Self-sufficiency and sustainable lifestyle(s) Books
WW Norton & Co 50 Ways to Help Save the Bees
Book SynopsisIf you like to eat your fruits and vegetables (and even if you don’t!), you should value our planet’s bees. Yet, because of environmental pollution, loss of green spaces, and a general disregard for the well-being of insects, humans have caused the number of bees to plummet. In the past year, the managed honeybee population of the United States has dropped 40 percent, and there has been a 25 percent decline in wild bees—figures that are alarming at best. Helping the bees is easier than you might imagine, however, as outlined in this charmingly illustrated call to action. Here are 50 easy suggestions, along with an informative introduction, to get you started. Try cutting your lawn less frequently, buying ethical honey, and keeping your yard dark at night. You can follow easy instructions for building a bee-friendly window box or a green-roofed garden shed. Little things can make a big difference. Just ask a bee.
£11.39
WW Norton & Co Do Just One Thing: 365 Ideas for a Better You,
Book SynopsisDanny Seo is known for his ability to make natural, healthy living accessible. In his nationally syndicated column, “Do Just One Thing,” Danny showed readers how to make small but powerful choices every day that would positively impact the planet. Now, 365 of his best tips have been gathered together in this giftable package. From conserving energy to recycling properly to looking out for our ecosystems, this book gives you one simple way to waste not, want not every day of the year. Save water by collecting rainwater for your houseplants, wash your bath towels with a splash of vinegar to keep them fresh longer, learn how to turn in old sneakers for recycling instead of tossing them in the trash, plant blue flowers to attract bees and support local pollinators, and more. And as Seo points out, reducing our carbon footprint can actually mean saving money, time, and our health, too!
£13.29
Jenkins Publications Manual Del Humabono
£15.77
Hardie Grant Explore Road Trip Cooking: The Best Recipes for Your
Book SynopsisIn Road Trip Cooking, you'll find over 60 tasty and nutritious recipes to cook on your camping stove, campfire or portable barbecue. All recipes in Road Trip Cooking are simple to prepare, and don't require a well-equipped kitchen or well-stocked supermarket nearby. From the ultimate hangover breakfast and salad in a jar, to campfire nachos and 'apple pie to go', these recipes make the most of classic and comfort-food dishes from around the world.Yet they only require some wood blocks, a few ingredients and a box of matches to prepare. Also included is information on outdoor cooking techniques and recommended road-trip life hacks.Road Trip Cooking makes outdoor cooking even more fun than it already is. Let the journey begin!
£19.01
Heritage Group Distribution Building a Sustainable Kitchen
£27.84
Page Two Books, Inc. Planting a Seed: Three Simple Steps to
Book SynopsisDiscover your path toward a more sustainable life. The science on climate change is in, and its impacts are being felt around the globe. It's time for every one of us to start finding a new way of living, working, and moving around our planet. The good news is, it doesn't have to be hard, and it doesn't have to feel like a sacrifice. By understanding how you fit into the global picture, and investigating what changes work best for you, you can soften your impact on the planet in as many areas of your life that feel right and work for you. It just takes some planning, some action, and some practice. In Planting a Seed, corporate sustainability expert Kate Gaertner shows you how to develop an action plan that will help you develop new habits and ways of living that fit into your daily life. You'll gain greater insight into how you are personally connected to the larger ecosystems and environmental issues, and start discovering and embracing your values every day through your actions, commitments, and purchases. You'll learn about the six impact categories where your actions can be felt, and customize an adaptation plan that builds from where you are. Offering ideas for sustainability at a small, medium, and large level, Kate shows that living lightly can also mean living well. Accessible and lively, Planting a Seed charts a way toward a greener future by encouraging each of us to find the sustainability path that feels just right.Trade ReviewFor many years, Kate Gaertner directed her sustainability expertise towards greening companies. Now she's using that knowledge to empower individuals on the path to sustainability. Planting a Seed is packed with practical tips to help lighten your family's impact on the planet. Whether you're a nature lover, penny pincher or brand new to