Green Books rights for London Book Fair 2012

Rights for London Book Fair 2011

Stand G920 Green Books, Dartington Space, Dartington Hall Totnes, Devon TQ9 6EN Tel: 01803 863260 Fax: 01803 863843 www.greenbooks.co.uk Rights contact: John Elford rights@greenbooks.co.uk

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ORGANIC GARDENING The Natural No-Dig Way (new full colour edition) Charles Dowding • Full colour edition of this pioneering book (over 25,000 copies sold) • Emphasises the benefits of no-dig gardening for growing healthy, vibrant plants • Media-friendly author writes articles, runs courses and gives talks

Organic Gardening Organic

The natural no-dig way Gardening The natural no-dig way

Charles Dowding Charles Dowding

Charles Dowding has been practising no-dig organic growing for over 30 years.

In this new, full-colour edition of Organic Gardening he shares the wealth of his experience, explaining his approach to soil and plants and revealing the range of techniques that have enabled him to grow healthy and vibrant plants for decades.

His success is based on some key principles: • No-dig enhances soil structure and encourages healthy growth, especially when soil life is encouraged and multiplied through the addition of good compost and manure.

• Organic matter is best spread on the surface – just leave it on top and let the worms take it in, aerating the soil as they do so.

• When starting with weedy soil there is a period of three to twelve months, depending on weed types, when the emphasis is on cleaning and improving the soil.

• Using a no-dig method you can easily control weeds with just a little hand weeding or hoeing every ten days or so, when weeds are small.

Based on this approach and his experience of a system of permanent, slightly raised beds, Organic Gardening: The Natural No-Dig Way shows you how to grow a delicious variety of fruit and vegetables: what to choose, when to sow, plant and harvest, and how best to avoid pests and diseases without the need to dig.

“One of our most respected vegetable growers . . .

Now ordinary gardeners can benefit from his years of

“One of our most respected vegetable growers . . . Now practical experience.” Joy Larkcom ordinary gardeners can benefit from his years of practical experience.” Joy Larkcom

SEPTEMBER 2012

Green Books ISBN 978 0 85784 089 9 234 mm x 168 mm 256 pp full colour £14.95 hb World Rights Proofs: Sept 2012 Finished copies: Sept 2012

The Author: Charles started growing organic vegetables commercially in 1982 and was an early pioneer of vegetable boxes. He runs organic gardening courses from his farm in Somerset, where he grows an extensive range of vegetables and year-round salads for local shops and restaurants. He is author of Salad Leaves and How to Grow Winter Vegetables, also published by Green Books, and writes for the RHS magazine, Grow It!, Blackmore Vale magazine and many other periodicals. His website is www.charlesdowding.co.uk.

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VEGETARIAN FEASTS FOR FAMILY AND FRIENDS With contributions from the Schumacher College kitchen

Vegetarian feasts for family and friends

Julia Ponsonby JULIA PONSONBY

• Over 150 delicious vegetarian recipes from the author of Gaia’s Kitchen (over 8,000 copies sold) • All recipes are given in both family-sized and larger quantities • Inspiring culinary ideas for celebrations throughout the year • Includes ideas for sourcing produce through your local community Praise for Gaia’s Kitchen: “Food at Schumacher College is a world away from plastic food in a conference tray, or the fast food that most university students live on. It is ‘family’ food that, sadly, few families now manage. And it’s healthy, hearty and delicious. I would recommend this book for anyone working in a school, B&B or a pub, or running a community event – and of course for home cooks.” – Prue Leith, caterer, restaurateur and food writer Following on from the success of Gaia’s Kitchen, Julia Ponsonby presents yet more mouth-wateringly delicious vegetarian recipes for celebrations big and small.

Whether you want to rustle up Mushroom and Barley Soup for a community event, a Millet, Chestnut and Leek salad for a summer celebration or a sumptuous array of cakes for a large family tea, you will find the inspiration and information you need in this book.

The recipes, given in quantities for both small gatherings and large parties, are wonderfully inventive and invaluable, whether for feeding the family or planning special occasions.

