Sustainable Living Bookstore.  From gardens to farms, strawbales to cob to Earthships, chickens, goats, and cows, we offer a wide selection of titles geared to helping you simplify your life while gaining more control of that which provides for your needs.

(Under Development – Books listed here are presently on hand, yet the online payment system has not yet been implemented. To order, please email books@newdawnenergy.com with your name, phone number and titles of interest, and we’ll be in touch soon.)

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Build Your Own Earth Oven

A Low-Cost Wood-Fired Mud Oven; Simple Sourdough Bread; Perfect Loaves

by Kiko Denzer & Hannah Field, Foreword by Alan Scott

Earth ovens combine the utility of a wood-fired, retained-heat oven with the ease and timeless beauty of earthen construction. They are familiar to many that have seen a southwestern “horno” or a European “bee-hive” oven. Build Your Own Earth Oven is fully illustrated with step-by-step dir…ections on building the oven from foundation to finished, including notes on how to tend the fire and how to make perfect sourdough loaves in the artisan tradition. For more information on Build Your Own Earth Oven go to www.cobcottage.com or www.handprintpress.com.

(This marvelous little manual is available at all of our cob oven workshops.)

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Cob Builders Handbook

You Can Hand-Sculpt Your Own Home
by Becky Bee

Cob is old-fashioned concrete, made out of a mixture of clay, sand, and straw. Becky Bee’s manual is a friendly guide to making your own earth structure, with chapters on design, foundations, floors, windows and doors, finishes, and of course, making glorious cob. “I believe that building with cob is a way to recreate community and experience the joy of working together while taking back the right to build our own homes and look after our Mother Earth.”

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The Hand-Sculpted House

A Practical and Philosophical Guide to Building a Cob Cottage
by Ianto Evans, Linda Smiley & Michael Smith

The Cob Cottage exemplifies a building method so old and so simple that it cannot help but be the ultimate expression of ecological design. Using the oldest, most available materials imaginable—earth, clay, sand, straw, and water—and blend them to redefine the future (and past) of building, the authors take you on a journey into a wonderful place. Cob offers answers regarding our role in Nature, family and society, about why we feel the ways that we do, about what’s missing in our lives. Cob comes as a revelation into our madness, a key to a saner world. The Hand-Sculpted House guides you in theory, philosophy and practice into the new world cob reveals to those who dig in and get their hands dirty. This book is a bible of radical simplicity.

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Clay Culture: Plasters, Paints and Preservation

by Carole Crews

Clay Culture brings the past into the future through earthen architecture and maintenance methods. Through history lessons, practical techniques and lots of good stories, Carole Crews describes an inspiring journey into the realm of natural building with an emphasis on the finished surfaces – the plasters and paints. The time has come to stand together and make the lives we want to have for ourselves. This book will help to show the way.

Read more about Carole and her adventures at www.carolecrews.com.

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Earth User’s Guide to Permaculture, Second Edition

by Rosemary Morrow – Illustrated by Rob Allsop

The principle for permaculture is simple: provide back to the earth what we take from it to create a sustainable environment. The three principle aims are: Care for people; Care for the earth; and Redistributing everything surplus to one’s needs. This completely revised and updated edition of Rosemary Morrow’s highly successful Earth User’s Guide to Permaculture is a straight-forward manual of practical permaculture. Included in this new edition are chapters on seed-saving, permaculture at work, integrated pest management, information about domestic as well as rural water usage, a non-destructive approach towards dealing with weeks and wildlife, and designing to withstand a disaster.

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The Sheer Ecstasy of Being a Lunatic Farmer

by Joel Salatin.  With a Letter from Wendell Berry

Foodies and environmentally minded folks often struggle to understand and articulate the fundamental differences between the farming and food systems they endorse and those promoted by Monsanto and friends. With visceral stories and humor from Salatin’s half-century as a “lunatic” farmer, Salatin contrasts the differences on many levels: practical, spiritual, social, economic, ecological, political, and nutritional. Anyone looking for ammunition to defend a more localized, solar-driven, diversified food system will find an entire arsenal in these pages.

(Joel Salatin is a modern-day messiah. We should all be listening to the message he’s sharing.)