This Organic Life
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This Organic Life
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Author : Joan Dye Gussow
language : en
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Release Date : 2002-10-01
This Organic Life written by Joan Dye Gussow and has been published by Chelsea Green Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-10-01 with Gardening categories.
Joan Dye Gussow is an extraordinarily ordinary woman. She lives in a home not unlike the average home in a neighborhood that is, more or less, typically suburban. What sets her apart from the rest of us is that she thinks more deeply--and in more eloquent detail--about food. In sharing her ponderings, she sets a delightful example for those of us who seek the healthiest, most pleasurable lifestyle within an environment determined to propel us in the opposite direction. Joan is a suburbanite with a green thumb, with a feisty, defiant spirit and a relentlessly positive outlook. At the heart of This Organic Life is the premise that locally grown food eaten in season makes sense economically, ecologically, and gastronomically. Transporting produce to New York from California--not to mention Central and South America, Australia, or Europe--consumes more energy in transit than it yields in calories. (It costs 435 fossil fuel calories to fly a 5-calorie strawberry from California to New York.) Add in the deleterious effects of agribusiness, such as the endless cycle of pesticide, herbicide, and chemical fertilizers; the loss of topsoil from erosion of over-tilled croplands; depleted aquifers and soil salinization from over-irrigation; and the arguments in favor of "this organic life" become overwhelmingly convincing. Joan's story is funny and fiery as she points out the absurdities we have unthinkingly come to accept. You won't find an electric can opener in this woman's house. In fact, you probably won't find many cans, as Joan has discovered ways to nourish herself, literally and spiritually, from her own backyard. If you are looking for a tale of courage and independence in a setting that is entirely familiar, read her story.
A Glimpse Of Organic Life Past And Present
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Author : William Seton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1897
A Glimpse Of Organic Life Past And Present written by William Seton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1897 with Biology categories.
A Slice Of Organic Life
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Author : Sheherazade Goldsmith
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2010
A Slice Of Organic Life written by Sheherazade Goldsmith and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Gardening categories.
Provides a comprehensive guide to growing one's own food organically, as well as how to cook home-grown produce, raise one's own selected livestock, and develop a more sustainable lifestyle.
My Organic Life
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Author : Nora Pouillon
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2015-04-21
My Organic Life written by Nora Pouillon and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A wonderfully engaging memoir from the woman who founded America’s first certified organic restaurant, My Organic Life is the story of an unheralded culinary pioneer who made it her mission to bring delicious, wholesome foods to the American table. While growing up on a farm in the Austrian Alps and later in Vienna, Nora Pouillon was surrounded by fresh and delicious foods. So when she and her French husband moved to Washington, D.C., in the 1960s, she was horrified to discover a culinary culture dominated by hormone-bloated meat and unseasonal vegetables. The distance between good, healthy produce and what even the top restaurants were serving was vast, and Nora was determined to bridge that gap. First as a cooking teacher, then as a restaurant owner, and eventually as the country’s premier organic restaurateur, she charted a path that forever changed our relationship with what we eat. Since it opened in 1979, her eponymous restaurant has been a hot spot for reporters, celebrities, and politicians—from Jimmy Carter to the Obamas—alike. Along the way, Nora redefined what food could be, forging close relationships with local producers and launching initiatives to take the organic movement mainstream. As much the story of America’s postwar culinary history as it is a memoir, My Organic Life encompasses the birth of the farm-to-table movement, the proliferation of greenmarkets across the country, and the evolution of the chef into social advocate. Spanning the last forty years of our relationship with food, My Organic Life is the deeply personal, powerfully felt story of the organic revolution—by the unlikely heroine at its forefront.
A Slice Of Organic Life
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Author : Sheherazade Goldsmith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
A Slice Of Organic Life written by Sheherazade Goldsmith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Environmental protection categories.
Find your own slice of the 'The Good Life' Bake bread. Start a wormery. Shop locally. Plant a tree. Find out how to get closer to the soil, without going the whole hog. Discover 80 simple, eco projects you can dip in and out of, from growing salad on your window-sill, to collecting rainwater. Pick up what you need using the directory of useful organic stockists and websites, then choose a project to suit your pocket and lifestyle. You don't need a garden, special equipment, or even much time. Edited by Sheherazade Goldsmith, wife of organic spokesman and Ecologist editor, Zac Goldsmith.