going green, Kate will help you create a customized sustainability action plan that is sure to inspire you to become a personal change-maker. --Adria Vasil, bestselling author of the Ecoholic book series Planting a Seed: three simple steps to sustainable living clearly provides readers with accessible actions they can take to begin living more sustainably. Kate Gaertner helps simplify what can seem a very complex process for many people, identifying value drivers that the average person can easily identify in their daily life, and what steps we can take as individuals to make changes in seven clear impact categories. Kate's core message: Start small, do what works for you and your family, and larger positive changes both personally and for the greater community will follow! --Melissa Bruntlett, author of Building the Cycling City and Curbing Traffic 'Kate Gaertner explains how each of us can--must--work to reverse global warming. She reminds me of Body Shop co-founder Anita Roddick, who contrasted the pessimism of the thought with the optimism of the action. It's time for optimism and action.' --John Elkington, Founder & Chief Pollinator at Volans, and author of Green Swans: The Coming Boom in Regenerative Capitalism It's clear that joining movements for change in our political and economic systems is the main way we'll fight climate change--but while you're doing that there are plenty of things around your home that can make a difference too, and this book provides lots of handy ideas! --Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature "Planting a Seed is a compelling read, lively and fun, with relatable stories and metaphors that simplify otherwise complicated concepts. Kate Gaertner makes sustainable actions accessible to everyone. Buy this book! --Gregg Semler, CEO of InPipe Energy Now it's personal. Individuals are stewards of sustainable change. In her uplifting book, Kate Gaertner provides the knowledge, tools, and easy-to-adopt frameworks for lowering environmental impact in all parts of one's life. --Dan Kalafatas, co-founder and chairman of 3Degrees
£999.99
Nimbus Publishing Limited The Lunenburg Farmers Market Cookbook
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£22.46
HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand) Living Lightly: The Busy Person's Guide to
Book SynopsisThe busy person's guide to mindful consumption How do you reduce your impact when you don't want to compromise your lifestyle?How do you live lighter when you're juggling the motherlode of life?How can you become more mindful of how and what you're consuming?In a previous career, Nicola Turner's job was to convince us to buy more - and now she uses this insight to help us consume less. With her unique ability to keep it real, Nicola shares how her family now lives with less stuff, less waste and less impact. It's made life simpler, saved heaps of time and money and created a healthier, happier family.Filled with do-able ideas and practical hacks, Living Lightly is for everyday people who want to simplify their life and reduce their impact but feel they're just too damn busy.It's all about making simple changes that work for you - and not letting perfect get in the way of good.
£18.99
Birlinn General The Venison Bible
Book SynopsisNichola Fletcher has been a key champion of venison for over four decades and was awarded an MBE for services to the venison industry.In this book she gives fail-safe instructions for the different cooking methods (grilling, frying, roasting and slow-cooking) as well as discussing wild, farmed, red, fallow, roe and muntjac deer. Over 40 recipes show the enormous versatility of this low-fat meat, contrasting the traditional with exciting contemporary dishes like venison steaks with lime, fennel and honey, or Thai-spiced venison casserole. A much-requested section on what to serve with venison completes this imaginative introduction to one of the UK''s most popular speciality meats.
£6.50
Quadrille Publishing Ltd Green Living: A Sustainable Guide to a More
Book SynopsisGreen Living is a practical, lifestyle guide to living life more thoughtfully: less buying, more doing, less wanting and more enjoying.A new edition of the bestselling Live Green, packed with new content and beautiful lifestyle photography to help inspire your journey to a more sustainable life.This book is a collection of changes you can make to your home and lifestyle over the course of a year. Jen Chillingsworth offers up achievable advice and tips for anyone and everyone, no matter where you live or what job you do. From making your own cleaning products, soy candles, buying vintage, giving up plastic to celebrating simply – discover how to get the most out of living a more modest, meaningful life.Learn to live and enjoy the little things.
