Unfrosted: Get Real About Food And Fitness
Americans have made processed food – from TV dinners to McDonald’s – the mainstay of their diets, with horrific results to their waistlines, medical conditions, and even their psyches. We’re seeing muffintop and it’s not pretty. Unfrosted shows you how to stop being a victim of the food and diet industry, use common sense and take back control of your body and your life. UnFrosted is the ultimate pull-no-punches guide to getting fit and healthy, backed up w… More >>
Urban Utopias: The Built and Social Architectures of Alternative Settlements
Utopia tends to generate a bad press – regarded as impracticable, perhaps nostalgic, or contradictory when visions of a perfect world cannot accommodate the change that is necessary to a free and self-organizing society. But people from diverse backgrounds are currently building a new society within the old, balancing literal and metaphorical utopianism, and demonstrating plural possibilities for alternative futures and types of settlement. Thousands of such places … More >>
Urban Utopias: The Built and Social Architectures of Alternative Settlements
The Sunny Side of Cooking – Solar cooking and other ecologically friendly cooking methods for the 21st century
What if there was a year-round method of cooking that was low cost, powered by sunlight, non-polluting, and easy to do even in college dorms, apartment balconies and off-the-grid locations? There is: Solar Cooking.
Solar cooking is easy everywhere in the U.S., and as far north as Canada, and as far south as Australia. In a solar cooker you can do everything from simmering to poaching, steaming, sautéing, braising, baking, roasting, toasting, pan frying, grilling, … More >>