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12/08/2025

🌎 What if raising kids who care for the Earth could start today—with just one book?

The Wild Path Home is a powerful, practical guide to growing resilient, Earth-connected kids in a disconnected world.

🌿 Preorder now and take the first step toward a wilder, wiser future.

On the pathway to stewardship and kinship—an experiential approach to fostering environmental connection from birth to the teen years. In a technologically ...

11/08/2025

📚🌍 5 things you might not know about sustainable publishing:

1️⃣ Businesses that green their operations are more resilient to supply chain shocks and resource shortages.
2️⃣ Printing on 100% post-consumer paper can cut a publisher’s carbon footprint by 60%.
3️⃣ Sustainability isn’t just “nice to have” — it’s linked to employee retention and customer loyalty.
4️⃣ Even small publishers can use B Corp and UN sustainability frameworks — without being Fortune 500.
5️⃣ The biggest roadblock? Access to recycled paper for print-on-demand books.

Which one surprises you most? 👇
https://bit.ly/46N8mUM

BookNet Canada B Corp U.S. & Canada FriesenPress

BookNet Canada speaks with New Society Publishers—leaders in sustainable, mission-driven publishing for over 40 years. From recycled paper to climate commit ...

09/08/2025

🌍 Staff Pick of the Month: How We Gather Matters by Leor Rotchild.

💬 Why Terri-Lynn chose it:�
"I’ve spent many years organizing and attending events, and I’ve seen both the magic and the mess they can create. We pour so much energy into inspiring connection — but behind the scenes, there’s often so much waste, burnout, and unintentional harm.

I picked How We Gather Matters because it helped me see that it doesn’t have to be that way. It’s smart, actionable, and packed with real stories and smart strategies to help planners create purpose-driven, low-waste gatherings that truly connect people. It’s not just about logistics — it’s about rethinking what events are for, and how they can actually reflect the world we want to live in."

If you care about bringing people together in meaningful, inclusive, and sustainable ways — this one’s for you.

Check it out here ➡️ www.newsociety.com/book/how-we-gather-matters/

07/08/2025

🌳 Books can inspire change. This one plants it. 📖✨

In this short video, author Elspeth Hay shares the inspiration behind her new book, Feed Us With Trees — a powerful look at nut trees as a forgotten food source and a solution for a more resilient, regenerative future.

🌰 Nut trees aren’t just part of our past — they could be key to feeding our future.

🎥 Watch now to hear why this matters, and how Feed Us With Trees invites us to imagine food, farming, and forests in a whole new way.

👉 Share if you believe in planting stories that grow real change.

06/08/2025

🌿 Gardening isn’t just planting seeds—it’s growing minds. 🌱

We’re thrilled to partner with Naturalpod to spotlight the powerful impact of school gardens on children’s learning, wellness, and wonder.

👉 Don’t miss their latest blog post:

“Growing Minds: The Powerful Benefits of Teaching Children Gardening” by Kaci Rae Christopher, author of The School Garden Curriculum.

Whether you're an educator, parent, or garden advocate, this is a must-read! 🧠🌻

📖 Read now: https://bit.ly/4flKuK4

Growing Minds: The Powerful Benefits of Teaching Children Gardening

01/08/2025

☀️ Summer learning starts outside! 🌿

Looking for easy, low-cost ways to get kids off screens and into the wild?

We’ve partnered with Naturalpod to share fun, accessible ideas straight from The Big Book of Nature Activities by Jacob Rodenburg & Drew Monkman.

🦋 From backyard biodiversity hunts to cloud watching and sound mapping, these simple activities make every outdoor moment a learning adventure.

🌼 Read “Summer Part 1: Low-Cost Activities to Connect Learners to the Outdoors” on the Naturalpod blog 👉 https://bit.ly/44OuwVm

Let’s make nature the best classroom this summer. 🌳

The Big Book of Nature Activities – Summer Part 1: Low-Cost Activities to Connect Learners to the Outdoors

31/07/2025

🌰 BOOK GIVEAWAY! 🌰
What if the real food revolution starts with trees?

We’re giving away a FREE copy of Feed Us With Trees by Elspeth Hay — a fascinating look at how we lost entire food systems rooted in forests, community, and land stewardship. 🌳

📘 Want to win a copy? Here’s how:

👇 Drop a comment below:
If you could rebuild the food system from the ground up, what would go at the base?
(Think: tree nuts, beans, wild greens — or grandma’s biscuits?)

