Self-sufficiency and sustainable lifestyle(s) Books
Workman Publishing Greywater, Green Landscape: How to Install Simple
Book SynopsisKeep your lawn and garden lush without wasting resources by capturing and recycling the greywater that drains from your sink, shower, and washing machine. This accessible and detailed guide walks you through each step of planning for and installing a variety of greywater systems, including laundry-to-landscape and branched drain gravity-fed systems. After identifying greywater sources in your home and estimating flow rate, you’ll learn to pinpoint where to redirect the wastewater for the greatest benefit. No matter which system you decide to build, you'll have the information to construct it yourself or move forward with confidence to hire a professional.
£12.99
Watkins Media Limited The Way Back Almanac 2023: A contemporary
Book SynopsisBeautifully illustrated throughout, each month includes sections on stargazing, gardening tips, seasonal vegan recipes, home organization or crafting ideas, digital wellbeing practices, rituals, book club reads, folklore or ancient wisdom as told by modern people from different walks of life, and free space for your own writing, notes or recipes. Harvest your own home-grown micro greens, windowsill radishes or rooftop carrots. Celebrate seasonal citrus with Piña Colada Bars or relieve the heat of midsummer with Lithuanian beetroot gazpacho. Sew your own foraging pouch for May-time foraging or make a bee bath for thirsty July bees. Create a phone photo journal of your favourite patch of local green. Make your own Wake-Up Shower Fizzers or May Day Dew Face Wash. Watch the 120-meteor-per-hour Geminid Shower to see out the year in Way Back style. This interactive and treasured item will gently encourage creativity, fulfillment and ultimately a way back to yourself.
£10.39
Octopus Publishing Group The Little Book of Vegetarianism: The Simple,
Book SynopsisBeing veggie is easier than you think, whether you want to take your first flexitarian steps or are cutting out meat and fish for ethical, environmental or health reasons. This easy-to-digest guide, packed with nutritional tips, food and drink guides and shopping know-how, will inspire you to enjoy all that's best about an ECO-FRIENDLY LIFESTYLE.
£6.99
Ryland, Peters & Small Ltd Home Bird: Simple, Low-Waste Recipes for Family
Book SynopsisWant to eat well, reduce food and packaging waste and save some money? Home Bird is here to help, going back to basics with seasonal, bold and wholesome recipes that are not only better for the environment but also your well-being and budget. Influenced by nostalgic meals and cooking for loved ones, Megan Davies has written this book for the eco-minded home cook. She includes invaluable tips on how to make ingredients stretch; from potato peel crisps to pickled cucumber and beetroot. Megan also features ways to turn leftovers into a new meal, such as a Roasted Fennel, Chive and Dill Pasta Bake or Frittata, both from a leftover Raw Fennel, Chive and Dill Salad. Recipes include multi-tasking brunch or late-night dishes such as Bircher Pancakes or Sweet Potato Baked Eggs. Suppers for Sharing that can be scaled up to feed a crowd or down for a more intimate occasion range from Roasted Squash with Almonds and Tarragon to the best Roast Chicken recipe with Pan Pastry Croutons (plus, of course, ways to use up any uneaten chicken!). From On the Side accompaniments and stunning Sweet Things such as Pot Luck Tarte Tatin this collection of delicious and ingenious recipes will have all the inspiration you need to run a more sustainable home kitchen, reduce your carbon footprint and make the sort of small changes at home that can make a big difference to our world.
£16.99
Caitlin Press Chicken Poop for the Soul: In Search of Food
Book SynopsisFood sovereignty goes beyond addressing the need to secure a daily food source. Food sovereignty means having the right to determine where your food comes from and how it is produced. In 2008, alarmed by the impact agro-business was having on Canadian food quality and security, Kristeva Dowling decided to take control of her own food source. In an attempt to achieve 100 percent self-sufficiency on her small holding in BC''s Bella Coola Valley, she ploughed under her land, converted her garage to an intensive care unit for chickens and learned to hunt, fish, gather and preserve her own food. In the tradition of the "back-to-the-landers" of the ''60s, Dowling sheds the habits of her urban life and, with no agricultural background, begins an emotional and political journey towards independence. Dowling''s story is a witty, humorous and often bizarre journey of trial and error. Between rendering maple syrup, mothering baby chicks, canning hundreds of pounds of preserves, tracking wild game and growing her own wheat, Dowling finds time to reflect on her new-found tangible skills, her intangible problems and the politics and legislative barriers that face BC''s small farming community. This book is about a common dream: to leave the city and return to a simpler life. It is a story of success, failure and determination, which is guaranteed to make you laugh, shake your head in disbelief and get damned angry.
