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Eat Local for Less
The Ultimate Guide to Opting Out of Our Broken Industrial Food System
Practical advice (with recipes) on how to enjoy fresh, local foods that support family farms and healthy communities. “Mesmerizing.” —Booklist
$19.95
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Among the Ancients
Adventures in the Eastern Old-Growth Forests
A natural-history primer, an adventure story, and an impassioned plea to preserve and support our remaining old-growth forests. “This guide will change the way you look at America.”
$17.95
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Cerulean Blues
A Personal Search for a Vanishing Songbird
Reed Writing Award Finalist. Cerulean Blues describes the plight of the cerulean warbler, a tiny migratory songbird, and its struggle to survive in ever-shrinking bands of suitable habitat. "A pleasure to read"—David Gessner
$17.95
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Horseshoe Crab
Biography of a Survivor
Horseshoe crabs have ten eyes, five pairs of walking legs, a heart half the length of their bodies, and have been on this planet for 445 million years. "Fascinating, relevant, revealing, and endlessly enjoyable."—Richard Ellis
$17.95
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The Pipeline and the Paradigm
Keystone XL, Tar Sands, and the Battle to Defuse the Carbon Bomb
“Environmental activist Avery travels the route of TransCanada’s controversial Keystone XL pipeline, engaging in frank and respectful dialogue with proponents and opponents. His finely researched book blazes with hope.” —Publishers Weekly
$17.95
News from Ruka Press
Hi everyone. Wanted to let you formally know that we’re not currently looking for or accepting new proposals. We’re continuing to sell the great books we’ve already published, but we won’t be publishing anything new in the near future. Thanks to everyone who has submitted something to us, and our apologies to those we never got back to.
Ruka Press will be exhibiting and selling our books this coming Sunday at the annual Literary Hill BookFest at Eastern Market in Washington, DC. Since 2010, the Literary Hill BookFest has been a great day for books and readers on Capitol Hill, with discussions, readings, and signings with the best local writers of memoirs and fiction, politics and poetry, history and sports, food and fantasy, and books for kids. The event runs from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm, with a Poetry Slam following at 3:00. If you’re in the area, stop by and say hello. More information is available at the Literary Hill BookFest website.
Julie Castillo, author of Eat Local for Less, will be interviewed on “iEat Green with Bhavani” radio show on the Progressive Radio Network at 10:00 am EST on Thursday, March 2. Listen live at PRN.fm or download it as a podcast later. Julie and host Bhavani Jaroff will discuss local and sustainable eating.
The Keystone XL pipeline is back in the news, thanks to the new president and his executive orders. TransCanada, the Canadian company behind the pipeline, has filed new local applications to resume building. And if the permits are eventually approved and construction commences, local activism and protest will follow.
Our book, The Pipeline and the Paradigm by Samuel Avery, is thus once again a crucial resource for understanding the controversy over the Keystone XL, including the effects on climate change and the grassroots protests that have sprung up around it. The book examines the broad implications of a fossil fuel culture in the context of a warming world. While Sam very much comes down on the side of “leave it in the ground,” he gives a fair hearing to both sides and doesn’t demonize. Booklist called it an “extremely useful analysis.”
The The Pipeline and the Paradigm is available direct from Ruka Press in print and ebook, and from other online vendors in both formats and as an audiobook. See the book page for details.