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In this generous account of life on the land and in the kitchen, trailblazing cook Annie Smithers chronicles her quest for a more sustainable existence, in harmony with the environment and the self. Part meditation, part memoir, the book offers practical advice and wisdom gleaned from a life dedicated to seasonal food and living lightly on the ground beneath her feet.
Annie's story spans thirty years of productive gardens and kitchens across country...
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In 2010, wanting to slow down, simplify, and become more responsible for the food on their table, Jim and Mary Competti began Old World Garden Farms. Their goals were simple. To build the farm with recycled materials when possible, grow food without the use of chemicals or pesticides, and create the entire venture with zero debt. And most importantly - to have FUN doing it! This book is their story of just how they accomplished that dream! Starting...
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The benefits of foraging for food are far and wide. Whether you're looking for ways to become more self-sufficient, save money, or develop healthier habits, A Guide to Wild Food Foraging is an extensive on-the-go directory of more than 100 profiles for wild plants, herbs, fruits, nuts, mushrooms, seaweeds, and shellfish. Each profile provides tips on identification, seasonality, location, what and when to harvest, and how to prepare and use them in...
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Roll Up Your Sleeves and Build a Better Farm!
Loaded with complete plans and easy-to-follow construction tips, this book offers a creative mix of both practical and decorative projects for working and hobby farms. Veteran family farmers and 4-H alumni Samantha and Daniel Johnson present 20 essential projects for aspiring homesteaders. From log jacks, rabbit hutches, and milking stands to a weather vane and a barn quilt, clear step-by-step color photographs...
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La Bomba de Calor. Fundamentos, TecnologÃa y Casos Prácticos, es una publicación cuyo objetivo es difundir los beneficios de estos equipos, que son capaces de proporcionar calefacción, refrigeración y/o ACS. A través de sus páginas, se exponen sus fundamentos termodinámicos que explican su funcionamiento, su desarrollo tecnológico, sus criterios de dimensionamiento, asà como la utilidad de los mismos mediante la reseña de varios casos reales...
26) Solar Power for Sustainable Living: What to Consider Before Going the Do It Yourself Solar Route
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NOTE: This book is written for those COMTEMPLATING getting a solar panel system if they don't know enough about it yet. A good, basic understanding of what you need to know "before" diving into it is what you will learn in order to make an informed decision; especially if you are in the United States (or Canada). So if you are considering do it yourself solar panels for your home, or solar panel installation through a contractor, "Solar Power for...
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Omlet's easy-to-clean, safe and stylish Eglu chicken houses became an instant design icon when they were launched in 2004. Omlet quickly became most popular brand among chicken keepers, appealing to a new generation of people wanting to keep chickens as pets in their back gardens. This complete guide covers everything a novice chicken keeper needs to know, and reimagines the way you live with and look after your chickens. From helping you select the...
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Learn how to live sustainably in the city, the suburbs, or the country
Many people are cutting back on consumerism and trying to simplify their lives, realizing that the "new way" isn't necessarily the best way. The sustainable living movement goes beyond a desire to protect the environment and practice green living; it's about rediscovering simple survival skills that, in an earlier time, were known and practiced by almost everyone.
The New American...
29) How to Harmonize and Balance the Energy Around Your Home: Create a Healthier, Safer Home Environment
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Toxic energies in your home environment are the cause of many risks to your physical and emotional health, and polluted EMF energies affect children more deeply than adults. This book will show you how easy it is to move EMF pollution away from and out of your home. The process of eliminating toxic energy from your home is known as a GEOPATHIC CLEARING. You can watch how it's done on HOME AND GARDEN TELEVISION. In this episode of MY FIRST PLACE the...
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A complete guide to modern pedaled-powered, treadled, and hand-cranked devices for the home.
What if I could harness this energy? An unusual question for anyone putting in a long stint on a treadmill perhaps, and yet human power is a very old, practical and empowering alternative to fossil fuels. Replacing motors with muscles can be considered a political act-an act of self-sufficiency that gains you independence.
