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Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
This compact guide provides advice, tips, and step-by-step instructions for hundreds of projects, offering the entire family the tools they need to make the shift toward self-sufficient living. Readers will learn to dip candles, bake bread, make maple syrup, start a vineyard, and much more. With special features for young homesteaders, this is an essential family guide to self-sufficient living.
- Bake Pies, Cakes, and Bread
- Grow Vegetables and...
87) Folks, this ain't normal: a farmer's advice for happier hens, healthier people, and a better world
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Farmer Joel Salatin is the 21st century's thinking man's farmer who believes that the answer to rebuilding America is to start with the family farm and for those farms to thrive, we all need to learn how to eat naturally again. Salatin's solutions as presented in the book are very simple and easy to implement in any American household, whether in the suburbs of Chicago, the mountains of Colorado, or urban life in New York City. On topic with today's...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
Description
"Smart, actionable advice and life tips on how to improve your career, your home, your finances, your relationships, and your health for a happier life -- all from the popular Smarter Living section of the New York Times." -- amazon.com
Language
English
Description
Wherever you live - farm, suburb, or even city - The Homesteading Handbook will show you how to embrace a more self-sufficient lifestyle. Learn to plan, plant, and harvest your own organic garden. Enjoy fruits and vegetables year-round by canning, drying, and freezing. Build and install alternate energy devices such as solar panels or geothermal heat pumps. Who doesn't want to shrink their carbon footprint, save money, and eat fresh, homegrown...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From environmental activist Rob Greenfield comes an energetic (and sometimes extreme!) guide to creating a sustainable world. In Be the Change, Greenfield guides young readers through some of the trickiest topics of our time: food and water waste, our dependency on fossil fuels, and our love of money and stuff. What our planet needs, he argues, is for us to embrace sustainable living. Be the Change is Greenfield's guide to doing just that. He describes...
93) Sustainable planet: how respecting the Earth is protecting our future (and what you can do to help)
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Sustainability is defined as 'development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs'. In the simplest terms, sustainability is about children and the world we will leave them. Earth is uniquely able to sustain life. Yet we are stripping it of its natural resources, polluting its land and waters and heating its atmosphere, with terrifying consequences. A more sustainable world...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Presents information about the idea of a carbon footprint, explaining how the production of greenhouse gases contributes to global warming, how people can calculate how much they contribute to the problem, and how they can reduce their carbon footprint.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
After the birth of their son, Jay Sinha and Chantal Plamondon set out on a journey to eliminate plastic baby bottles as the Canadian government moved to ban BPA. When they found it was difficult to procure glass baby bottles, Jay and Chantal made it their mission to not only find glass and metal replacements for plastic, but to make those products accessible to the public as well. While plastic has its uses in technology, the medical and industrial...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Do you have any idea how much energy you waste a year? Help save energy, money, and the environment all at the same time with these 10 simple steps and added hands-on activity. Find out what tips work for you and spread the word. Together, we can make a difference!"--Back cover.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Easy, do-able, down to earth ideas and suggestions for everyone to help save the planet. If you want to save the planet, but your to-do list is already pretty long and remembering your re-usable coffee cup feels like a Herculean task, then this is the book for you. Covering every aspect of our lives from the stuff we buy and the food we eat, to how we travel, work, and celebrate. This book provides stacks of practical, down to earth ideas to slot...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"People are becoming more aware of the effect of their daily activites on the planet. Find out how more and more people are eating and living "green" by buying food grown locally, eating food that is organic, and even growing their own food. Many people are also building eco-friendly homes and creating their own sustainable forms of energy"--Page 4 of cover.
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