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Item Details
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SMALL IS POSSIBLE
LIFE IN A LOCAL ECONOMY |
| By: |
Lyle Estill |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£12.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
086571603X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780865716032 |
| Publisher: |
NEW SOCIETY PUBLISHERS |
| Pub. date: |
1 May, 2008 |
| Pages: |
240 |
| Description: |
How a town can feed, fuel, power and sustain itselfall outside the global economy. |
| Synopsis: |
-Author has won numerous awards, including Environmental Educator of the Year (2004), Family Friendly Workplace Award (2002), Citizen of the Year (2001), all based in North Carolina. -Wrote Biodiesel Power (New Society, 2005), now in its second printing -The book focuses on positive solutions to actual problems that take place at the community level. -It contains newspapers columns, blog entries, interesting emails, and essays from real people and situations taken from Moncure, North Carolina -Areas of promotion will include tie-ins to the Slow Food Movement, the 100-mile diet, and biodiesel co-ops. -Examples of self-sustaining efforts include: * The story of BLAST, the little software company that started changing the complexion of the town. * Moncure Chessworks, a vibrant sculpture studio, and a look at Chatham Arts. * Piedmont Biofuels Industrial: How a desire to make enough biodiesel to power a tractor grew into the largest biodiesel coop in America, meeting the fuel needs of a few hundred |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
New Society Publishers |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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