£16.19
Luath Press Ltd You Are What You Grow: Life, Land and the Pursuit
Book SynopsisBased on her hit Allotment Tales column for "The Scotsman and New Consumer Magazine", Antonia Swinson - the First Lady of the allotment - shares, not only her tips for gardening and allotment management, but also the effect of her time spent in the mud. Written with humour and vim You Are What You Grow is her extraordinary original vision of how the world ticks. Scything down the caricature of the allotmenteer, this is a social and political critique from an allotmenteer's point of view. Antonia explores issues such as the history of British land ownership, organic produce and self-sufficiency, community building and the psychological benefits to be found by allotmenteering. The work is divided by season with gardening tips, money saving ideas and promotion of healthy, and organic food.Trade ReviewMore a lively account of her musings over a year spent in her plot than a practical guide to growing radishes, but gives food for thought, as well as for the plate. THE SUNDAY TIMESYou Are What You Grow, Antonia Swinson's charming and amusing essays on our relationship with the earth, allotments and food and her reflections on our relationships with the land are the ideal accompaniment to Shakespeare, taking us out of our fuggy living rooms and into the reality that Shakespeare faced on his yearly returns to Stratford. THE GUIDE
£8.49
Pimpernel Press Ltd Living the Good Life in the City: A Journey to
Book SynopsisSara Ward has transformed her Victorian terraced house in London into an urban smallholding, 'Hen Corner'. Sara passionately believes that it’s possible to combine the benefits of urban living with some of the qualities associated with the country living dream: spending time with nature, producing and making our own food, sustainability and community, and in Living the Good Life in the City she shares some of the ways she and her family have brought city and country together, and shows that you, too, can make a difference to how you live and the food you eat. Divided into sections covering Make, Grow, Preserve, Keep, and Celebrate, Living the Good Life in the City is packed full of recipes, stories, tips and tricks including baking bread, making your own jam, pasta, sausages and cheese, keeping bees and livestock, preserving, foraging, harvesting and celebrating with food. Make explores our power and responsibilities as consumers and encourages us to start making food from scratch. In Grow – whether in a window box or allotment – Sara shares her experience of how to grow your own ingredients for the family table whilst Preserve is how to process your harvest to enjoy it all year round. In Keep Sara explores options for keeping chickens, bees and larger livestock, sharing the joys and responsibilities that come with that. Celebrate is about marking the highlights of the year with delicious recipes for family and friends. Finally, Inform brings together Sara’s best resources to inspire the reader to bring ideas into fruition.Trade Review"Packed full of recipes, stories, tips and tricks including baking bread, making your own jam, pasta, sausages and cheese, keeping bees and livestock and growing your own." * Essential Surrey *'Packed full of advice . . . this is a lovely insight into what life looks like when you combine country and city living.' * Daily Mail *'The book shares some of the ways in which she and her family have brought city and country together, how you can make changes to how you live and the food you eat, improving your quality of life, saving money and reducing your impact on the environment in the process.' * Chiswick Calendar *'An entertaining read and great source of ideas and inspiration.''Packed full of recipes, stories, tip and tricks including baking bread, making your own jam, pasta, sausages and cheese, keeping bees and livestock and growing your own.'
