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“mark winne”

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  • The Road to a Hunger-Free America

    Selected Writings of Mark Winne

    by Mark Winne ...
    Curated from hundreds of Mark Winne's articles, blog posts, and speeches, this book documents 20 years of progress against the rampages of the industrial food system.Beginning in the 1960s, the United States slowly awakened to an entirely new way of thinking about its most life-sustaining ingredient-food. Understanding the link between health and diet drove millions to a greater consciousness ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Closing the Food Gap

    Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty

    by Mark Winne ...
    This powerful call to arms offers a realistic vision for getting locally produced, healthy food onto everyone’s table, “[blending] a passion for sustainable living with compassion for the poor” (Dr. Jane Goodall)In Closing the Food Gap, food activist and journalist Mark Winne poses questions too often overlooked in our current conversations around food: What about those people who are not ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Food Town, USA

    Seven Unlikely Cities That are Changing the Way We Eat

    by Mark Winne ...
    Look at any list of America’s top foodie cities and you probably won’t find Boise, Idaho or Sitka, Alaska. Yet they are the new face of the food movement. Healthy, sustainable fare is changing communities across this country, revitalizing towns that have been ravaged by disappearing industries and decades of inequity.What sparked this revolution? To find out, Mark Winne traveled to seven cities ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Stand Together or Starve Alone

    Unity and Chaos in the U.S. Food Movement

    by Mark Winne ...
    The United States-one of the world's wealthiest and resource-richest nations-has multiple food-related problems: declining food quality due to industrialization of its production, obesity across all age groups, and a surprisingly large number of households suffering from food insecurity. These issues threaten to shorten the lives of many and significantly reduce the quality of life for millions of ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • Food Rebels, Guerrilla Gardeners, and Smart-Cookin' Mamas

    Fighting Back in an Age of Industrial Agriculture

    by Mark Winne ...
    In an age of uncertainty about how climate change may affect the global food supply, industrial agribusiness promises to keep the world fed. Through the use of factory “farms,” genetic engineering, and the widespread application of chemicals, they put their trust in technology and ask consumers to put our trust in them. However, a look behind the curtain reveals practices that put our soil, water, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    How Overconsumption Is Killing Us—and How to Fight Back

    by John de Graaf, David Wann, Thomas H. Naylor ...
    A "witty yet hard-hitting" look at the symptoms, causes, and cures for America's addiction to buying more stuff ( Library Journal).NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATEDaffluenza, n. a painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety, and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more.We tried to warn you! The 2008 economic collapse proved how resilient and dangerous ... Read more

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    The High Cost of Discount Culture

    by Ellen Ruppel Shell ...
    A myth-shattering investigation of the true cost of America's passion for finding a better bargainFrom the shuttered factories of the Rust Belt to the strip malls of the Sun Belt-and almost everywhere in between-America has been transformed by its relentless fixation on low price. This pervasive yet little- examined obsession with bargains is arguably the most powerful and devastating market force ... Read more

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  • EcoMind

    Changing the Way We Think, to Create the World We Want

    by Frances Moore Lappe ...
    In EcoMind, Frances Moore Lapp' -- a giant of the environmental movement -- confronts accepted wisdom of environmentalism. Drawing on the latest research from anthropology to neuroscience and her own field experience, she argues that the biggest challenge to human survival isn't our fossil fuel dependency, melting glaciers, or other calamities. Rather, it's our faulty way of thinking about these ... Read more

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  • Eaarth

    Making a Life on a Tough New Planet

    by Bill McKibben ...
    The New York Times Bestseller"Read it, please. Straight through to the end. Whatever else you were planning to do next, nothing could be more important." —Barbara KingsolverFrom the leading environmentalist comes a urgent call for new social practices amidst a climate crisis that has already arrived.Twenty years ago, with The End of Nature, Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about ... Read more

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  • Food Justice

    by Robert Gottlieb, Anupama Joshi ...
    Series series Food, Health, and the Environment
    The story of how the emerging food justice movement is seeking to transform the American food system from seed to table.In today's food system, farm workers face difficult and hazardous conditions, low-income neighborhoods lack supermarkets but abound in fast-food restaurants and liquor stores, food products emphasize convenience rather than wholesomeness, and the international reach of American ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Building a Healthy Economy from the Bottom Up

    Harnessing Real-World Experience for Transformative Change

    by Anthony Flaccavento ...
    Series series Culture of the Land
    The global economy has witnessed important changes in recent years. In the United States, enterprising communities have transitioned from tobacco farming to growing organic produce, from extractive fishing to vertical farming, from nonrenewable energy consumption to the implementation of solar cooperatives—and have transformed from impoverished neighborhoods into green development zones. Yet these ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Fair Food

    Growing a Healthy, Sustainable Food System for All

    by Oran B Hesterman ...
    A host of books and films in recent years have documented the dangers of our current food system, from chemical runoff to soaring rates of diet-related illness to inhumane treatment of workers and animals. But advice on what to do about it largely begins and ends with the admonition to "eat local or "eat organic."Fair Food is an enlightening and inspiring guide to changing not only what we eat, ... Read more

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