Writings

Sharon February 15th, 2008

victory garden

BOOKS

I am the author of

Depletion and Abundance: Life on the New Home Front from New Society Publishers, 2008. 

I focus on how families can adapt to climate change, financial crisis and peak energy, with an emphasis upon finding ways to keep a high quality of life while using radically less energy. The book suggests that we should focus our adaptive energies towards the things we’ve always cared most about - education, health care, food security and giving future generations a real future.

Read reviews here: http://www.storycirclebookreviews.org/reviews/depletion.shtml and here: http://carolynbaker.net/site/content/view/791/1/.

 The book can be purchased from New Society Publishing here: http://www.newsociety.com/bookid/4015

A Nation of Farmers: Defeating the Food Crisis on American Soil, written with Aaron Newton, will be forthcoming in March of 2009. Our present agricultural system depends on heavy inputs of increasingly expensive and scarce fossil fuels, and is exacerbating our current world food crisis.  It warms the planet and depletes soil and water and contributes to every major problem we face.  Meanwhile, 100 million people have joined the starving and one in every 10 Americans requires food stamps to sustain them. But that doesn’t have to be the case - agriculture could help us regenerate our society.  We explore the possibility - and urgent necessity of creating a truly sustainable food system.  There is a short excerpt here: http://henandharvest.com/?p=166.  The book will be available for preorder shortly.

Independence Days focuses on food preservation and storage as an essential tool both for enabling local food systems, and also as an urgently necessary project in the face of a growing hunger crisis that threatens all of us.  It will be available from New Society Publishing in the fall of 2009.

I also publish regularly at online magazines Grist and Hen and Harvest - you can look for my writings there as well. 

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