A Slice Of Organic Life
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
A Slice Of Organic Life written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
Enjoy the pleasures of even the smallest taste of organic living and start feeling good about what you can do instead of guilty about what you can't. You don't need a backyard or property to make small changes towards a more sustainable life. This book is packed full of simple projects for your garden, home and community, with something for everyone living in small or large spaces.
Levels Of Organic Life And The Human
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Author : Helmuth Plessner
language : en
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 2019-07-02
Levels Of Organic Life And The Human written by Helmuth Plessner and has been published by Fordham Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-02 with Philosophy categories.
The groundbreaking classic of twentieth-century German philosophy now available in English—with an introduction by J.M. Bernstein. Helmuth Plessner’s Levels of Organic Life and the Human, draws on phenomenological, biological, and social scientific sources to offer a systematic account of nature, life, and human existence. The book considers non-living nature, plants, non-human animals, and human beings a sequence of increasingly complex modes of boundary dynamics—simply put, interactions between a thing’s insides and the surrounding world. Living things are classed and analyzed by their “positionality,” or orientation to and within an environment. According to Plessner’s radical view, the human form of life is excentric—that is, the relation between body and environment is something to which humans themselves are positioned and can take a position. This “excentric positionality” enables human beings to take a stand outside the boundaries of their own body, a possibility with significant implications for knowledge, culture, religion, and technology. A powerful and sophisticated account of embodiment, the Levels shows, with reference both to science and to philosophy, how life can be seen on its own terms to establish its own boundaries, and how, from the standpoint of life, the human establishes itself in relation to the nonhuman. As such, the book is not merely a historical monument but a source for invigorating a range of vital current conversations around the animal, posthumanism, the material turn, and the biology and sociology of cognition.
The Limits Of Organic Life In Planetary Systems
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Author : National Research Council
language : en
Publisher: National Academies Press
Release Date : 2007-07-26
The Limits Of Organic Life In Planetary Systems written by National Research Council and has been published by National Academies Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-07-26 with Science categories.
The search for life in the solar system and beyond has to date been governed by a model based on what we know about life on Earth (terran life). Most of NASA's mission planning is focused on locations where liquid water is possible and emphasizes searches for structures that resemble cells in terran organisms. It is possible, however, that life exists that is based on chemical reactions that do not involve carbon compounds, that occurs in solvents other than water, or that involves oxidation-reduction reactions without oxygen gas. To assist NASA incorporate this possibility in its efforts to search for life, the NRC was asked to carry out a study to evaluate whether nonstandard biochemistry might support life in solar system and conceivable extrasolar environments, and to define areas to guide research in this area. This book presents an exploration of a limited set of hypothetical chemistries of life, a review of current knowledge concerning key questions or hypotheses about nonterran life, and suggestions for future research.
Organic Living
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Author : Lynda Brown
language : en
Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Release Date : 2000
Organic Living written by Lynda Brown and has been published by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Consumer goods categories.
How to pursue an organic lifestyle in all aspects of daily life: food and drink, health and beauty, babycare, petcare, gardening, home and office, clothing, and finance.
The Life Organic
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Author : Erik L. Peterson
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Release Date : 2017-02-10
The Life Organic written by Erik L. Peterson and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-10 with Science categories.
As scientists debated the nature of life in the nineteenth century, two theories predominated: vitalism, which suggested that living things contained a “vital spark,” and mechanism, the idea that animals and humans differed from nonliving things only in their degree of complexity. Erik Peterson tells the forgotten story of the pursuit of a “third way’ in biology, known by many names, including “the organic philosophy,” which gave rise to C. H. Waddington’s work in the subfield of epigenetics: an alternative to standard genetics and evolutionary biology that captured the attention of notable scientists from Francis Crick to Stephen Jay Gould. The Life Organic chronicles the influential biologists, mathematicians, philosophers, and biochemists from both sides of the Atlantic who formed Joseph Needham’s Theoretical Biology Club, defined and refined “third way” thinking through the 1930s, and laid the groundwork for some of the most cutting-edge achievements in biology today. By tracing the persistence of organicism into the twenty-first century, this book also raises significant questions about how we should model the development of the discipline of biology going forward.