Rachel Kaplan

K. Ruby Blume

Teaches self-reliance, sustainability, and green living in urban areas, from growing food with limited space and making solar cookers to raising chickens.

Heirloom Skills for Sustainable Living

Urban Homesteading

The urban homesteading movement is spreading rapidly across the nation. Urban Homesteading is the perfect "back-to-the-land" guide for urbanites who want to reduce their impact on the environment. Full of practical information, as well as inspiring stories from people already living the urban homesteading life, this colorful guide is an approachable guide to learning to live more ecologically in the city. The book embraces the core concepts of localization (providing our basic needs close to where we live), self-reliance (re-learning that food comes from the ground, not the grocery store; learning to do things ourselves), and sustainability (giving back at least as much as we take). Readers will find concise how-to information that they can immediately set into practice, from making solar cookers to growing tomatoes in a barrel to raising chickens in small spaces to maintaining mental serenity in the fast-paced city environment. Full of beautiful full-color photographs and illustrations, and plenty of step-by-step instructions, this is a must-have handbook for city folk with a passion for the simple life.

Stephen Kaplan

"Nature seems to be important to people." (intro.) The psychological reasons for this interest, fascination, and affection are the basic aims of this scientifically based, readable and useful book. It attempts to establish a basic understanding of nature experiences from window box to wilderness. Paperback edition (unseen), $13.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

A Psychological Perspective

The Experience of Nature

Manifestations of Neural Trace Persistence

Individual Differences in Student Tendencies to Perservere

Robert Ryan

Some parks, preserves, and other natural areas serve people well; others are disappointing. Successful design and management requires knowledge of both people and environments.With People in Mind explores how to design and manage areas of "everyday nature" -- parks and open spaces, corporate grounds, vacant lots and backyard gardens, fields and forests -- in ways that are beneficial to and appreciated by humans. Rachel Kaplan and Stephen Kaplan, leading researchers in the field of environmental psychology, along with Robert Ryan, a landscape architect and urban planner, provide a conceptual framework for considering the human dimensions of natural areas and offer a fresh perspective on the subject. The authors examine.physical aspects of natural settings that enhance preference and reduce fear ways to facilitate way-finding how to create restorative settings that allow people to recover from the stress of daily demands landscape elements that are particularly important to human needs techniques for obtaining useful public input

Design And Management Of Everyday Nature

With People in Mind

This is a story about friendship and adventure. Snowball is a polar bear who likes to play hide and seek with his penguin friends, Penny and Patty. They get caught in a huge snowstorm and have to work together to find their way home.

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