in 1984 and located in White River Junction, Vermont, Chelsea Green Publishing is regarded as the preeminent publisher of books on sustainable living. With well over 200 titles in print,Chelsea Green titles have received numerous awards, including American Library Association and Booklist Notable Books of the Year, the John Burroughs Medal, James Beard Foundation Award finalist, Garden Globe Award.<br />

In 2003 the company began to reorient its editorial mission reflected in the following vision statement:

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With the destruction of the natural world ramped up to epidemic proportions, one wonders what "sustainable" really means. Indeed, one begins to wonder what "living" really means or will come to mean in the opening decade of the twenty-first century. Can anything be deemed sustainable when life itself--in all its myriad forms--is threatened at so many levels? Is it enough to focus on the how-to of "green living" in the face of such overwhelming force, the "shock and awe" of forest and ecosystem destruction, the rampant plundering of the world's oceans, the terror of GMO-contaminated food, and the unintended consequences of biotechnology?

<br>A new worldwide grassroots movement is taking shape. In India, Africa, and South America, in countries left "behind" and stripped of their resources and cultures, people increasingly feel that they have no choice: In order to continue living, they must reclaim, must lay claim to, their ecosystems, their food and water, their land and housing, their sufficiencies. It's a new kind of politics, what Arundhati Roy calls, "Not the politics of governance, but the politics of resistance. The politics of opposition. The politics of forcing accountability. The politics of slowing things down. The politics of joining hands across the world and preventing certain destruction." It is the new, vibrant politics of sustainable living.

<br>We wish to move the company forward boldly and with a new sense of urgency. While continuing our commitment to remain at the forefront of information about green building, organic growing, and renewable energy--the practical aspects of sustainability--we will also publish for a new politics of sustainability, for the cultural resistance that living demands of us now.

<br>While we support one another in reducing the destructive impacts of our daily lives, we must also support one another in the daunting task of building the collective consciousness of individuals committed to a less violent way of life. We must nurture the voices of those who see ever-widening disparities of wealth, the collapse of rural economies, the hegemony of industrial agriculture, the build up of toxics in the environment and other accumulating costs of an ever-accelerating, ever-expanding economy based on material wealth.
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Selected Titles

Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics, Markos Moulitsas and Jerome Armstrong, (White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 2006) ISBN 1-933392-41-X

Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate, George Lakoff, (White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 2004) ISBN 1-931498-71-7

The Man Who Planted Trees, Jean Giono; Wood Engravings by Michael McCurdy, Foreword by Wangari Maathai, (White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 2005) ISBN 1-931498-72-5

The Straw Bale House, Athena Swentzell Steen, Bill Steen, David Bainbridge and David Eisenberg (White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 1994) ISBN 0-930031-71-7

Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables From Your Garden All Year Long, Eliot Coleman, (White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 1992) ISBN 1-890132-27-6

The New Organic Grower: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener, Eliot Coleman, (White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 1989) ISBN 0-930031-75-X

Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World, Alan Weisman (White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 1998) ISBN 1-890132-28-4

This Organic Life: Confessions of a Suburban Homesteader, Joan Gussow, (White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 2001) ISBN 1-931498-24-5

Believing Cassandra: An Optimist Looks at a Pessimist's World, Alan AtKisson, (White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 1999) ISBN 1-890132-16-0

A Cafecito Story, Julia Alvarez, (White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 2001) ISBN 1-931498-54-7