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NEW SOCIETY BLOG — Book Excerpt
Join Carol Anne Hilton as she discusses Indigenomics: Taking a Seat at the Economic Table with host Sheila North
New Society Publishers & McNally Robinson Booksellers are pleased to present Carol Anne Hilton discussing her new book Indigenomics: Taking a Seat at the Economic Table with host Sheila North. Join us on Friday May 7th online via Zoom (registration required) and YouTube to watch the event.
Tags: Book Excerpt, Business Economics, events, Resilience
Transformative Learning: The Economics of Happiness
In Transformative Learning: Reflections on 30 Years of Head, Heart, and Hands at Schumacher College, Satish Kumar reflects on the legacy of Schumacher College, a beacon of innovation that fosters an ecological-based, holistic model of higher education built around the college's unique "learn by doing," head, heart, and hands pedagogy. Today on the blog, we take an excerpt from Transformative Learning on the economics of happiness.
Cannabinoids
In celebration of 420, we take an excerpt of our book DIY Autoflowering Cannabis: An Easy Way to Grow Your Own by Jeff Lowenfels, in which he outlines the different types of cannabinoids found in cannabis. Today we unpack some of the different types of cannabinoids present in cannabis and look at their effects.
Tags: Book Excerpt, DIY, Gardening
Create a Framework to Design and Develop Your Land
The process of designing your property, or even a garden bed, can be difficult. With so many considerations, techniques and decisions, many people get overwhelmed in the complex process. Building Your Permaculture Property: A Five-Step Process to Design and Develop Land by Rob Avis, Takota Coen, and Michelle Avis offers a revolutionary holistic method to overcome this. Today, we take an excerpt from Building Your Permaculture Property on how to create a framework to implement your design and develop your land.
Tags: Book Excerpt, Gardening, Landscaping Design
The Tree Hollow as The Bees’ Natural Home
April showers bring May flowers, and those flowers bring the brilliant buzzing of bees. Whether you are interested in harvesting honey or just want to create a safe environment for bees, Keeping Bees with a Smile: Principles and Practice of Natural Beekeeping by Fedor Lazutin & Leo Sharashkin is for you. Today on the blog, we have an excerpt to help make your tree hollow a suitable natural home.
Companion Planting Your Herbs
If you don't have a large garden, there are still plenty of plants that you can grow in your home. Growing herbs indoors leads the list of the healthiest and most useful indoor activities we can do. And they're tasty! Today, we take an excerpt from the book, Your Indoor Herb Garden: Growing and Harvesting Herbs at Home by DJ Herda on companion planting, why it's beneficial for your plants.
Tags: Book Excerpt, Cooking, Food & Gardening
Important Differences Between Organic vs. Conventional No-Till
Farming without tilling has long been the goal of agriculture. The Organic No-Till Farming Revolution: High-Production Methods for Small-Scale Farmers offers a farmer-developed roadmap showing how no-till lowers barriers to starting a small farm. Today on the blog, in celebration of our Spring Sale we have an excerpt from The Organic No-Till Farming Revolution, by Andrew Mefferd.
A Quick and Easy Way to Hasten Spring
Have you started your garden already? Our Spring Sale has us excited to take our long-awaited gardening plans to the garden beds. Today we have an excerpt from The Ever Curious Gardener: Using a Little Natural Science for a Much Better Garden by Lee Reich, one of the books featured in our Spring Sale. Today, Reich gives us a quick way to hasten spring!
Design Perennial Gardens to Serve Local Ecosystems
We’re excited to be kicking off our Spring Gardening Sale. On the blog, we have an excerpt from Climate-Wise Landscaping: Practical Actions for a Sustainable Future by Susan Reed and Ginny Stibolt, one of the books featured in our Spring Sale! Today, Reed and Stibolt explain how to design a perennial garden that serves your local ecosystem.
Better Talk
Let's Talk Race: A guide for white people by Marlene G. Fine and Fern L. Johnson confronts why white people struggle to talk about race, why we need to own this problem, and how we can learn to do the work ourselves and stop expecting Black people to do it for us. Today on the blog, we take an excerpt from Chapter 6: Better Talk, in which Fine and Johnson suggest some guidelines to help white people better navigate conversations regarding race.
Tags: Book Excerpt, Community, Social Justice
Preparing Herbal Tinctures
Many people use tinctures as a way to reap the medicinal benefits of herbs. Today on the blog, we take an excerpt from The Artisan Herbalist by Bevin Cohen, which briefly introduces tinctures and how you can prepare them in your home.
Tags: Book Excerpt, DIY, Plant Medicine
The Collective Response to Now
In her book, Indigenomics, Carol Anne Hilton lays out the tenets of the emerging Indigenous economy. What does that mean for the current powers in place and the Canadian economy? Today, we take an excerpt from Indigenomics where Carol Anne Hilton addresses what the collective response to this emerging economy means for Canada.
Tags: Book Excerpt, Business Economics, Resilience
Some "Back-pocket" Activities
With the weather slowing starting to warm up, it's the perfect time to enjoy the outdoors. The Big Book of Nature Activities: A Year-Round Guide to Outdoor Learning has plenty of ideas to get outside and learn. The Big Book of Nature Activities is a guide to help parents, educators, and caretakers ensure children are able to explore the natural world, and here are some easy outdoor activities listed below.
The Indigenous Economy
In her book, Indigenomics, Carol Anne Hilton lays out the tenets of the emerging Indigenous economy. It is an economy built around relationships, multigenerational stewardship of resources, and care for all. Today, we take an excerpt from Indigenomics where Carol Anne Hilton introduces the Indigenous Economy by outlining its fundamental characteristics.
Tags: Book Excerpt, Business Economics, Resilience
Kidding at 17 Below Zero
With all of the freezing temperatures across North America recently, it seemed like the perfect time to share this goat birthing story with you. It is one of almost two dozen stories in Deborah Niemann’s newest book, Goats Giving Birth: What to Expect During Kidding Season, where she talks about the good, the bad, the boring, and the heartbreaking.