What People Are Saying about Watershed Media Books
Smart By Nature: Schooling for Sustainability
Schooling for sustainability, as described in Smart by Nature, has never been more important.
— Daniel Goleman, author of Ecological Intelligence
Smart by Nature is must reading for teachers, school administrators, parents, and the concerned public.
— David W. Orr, author of Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate Collapse
Smart by Nature is an inspired handbook that connects hands-on experiences of the garden, the kitchen, the table, the compost heap, and the classroom curriculum!
— Alice Waters, founder of Chez Panisse
A framework for schooling sustainability.
— Education Digest
The case studies and extensive resource lists in this practical guide suggest strategies for developing and implementing programs that give students the skills to transform their schools into healthier and more ecologically sensitive environments, leading to learning that extends far beyond the classroom.
— Edible East Bay
Michael K. Stone issues a clarion call to educators and other community leaders to join the movement to prepare students to meet the environmental challenges of the future.
— Jean Worsley, reviewer, National Science Teachers Association
In Smart by Nature: Schooling for Sustainability, Michael Stone illustrates that schooling for sustainability can start anywhere, with anyone.
— Green Schools Initiative 
CAFO: The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories
This book is fantastic.
— Martha Noble, National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
This book is stunning, visually and every other way.
— Eric Schlosser, journalist and author of Fast Food Nation
An important new book on animal agriculture.
— Michael Pollan, author and professor at the University of California at Berkeley
Graduate School of Journalism
It’s incredible. Powerful.
— Joel Salatin, author and farmer, Polyface Farm, Swope, Virginia
This is an awesome publication! Thanks for helping to educate people about the atrocities of industrial livestock production.
— Kevin Fulton, livestock producer, Fulton Farms
This book is one of the most important animal advocacy resources I’ve encountered.
— Eric Marcus, author and founder of Vegan.com
Thank you. This is something our movement needed. Well done.
— Josh Vittel, president, Slow Food USA
One of the most critical collections of compelling photographs and essays of our time. CAFO belongs on kitchen tables, office desks, hospital waiting rooms, high school classrooms and cafeterias, the halls of Congress and the Oval Office.
— Melinda Hemmelgarn, registered dietician, Food Sleuth radio show host
Food Fight: The Citizen’s Guide to a Food and Farm Bill
What’s needed is a plain-English guide to understanding farm policy — something that teases out the important issues, translates the jargon and rips the rhetorical curtain from high-sounding platitudes that justify rural devastation and corporate welfare. And that’s just what Daniel Imhoff has delivered with Food Fight: The Citizen’s Guide to a Food and Farm Bill.
—Tom Philpott, Mother Earth News
I recommend a new book called Food Fight: the Citizen’s Guide to a Food and Farm Bill. It presents a comprehensive, yet readable, explanation of where the Farm Bill came from, how it works, and what needs to be fixed.
— Marc Rumminger, Growers and Grocers
Get up to speed by reading Daniel Imhoff’s Food Fight: The Citizen’s Guide to a Food and Farm Bill, with a forward by Michael Pollan. Imhoff’s taken a dry topic and made it wry with his well-illustrated and entertaining compendium of all the collateral damage our misguided agricultural policies have wreaked on ourselves and our environment.
But Imhoff doesn’t just diagnose the many sicknesses of our food system, he offers the antidote, which, not surprisingly, calls for a massive dose of citizen activism:
...The critical moment will occur when a coalition of previously isolated voices joins ranks to challenge the status quo by insisting on a healthier, more hopeful and secure future for themselves, their children, and grandchildren. Farm and food policy will become an integrated economic engine that not only encourages environmentally viable crop production but truly supports health and nutrition, renewable energy, entrepreneurial development, stewardship, fair trade, living wages, and regional food security.
And who wouldn’t be in favor of all that? I mean, aside from Archer Daniels Midlands, Cargill, Monsanto, and all their Big Food buddies. Do we live in a democracy, or a cornarchy?
— Chef Ann Cooper, Director of Nutrition Services, Berkeley Unified School District
As debate and wrangling over the 2007 Farm Bill intensifies, Food Fight offers a highly informative and visually engaging overview of legislation that literally shapes our food system, our bodies, and our future.
— Culinate Magazine
Food Fight is a breezy and yet substantial tome, a difficult combination to pull off for a writer. The sweep of the book is impressive: hunger, wetlands, energy, obesity, the death of the small farm, genetically modified crops, even the World Trade Organization. Plus the last chapter: 25 Ideas Whose Time Has Come. Example: “Include native pollinator habitat restoration and invasive species removal as regional and nationwide conservation goals.”
— Robert McClure, Seattle Post Intelligencer
An indispensable new book.
