 | The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $7.14 An eloquent book about plants and people. Pollan has a gift for weaving history, fact, anecdote and philosophy. Read a chapter and then stroll around your garden. You'll feel an even stronger attachment to your flowers and crops.
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 | Farm Aid: A Song for America
Buy used from: $0.01 This book is beautifully written and has stunning photos of American farmlands, farmers and rockers!
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 | Golden Gate Gardening: Year-Round Food Gardening in the San Francisco Bay Area and Coastal California by Pam Peirce
Buy used from: $176.85 Pam Pierce, the co-founder of the San Francisco League of Urban Gardeners, thoroughly and simply explains how to garden organically in the fog!
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 | Eat Here: Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket by Brian Halweil
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $5.00 Brian Halweil, smarty-pants researcher at the Worldwatch Institute, writes an inspiring book for us regular-folk to understand, encouraging us to change the way we eat now to a more local model.
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 | Mike McGrath's Book of Compost by Mike McGrath
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $4.18 Mike McGrath will have you laughing as you muck it up with fungi and bacteria!
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 | Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen by Anna Lappé
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $5.99 Part eco-manifesto, park cookbook, this poetic book will make you put on some great music and start cookin' up the grub!
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 | The Newman's Own Organics Guide to a Good Life: Simple Measures That Benefit You and the Place You Live by Nell Newman
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $0.01 How can the daughter of Paul Newman not be a diva, you ask? Maybe it's because she likes to roll her compost spinner around in her backyard. We love her honesty and passion for the earth, and of course, birds, and you will cherish this book!
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 | The Green Book: The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet One Simple Step at a Time by Elizabeth Rogers
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $0.99 Elizabeth Rogers shows you simple steps you can take to change your big, fat impact on the earth.
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 | Chew On This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food by Charles Wilson
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $1.52 The Fast Food Nation for kids. My ten year-old son stopped eating roadkill . . . I mean, meat, at Fast Food restaurants, after he read this.
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 | The Gaia Book of Organic Gardening by Charlie Ryrie
Buy used from: $4.95 A gorgeous and inspiring book about gardening organically.
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 | Hardy Succulents: Tough Plants for Every Climate by Gwen Kelaidis
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $10.48 A beautifully written book about many drought tolerant plants with gorgeous photographs by horticultural photographer Saxon Holt.
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 | Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming by Paul Hawken
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $3.98 Paul Hawken, founder of Smith & Hawken, is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, journalist, and author. He's sharing his brilliance with the rest of us so we too can learn the practice of blending business with environmental sustainablitiy. Repeat after me: GREEN is the new pink!
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 | Growing Seasons: Half-Baked Garden Tips, Cheap Advice on Marriage and Questionable Theories on Motherhood by Annie Spiegelman
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $0.01 A book about mastering motherhood and gardening . . .not so gracefully, by yours truly. Happy green reading!
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