Sustainable Home is a stylish, inspirational and practical guidebook to maintaining a more environmentally friendly household. Sustainable lifestyle blogger and professional Christine Liu takes you on a tour through the rooms of your home – the living area, kitchen, bedroom and bathroom – offering tips, tricks and 18 step-by-step projects designed to help you lead a more low-impact lifestyle. From guidance on decluttering and living minimally to advice about plant-based foods to tips on repa...
Heating with wood is often considered a natural and economical alternative to electricity or fossil fuels. However, even with a fairly new and efficient woodstove, many cords of wood are required for burning over the course of a single winter, and incomplete combustion can contribute to poor air quality. A rocket mass heater is an earthen masonry heating system which provides clean, safe, and efficient warmth for your home, all while using 70 to 90 percent less fuel than a traditional woodstove....
Prepare your child for the unpredictable. Teach your boy or girl basic outdoors survival skills, first aid, how to create their own "bug-out bag," and more. Most of us aren't ready for the worst possible events-fire, civil disorder, earthquakes, floods, hurricane, tornado-but we can be! Now there is an easy way for mothers and fathers to teach their kids to be better prepared-and for families to learn to work together. David Nash offers projects that will amaze and entertain kids-and help your...
Productive Orcharding; Modern Methods of Growing and Marketing Fruit
by Fred C Sears
"The eagerly anticipated follow-up to Jam It, Pickle It, Cure It offers more ideas for adventurous culinary DIYers to stock the larder with artisan food and drink, kitchen staples, tasty snacks, and gift-worthy eats. Want to make your own Plum Catsup (can it!), Strawberry Black Pepper Soda (bottle it!), and Chipotles in adobo (smoke it!)? Join food writer Karen Solomon in the culinary revolution that has changed the way people think about the boxed and jarred food on the grocery shelf, by tryi...
I Never Dreamed I'd Grow Up to Be an Awesome Church Choir Director But Here I Am Killin' It
by Mary Lou Darling
The Future Of Housing In The Digital Era, The Most Affordable Types Of Housing Options That Will Be Popular In The Future, How 3D Printed Homes Will Revolutionize The Housing Industry, And Why Mobile Homes Are The Quintessential Housing Option For Buyers
by Dr Harrison Sachs
Prepper's Survival Pantry (Prepper, Preppers Pantry, #1)
by Alex Wild
Find your route to a more sustainable lifestyle with Dick Strawbridge and his son, James. We can all take steps to reduce our carbon footprint and be more self-sufficient. For some, that might mean heading to the countryside to live off the land. For the rest of us, the reality might involve smaller, but no less important, lifestyle changes: cutting back on plastic or food waste, growing vegetables, preserving meat and fish, preparing jams and chutneys, baking sourdough bread, making your own p...
Put down those harmful sprays and learn natural pest control! Take care of aphids, slogs, Japanese Beetles, Tomato and Tobacco Hornworms, and all the other bad bugs that might be infesting your garden or backyard. Are you sick and tired of pesky insects in your garden? Do you want to stay away from pesticides and harmful poisons that could be hazardous to your health and your garden? If you answered yes to both of those questions, Bug-Free Organic Gardening has all the answers to your troubles....
Living small frees up the mind, the wallet, and the soul. As economic uncertainties loom large, and the evidence mounts that humans are responsible for much of global warming, the "new" trend is beginning to seem old: new subdivisions filled with McMansions, the friend of a friend's childless brother who just added on a third bedroom. Many of us have suffered the consequences of an inflated mortgage, an unmanageable construction project, or a house simply too large to keep clean. Will our dream...
Green Your Home All-in-One For Dummies
by Yvonne Jeffery, Liz Barclay, Michael Grosvenor, Elizabeth B Goldsmith, Betsy Sheldon, Eric Corey Freed, Rik DeGunther, Ann Whitman, and Owen E Dell
"Green Your Home All-in-One For Dummies" empowers readers to make ecologically-friendly improvements to each and every area of their home. At 696 pages, this package is a real value and a true source book for readers looking for a substantial breadth of information and solutions yet unwilling to invest in four, five, or six books on the wide range of content that they seek.