The Author: Julia Ponsonby is author of the bestselling Gaia’s Kitchen, which is based on the recipes she created for Schumacher College in Devon. As Head Chef at the College, Julia created hundreds of recipes for large numbers of course participants and she continues to cook local and seasonal food for family, friends and students. In Vegetarian Feasts for Family and Friends she gives us more of her recipes from the Schumacher kitchen, as well as her thoughts on the importance of sustainable, local ways of preparing and cooking food.

at Schumacher College

FOREWORD Mollie Katzon, Rose Elliott, Andrew Whitley ,Madhur Jaffery?

NOVEMBER 2012

Green Books ISBN 978 0 85784 052 3 244 mm x 226 mm 240 pp full colour £14.95 hb World Rights Proofs: October 2012 Finished copies: Nov 2012 Contents: Foreword Transition and transformation begin at home Local food / slow food THE RECIPES: Soups (15) Main courses (28) Salads (22) Dips (10) Desserts (22) Cakes (22) Biscuits (21) Breads, scones and sourdough (12)

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FIRM OF THE FUTURE Business inspired by Nature Giles Hutchins • A manifesto for a new business paradigm • Offers the concepts, tools and techniques needed to create resilient, adaptive businesses capable of flourishing in turbulent times • Market of business leaders, sustainability officers, change agents and MBA courses This book sets out a new business paradigm. Author Giles Hutchins presents the challenges to the prevailing ‘business as usual’ model, explains the pressing need for transformational change, and reveals the concepts and mindsets necessary to inspire the businesses of tomorrow.

Going beyond current approaches to responsible and green business, Hutchins focuses on the emergence of new ways of operating and creating value in an increasingly volatile and interconnected world. He makes the compelling case that the ‘Firm of the Future’ should seek to mimic behaviours and organisations found in nature, which offer fitting models for businesses capable of flourishing in chaotic and uncertain times. A firm of the future, he argues, builds resilience, optimises, adapts, integrates systems, navigates by values and supports lifebuilding activities. It is a business inspired by nature.

Showcasing the pioneers of the new paradigm through examples and case studies, the book presents the tools and techniques required to effect the transformation to a business fit for purpose; fit for the future.

The Author: Giles Hutchins is a management consultant with over 15 years of business and IT transformation experience, formerly with KPMG and now with Atos International. His passion is exploring ways of applying nature’s inspiration to sustainable business transformation. Drawing on a range of theories and practices (such as biomimicry, cradle-to-cradle and industrial ecology), he applies them to the challenges businesses face today, providing practical insight and guidance to help organisations redesign for resilience in these volatile times.

FIRM FUTURE Business inspired of the

by nature

Giles Hutchins

SEPTEMBER 2012

Green Books ISBN 978 0 85784 048 6 234 mm x 156 mm 160 pp £12.95 pb World Rights Proofs: June 2012 Finished copies: July 2012 Contents include: Transformational times call for transformational change From separatedness to interconnectedness Nature as teacher Firm of the future - characteristics

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Leadership for the future The catalysts for change Tips for transformation Conclusions

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CHANGEOLOGY How to enable individuals, groups and communities to do things they’ve never done before

CHANGEOLOGY How to enable individuals, groups and communities to do things they’ve never done before.

Les Robinson • A toolkit of methods for effective change • For professionals in PR, communications and marketing in business, public sector and campaigning organisations • Also of interest for academic courses and research institutes looking at behaviour change

Les Robinson

OCTOBER 2012 Changeology is about influencing the behaviour of human beings for the better. The book is relevant to change projects both large and small, and in almost any area of activity, but with an emphasis on key topics such as climate change, poverty, obesity, AIDS, tobacco and drug use. It is aimed at a worldwide audience of professionals and individuals who are acting to make change in their corporations, cities and neighbourhoods, as well as in their own lives.

The pressing issues of today clamour for solutions, yet to a surprising degree past and present efforts to effect social change have been based on little more than hunches. This book dispels many of the myths that prevent social change projects from succeeding, and replaces them with the best of what we know from social and motivational psychology and lessons from projects that have worked.

