Books by ISIS Members
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image of the book cover. Listing is by chronological order.
Sustainable Gardens by
Rob Cross & Roger Spencer
Sustainable gardens introduces sustainability science applied to horticulture, and provides the necessary background on how to manage cultivated land as part of a general strategy for leading more sustainable lives in our increasingly urbanised world. It places horticulture within the complex context of ecology, environmental and social management, and practical gardening. The book begins by introducing sustainability, its relationship to landscapes and gardens, and then proceeds to chapters on sustainable garden design, sustainability in the broader landscape, landscape construction and maintenance.
For more: www.rbg.vic.gov.au/science/information-and-resources/science-publications/sustainable-gardens
Available: Australia: www.publish.csiro.au/pid/5956.htm; North America www.styluspub.com; Europe, Mid East & N Africa: www.eurospanbookstore.com
Story
of Water – Source of Life by
Alick Bartholomew
How water
creates and sustains life, stimulating evolution, balancing the environment,
constantly encouraging greater complexity and interdependence and integrity in
all creation. The author summarises knowledge from mainstream science and
introduces new quantum research into water and life: Schauberger, Backster,
Schwenk, Mae-Wan Ho and others; proposes that the water medium is the partner
of the quantum field in bringing cosmic building patterns to life forms.
“One of
those rare books which bring science, spirituality and practicality into one
integrated whole.” Satish Kumar, Resurgence
For more: www.alickBartholomew.co.uk
Romantic Economics by Patrick
Noble
Modernism in our arts,
technologies and ways of life could only survive by the bounty of fossil fuels.
It needs to be replaced by the new romanticism, which is at once as old as the
hills. As the retail parks decay, convivial town centres revive. Civilisation
is not a state, but a method. We cultivate our gardens, build our houses and
love our friends. True cities emerge from agriculture. How else can they be
fed?
Patrick Noble is an
organic farmer from Denbigh in North Wales.
Romantic
Economics,
280 pages. available at £7.50 from all good bookshops or from the author, info@bryncocynorganic.co.uk, or
telephone 01745 540207
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