Green Wizardry: Conservation, Solar Power, Organic Gardening, And Other Hands-On Skills From the Appropriate Tech Toolkit

Wanted: real wizards. Must be capable of guiding their communities through difficult times by exercising practical skills and applying down-to-earth knowledge of how things work. If you're interested in applying for the job, then read this marvelous book. Greer is the ideal guide; his wisdom and gentle humor animate every page. A magical career awaits you.
-- Richard Heinberg, author, The End of Growth

This is book is part nostalgic trip through what once could have been, and could have saved us, before we decided to go all in on unbounded economic growth and endless militarism, and part survival guide which, now that the results of this bout of folly are coming in, can allow families and communities to cut their burn rate in comfort and style. And it also lays out the foundations of a very useful and very necessary vocation to which all of us, young and old can aspire: Green Wizardry.
---Dmitry Orlov, author of Reinventing Collapse and The Five Stages of Collapse

Just as someone starting a business would get a book on business planning, this is the book for planning a greener life. Rather than being split into chapters, Green Wizardry is split into 36 lessons, each with an exercise at the end, where you are challenged to apply your new-found knowledge to your own life or delve more deeply into a subject. If there were a class on green living, this would be the ideal text!
---Deborah Niemann, author of Homegrown and Handmade, Ecothrifty, and Raising Goats Naturally

"Using an integrated systems approach to ecologically sustainable living strategies, John Michael Greer tackles energy, economics, technology and organic production practices with approachable precision in Green Wizardry. Interested in a real "Green" revolution? Let Green Wizardry show you the way AND the why!"
―Oscar H. Will iii, editor-in-chief, GRIT magazine and author, Plowing with Pigs and Other Creative, Low-budget Homesteading Solutions

"Wanted: real wizards. Must be capable of guiding their communities through difficult times by exercising practical skills and applying down-to-earth knowledge of how things work. If you're interested in applying for the job, then read this marvelous book. Greer is the ideal guide; his wisdom and gentle humor animate every page. A magical career awaits you."
―Richard Heinberg, author, The End of Growth

"Greer races back down the muddy track we've slogged up this past half century and shouts that he has found a turn we missed. It was clearly marked – flagged by economist Vince Taylor as "the Easy Path" and physicist Amory Lovins as "the Soft Path" – but we all just blew right by the signpost in our headlong rush up the hard and wide asphalt highway. We overestimated the difficulty of this road, and our skill at climbing, but that soft and easy path is still clearly marked, and open to us, if we just go back down a little ways. We actually have to. It is the only way forward."
―Albert Bates, founder, Global Village Institute for Appropriate Technology and author, The Post-Petroleum Survival Guide and The Biochar Solution

"This is book is part nostalgic trip through what once could have been, and could have saved us, before we decided to go all in on unbounded economic growth and endless militarism, and part survival guide which, now that the results of this bout of folly are coming in, can allow families and communities to cut their burn rate in comfort and style. And it also lays out the foundations of a very useful and very necessary vocation to which all of us, young and old can aspire: Green Wizardry."
― Dmitry Orlov, author of Reinventing Collapse and The Five Stages of Collapse

"Just as someone starting a business would get a book on business planning, this is the book for planning a greener life. Rather than being split into chapters, Green Wizardry is split into 36 lessons, each with an exercise at the end, where you are challenged to apply your new-found knowledge to your own life or delve more deeply into a subject. If there were a class on green living, this would be the ideal text!"
― Deborah Niemann, author of Homegrown and Handmade, Ecothrifty, and Raising Goats Naturally