Better Basics for the Home: Simple Solutions for Less Toxic Living by Annie Berthold-Bond (New York: Three Rivers Press, 1999). Promotes the environmental and health benefits of a less toxic lifestyle. Offers more than 800 simple and practical alternatives to common household toxins, covering everything from skin care to gardening.

Diet for a New America: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness and the Future of Life on Earth (Novato, CA: H J Kramer, 1998). Fact-filled expose on the impact of America's meat and dairy agribusiness on our health and the health and well-being of the earth and its creatures. Advocates elimination or at least a reduction of meat and animal products in the diet.

The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World by John Robbins (Berkeley, CA: Conari Press, 2001). Sequel to bestselling book, Diet for a New America, this book explores impacts of various diets and their attendant food manufacturing practices on personal health, the treatment of animals, and the sustainability of the earth. Reviews a broad range of subjects, including global hunger and genetic engineering.

Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappé and Anna Lappé (New York: J.P. Tarcher, 2002). Sequel to bestselling book, Diet for a Small Planet, published thirty years earlier, Frances Moore Lappé and her daughter, Anna Lappé, present arguments for a vegetarian diet in the context of personal health, the world economy, and global hunger. Includes stories from the authors' journey around the world where they discovered many examples of people using organic, food producing alternatives.

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