungi. Feed the biology, not just the soil.

от Jeff Lowenfels 2013 250 страници

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🌿 Organic Gardening 🧪 Soil Science 🔬 Plant Biology 🌱 Plant Nutrition 🕸️ Soil Food Web

Drawdown

от Paul Hawken • 2017

100 existing solutions, modeled and ranked: the plan to reverse global warming is already here.

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🌍 Climate Reversal 💰 Environmental Economics 🌱 Regenerative Agriculture 🍃 Carbon Sequestration 🔄 Circular Economy

Drawdown

100 existing solutions, modeled and ranked: the plan to reverse global warming is already here.

от Paul Hawken 2017 240 страници

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🌍 Climate Reversal 💰 Environmental Economics 🌱 Regenerative Agriculture 🍃 Carbon Sequestration 🔄 Circular Economy

The Organic Farmer's Business Handbook

от Richard Wiswall • 2009

The business manual organic farmers actually need: plan for profit, track costs, and pay yourself.

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🥕 Organic Farming Business 🚜 Small Farm Management 💰 Farm Finance 📋 Farm Business Planning 🌱 Sustainable Agriculture

The Organic Farmer's Business Handbook

The business manual organic farmers actually need: plan for profit, track costs, and pay yourself.

от Richard Wiswall 2009 224 страници

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🥕 Organic Farming Business 🚜 Small Farm Management 💰 Farm Finance 📋 Farm Business Planning 🌱 Sustainable Agriculture

Feeding You Lies

от Vani Hari • 2019

They copied tobacco's playbook, funded the science, and hid sugar. Your weapon: the ingredient list.

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🧪 Food Additives 🍬 Sugar Addiction 🏭 Big Food Industry 🌿 Organic Farming 🏛️ Food Politics

Feeding You Lies

They copied tobacco's playbook, funded the science, and hid sugar. Your weapon: the ingredient list.

от Vani Hari 2019 328 страници

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🧪 Food Additives 🍬 Sugar Addiction 🏭 Big Food Industry 🌿 Organic Farming 🏛️ Food Politics

Farmacology

от Daphne Miller • 2013

How farms taught a physician to rethink health, from the soil up.

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🌱 Soil Health 🚜 Food Systems 🦠 Microbiome Health 🌿 Holistic Medicine 🔄 Systems Thinking

Farmacology

How farms taught a physician to rethink health, from the soil up.

от Daphne Miller 2013 304 страници

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🌱 Soil Health 🚜 Food Systems 🦠 Microbiome Health 🌿 Holistic Medicine 🔄 Systems Thinking

Should We Eat Meat?

от Vaclav Smil • 2013

Meat grew our brains. Its modern scale now threatens the planet. A quantified middle path.

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🏭 Industrial Agriculture 🌡️ Meat And Climate 🧬 Evolution Of Diet 🍽️ Food Systems 🥬 Meat Alternatives

Should We Eat Meat?

Meat grew our brains. Its modern scale now threatens the planet. A quantified middle path.

от Vaclav Smil 2013 282 страници

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🏭 Industrial Agriculture 🌡️ Meat And Climate 🧬 Evolution Of Diet 🍽️ Food Systems 🥬 Meat Alternatives

The New Organic Grower

от Eliot Coleman • 1989

How to make a living from five acres by farming with nature, not against it.

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🍃 Organic Farming 🥬 Market Gardening 🪱 Soil Health 🌡️ Season Extension 🚜 Small-Scale Farming

The New Organic Grower

How to make a living from five acres by farming with nature, not against it.

от Eliot Coleman 1989 340 страници

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🍃 Organic Farming 🥬 Market Gardening 🪱 Soil Health 🌡️ Season Extension 🚜 Small-Scale Farming

Fibershed

от Rebecca Burgess • 2019

Your closet is an emissions machine. A 150-mile wardrobe turns it into a carbon sink.

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🧵 Sustainable Fashion 🌱 Regenerative Agriculture 🏘️ Local Economies 🔗 Textile Supply Chains 🌍 Carbon Sequestration

Fibershed

Your closet is an emissions machine. A 150-mile wardrobe turns it into a carbon sink.

от Rebecca Burgess 2019 288 страници

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🧵 Sustainable Fashion 🌱 Regenerative Agriculture 🏘️ Local Economies 🔗 Textile Supply Chains 🌍 Carbon Sequestration

The Practical Permaculture Project

от Sophie McKay • 2022

Feed your family from a backyard that waters itself, builds soil, and heals the land.

