LIFT Library

A few of LIFT's latest additions:

Fast food nation: what the all-American meal is doing to the world

Eric Schlosser

This book, by turns funny and terrifying, tells the story of fast food. The writer visits the lab that re-creates the smell of strawberries; examines the safety records of abattoirs; reveals why the fries taste so good and what really lurks between the sesame buns; portrays the alienation of millions of low-paid employees - and shows how fast food is transforming not only our diets and body sizes, but also our world.

Slow money: investing as if food, farms, and fertility mattered

Woody Tasch

"Woody Tasch has one of those fast minds that always seem to ask the right slow questions. He is on to something: a new vision of deploying capital in a way that might offer a true alternative to faster and faster, bigger and bigger, more and more global. I've been saying for years that we need to feed the soil, not the plant - slow money is about feeding the soil of the economy." Eliot Coleman

Small is possible: life in a local economy

Lyle Estill

Estill has framed an evolving community of strong interdependent local enterprises that are the foundation of a healthy environmental, social and economic system.  The book is filled with newspaper columns, blog entries and essays, serving up sustainability with a hefty dose of wit and humour.