£19.80
Wilkinson Publishing Happy Planet Living: Simple Ways to Live a
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£17.99
Simon & Schuster The (Almost) Zero-Waste Guide: 100+ Tips for
Book SynopsisAuthor Melanie Mannarino shares 100 simple tips for being less wasteful with what you eat, in your home, your wardrobe, your travels and your community. She also advises on how you can reduce your “unseen” waste, such as purchasing clothes with more sustainable fabrics and adopting a “Meatless Monday” regimen to help decrease your carbon footprint. If you’re someone who wants to reduce waste in your daily life and make a positive impact on the planet without having to make drastic changes in your habits, then look no further.This highly accessible and practical guide will have you living a greener, more sustainable life that is (almost) zero waste in no time!Trade Review“Living a zero-waste lifestyle is undeniably admirable. But similar to those lofty New Year's resolutions that are so unachievable we abandon them within a week, attempting to make an overnight switch to a zero-waste existence probably isn't sustainable for most of us. For a less intimidating approach we can actually stick to, we consulted Melanie Mannarino's new book, The (Almost) Zero Waste Guide: 100+ Tips for Reducing Your Waste Without Changing Your Life. As the title suggests, the book focuses on small but meaningful ways to live a less wasteful life. It delves into everything from cooking, to travel, to clothes. . .”—realsimple.com
£999.99
The Energy and Resources Institute, TERI Green your life: Green Your School (An
Book SynopsisThis series is a practical guide that aims to make children environment friendly in their everyday life. In all the four titles of Green Your Life. Green Genius, the environment enthusiast, shares practical tips to green his home, shopping, school and neighbourhood and encourages hands-on application of information about ways to save the planet.
£5.22
The Energy and Resources Institute, TERI Green your life: Green Your Shopping (An
Book SynopsisThis series is a practical guide that aims to make children environment friendly in their everyday life. In all the four titles of Green Your Life. Green Genius, the environment enthusiast, shares practical tips to green his home, shopping, school and neighbourhood and encourages hands-on application of information about ways to save the planet.
£5.22
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Theres Always Room at the Table
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£27.00
Little, Brown & Company Cabin Porn Inspiration for Your Quiet Place
Book Synopsis Are you yearning for a simpler existence? Find the rural escape of your dreams in this beautiful book from the creators of the wildly popular tumblr Cabin Porn.Created by a group of friends who preserve 55 acres of hidden forest in Upstate New York, Cabin Porn began as a scrapbook to collect inspiration for their building projects. As the collection grew, the site attracted a following, which is now a huge and obsessive audience.The site features photos of the most remarkable handmade homes in the backcountry of America and all over the world. It has had over 10 million unique visitors, with 350,000 followers on Tumblr. Now Zach Klein, the creator of the site (and a co-founder of Vimeo) goes further into the most alluring images from the site and new getaways, including more interior photography and how-to advice for setting up a quiet place somewhere.With their idyllic settings, unique architecture and cozy interiors, the Cabin Porn phot
£13.77
Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale Tiny House Live Small Dream Big
Book SynopsisFrom the founder of the Instagram feed @TinyHouse, comes a small, chunky inspiration book filled with photographs of the smallest abodes—from vans and boats to tree houses and cabins. A die-cut cover acts as a window onto a simpler world of lighter living and sustainability that never sacrifices function or design.Imagine living debt-free in an environmentally-friendly home. No mortgage, no clutter, and boundless freedom. This is the reality and dream of people all over the world thanks to the widespread momentum of the tiny house movement in recent years. Designed to fit on the tiniest of coffee tables, this book features 250 full-color photographs of the smallest, most efficient homes around the world, with interviews, features, and smart tips straight from the homeowners. From tiny mobile homes in California, Nashville, and Minnesota to a surfer-built tree house in Washington to a school bus that has been converted to a camper in Oregon, this lookbook is packed
£16.20
Eleanor Martha Decker Folded Book Art Made Easy
£16.15
Penguin Young Readers Total Garbage
Book SynopsisAn investigative narrative that dives into the waste embedded in our daily lives—and shows how individuals and communities are making a real difference for health, prosperity, quality of life and the fight against climate change, by a Pulitzer Prize winning journalistWhat happens to our trash? Why are our oceans filling with plastic? Do we really waste 40 percent of our food 65 percent of our energy? Waste is truly our biggest problem, and solving our inherent trashiness can fix our economy, our energy costs, our traffic jams, and help slow climate change—all while making us healthier, happier and more prosperous. This story-driven and in-depth exploration of the pervasive yet hard-to-see wastefulness that permeates our daily lives illuminates the ways in which we've been duped into accepting absolutely insane levels of waste as normal. Total Garbage also tells the story of individuals and communities who are finding the way back from waste, and showing us that our choices truly matter and make a difference. Our big environmental challenges – climate, energy, plastic pollution, deforestation, toxic emissions—are often framed as problems too big for any one person to solve. Too big even for hope. But when viewed as symptoms of a single greater problem—the epic levels of trash and waste we produce daily--the way forward is clear. Waste is the one problem individuals can positively impact—and not just on the planet, but also on our wallets, our health, and national and energy security. The challenge is seeing our epic wastefulness clearly. Total Garbage will shine a light on the absurdity of the systems that all of us use daily and take for granted--and it will help both individuals and communities make meaningful changes toward better lives and a cleaner, greener world.