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🌀 Permaculture 🥕 Organic Gardening 🌱 Soil Health 💧 Water Management 🌻 Companion Planting

The Practical Permaculture Project

Feed your family from a backyard that waters itself, builds soil, and heals the land.

от Sophie McKay 2022 159 страници

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🌀 Permaculture 🥕 Organic Gardening 🌱 Soil Health 💧 Water Management 🌻 Companion Planting

Energy and Civilization

от Vaclav Smil • 2017

A week of American energy use matches a year of Nigerian. The history behind that gap.

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⚡ Energy History ⚙️ History Of Technology 🏭 Industrial Revolution 🛢️ Fossil Fuels 🌍 Big History

Energy and Civilization

A week of American energy use matches a year of Nigerian. The history behind that gap.

от Vaclav Smil 2017 552 страници

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⚡ Energy History ⚙️ History Of Technology 🏭 Industrial Revolution 🛢️ Fossil Fuels 🌍 Big History

Carrots Love Tomatoes

от Louise Riotte • 1975

Every plant has allies and enemies. The pairings that build a thriving garden without chemicals.

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🌱 Companion Planting 🍂 Organic Gardening 🐞 Natural Pest Control 🪱 Soil Health 📐 Garden Planning

Carrots Love Tomatoes

Every plant has allies and enemies. The pairings that build a thriving garden without chemicals.

от Louise Riotte 1975 224 страници

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🌱 Companion Planting 🍂 Organic Gardening 🐞 Natural Pest Control 🪱 Soil Health 📐 Garden Planning

The Permaculture Garden

от Graham Bell • 1994

A garden that hardly needs you: design it like a forest once, harvest for decades.

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🌀 Permaculture 🌳 Forest Gardening 🪱 Soil Health 💧 Water Conservation 🥬 Perennial Vegetables

The Permaculture Garden

A garden that hardly needs you: design it like a forest once, harvest for decades.

от Graham Bell 1994 174 страници

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🌀 Permaculture 🌳 Forest Gardening 🪱 Soil Health 💧 Water Conservation 🥬 Perennial Vegetables

Gardening When It Counts

от Steve Solomon • 2006

Most gardening books assume cheap inputs and grocery stores. This one assumes the day both are gone.

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🔨 Subsistence Gardening 🌱 Organic Gardening 🧪 Soil Fertility 🌾 Seed Saving 💧 Water Conservation

Gardening When It Counts

Most gardening books assume cheap inputs and grocery stores. This one assumes the day both are gone.

от Steve Solomon 2006 360 страници

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🔨 Subsistence Gardening 🌱 Organic Gardening 🧪 Soil Fertility 🌾 Seed Saving 💧 Water Conservation

Ravenous

от Henry Dimbleby • 2023

The food system feeds 8 billion while fueling obesity, chronic disease, and a third of emissions.

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🏭 Food Systems 🧃 Ultra-Processed Food 🔬 Nutrition Science 🏥 Public Health Crisis ⚖️ Food Inequality

Ravenous

The food system feeds 8 billion while fueling obesity, chronic disease, and a third of emissions.

от Henry Dimbleby 2023 332 страници

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🏭 Food Systems 🧃 Ultra-Processed Food 🔬 Nutrition Science 🏥 Public Health Crisis ⚖️ Food Inequality

Pandora's Seed

от Spencer Wells • 2010

Farming gave us civilization. It also gave us chronic disease, overstimulation, and fundamentalism.

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🧬 Evolutionary Mismatch 🌾 Agriculture's Costs 🧫 Recent Human Evolution 🫀 Diseases Of Civilization 🧪 Genetic Ethics

Pandora's Seed

Farming gave us civilization. It also gave us chronic disease, overstimulation, and fundamentalism.

от Spencer Wells 2010 256 страници

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🧬 Evolutionary Mismatch 🌾 Agriculture's Costs 🧫 Recent Human Evolution 🫀 Diseases Of Civilization 🧪 Genetic Ethics

The Lies of the Land

от Steven Conn • 2023

Farmers and crisis don't define rural America. Military bases, chains, and suburbia do.

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🌾 Rural America 📜 Agrarian Myths ⏳ Nostalgia Politics 🏘️ Suburban Expansion 🏚️ Deindustrialization

The Lies of the Land

Farmers and crisis don't define rural America. Military bases, chains, and suburbia do.

от Steven Conn 2023 320 страници

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🌾 Rural America 📜 Agrarian Myths ⏳ Nostalgia Politics 🏘️ Suburban Expansion 🏚️ Deindustrialization

Net Zero

от Dieter Helm • 2020

Why UN climate talks can't cut emissions, and how taxing carbon consumption can.