Green Books ISBN 978 0 85784 061 5 234 mm x 156 mm 192 pp £14.95 pb World Rights Proofs: August 2012 Finished copies: Sept 2012

Changeology simplifies a vast body of theory and practice into six principles: buzz, hope, enabling environments, sticky solutions, ‘can do’ and the right inviter. These are explained with fascinating real-life stories and a look at the hard evidence. The book is written in an easy, accessible style, with plenty of anecdotes and stories.

The Author: Les Robinson is Australia’s most experienced and knowledgeable change facilitator, a consultant to government agencies and councils, who trains, facilitates and advises practitioners on behaviour change programmes in areas including health, sustainability, road safety and emergency management.

He runs his own business, Enabling Change: see www.enablingchange.com.au.

Contents Changing the world Common folk beliefs The social immune system First, start a buzz Intersect with hope How to design a solution that fits

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Expand the comfy zone Find the right inviter Bringing it all together

Previously announced

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THE WEEDER’S DIGEST Identifying and enjoying edible weeds

Gail Harland • A fully illustrated guide to the benefits of garden weeds, including their many uses from cooking to making paper • Detailed identification list of over 45 weeds and their uses • Full colour photographs and illustrations ‘What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not been discovered.’

Ralph Waldo Emerson This book is a practical and attractive guide to identifying and using the many edible varieties of weed. It will appeal to gardeners, botanists and horticulturalists, as well as to anyone with an interest in controlling weeds in eco-friendly ways.

The main part of the book provides full details of over 45 species, with advice on how to identify them and use them in the kitchen, including recipe suggestions, as well as tips for non-culinary uses. It includes both the more common weeds, such as nettles, dandelions, chickweed and ground elder, and the less common, such as brooklime and pineappleweed. The directory covers both native and non-native species, including some troublesome invasives.

Advice is also given on avoiding plants that are harmful if eaten.

ISBN 978 1 900322 99 7 234mm x 168mm 128pp full colour £9.95 World Rights 16-page blad available Finished copies: June 2012 Contents: Introduction The good, bad & ugly

With The Weeder’s Digest on your bookshelf you can put your weeds to use and need not curse their presence any longer. Whether it’s making soup or jam, dyeing fabric or making paper, it’s all here.

Includes colour photographs throughout.

The Author: Gail Harland has a degree in Nutrition and Dietetics, and was a State Registered Dietitian for over 10 years. She is a freelance writer and photographer who produces regular features on poultry keeping.

She is also the author of Photographing your Garden (GMC) Garden (GMC) and co-author of The Tomato Book (Dorling Kindersley).

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Achievable weed control Poisonous plants The Weeder’s Digest – uses and recipes Bibliography

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HOW TO GROW PERENNIAL VEGETABLES Low maintenance, low-impact vegetable gardening

Martin Crawford • • • •

Highly respected author of Creating a Forest Garden Lists 116 edible perennials, including a harvesting guide No other book covering this subject area for the UK Full colour photographs and illustrations

Perennial vegetables are a joy to grow and require a lot less time and effort than annuals. In this book Martin Crawford gives comprehensive advice on all types of perennial vegetable (edible plants that live longer than three years), from ground-cover plants and coppiced trees to plants for bog gardens and woodland gardens.

There are many advantages to growing perennial vegetables. For example: • they need less tillage than conventional vegetables and so help retain carbon in the soil • the soil structure is not disturbed in their cultivation • they extend the harvesting season, especially in early spring • and, of course, they are much less work.

Part One looks at why and how to grow these crops, and how to look after them for maximum productivity. Part Two features over 100 perennial edibles in detail, both common and unusual – from rhubarb to skirret; Jerusalem artichoke to nodding onions.

ISBN 978 1 900322 84 3 234 x 168mm 192 pp full colour 60,000 words approx £14.95 World Rights Finished copies: April 2012 Contents: Part I Why grow perennial vegetables?

Growing systems Maintenance of perennials

This book offers inspiration and information for all gardeners, whether experienced or beginner, and also includes plenty of cooking tips. It features beautiful colour photographs and illustrations throughout.

The Author: Martin Crawford, is director of the Agroforestry Research Trust, and has two acres of perennial plants and trees in his Forest Garden. He has worked in organic agriculture and horticulture for over 20 years and is author of the bestselling Creating a Forest Garden, also published by Green Books.

