Sustainable Living

A call to action for consumers everywhere, Consumed asks us to look at how and why we buy what we buy, how it's created, who it benefits, and how we can solve the problems created by a wasteful system. We live in a world of stuff. We dispose of most of it in as little as six months after we...

Being your own self-reliant sustainability hero has never been easier, cheaper, or faster. Living sustainably doesn’t have to be difficult or expensive, and it certainly doesn’t have to mean you don’t get to enjoy your life. With five simple actions, you can be a powerful eco-warrior that takes active steps toward your environmental goal without sacrificing the things you love doing.

Filled with catchall research, American Hemp examines what this new domestic crop can be used for, what makes it a superior product, and what made it illegal in the first place; the book also delves into the many health and medical benefits of the plant. Hobbs weighs in on how hemp can improve existing industries, from farming to energy to 3D printing, plus how it can make a serious impact on climate change by removing toxins from the soil and by decreasing our dependence on plastics and fossil fuels.

In the 1970s, Dolly Freed lived off the land dirt cheap and plum easy. Living in their own house on a half-acre lot outside of Philadelphia for almost five years, Dolly and her father produced their own food and drink and spent roughly $700 each per year. Thirty years later Dolly Freed's Possum Living is as fascinating and pertinent as it was in 1978. Tin House is reissuing the survivalist classic with a foreword by David Gates and an afterword by the author.

Solar Outdoor Living is a complete, beginner-friendly guide to hosting unforgettable outdoor gatherings powered entirely by the sun. Blending sustainability, creativity, and practical planning, this book shows how solar energy can transform picnics, parties, and off-grid events into eco-friendly, modern celebrations without sacrificing comfort or fun. Listeners will learn the fundamentals of solar power for outdoor use, including how portable solar panels, batteries, and generators work together to power lighting, music, food cooling, cooking tools, and device charging.

Ready to master off-grid survival and achieve self-sufficiency? Even if you've never set foot off the grid! Does the idea of off-grid living excite you, yet feel overwhelming? Are you unsure where to start or worried about lacking critical survival skills? You're not alone. Many aspire to break free from modern utilities but hesitate due to complexity. The truth? Living off-grid is achievable, and you don’t have to figure it out alone.

Solar pоwеr is highly sought-aftеr nowadays, but installation of solar pоwеr is quitе expensive and nоt within the budget оf the cоmmоn man. A pоwеr company would charge clоsе tо $10,000 dollars fоr installation оf solar pоwеr, and thus, it rеmains a dream for many families. Sо what is the next bеst alternative if yоu dо nоt want tо spend your hard-earned mоnеy? Yоu could actually build and dеsign your own solar panеl and not have to pay the company. What yоu nееd is a right guide fоr installation that would provide yоu with appropriate instructions.

In Zero Waste Home, Bea Johnson shares the story of how she simplified her life by reducing her waste. Today, Bea, her husband, Scott, and their two young sons produce just one quart of garbage a year, and their overall quality of life has changed for the better. They now have more time together, they've cut their annual spending by a remarkable 40 percent, and they are healthier than they've ever been.

Even with time constraints or region-specific challenges, The DIY Permaculture Blueprint provides adaptable strategies and step-by-step guidance, ensuring any homesteader can succeed, regardless of past experiences.

This two-book collection pairs a beginner-friendly herbal apothecary roadmap with a proven greenhouse system—so you can grow healing herbs, extend your season, and fill your pantry with confidence. Clear steps, checklists, and real-world troubleshooting keep you moving from idea to daily use: tea to tincture, seedling to steady harvest.

Break free from the daily grind and pollution of modern life and learn how to save money while keeping the planet cleaner and greener, with this ultimate guide to living off-grid. In Living Off The Grid, Bo Morgan and Kathy Campbell condense all the best tips and tricks that helped them survive a year of unexpected power outage on a small budget into a powerful audiobook that can help you achieve the same feat.

Most permaculture guides sell you a fantasy of pristine raised beds and expensive compost systems. They tell you to buy worms, import soil, and fight nature. This audiobook reveals the uncomfortable truth: you are sitting on a goldmine of wasted energy, overlooked nutrients, and biological labor, and you are throwing it all away.

Looking for easy, budget-friendly ways to reduce your environmental impact and save money? Authored by award-winning environmental journalist, Candice Batista, Sustained takes you on an eye-opening journey towards sustainability and eco-friendly living-starting at home. This step-by-step, eco-living guide offers simple yet powerful ways to turn each room in your home into a hub of sustainability, while pocketing impressive savings every step of the way.

Are you overworked and overcrowded? Do you dream of dropping off the radar? Do you crave the peace of mind that only nature can provide? Fitness and military intelligence expert Gary Collins has helped thousands of people roam free with firsthand advice shared on his popular website. And now he's here to help you reclaim your independence. Going Off the Grid: The How-To Book of Simple Living and Happiness contains step-by-step instructions for creating your self-sustaining refuge in the untamed wild or the blacktop jungle.

Do something good for your family by learning how to plant a garden that will yield healthy, wholesome food throughout the year. Melissa K. Norris, fifth-generation homesteader and host of the popular Pioneering Today podcast, will walk you through each step of the process, from planning your food crops and garden space to harvesting and preserving the food you grow. Even intermediate to experienced gardeners will discover dozens of new ideas.

I want to share my life story with you as a way to help others going through a difficult situation. I realize that today many are facing financial and other major life issues. At first I went about my life, enjoying everything I had and none the wiser about how difficult things could become. However, that's when my life changed. It wasn't long after I lost my job that I found myself struggling to support my wife and our six-year-old son. I began to worry about what I was going to do and how I could possibly turn the situation around.

Join the thousands and thousands of people who have discovered the rewarding hobby of foraging. Edible greens, fruits, mushrooms and nuts are there for the taking, and with a little research, you can learn how to tell the difference between edible plants and herbs and the ones you have to avoid! Foraging is a great survival skill and if you want to nurture it you need to start practicing right now. Once you can forage wild edible plants, you make surviving in the wild possible not only for yourself but for your loved ones as well.

As seen on the BBC’s This Farming Life. The inspirational story of Lynbreck Croft - a regenerative Scottish farm rooted in local food, community, and the dreams of two women. Lynn and Sandra left their friends, family, and jobs in England to travel north to Scotland to find a bit of land that they could call their own. They had in mind keeping a few chickens, a kitchen garden, and renting out some camping space; instead, they fell in love with Lynbreck Croft - 150 acres of opportunity and beauty, shrouded by the Cairngorms and deep in the Highlands of Scotland.

It is believed that every salary earner cannot break the threshold of a great life as evident in a lot of salary earners. Salary earners complain of lack of sufficient money but when promotions come and salaries go up, in a few months the complaints resume. Our belief system and habits as salary earners is a major source of either failure or success. Decisions that include the type of car we drive, the kind of mortgage we take, and so on go a long way to determine how healthy our lifestyle will be.

Since available information in this regard is incomplete, DIY Source has prepared a practical guide on how to set up DIY solar power systems. DIY Solar Power for Beginners will guide you in customizing your grid, tied as well as mobile and off-grid solar power systems. We will walk you through the whole process of building your own solar system, including calculating your electricity needs.