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🏷️ Carbon Pricing 📈 Market-Based Environmentalism 📦 Consumption Emissions 🌳 Natural Sequestration ⚡ Electricity Market Reform

Net Zero

Why UN climate talks can't cut emissions, and how taxing carbon consumption can.

от Dieter Helm 2020 329 страници

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🏷️ Carbon Pricing 📈 Market-Based Environmentalism 📦 Consumption Emissions 🌳 Natural Sequestration ⚡ Electricity Market Reform

Grass, Soil, Hope

от Courtney White • 2014

Carbon is not the enemy: the ranchers and farmers burying it to save the climate.

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🌱 Regenerative Agriculture 🪱 Soil Restoration 🌬️ Carbon Sequestration 🏙️ Urban Agriculture 🐂 Holistic Management

Grass, Soil, Hope

Carbon is not the enemy: the ranchers and farmers burying it to save the climate.

от Courtney White 2014 244 страници

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🌱 Regenerative Agriculture 🪱 Soil Restoration 🌬️ Carbon Sequestration 🏙️ Urban Agriculture 🐂 Holistic Management

Harvesting Rainwater for Your Homestead in 9 Days or Less

от Renee Dang • 2022

From roof to tap in nine days: the 7-step plan for harvesting your own clean rainwater.

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🚿 Rainwater Harvesting 🏡 Off-Grid Living 💧 Water Self-Sufficiency 🔧 Diy Water Systems 🌻 Modern Homesteading

Harvesting Rainwater for Your Homestead in 9 Days or Less

From roof to tap in nine days: the 7-step plan for harvesting your own clean rainwater.

от Renee Dang 2022 169 страници

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🚿 Rainwater Harvesting 🏡 Off-Grid Living 💧 Water Self-Sufficiency 🔧 Diy Water Systems 🌻 Modern Homesteading

Backyard Winter Gardening

от Caleb Warnock • 2013

Grow salads in January without a heated greenhouse. The low-tech method that fed Paris in winter.

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🥬 Winter Gardening 🪟 Cold Frame Gardening 🏡 Food Self-Sufficiency ⚙️ Low-Tech Gardening 🐞 Organic Pest Control

Backyard Winter Gardening

Grow salads in January without a heated greenhouse. The low-tech method that fed Paris in winter.

от Caleb Warnock 2013 176 страници

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🥬 Winter Gardening 🪟 Cold Frame Gardening 🏡 Food Self-Sufficiency ⚙️ Low-Tech Gardening 🐞 Organic Pest Control

Moveable Feasts

от Sarah Murray • 2007

Rome needed grain ships. Cities need container ports. How moving food built the modern world.

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📜 Food History 🌍 Global Food Trade 📦 Food Logistics 📊 Supply Chain History ❄️ Cold Chain Logistics

Moveable Feasts

Rome needed grain ships. Cities need container ports. How moving food built the modern world.

от Sarah Murray 2007 272 страници

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📜 Food History 🌍 Global Food Trade 📦 Food Logistics 📊 Supply Chain History ❄️ Cold Chain Logistics

Too High to Fail

от Doug Fine • 2012

The trillion-dollar drug war failed. One California county's cannabis economy shows why.

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🗳️ Drug Policy Reform 💰 Cannabis Economics 💊 Medical Marijuana 🌱 Sustainable Agriculture 🏘️ Local Economies

Too High to Fail

The trillion-dollar drug war failed. One California county's cannabis economy shows why.

от Doug Fine 2012 368 страници

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🗳️ Drug Policy Reform 💰 Cannabis Economics 💊 Medical Marijuana 🌱 Sustainable Agriculture 🏘️ Local Economies

The One-Straw Revolution

от Masanobu Fukuoka • 1975

A manifesto that argues plowing, weeding, and fertilizing are optional. Thirty years of proof.

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🌱 Sustainable Agriculture ☮️ Zen Philosophy 🧱 Soil Health 🎯 Minimalism 🚫 Anti Consumerism

The One-Straw Revolution

A manifesto that argues plowing, weeding, and fertilizing are optional. Thirty years of proof.

от Masanobu Fukuoka 1975 181 страници

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🌱 Sustainable Agriculture ☮️ Zen Philosophy 🧱 Soil Health 🎯 Minimalism 🚫 Anti Consumerism

Sowing Seeds in the Desert

от Masanobu Fukuoka • 2012

Our farms are making deserts. A hands-off method for restoring them with seeds and clay.