— Michael Pollan
Paper or Plastic: Searching for Solutions to an Overpackaged World
I heard your interview on XM Satellite Radio
on Friday. I learned a great deal just during the brief interview
and plan to buy your book... Listening to your interview renewed
my determination to clean up many bad habits. We have made
a family commitment not to buy anymore water bottles, and
to refill re-usable containers with our own (very good) well
water. We were recycling our bottles but we realized how silly
it was to pay for water.
— Alice Buckner, Brookline, New Hampshire
Pull the right thread and the whole world unravels its secrets. Dan Imhoff has found a terrific one in the packaging of industrial civilization, everpresent yet invisible, and, in his capable hands, endlessly fascinating.
— Michael Pollan, Author of The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World
Refreshing and instructive.
— Michelle Nijhuis, Daily Grist
An unrelenting look at the global effects of familiar packaging. If ‘Paper or Plastic?’ becomes the national question, I hope this book is required reading for anyone choosing an answer.
— Barbara Riley, Santa Fe New Mexican
Recently, I have found that I enjoy a book most when it makes me want to take action, to change my lifestyle, or to tell everyone I can that this book is a must-read. Daniel Imhoff’s Paper or Plastic: Searching for Solutions to an Overpackaged World does all three.
— Charles Akben-Marchand, Peace and
Environment News
Farming with the Wild: Enhancing Biodiversity on Farms and Ranches
Farming with the Wild expresses a beautiful and
harmonious new vision for sustainable agriculture. By incorporating
the voices of the most important ranchers, farmers, and environmentalists
in this country, Dan Imhoff is able to bring together the
power and creativity of this emerging movement.
— Alice Waters, Nationally acclaimed
author, activist and owner of Chez Panisse
Restaurant, founder of the
Chez Panisse Foundation
Farming with the Wild is an inspiring and very moving book-essential reading for anyone interested in the future of food in the 21st century. It is also a very hopeful book, as Dan Imhoff demonstrates how the terrible wounds of our industrial food system can be healed through a new relationship between agriculture and wilderness conservation. Finally, it is also an eminently practical book, as the many case studies provide a primer on how to skillfully marry the agrarian and wilderness ethics to create a sustainable and more beautiful food future.
— Andy Kimbrell, Author and editor of Fatal Harvest: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture
Daniel Imhoff describes a future in which farmers and ranchers work with nature, not against it. What makes his vision so compelling is that he roots it in dozens of case studies from across the United States. . . .To anyone concerned about both the future of American agriculture and the preservation of wildlife, this book shows how nature and farming can peaceably and productively coexist.
— Jerry Goodbody, Audubon Magazine
A sustainable agriculture primer with the inviting tone of a travel guide, the book concludes with a summary of best practices, core principles and key resources, inspiring readers to support farming and ranching operations that benefit, incorporate, and profit from native species and habitats.
— Sara M. Kaplaniak, Nature Conservancy
Magazine
Building with Vision: Optimizing and Finding Alternatives to Wood
Numerous essays, packed with statistical arguments about
unsustainable building methods as well as lists charting the
pros and cons of building products and actual examples of
Bay Area structures built with such materials, make this book
a lens into the future of building.
— Zahid Sardar, San Francisco Chronicle
Building with Vision is a rare mix of philosophy, practical information on building materials and practices, and superb visual presentation. Author Dan Imhoff and Art Director Roberto Carra have produced a real winner that should be read—and enjoyed—by all involved with residential green building.
— Alex Wilson, Editor, Environmental Building News
I wish I had been aware of Optimizing and Finding Alternatives to Wood when I started designing an eco-tourism lodge in Tobermercry, Ontario. It would have saved a lot of time and effort, particularly in the area of research. What this book aims to do, and does with great success, is to provide architects, designers, and interested professionals with a comprehensive, accessible guide to establishing the criteria by which one can plan, research, and design an environmentally sustainable project.
— Janna Levitt, Azure Magazine
Building with Vision is Dan Imhoff’s second masterpiece in practicality. The book is every developer’s, construction company executive’s, and nature advocate’s antidote to a far too negative ‘environmental movement.’ By optimizing and finding alternatives to wood, we will change the very way we think about built structures.
— Randy Hayes, President of Rainforest
Action Network
The Guide to Tree-free, Recycled, and Certified Papers
If a green future is to come, it must be aesthetically
pleasing, and this is the best access for paper consumers
to find beauty in their quest to print books and minimize
harm to forests and soils.
— Peter Warshall, Whole Earth Magazine
Compiles the best alternatives to wood-based non-recycled, chlorine-bleached papers.
— Orion Afield