Sustainability

Give your garbage a second life. Composting is a little complicated, but Kim Pezza, author of Backyard Farming: …

Life is full of scrapes and sunburns and headaches and yeast infections and other ailments where the doctor isn't going …

It's time to rethink poop. Seriously, we need to be thinking about it a lot. It's the single product each human …

Fireweed, as the full title implies, is all about introducing your kids to plants. It's about teaching young …

Raleigh Briggs is our bestselling author here at Microcosm, though we suspect it hasn't remotely gone to her head. …

Some of, okay a lot of, our favorite books were published in the 70s. It was an era sort of like now, when the world …

In much the same way that Michael Pollan’s bestseller Food Rules brought a gust of common sense to the everyday …

An homage to the classic Our Bodies, Ourselves, this encyclopedic, crowd-sourced compilation of essays, resources, …

The infamous eco-anarchist John Zerzan checks in with further provocative articles about the chaotic results of …

In a drought-stricken Portland, Oregon, a Robin Hood-esque water thief is caught on camera redistributing an illegal …

The "how-to" guide for a new generation of farmers from a leading urban garden educator and the author of …

Are you in love with bicycling? And books?  Want to get every feminist bicycle book we publish, as it comes …

This offers readers innovative new projects for transforming wood pallets into all types of beautiful, useful items for …

So this guy Pete Jordan used to write a zine called "Dishwasher" all about, you know, washing dishes in …

With sales of more than five hundred billion US dollars a year, the fashion industry is one of the most important …

"The rules for living well, if you can call them that, are simple and a pleasure to follow. Eat local and mostly …

We've got some books and zines with bent corners, scratched or slightly ripped covers, lil bit dirty, scuffed, or …

This is the classiest, most thoughtful survival manual out there. Written by a French poet, activist, and artist who …

Jensen's furthest-reaching book yet, Dreams challenges the "destructive nihilism" of writers like Richard …

In an age marked by seemingly unstoppable environmental collapse and the urgent quest for solutions, environmental …

Teenage Rebels provides a glimpse into the laws, policies, and political struggles that have shaped the lives of …

Everyday Bicycling is your guide to everything you need to know to get started riding a bicycle for transportation. …

A short but profound little book, Masanobu Fukuoka's classic "Little Green Book" is part memoir, part …

Fixed oils play a large part in almost all commercial beauty treatments. With this in mind, Power of the Seed offers …

I found this book at the library when I was a teenager and fell a little bit in love with the hard-working, difficult, …

This updated study of the economics, politics, and ecology of water explores more than a century of both public and …

This manual is almost 300 pages of diagrams, descriptions of techniques, and a comprehensive overview of the role …

Chico Mendes, a rubber tapper and union organizer deep in Amazon rainforest, pioneered the combination of environmental …

Seemingly an innocuous piece about fluffy consumerism, Sarah Lazarovic's book about coveting beautiful things goes …

How can we decolonize the world when colonialist attitudes of self and other are so deeply embedded in our psyches? …