👯‍♀️ BONUS: Tag a friend who’s into food history, climate solutions, or real nourishment for an extra entry!

This book isn’t about diets.

It’s about the forgotten foods — acorns, chestnuts, and wild tree crops — that once fed people for generations. And why it’s time to bring them back.

🗓 Contest closes August 7!

Let’s reimagine how we eat — together. 🌿

The day Elspeth Hay learned we can eat acorns, stories she’d believed her whole life began to unravel. We’re thinking about agriculture all wrong, she reali ...

29/07/2025

🌿 Exciting News from New Society Publishers! 🌿

We’re proud to share that Outdoor Learning has selected our very own Jacob Rodenburg as a featured author! 🎉

Jacob is a passionate educator and "nature sommelier" whose work helps connect people of all ages to the natural world. His books—
📗 The Big Book of Nature Activities
📙 The Book of Nature Connection
📘 The Wild Path Home
—are now featured on https://bit.ly/4kYxnjl, a charitable social enterprise supporting outdoor learning initiatives.

🎧 Be sure to check out their page to learn more and listen to a special podcast episode with Jacob on Earthy Chats!👇
https://bit.ly/46udn4B

Let’s celebrate the power of nature to educate, inspire, and heal. 🌱💚

28/07/2025

🌍 What if the “tragedy of the commons” was just... wrong?

We’ve been told shared resources lead to ruin. But in this excerpt from the new edition of Think Like a Commoner, David Bollier shows how real commons — with rules, boundaries, and community care — actually work.

From permaculture to DAOs, commoning creates value through trust and cooperation — not ownership or markets. 🌱

👉 Read the excerpt and rethink what we’ve been taught. https://bit.ly/4lPwydX

💬 What’s one resource your community could steward better — together? Drop it in the comments.

In this post David Bollier shares an excerpt from Think Like a Commoner, Second Edition and adds context and reflection.

25/07/2025

🌍 Staff Pick of the Month: The Joy of Conflict

All you need to understand the dynamics of conflict – and the joy of resolution

💬 Why Caylie chose it:�

"The Joy of Conflict Resolution is a quick, clear read to help you understand the cycles of conflict and how to rise above them. It has helped me immensely in many situations where I see myself as the victim, villain or hero, and how to step back to observe my triggers and reactions and have kindness, patience and grace when my anger arises.

As Harper points out in his book, “understanding the anger arousal cycle helps us manage conflict in a couple of ways. First, it can help us manage ourselves. By knowing our triggers and impulses, we can develop strategies to respond more effectively when triggered. Such strategies can help us curb the self-righteousness that fuels the hero role and sends us into attack mode, causing the other person to experience us as the angry villain.”

Round and round it goes, until we slow down and try to make it right. In family, work and community, learning the skills in this book are essential and needed now, more than ever.

24/07/2025

Earth Overshoot Day is July 24 — the date when we’ve used up all the ecological resources Earth can regenerate in a year.
This year, Escape from Overshoot by Peter A. Victor is featured by the Global Footprint Network as a key resource in understanding how we got here — and how we might change course.

In this timely and hopeful book, Victor explores what a post-growth economy could look like, and how we can reconnect economic systems to planetary limits.

📘 Learn more: https://bit.ly/4kT9dGQ

🌍 Featured by Global Footprint Network

23/07/2025

🌿 Not sure if Sustainable Market Farming is the right book for you?
Author Pam Dawling has answers.

In this quick Q&A, she tackles the questions real growers and educators are asking:�
❓ Is it too technical for beginners?�
❓ Will experienced farmers still learn something new?�
❓ Why buy it when so much info is free online?

💬 If you’ve asked yourself any of these, this blog is for you.

📘 Pam breaks it down with honest, practical insight — so you can decide if the second edition is worth adding to your shelf.

👉 Read the full Q&A now and see if this book fits your farm → https://bit.ly/415g7Sd

👇 Have you had similar questions about farming books? Let us know in the comments!

Sustainable Market Farming (Book)

In this post, Pam Dawling shares practical insights from her new book, Sustainable Market Farming, Second Edition, offering a clear look at its core themes ...