After renovating his inner-city Sydney terrace and making it almost entirely self-sufficient in energy, water and waste disposal, Michael Mobbs realised his house was sustainable, but he wasn't. While his house saves 100,000 litres of dam water a year, the same amount of water is used to produce ten days' worth of food for the average Australian.
In this companion book to the best selling Sustainable House, Mobbs turns his attention to reducing the carbon emissions associated with growing, processing, transporting, selling and disposing food. With his own experiences anchoring the book, Sustainable Food contains practical advice on establishing community and backyard vegetable gardens, keeping chooks and bees, and reducing water usage, along with insights into dealing with councils, sidelining supermarkets and what we eat and why.
- ISBN10 1306024862
- ISBN13 9781306024860
- Publish Date 1 January 2013 (first published 1 November 2012)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 25 February 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of New South Wales Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 249
- Language English