Part II List of Species, ordered by common name. Each includes origins, description, how to grow it (recommended growing systems),

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how to use it.

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HOW TO BE AN EVERYDAY KITCHEN MAGICIAN Fabulous Food for Almost Free Richard Fox • O ver 80 imaginative recipes to transform leftover food • Ideal for students, families and creative cooks • Advice and tips on buying and storing food “Pages full of tasty new tricks - many I’ll be sharing with family at home.”

Gary Rhodes Don’t bin it! With How to be an Everyday Kitchen Magician you will be astounded by what you can make from the most uninspiring food at the back of your fridge or cupboard.

This book is so much more than a recipe book – in fact, it’s about learning to cook without using recipes at all. It’s about making the most of what you have, reducing your waste dramatically, and discovering how to create spontaneous, delicious dishes in minutes. It’s filled with ingredients that most of us would throw away without so much as a second thought.

Whether you’re a non-cook or an aspiring professional, the recipes, techniques and way of thinking about cooking in these pages will change your culinary life forever. Your everyday leftovers and rejects will become a foody treasure trove rather than a pile of wasted cash. £12 billion worth of food and drink is thrown away every year in the UK, adding up to hundreds of pounds per household.

The Author: Chef, writer, and broadcaster Richard Fox travels the country with his demonstration theatre, armed with nothing more than a set of knives, a box of everyday cupboard ingredients and the contents of an everyman’s fridge, showing people how to convert left-over and ordinary produce into gastronomic masterpieces. Richard has been working with the Love Food, Hate Waste campaign on roadshows around the country.

ISBN 978 085784 019 6 234 mm x 168 mm 160pp in full colour 25,000 words approx £9.95 pb World Rights Finished copies: available Contents: Introduction How to use this book Change your thinking Basic essentials Principles for ‘non-recipe’, waste-free cooking Re-heating cooked food Cook-and-chill and par-cooking The scary cupboard Dealing with mistakes The recipes Eggs (and butter, milk, cream and flour) Cheese • Bread • The veg rack Chicken • Other meat and fish Pasta, rice, couscous and pulses The salad drawer • Tin can alley Cooked leftovers • The fruit bowl

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THE PASSIVHAUS HANDBOOK A practical guide to constructing and refurbishing buildings for ultra-low-energy performance Janet Cotterell & Adam Dadeby • A practical guide to building using Passivhaus standards • Suitable for new build, and retrofitting existing buildings • Full colour photographs, charts and diagrams throughout Passivhaus is the fastest growing energy performance standard in the world.

The Passivhaus Standards strengths lie in the simplicity of its approach; build a house that has an excellent thermal performance, exceptional airtightness with mechanical ventilation.

ISBN 978 085784 019 6 255 mm x 205 mm 256 pp in full colour £25.00 pb

Passivhaus buildings provide a high level of comfort while using very little energy for heating and cooling. Built with meticulous attention to detail and rigorous design and construction according to principles developed by the Passivhaus Institute in Germany, they can be certified through an exacting quality assurance process, and because of their energy saving properties they are becoming very popular in the UK.

World Rights Proofs: August 2012 Finished copies: Sept 2012

With steeply rising energy prices, uncertain climatic changes and straightened economic times, the Passivhaus approach, proven over 20 years, offers a timely and practical response. The Passivhaus Handbook provides a clear understanding of the principles of the Passivhaus approach and how to apply them in practice to both new build and retrofit projects.

Contents: PART ONE :Why a Passivhaus?

The Authors: Janet Cotterell and Adam Dadeby are directors of Passivhaus Homes Ltd., which has recently completed one of the very few fully Certified Passivhaus retrofits in the UK; their retrofit is also exceptional in having achieved one of the best air-tightness results in the UK. Janet is a chartered architect with a background in the use of natural building materials. Adam worked in management/IT in public and commercial sectors. Both completed postgraduate studies in Advanced Environmental & Energy Studies and are Certified Passivhaus Consultants/Designers.

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PART TWO: Design and construction

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FUTURE MONEY Breakdown or breakthrough?

