At 40 acres under mixed-age, mixed-species, climate-resilient management, primarily being managed for ecosystem services, that forest now annually plants itself as it expands. Awards In 1980, Bates shared in the first Right Livelihood Award as part of the executive board of Plenty International. In 2012, he received the Gaia Award from Gaia Trust of Denmark for his efforts in fostering the ecovillage movement. Published works Bates is author of many books on law, energy, history and environment, including: The Grass Case (1973) with William Meyers, Matthew McClure, Peter Schweitzer, and Joel Kachinsky, Honicker v. Hendrie: A Lawsuit to End Atomic Power (1974), Shutdown: Nuclear Power on Trial (1979) with John Gofman and Ernest Sternglass, Your Rights to Victims Compensation (1980), Climate in Crisis (1990), Voices from The Farm (1998) with Rupert Fike, The Y2K Survival Guide and Cookbook (1999) with Dorothy R. Bates, The Post-Petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook (2006), The Biochar Solution (2010), Fermaculture (2011) with Sandor Katz, The Paris Agreement (2015), Pour Evian on Your Radishes (2015), The Financial Collapse Survival Guide and Cookbook (2015), Burn: Using Fire to Cool the Earth (2019) with Kathleen Draper, Transforming Plastic: From Pollution to Evolution (2019), A Side Door Introduction to The Farm (2019), Taming Plastic (2019), Dark Side of the Ocean (2020), Plagued: Surviving A Modern Pandemic (2020), Making Waves (2021), Cool Down (2021) with Kathleen Draper The Post-petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook: Recipes for Changing Times, was published in 2006. In it Bates examines the transition from a society based on abundant cheap petroleum to one of "compelled conservation." The book looks at the ways of preparing for this transition. He regards the coming change as an opportunity to "redeem our essential interconnectedness with nature and with each other." In his introduction, Bates outlines the realities of declining fossil energy and global climate change. He puts forward a "twelve step petrochemical addiction recovery program," from post-growth economics through methods to conserve fresh water, manage wastes, generate energy, produce and store food, and travel without the aid of fossil fuels. As a review by Ryan McGreal states: "The central message in this book is sustainability and permaculture. A recurring theme is that every waste product is something else's food, and that the most sustainable arrangement works with the prevailing conditions, not against them." McGreal summarizes Bates' proposals for human adaptation as follows: Instead of wasting energy trying to fight nature,