Educational Resources Available from The Alliance for Sustainability

Breaking the Pesticide Habit: Alternatives to 12 Hazardous Pesticides, by Terry Gips
This invaluable 375-page sourcebook has chapters on the evolution of pest management, cotton pest control, sustainable agriculture, and the health/environmental hazards of each of the "Dirty Dozen Pesticides," as well as their regulatory status and alternatives. It provides comprehensive recommendations, and appendices include a description of the pesticide industry. $19.95 (contributing members: $17.95) plus $3.00 surface shipping. A beautifully illustrated Breaking the Pesticide Habit poster is also available for $10.00 (contributing members: $5.00) plus $2.00 surface shipping.

Benefits of Diversity- An Incentive Toward Sustainable Agriculture, a U.N. Development Program publication with case studies of sustainable agriculture in developing countries.
$10.00 (contributing members: $9.00) plus $3.00 surface shipping.

The Humane Consumer and Producer Guide: buying and producing animal products for a humane sustainable agriculture, a joint project of The Humane Society of the United States and the International Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture.
This is a first-ever national listing of farmers and ranchers whose appeal to caring consumers is based on humaneness and sustainability. With over 1400 entries, it also includes supportive research and education organizations, as well as restaurants and stores that sell products from these producers. The 368-page guide includes appendices with information on humane sustainable agriculture (HSA) terms and principles, labeling laws and marketing.
$12.00 (contributing members: $10.80) plus $3.00 surface shipping.

Minnesota Green Pages: A Directory of Sustainable Agriculture, Food and the Environment (1992), published by the Minnesota Chapter of the International Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture.
A comprehensive "yellow pages" of "green" businesses, organizations, and individuals who are helping to create a sustainable environment, economy, and community in Minnesota. This Directory's provides more than 300 listings for farmers, co-ops, natural food stores, restaurants, food processors, lawn care professionals, farmers' markets, educators, researchers, environmental organizations and others.
Free with $1.50 surface shipping.

Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth, by Mathis Wackernagel and William Rees
Introduces a revolutionary new way to determine humanity's impact on the Earth. It presents an exciting and powerful tool for measuring and visualizing the resources required to sustain our households, communities, regions and nations. $14.95 (contributing members: $13.45) plus $3.00 surface shipping.

The Natural Step for Business: Wealth, Ecology and the Evolutionary Corporation, by Brian Nattrass and Mary Altomare
In this first book in English on the topic, the authors explain The Natural Step and reveal through detailed case studies how four leading corporations--IKEA, Scandic Hotels, Interface and Collins Pine--are using it to great advantage as a central part of their corporate strategies. Timely, practical and exciting, this book will be of special interest to business leaders, environmentalists and all students of sustainability. $17.00 (contributing members: $15.30) plus $3.00 surface shipping.

Sustainability Resource Center at our University Ave. office
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