Sustainable Living

Lemons and Lavender is an inspiring and instructive guide to living the handmade life by consuming less and creating more. Practical and profound, this handy how-to covers every area of life and offers easy-to-do tips, recipes, and advice for saving money and the planet. Learn how to ditch your lawn and raise organic vegetables, cook healthy meals for pennies, cure minor maladies from the kitchen cabinet, save big dollars with small repairs, and eco-clean your house with lemons and lavender. With this guide, families can live more joyfully and far more creatively, all on a dime.

The Slightly Greener Method gives you small, actionable changes you can easily make in your pantry, medicine cabinet, and under your kitchen sink - without breaking the bank or upending your life. By focusing on mico-habits you can build over time and the gradual introduction of safer products, Harris guides you along a roadmap to a greener, more environmentally-friendly lifestyle that can help protect you and your families' health long-term.

Most eco-friendly books start with terror-inducing lists of the carcinogenic chemicals you are liberally slathering all over every single surface in your house, painting most people as unwitting eco-villains, happily Lysol-ing their way straight to hell. Well, listeners can just relax and unpack the (plastic) bags - no guilt trips today! All You Need Is Less is about realistically adopting an eco-friendly lifestyle without either losing your mind from soul-destroying guilt or becoming a preachy know-it-all whom everyone loathes.

Essential Green Roof Construction is a comprehensive, in-depth guide to building simple green roofs for houses and small buildings. Packed with detailed photos, illustrations, case studies, and code compliance advice, it offers clear step-by-step instructions necessary to create your own living roof on a new build or as a retrofit. Where common sense meets beauty—a green roof is a system of layers that work together to support plant life, insulate homes, and make the world a greener place.

Renewable energy is good for your wallet. Those who see that opportunity are already seizing it … all the way to the bank. Green Is Good is a no-nonsense guide to how you, the average American, can easily incorporate clean energy and energy efficiency into your daily life and in the process save money, make money, and help wean your community off fossil fuels.

Everything you've been told about being green is wrong. The quest for a breakthrough battery or a 100-mpg car is a dangerous fantasy. We are consumers, and we like to consume greenly and efficiently. But David Owen argues that our best intentions are still at cross-purposes to our true goal: living sustainably while caring for our environment and the future of the planet. Efficiency, once considered the holy grail of our environmental problems, turns out to be part of the problem - we have little trouble turning increases in efficiency into increases in consumption.

Lead in lipstick? 1,4-Dioxane in baby soap? Coal tar in shampoo? How is this possible? Simple. The $35 billion cosmetics industry is so powerful they've kept themselves unregulated for decades. Not Just a Pretty Face chronicles the quest that led a group of health and environmental activists to the world's largest cosmetics companies to ask some tough questions....

Most Australians know that climate change is real, but many don’t know what to do about it and feel powerless. In Fight for Planet A, Craig Reucassel shows it isn’t as scary as we think and we can make a difference to help protect the world for future generations. Craig sets out solutions and practical day-to-day changes we can make to reduce our carbon footprint, as well changes governments need to make without further delay.

In Nature’s Clean, homesteading expert Tracey Glenn guides you through the art of natural cleaning, showing how simple ingredients from your pantry and garden can replace harmful chemicals and expensive commercial products. Whether you're a seasoned homesteader or just starting your journey to greener living, this comprehensive guide covers everything you need to know to create a healthy home using vinegar and other eco-friendly ingredients.

Looking for a creative, sustainable way to repurpose old wine or soda bottles? Glass Bottle Crafting is your ultimate guide to transforming discarded glass into beautiful, functional, and eco-friendly home décor. Perfect for beginners and seasoned DIYers alike, this book is packed with step-by-step tutorials, expert tips, and inspiring ideas to help you cut, paint, etch, and assemble glass bottles into eye-catching creations.

Designed for parents of toddlers aged 1-4, this book is packed with practical tips and easy-to-implement solutions for living sustainably with little ones. From simplifying snack time with zero-waste hacks to choosing eco-friendly toys and essentials, every chapter helps you create a greener, more mindful household without sacrificing your sanity. Learn how to turn everyday moments—from bath time to bedtime—into opportunities to nurture not just your child, but the planet too.

They say ignorance is bliss, but is it really? Just because you’re unaware of the impact something has doesn’t mean there isn’t one. My goal with this book isn’t to convince anyone to go plant-based or to push a specific agenda. Instead, I want to share the information that often goes unnoticed—the facts most people don’t know. By shedding light on these truths, I hope to empower you to make choices based on knowledge rather than ignorance.

Incluso si no tienes absolutamente ninguna pista de lo que implicaría sacar tu vida del sistema, con los recursos y la orientación adecuados, es posible para cualquiera que tenga una sed insaciable de ello. Hacer un cambio de vida tan grande puede ser muy desalentador, pero al final, te agradecerás a ti mismo cuando veas lo feliz que te hace. Si la familia Watkinsons del Reino Unido puede dejar sus trabajos, desarraigar su casa y vivir de la energía renovable mientras cuidan de su hija de 5 años y su hijo de 18 meses, entonces tú también puedes.

Why a unicycle? Why a cross-country trip? Why leave a prominent New York magazine and return to the simple life in Kentucky? Reminiscent of classic literary travelogues, Mark Schimmoeller's Slowspoke: A Unicyclist's Guide to America takes listeners on an inward, emotional journey as he inches across landscapes and communities from North Carolina to Arizona. Schimmoeller became inspired by his unicycle as an adolescent.

The abundant life Jesus promised takes cultivation. This guidebook will show you how to cultivate a sustainable spirituality that produces abundant life in you and through you for generations to come! It starts with an honest look at yourself that leads to a genuine pursuit of intimacy with God.

Step into the world of foraging with Foraging Wild Edibles for Beginners, the ultimate guide to identifying, harvesting, and enjoying wild foods. Whether you're a nature lover, a culinary enthusiast, or a beginner seeking self-reliance, this book provides the foundational skills you need to explore wild edibles safely and sustainably.

This book opens the door to "GREEN LEASING" and "SUSTAINABLE LIVING" with "NATURAL RESOURCES that can be achieved by anyone, anywhere, and at any time, with great success, and can be explored side-by-side with us in a parallel universe (right here in Texas & Arizona!) as we build our Home Tree Farm Eco-Villages.

Finally, a book that simplifies the beginning skills of urban homesteading and provides easy lessons for those ready to be more self-sufficient. We are all different and live in different situations. This book will get you started in ways you might not have thought of, no matter where you are.

Unser Ernährungsstil ist nicht nur schlecht für die Gesundheit sondern - wir haben es schon geahnt: er überfordert auch unseren Planeten. Hat das große Fressen bald ein Ende? Wie sieht das Menü der Zukunft aus und müssen wir uns von der Currywurst verabschieden? Klimawirkung, Wasserverbrauch, Flächenbedarf : Der WWF hat unsere Lebensmittel auf den Öko-Prüfstand gestellt und einen kulinarischen Kompass für eine gesunde Erde vorgelegt. Vegan, fleischbasiert oder flexitarisch: Der Report über eine nachhaltige Ernährung macht sich auf die Suche nach dem den Speisezettel von morgen.

Are you tired of relying on supermarkets and other outside sources for your fruit and vegetable needs? Are you ready to start growing your own raised bed garden, but you fear you do not have the time or expertise? In this book, discover everything you need to be successful.