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🧑‍🌾 Regenerative Agriculture 🌳 Permaculture Philosophy 🌱 Ecological Restoration 🚜 Anti-Industrial Agriculture 🧘 Nature Spirituality

Sowing Seeds in the Desert

Our farms are making deserts. A hands-off method for restoring them with seeds and clay.

от Masanobu Fukuoka 2012 219 страници

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🧑‍🌾 Regenerative Agriculture 🌳 Permaculture Philosophy 🌱 Ecological Restoration 🚜 Anti-Industrial Agriculture 🧘 Nature Spirituality

A Pocket Guide to Sustainable Food Shopping

от Kate Bratskeir • 2021

Your grocery cart can fight climate change: one small change at a time, without the guilt.

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🥗 Sustainable Eating 🛒 Ethical Consumerism 🗑️ Food Waste Reduction 🟢 Greenwashing 🏷️ Label Literacy

A Pocket Guide to Sustainable Food Shopping

Your grocery cart can fight climate change: one small change at a time, without the guilt.

от Kate Bratskeir 2021 144 страници

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🥗 Sustainable Eating 🛒 Ethical Consumerism 🗑️ Food Waste Reduction 🟢 Greenwashing 🏷️ Label Literacy

The Profitable Hobby Farm

от Sarah Beth Aubrey • 2010

Your hobby farm can earn real money. The business blueprint for making local food pay.

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🚜 Small Farm Business 🥕 Local Food Movement 🌱 Sustainable Agriculture 📋 Farm Marketing 🤝 Cooperative Models

The Profitable Hobby Farm

Your hobby farm can earn real money. The business blueprint for making local food pay.

от Sarah Beth Aubrey 2010 288 страници

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🚜 Small Farm Business 🥕 Local Food Movement 🌱 Sustainable Agriculture 📋 Farm Marketing 🤝 Cooperative Models

Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money

от Woody Tasch • 2008

Fast money erodes soil and community. The argument for investing at the speed of compost.

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🌱 Regenerative Agriculture 🏘️ Local Food Systems 💰 Sustainable Investing 🐌 Slow Food Movement ⏳ Patient Capital

Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money

Fast money erodes soil and community. The argument for investing at the speed of compost.

от Woody Tasch 2008 240 страници

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🌱 Regenerative Agriculture 🏘️ Local Food Systems 💰 Sustainable Investing 🐌 Slow Food Movement ⏳ Patient Capital

Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks

от Gail Damerow • 2013

Incubation specs, brooder setups, and hatch-failure fixes for five poultry species in one manual.

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🐔 Poultry Keeping 🐄 Animal Husbandry 🏡 Homesteading Skills 🌱 Self-Sufficiency 🚜 Small-Scale Farming

Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks

Incubation specs, brooder setups, and hatch-failure fixes for five poultry species in one manual.

от Gail Damerow 2013 240 страници

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🐔 Poultry Keeping 🐄 Animal Husbandry 🏡 Homesteading Skills 🌱 Self-Sufficiency 🚜 Small-Scale Farming

40 Chances

от Howard G. Buffett • 2013

Forty planting seasons. What a farmer learned about why food aid fails and what actually works.

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🌍 International Development 🌾 Sustainable Agriculture 🏞️ Soil Conservation 📜 Land Rights 🛒 Market-Based Aid

40 Chances

Forty planting seasons. What a farmer learned about why food aid fails and what actually works.

от Howard G. Buffett 2013 464 страници

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🌍 International Development 🌾 Sustainable Agriculture 🏞️ Soil Conservation 📜 Land Rights 🛒 Market-Based Aid

Creating a Forest Garden

от Martin Crawford • 2010

A garden that works like a forest: seven edible layers, self-building soil, zero tillage.

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🌳 Forest Gardening 🔄 Permaculture 🌱 Perennial Food Systems 🧩 Polyculture Design 🪱 Soil Ecology

Creating a Forest Garden

A garden that works like a forest: seven edible layers, self-building soil, zero tillage.

от Martin Crawford 2010 384 страници

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🌳 Forest Gardening 🔄 Permaculture 🌱 Perennial Food Systems 🧩 Polyculture Design 🪱 Soil Ecology

The Fight in the Fields

от Susan Ferriss • 1997

How a migrant farmworker built a movement so large that 40,000 people marched at his funeral.

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🏭 Labor History 🌎 Chicano History 🌾 Agricultural Labor ✊ Grassroots Organizing ☮️ Nonviolent Resistance

The Fight in the Fields

How a migrant farmworker built a movement so large that 40,000 people marched at his funeral.