£17.79
Permanent Publications The Plant Lover's Backyard Forest Garden: Trees,
Book SynopsisGrow your own beautiful multilayered food forest in your own backyard. Pippa Chapman is an RHS trained gardener who designs, plants and maintains abundant, biodiverse, edible and beautiful forest gardens. Here she shares her practical tips for realistically transforming your own plot, whatever its size, and with limited time, money and resources. A forest garden doesn't have to be big; you can grow a productive edible paradise in pots and containers too. Pippa explains how to create multiple layers on a small-scale to maximise your growing area, using polycultures and guilds for healthy, low-maintenance food. She shares how to use perennials for structure and for year-round food, and how to incorporate flowers for beauty, wildlife and for the kitchen. Chapters on permaculture design and forest gardening give practical advice on how to plan and plant your own garden, with guilds and plant profiles to give real-life examples to help you get started. Useful tips on propagation and seed saving help keep plant costs low and a handy chapter on the soil-food web will help you understand your own soil and how to keep it healthy.
£14.40
Robert D. Reed Publishers 30 Days to a New You: Get What You Want Through
Book Synopsis30 Days to a New You, both a manual and a workbook, provides practical techniques and support so you can effectively redefine yourself into a person who can get what you want and live a full life with intention. Using a simple, systematic method, this book shows you how to use your infinite, individual power to connect with your real self and your powerful individual vision. Then it leads you through the steps to put your new knowledge and skills into practice. In only one month, 30 Days to a New You enables you to:.Become aware of the real person inside. .Conduct self- assessment without fear..Know the truth about the power you own..Understand yourself and your capacities at a deeper level. .Accept all that you are: your strengths and limitations. .Transform who you are..Embrace who you can be during the process of reaching your goals. .Trust yourself to accomplish anything..Delight in living your life intentionally.
£17.05
Robert D. Reed Publishers Winning Salesmanship-The Glengarry Way
Book SynopsisTo be a winner in sales, you must be able to close the deal effectively. It's that simple. You can look good, sound good, work well with people, and know your product inside out, but if you can't close the sale-it's meaningless. Apply Larry Krakow's 20-plus years of successful selling experiences, recommendations of other successful professionals, and the sales meeting scene of the classic film Glengarry Glen Ross as a springboard to discover specific closing techniques to help you clinch your contracts more effectively and more often. Larry's anecdotes, instructions, and illustrations-including clear-cut phrasing and methodology for closing-will steer you to success time and time again. Learn to seal the deals of your life and advance your income to the next level with finesse, confidence, and integrity. Take control of your destiny. Take care of yourself and others--your loved ones, your clients, and your community.Listen to Larry and follow his lead to achieve Winning Salesmanship the Krakow way.
£10.40
Islandport Press Green Plate Special: Sustainable and Delicious
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£23.70
Apollo Publishers A Zero Waste Life: In Thirty Days
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£12.99
Apollo Publishers A Zero Waste Family
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£16.99
Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale F**k Plastic: 101 Ways to Free Yourself from
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£11.69
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Inteligencia natural Fsc Natural Intelligence
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£13.49
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial El pequeño libro del cleanfulness: ¡Mindfulness
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£18.86
Cossetània Edicions LHOME CABIROL
£26.14
BIS Publishers B.V. This is a Good Guide - for a Sustainable
Book SynopsisThis is a good guide for a sustainable lifestyle. It’s as simple as that. Would you like to live more sustainably, but without putting a lot of time, effort or money into it? Then this is your book. It’s filled with practical and positive tips on fashion, beauty, food, home, work, travel and leisure, and shows that stylish and sustainable go very well together. In particular, it demonstrates that it is about being good, not perfect: about smart choices, doing what you can and what suits you. With this modern handbook, sustainable fashion and lifestyle expert Marieke Eyskoot makes green living fun and doable. The right addresses, beautiful labels, great places, surprising facts and handy solutions – exactly what you need. Because doing good and feeling good at the same time: this is what everyone is looking for.
£23.74