James Robertson • A clear guide to how the money system works, and why it needs to be changed to benefit people and society – rather than doing the opposite

• Shows how continuing economic growth spells disaster for the planet • Author is highly respected, the “grandfather of green economics” Future Money explains in plain language and convincing detail how our money system is propelling us toward the self-destruction of our species – and what we should do about it. Our present money system frustrates the well-meaning efforts of active citizens, NGOs and governments to deal with our present ills and problems – including worldwide poverty, environmental destruction, social injustice, economic inefficiency and political unrest and violence within and between nations. Failure to reform the world’s money system urgently and radically – that is, from its roots up – could bring disaster for human civilisation before the end of this century. Future Money shows clearly how our money system operates and how it could be reformed so that it acts for the benefit of people and society rather than the opposite, and describes the obstacles that currently prevent that reform.

The world’s financial experts and leaders in politics, government and business, and most mainstream academic and media commentators, have demonstrated that they are not yet able or willing to diagnose and treat the profound and pervasive problems that are directly caused by the money system. Future Money speaks explicitly to active, independent-minded citizens, including young people, with the hope that it will help them to understand why people committed to careers in almost every important walk of life today find it difficult to recognise the problem and grasp the nettle. It shows why we have to take the initiative now, and urgently, to get the issue on to mainstream agendas worldwide.

The Author: James Robertson, who has been described as “the grandfather of green economics”, worked in the Cabinet Office and as a researcher for British banks. In the 1970s he was one of the co-founders of The Other Economic Summit and The New Economics Foundation. His other books include The Sane Alternative, Future Wealth and Future Work.

ISBN 978 1 900322 98 0 192 pp £14.95 pb World Rights Finished copies: April 2012 Contents: Introduction and summary Part 1: Understanding the money system Some lessons from the history of money Money and ethics Part 2: Proposed reforms Manaing the national money supply Collecting and spening public revenue The international money system: what can we do about it?

Money for localities, households and people Some abstractions and distractions Conclusion: So what’s to be done?

And how?

Contacts for further study and research, selected references and acknowledgements Index

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CONVERGENCE WITH NATURE A Daoist Perspective David E. Cooper • Shows how a Daoist approach can help people reconnect with nature • Discusses controversial ethical issues such as hunting, intensive farming and environmental activism • Author is a distinguished philosopher with a strong interest in Asian thought In this book David E. Cooper explores our relationship to nature – to animals, to plants, to natural places – and asks how it can be shaped into an appropriate one which contributes to the good of people’s lives as a whole. Religions and philosophies have much to say about our relationship with nature, and Chinese Daoist philosophy has long been regarded as among those most sympathetic to the natural world. Daoists seek an attunement to the Dao (the Way) which is characterized by a sense of flow (water being a favourite metaphor), spontaneity, non-interference, humility and patience – virtues which contrast with the aggressive and exploitative values which characterize a modern world increasingly subject to economic imperatives.

Like the best of contemporary nature writing, the classic Daoist texts reveal a yearning for convergence with nature, nostalgia for a lost intimacy with the natural world, disillusion with humanity or its products, and a feeling for nature’s mystery.

The author explains how these attitudes are rooted in Daoist philosophy and explores their implications for our practical engagement with natural environments.

He discusses, too, a number of ethical issues – including hunting, intensive farming, and environmental activism – that reflective people need to address in their efforts to heal our relationship with the Earth.

The Author: David E. Cooper was Professor of Philosophy at Durham University for many years and has been a visiting professor at universities in the United States, Canada, Malta, Sri Lanka and South Africa. His philosophical interests range from environmental ethics to aesthetics, from the philosophy of language to Asian thought, from the history of philosophy to the philosophy of religion. His many books include Existentialism: A Reconstruction, World Philosophies: An Historical Introduction, The Measure of Things: Humanism, Humility and Mystery and A Philosophy of Gardens.

ISBN 978 0 85784 023 3 216 mm x 138 mm 160pp £10.95 pb World Rights Finished copies: available Contents include: Why Daoism?

Religion, technology, estrangement Environmentalism and ‘otherness’ Nature in Daoism Dao, world and unity De, virtues and sages Mindfulness of nature Nature, feeling and appreciation Engaging with nature Wilderness, wildness, wildlife Intervening in nature Intervening for nature?

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