от Susan Ferriss 1997 352 страници

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🏭 Labor History 🌎 Chicano History 🌾 Agricultural Labor ✊ Grassroots Organizing ☮️ Nonviolent Resistance

Nature's Metropolis

от William Cronon • 1991

The grain and hogs flowing through Chicago didn't just feed the nation, they rewired the continent.

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🌿 Environmental History 🗺️ Economic Geography 🏙️ Urban Systems 📦 Commodity History 🏭 Industrial Food

Nature's Metropolis

The grain and hogs flowing through Chicago didn't just feed the nation, they rewired the continent.

от William Cronon 1991 592 страници

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🌿 Environmental History 🗺️ Economic Geography 🏙️ Urban Systems 📦 Commodity History 🏭 Industrial Food

Cannabis Jobs

от Andrew Ward • 2020

Six-figure jobs hide in cannabis compliance, extraction, and marketing. No plant experience needed.

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🪴 Cannabis Industry 🔄 Career Change 🚪 Career Entry 📜 Regulatory Compliance 💼 Freelance Careers

Cannabis Jobs

Six-figure jobs hide in cannabis compliance, extraction, and marketing. No plant experience needed.

от Andrew Ward 2020 156 страници

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🪴 Cannabis Industry 🔄 Career Change 🚪 Career Entry 📜 Regulatory Compliance 💼 Freelance Careers

All New Square Foot Gardening

от Mel Bartholomew • 1981

A grid-based method that uses 80% less space and 90% less water, and yields more food.

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🏡 Small Space Gardening 🪴 Raised Bed Gardening 🥕 Vegetable Gardening 📐 Intensive Planting 🌿 Vertical Gardening

All New Square Foot Gardening

A grid-based method that uses 80% less space and 90% less water, and yields more food.

от Mel Bartholomew 1981 272 страници

4.16

8000+ оценки

🏡 Small Space Gardening 🪴 Raised Bed Gardening 🥕 Vegetable Gardening 📐 Intensive Planting 🌿 Vertical Gardening

Why David Sometimes Wins

от Marshall Ganz • 2008

No money, no power. The farm workers still beat the Teamsters. What they had was better.

3.99

177

✊ Labor Movements ♟️ Movement Strategy 🧠 Organizational Learning 🏘️ Community Organizing ☮️ Nonviolent Resistance

Why David Sometimes Wins

No money, no power. The farm workers still beat the Teamsters. What they had was better.

от Marshall Ganz 2008 368 страници

3.99

177 оценки

✊ Labor Movements ♟️ Movement Strategy 🧠 Organizational Learning 🏘️ Community Organizing ☮️ Nonviolent Resistance

The Populist Moment

от Lawrence Goodwyn • 1978

A democratic mass movement rose among farmers, until a hollow silver crusade stole its platform.

3.80

335

🌾 Agrarian Movements 🗳️ American Populism 🏛️ Gilded Age Politics 🤝 Cooperative Economics 💵 Monetary Reform

The Populist Moment

A democratic mass movement rose among farmers, until a hollow silver crusade stole its platform.

от Lawrence Goodwyn 1978 384 страници

3.80

335 оценки

🌾 Agrarian Movements 🗳️ American Populism 🏛️ Gilded Age Politics 🤝 Cooperative Economics 💵 Monetary Reform

Wild Chocolate

от Rowan Jacobsen • 2024

Two-thirds of chocolate comes from a monoculture disaster. The antidote grows wild in the Amazon.

4.12

500+

📜 Food History ✈️ Culinary Travel 🍫 Chocolate History 🫙 Fermentation 🌳 Agroforestry

Wild Chocolate

Two-thirds of chocolate comes from a monoculture disaster. The antidote grows wild in the Amazon.

от Rowan Jacobsen 2024 288 страници

4.12

500+ оценки

📜 Food History ✈️ Culinary Travel 🍫 Chocolate History 🫙 Fermentation 🌳 Agroforestry

Grocery

от Michael Ruhlman • 2017

A $650 billion engine. How the American grocery store shapes our health, culture, and daily lives.

3.78

3000+

🛒 Grocery History 🍩 Processed Food 📢 Food Marketing 🔬 Nutrition Science 🍳 Home Cooking

Grocery

A $650 billion engine. How the American grocery store shapes our health, culture, and daily lives.

от Michael Ruhlman 2017 307 страници

3.78

3000+ оценки

🛒 Grocery History 🍩 Processed Food 📢 Food Marketing 🔬 Nutrition Science 🍳 Home Cooking

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