Includes bibliographical references and index.

Art, poetry, fable & fiction. The man who planted trees -- In a pig's eye -- Words and images of edvard munch -- Judevine -- A cafecito story -- Rehearsing with gods -- Not in his image -- Nature & adventure travel. First light -- Backtracking -- On watching birds -- A canoeist's sketchbook -- Set free in China -- The safari companion -- A shadow and a song -- The northern forest -- The lost language of plants -- Sippewissett -- Javatrekker -- Sex and the River Styx -- In the company of bears -- Memoir & biography. Permanent Parisians -- Goodbye highland Yankee -- John Burroughs -- Loving and leaving the good life -- This organic life -- A handmade life -- An unreasonable woman -- The man who hated work and loved labor -- Up Tunket Road -- Diary of an eco-outlaw -- Slowspoke -- Organic gardening & small-scale farming. The new organic grower -- The contrary farmer -- The apple grower -- Sharing the harvest -- Natural beekeeping -- The winter harvest handbook -- The resilient gardener -- The small-scale poultry flock -- The holistic orchard -- The organic grain grower -- An unlikely vineyard -- Food & food culture. Whole foods companion -- The bread builders -- Wild fermentation -- Full moon feast -- Cheesemonger -- Chanterelle dreams, amanita nightmares -- Cheese and culture -- The art of fermentation -- Taste, memory -- Rebuilding the foodshed -- Life, liberty, and the pursuit of food rights -- Energy & shelter. Wind power -- Independent builder -- The straw bale house -- Who owns the sun? -- The natural house -- The hand-sculpted house -- Passive solar architecture -- Reinventing fire -- The natural building companion -- The new net zero -- Permaculture & regenerative agriculture. Gaia's garden -- Edible forest gardens -- The war on bugs -- Holy shit -- Sowing seeds in the desert -- The seed underground -- Paradise lot -- Growing food in a hotter, drier land -- The resilient farm and homestead -- Organic mushroom farming and mycoremediation -- Integrated forest gardening.

Art, poetry, fable & fiction. The man who planted trees -- In a pig's eye -- Words and images of Edvard Munch -- Judevine -- A cafecito story -- Rehearsing with gods -- Not in his image -- Nature & adventure travel. First light -- Backtracking -- On watching birds -- A canoeist's sketchbook -- Set free in China -- The safari companion -- A shadow and a song -- The northern forest -- The lost language of plants -- Sippewissett -- Javatrekker -- Sex and the River Styx -- In the company of bears -- Memoir & biography. Permanent Parisians -- Goodbye highland Yankee -- John Burroughs -- Loving and leaving the good life -- This organic life -- A handmade life -- An unreasonable woman -- The man who hated work and loved labor -- Up Tunket Road -- Diary of an eco-outlaw -- Slowspoke -- Organic gardening & small-scale farming. The new organic grower -- The contrary farmer -- The apple grower -- Sharing the harvest -- Natural beekeeping -- The winter harvest handbook -- The resilient gardener -- The small-scale poultry flock -- The holistic orchard -- The organic grain grower -- An unlikely vineyard -- Food & food culture. Whole foods companion -- The bread builders -- Wild fermentation -- Full moon feast -- Cheesemonger -- Chanterelle dreams, amanita nightmares -- Cheese and culture -- The art of fermentation -- Taste, memory -- Rebuilding the foodshed -- Life, liberty, and the pursuit of food rights -- Energy & shelter. Wind power -- Independent builder -- The straw bale house -- Who owns the sun? -- The natural house -- The hand-sculpted house -- Passive solar architecture -- Reinventing fire -- The natural building companion -- The new net zero -- Permaculture & regenerative agriculture. Gaia's garden -- Edible forest gardens -- The war on bugs -- Holy shit -- Sowing seeds in the desert -- The seed underground -- Paradise lot -- Growing food in a hotter, drier land -- The resilient farm and homestead -- Organic mushroom farming and mycoremediation -- Integrated forest gardening -- Science & environmental policy. End of the road -- Beyond the limits to growth -- Gaviotas -- Waiting on a train -- Exposed -- Notes from the holocene -- Thinking in systems -- Not one drop -- Confronting collapse -- 2052 -- Cows save the planet -- The zero waste solution -- Grass, soil, hope -- Carbon shock -- Politics, economy & social policy. The Vermont papers -- Walking on water -- Don't think of an elephant! -- Unembedded -- The end of America -- Howard Dean's prescription for healthcare reform -- Inquiries into the nature of slow money -- The looting of America -- Marijuana is safer -- The end of money -- Bye bye, Miss American Empire -- Killing the cranes -- Get up, stand up -- Local dollars, local sense -- The new feminist agenda -- What then must we do? -- Epilogue. Companies we keep.