£14.49
DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) Compost
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£16.99
£24.70
Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc Verdura Living a Garden Life
Book Synopsis¡Verdura! – Living a Garden Life celebrates the power of adding more green to your life with 30 simple and budget-friendly gardening projects that promote well-being through plants. From Puerto Rican author and gardening celebrity, Perla Sofía Curbelo Santiago of Agrochic.com, a Spanish-language gardening lifestyle platform, comes this guide to forming a lifelong love of nature, plants, and gardening. Verdura means “greenery” in Spanish, but also refers to any edible plant from the garden. Throughout this book, verdura is used as both a description and an aspiration—it’s all about adding more verdura to your daily life! Perfect for beginners and expert gardeners alike, turning the practice of tending plants into a healthy lifestyle has never been easier. It takes many repetitions to form a habit, and the goal is to use the 30 projects found Trade Review"Curbelo-Santiago debuts with a fun compendium of plant-centric projects." * Publishers Weekly *"With the book’s accessible, easy-to-read format and friendly approach, the author did a fantastic job making a book perfect for those wanting to add more plants to their daily lives for inner happiness." * Budget Earth *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Gardening Projects EXPLORE NATURE Gardening with Your Thirteen-Year-Old Self Wonder Bowl Garden Coastal Garden Night Sky Garden Miniature Garden BE SOCIAL Hanging Planter Duo A Garden Gathering at Home Little Library Garden Bring Your Herb Cocktail and Mocktail Garden Bar Anywhere Say It with Verdura! ENCOURAGE WELLNESS Room with a View Fragrant Garden Hedge Barefoot Garden Sofrito Garden Meditation Garden SERVE THE COMMUNITY Life Happens Garden Lift Healing Nook Garden Break Room Garden-tainment Box UPCYCLE Candelabra Plant Holder Backyard Birdbath Indoor Garden Shed Propagation Wall Station Swinging Planter GROW INTO YOUR OWN Create a Living Background for Virtual Meetings Organizing Your Garden Legacy Garden Art Installation in a Bonsai Dish Display Your Favorite Plants Growing Gifts Appendix 1: Breaking Down the Gardening Process for Maximum Enjoyment Appendix 2: Gardening Project Plants and Plant Alternatives References Note of Appreciation Meet Perla Sofía Index
£17.09
Cool Springs Press The Elegant Edible Garden and The Garden Journal
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£38.25
Harvard Common Press NoWaste Save the Planet Vegan Cookbook HCP
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£20.90
Good Earth Publications, Inc Chicken Tractor The Permaculture Guide to Happy Hens and Healthy Soil Homestead 3rd Edition
£14.56
£14.30
Aoec Press Beginners Guide to Eco Renovation
£11.52
Whitethorn Press Little Farm Homegrown
£12.99
Polaris Publishing El Poder de TED El Empoderamiento Dinámico
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£12.56
Oikos Way DBA y on Earth Y on Earth Get Smarter Feel Better Heal the Planet
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£23.45
Legare Street Press Intensive Poultry Culture
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£13.22
LEGARE STREET PR Windmills and Wind Motors
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£14.96
LEGARE STREET PR Capons And Caponizing
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£22.75
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£14.09
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£24.65
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£15.95
LEGARE STREET PR Save It For Winter
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£25.60
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£17.95
LEGARE STREET PR Profitable Squab Breeding
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£22.75
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LEGARE STREET PR The Book of Cheese
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£28.45
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£19.90
LEGARE STREET PR Chickens And How To Raise Them
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£23.70
LEGARE STREET PR Chickens And How To Raise Them
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LEGARE STREET PR How to Grow and Market Fruit
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LEGARE STREET PR How to Grow and Market Fruit
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LEGARE STREET PR History of Hereford Cattle
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LEGARE STREET PR Maison Rustique Du Xixe Siècle Volume 1...
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£31.30
LEGARE STREET PR The The Farmstead the Making of the Rural Home and the LayOut of the Farm
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£26.55
Legare Street Press La Maison De Campagne
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£29.40
Legare Street Press La La Maison De Campagne
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