The Human-Powered Home is a one-of-a-kind...
31) 40 Projects for Building Your Backyard Homestead: A Hands-on, Step-by-Step Sustainable-Living Guide
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A companion volume to Backyard Homesteading, 40 Projects for Building Your Backyard Homestead provides details on how to build more than 40 projects to enhance readers' sustainable living. Even if they are only moderately handy, they'll discover the tools and techniques for building their own feeders, fences, and structures. In the process, they'll save money and have the satisfaction of doing it themselves.
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From the editors of Urban Farm magazine, Urban Farm Projects expands the boundaries of city and suburban self-sustainability. Over 40 innovative do-it-yourself projects are stylishly presented and compiled in this entertaining and easy-to-follow user's manual.
With projects ranging from the simple (candle making and canning) to the more ambitious (raising bees to pollinate your own crops), this crafty book will appeal to the thrifty and eco-conscious...
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The Complete Illustrated Guide to Farming is a comprehensive, one-stop encyclopedic guide for the beginning farmer, hobby farmer, and small-scale family farmer.
Are you interested in the country lifestyle or becoming more self-reliant? Do you think about someday raising livestock or growing crops? If you're ready to make these thoughts a reality, The Complete Illustrated Guide to Farming is the perfect place to start. Farming experts Philip Hasheider...
34) When The Grid Goes Down: Disaster Preparations and Survival Gear For Making Your Home Self-Reliant
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Disasters come and go each year. It is through developing a self-reliant mindset, having essential survival gear and a handful of critical skills that you and your family will be able to prevail in an urban crisis. Jammed with field-tested information from real-world applications, survival instructor Tony Nester covers how to prepare for both short-term survival ranging from 24-72 hours as well as long-term situations resulting from a grid-down emergency...
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Ancient Secrets for a Healthy Home - Author Mallory Neeve Wilkins explains the sacred studies of China and India and geomancy elsewhere have for millennia mapped the path of the Earth's subtle energies with Feng Shui and Vaastu Shastra. They have endeavored to bring harmony and well-being to people, buildings and the environment. At one time or another, everyone expresses a need for increased positive energy. Over the last sixty years these ancient...
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In his new book Watts In This For Me? A Skeptic's Guide To Home Energy Efficiency, Jeffrey Tamburro addresses the simple premise that energy efficiency is something that will benefit everyone and the information about it can be conveyed without getting into political discussions or being overly technical. If you ever considered making energy efficiency upgrades to your home, but were turned off by a political agenda you didn't agree with, didn't want...
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Living in a world that is getting more and more expensive can be a frustrating experience. This book gives you tips on how to be successful in your day to day activities, providing you with tried and tested tips. Some of the areas covered are food, schooling, mind mapping and raising children. We have lived all over the US, Hawaii, and New Zealand and these tools have been successful in all areas.
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Build your way to a more self-sufficient lifestyle with step-by-step projects for backup and supplementary utilities--including independent water, heat, and electricity--growing and storing food, raising small livestock, beekeeping, and more. Many of the projects require basic materials available at your everyday home center, but this book also provides valuable DIY resources for solar, hydro, greenhouse, and gardening needs. This book will help you...
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A Buyers Guide to Floating Homes addressing questions that all first time floating home buyers have, including those they don't know they have. Can you feel the house move? What is a float? How do you inspect a float? Can you finance floating homes? What about insurance? Do you own the slip or rent the slip? What is the lifestyle like? What are the pros & cons of living on a floating home? All this and more is covered in this guide.
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What does it mean to "downshift"? Why is it now imperative that millions of people begin moving towards a simpler, more sustainable lifestyle? If you, too, are to join this worldwide effort to create a different sort of world, when should you start? How should you set about it? Might you need to move house in order to live more sustainably, and if so, to where? And, to whom can you turn for advice and guidance? This easy-to-read guidebook, by an author,...
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