Soil Not Oil. Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis

Honored that Vandana Shiva and George Monbiot are speaking at Kilmaforum in Copenhagen and recognizing that the financial and environmental costs will prevent many people who want to attend from being there in body, South End Press is pleased to help bring the big ideas informing the conversation to you in a convenient, affordable, and long-lasting format.

A climate justice special: Two Books, Ten Bucks. All we ask is you read these books, critique them, open your own ideas to their critique, and refuse to remain silent.

The details: Manifestos on the Future of Food & Seed (edited by Vandana Shiva and including contributions by Michael Pollan, Carlo Petrini, Prince Charles, the International Commission on the Future of Food and Agriculture, and James Lionette) and Heat: How to Stop the Planet From Burning (by George Monbiot) are yours for $10. Simply place Manifestos in your cart and we will send you Heat in hardback as well for free. http://www.southendpress.org/2007/items/87774

A must-read for anyone who takes the future of the planet seriously, Soil Not Oil dares us to imagine a world where people matter more than profits.

With Soil Not Oil, Vandana Shiva brilliantly reveals what connects humanity's most urgent crises-food insecurity, peak oil, and climate change-and why any attempt to solve one without addressing the others will get us nowhere.

Condemning industrial biofuels and agriculture as recipes for ecological and economic disaster, Shiva champions the small independent farm instead. With millions hungry and the earth's future at peril, only sustainable, biologically diverse farms that are more resistant to disease, drought, and flood can both feed and safeguard the world for generations to come. Bold and visionary, Soil Not Oil calls for a return to sound agricultural principles-and a world based on self-organization, community, and environmental justice.