Dear Santa,
I know its the very last minute and I'm so sorry about that but this is my list for this year and please don't forget my readers because they will want some of these books, too.
--Kalpa
The End of the Long Summer: Why We Must Remake Our Civilization to Survive on a Volatile Earth by Dianne Dumanoski - Broadway 2010
![The End of the Long Summer: Why We Must Remake Our Civilization to Survive on a Volatile Earth](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51JugwMw5AL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg)
Cultivating an Ecological Conscience: Essays from a Farmer Philosopher by Fred Kirschenmann - The University Press of Kentucky 2010
![Cultivating an Ecological Conscience: Essays from a Farmer Philosopher (Culture of the Land)](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51pa1g6v4IL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg)
Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine by Gary Paul Nabhan - Shearwater 2008
![Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51j-U6iAV4L._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg)
A Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance by Andy Couturier - Stone Bridge Press 2010
![A Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51V81Je8VPL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg)
Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food by Wendell Berry - Counterpoint 2009
![Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Tr6voorAL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg)
Holy Shit: Managing Manure To Save Mankind by Gene Logsdon - Chelsea Green Publishing 2010
![Holy Shit: Managing Manure To Save Mankind](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41GZKlWFApL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg)
Empires of Food: Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations by Evan Fraser - Free Press 2010
![Empires of Food: Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Y9Ub7w57L._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg)
Running Dry: A Journey From Source to Sea Down the Colorado River by Jonathan Waterman - National Geographic 2010
![Running Dry: A Journey From Source to Sea Down the Colorado River](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61Q1qsbVu6L._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg)
Farmers of Forty Centuries: Organic Farming in China, Korea, and Japan by F.H. King - Dover Publications 2004
![Farmers of Forty Centuries: Organic Farming in China, Korea, and Japan](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51d33rd3btL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
Sustainability and the Civil Commons: Rural Communities in the Age of Globalization by Jennifer Sumner - University of Toronto Press 2007
![Sustainability and the Civil Commons: Rural Communities in the Age of Globalization](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5145dQT17LL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg)
Smart World: Breakthrough Creativity And the New Science of Ideas by Richard Ogle - Harvard Business School Press 2007
![Smart World: Breakthrough Creativity And the New Science of Ideas](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41v-pKp6gqL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg)
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway - Bloomsbury Press 2010
![Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41LnKHGYk1L._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg)
American Farmer: The Heart of Our Country by Katrina Fried and Paul Mobley - Welcome Books 2008
![American Farmer: The Heart of Our Country](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51GgRpnl8DL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg)
Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies by Charles Perrow - Princeton University Press 1999
![Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ufuHOXeUL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg)
One Degree West: Reflections of a Plainsdaughter by Julene Bair - Mid-List Press 2000
![One Degree West: Reflections of a Plainsdaughter (First Series:Creative Nonfiction)](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51E7SYJYJ4L._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World by David Abram - Vintage 1997
![](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51LAabdhZOL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg)
The Witch of Hebron: A World Made by Hand Novel by James Howard Kunstler - Atlantic Monthly Press 2010
![](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51qPW16lfEL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg)
Cloud Atlas: A Novel by David Mitchell - Random House 2004
![Cloud Atlas: A Novel](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51-ctfMPBcL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg)
Magazine Subscription: The Sun
![](http://www.thesunmagazine.org/_media/issue/cover_image/420_cover.jpg)
Grow Your Own Mushroom Kits from The Imaginary Farmer
![](http://store.theimaginaryfarmer.com/product_images/b/764/hantana-pearl-mushroom-that-cries-pink-tears__72432_zoom.jpg)
I know its the very last minute and I'm so sorry about that but this is my list for this year and please don't forget my readers because they will want some of these books, too.
--Kalpa
The End of the Long Summer: Why We Must Remake Our Civilization to Survive on a Volatile Earth by Dianne Dumanoski - Broadway 2010
![The End of the Long Summer: Why We Must Remake Our Civilization to Survive on a Volatile Earth](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51JugwMw5AL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg)
Cultivating an Ecological Conscience: Essays from a Farmer Philosopher by Fred Kirschenmann - The University Press of Kentucky 2010
![Cultivating an Ecological Conscience: Essays from a Farmer Philosopher (Culture of the Land)](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51pa1g6v4IL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg)
Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine by Gary Paul Nabhan - Shearwater 2008
![Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51j-U6iAV4L._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg)
A Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance by Andy Couturier - Stone Bridge Press 2010
![A Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51V81Je8VPL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg)
Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food by Wendell Berry - Counterpoint 2009
![Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Tr6voorAL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg)
Holy Shit: Managing Manure To Save Mankind by Gene Logsdon - Chelsea Green Publishing 2010
![Holy Shit: Managing Manure To Save Mankind](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41GZKlWFApL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg)
Empires of Food: Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations by Evan Fraser - Free Press 2010
![Empires of Food: Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Y9Ub7w57L._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg)
Running Dry: A Journey From Source to Sea Down the Colorado River by Jonathan Waterman - National Geographic 2010
![Running Dry: A Journey From Source to Sea Down the Colorado River](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61Q1qsbVu6L._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg)
Farmers of Forty Centuries: Organic Farming in China, Korea, and Japan by F.H. King - Dover Publications 2004
![Farmers of Forty Centuries: Organic Farming in China, Korea, and Japan](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51d33rd3btL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
Sustainability and the Civil Commons: Rural Communities in the Age of Globalization by Jennifer Sumner - University of Toronto Press 2007
![Sustainability and the Civil Commons: Rural Communities in the Age of Globalization](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5145dQT17LL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg)
Smart World: Breakthrough Creativity And the New Science of Ideas by Richard Ogle - Harvard Business School Press 2007
![Smart World: Breakthrough Creativity And the New Science of Ideas](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41v-pKp6gqL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg)
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway - Bloomsbury Press 2010
![Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41LnKHGYk1L._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg)
American Farmer: The Heart of Our Country by Katrina Fried and Paul Mobley - Welcome Books 2008
![American Farmer: The Heart of Our Country](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51GgRpnl8DL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg)
Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies by Charles Perrow - Princeton University Press 1999
![Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ufuHOXeUL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg)
One Degree West: Reflections of a Plainsdaughter by Julene Bair - Mid-List Press 2000
![One Degree West: Reflections of a Plainsdaughter (First Series:Creative Nonfiction)](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51E7SYJYJ4L._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World by David Abram - Vintage 1997
![](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51LAabdhZOL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg)
The Witch of Hebron: A World Made by Hand Novel by James Howard Kunstler - Atlantic Monthly Press 2010
![](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51qPW16lfEL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg)
Cloud Atlas: A Novel by David Mitchell - Random House 2004
![Cloud Atlas: A Novel](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51-ctfMPBcL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg)
Magazine Subscription: The Sun
![](http://www.thesunmagazine.org/_media/issue/cover_image/420_cover.jpg)
Grow Your Own Mushroom Kits from The Imaginary Farmer
![](http://store.theimaginaryfarmer.com/product_images/b/764/hantana-pearl-mushroom-that-cries-pink-tears__72432_zoom.jpg)