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Greening your home simply means finding things you can do around the house to reduce your impact on the planet. Things that green your home usually make it a safer and healthier place to live in as well; this new book will present thousands of low or no cost ways to make your home environmentally friendly. You will learn 101 things you can do today to help save the planet. If you are building a new home these include how to locate a green-friendly...
3) Folks, this ain't normal: a farmer's advice for happier hens, healthier people, and a better world
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xvi, 361 pages ; 24 cm
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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...
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159 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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A new edition of the bestselling Green Living, packed with new content and beautiful lifestyle photography to help inspire your journey to a more sustainable life. This book is a collection of changes you can make to your home and lifestyle over the course of a year. Jen Chillingsworth offers up achievable advice and tips for anyone and everyone, no matter where you live or what job you do. From making your own cleaning products, soy candles, buying...
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vii, 206 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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"Unites both academic and practical responses to environmental crisis from original voices across the solarpunk movement, which positions ingenuity, generativity, and community as ways to resist hopelessness in response to the climate crisis"--
"Original voices from across the solarpunk movement, which positions ingenuity, generativity, and community as ways to resist hopelessness in response to the climate crisis.Almanac for the Anthropocene collects...
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96 pages : color illustrations, map ; 26 cm
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Discusses a variety of environmental issues, with suggestions for things that organizations, governments, and individuals can do to help, covering topics such as energy efficiency, climate change, recycling, and population growth.
7) The first-time homesteader: a complete beginner's guide to starting and loving your new homestead
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The author guides you through the process of setting up your property (no matter how small or large), establishing a garden, welcoming animals into the fold, living more resourcefully, and expanding your homestead kitchen tools and skills with grace and confidence. Includes chapters on raising chickens, animal husbandry, growing a garden, home dairy production, bee keeping, resourceful living and homestead kitchen skills.
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246 pages ; 19 cm
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Simplify your home, empty your wardrobe, abandon compulsive purchases, eat more frugally but better, take care of your body and mind. From the art of feeling well in your home to the art of feeling well in your body, this compelling and elegant book will transform your life and take you on an empowering journey to happiness. You will feel energized, more confident and free. You will discover the essence of being truly alive and how to live a more...
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xv, 267 pages ; 20 cm
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With essays from renowned children's book authors such as Ann Brashares, Jeanne DuPrau, Caroline B. Cooney, Laurie Halse Anderson, Bruce Coville, Gennifer Choldenko, and over 100 others, each piece is an informative and inspiring call to kids of all ages to understand what's happening to the environment, and to take action in saving our world. Features helpful tips and facts interspersed throughout the book.
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279 pages ; 24 cm
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Lindsey Harrad is the former editor of the UK's bestselling and award-winning vegetarian magazine. In Living Plantfully, she gathers together all the wellness wisdom she has acquired over 20 years of journalistic experience, as well as drawing on the advice and experience of trusted experts in food, health, gardening and sustainability to offer ideas, recipes and simple tips that anyone can do to help live a more plant-based, healthy and happy life....
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"The Animal Lover's Guide to Changing the World is the inspiring, accessible, and empowering book for everyone who loves animals and wants to live a more animal-friendly life, even if they aren't ready to join a movement or give up bacon. With more than 7.5 billion people on the planet, wildlife is going extinct at the fastest rate since the dinosaurs. Three to four million dogs and cats are killed in shelters every year; billions of chickens, pigs,...
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335 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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"We all want to do our best for our homes and the planet, but it's often hard to find the time and energy to think of alternatives. This practical book from Sunday Times bestselling author and Great British Bake Off winner Nancy Birtwhistle is the ultimate guide to reducing your environmental impact while saving you time and money. Inside are tips and home hacks on everything from eco cleaning, upcycling, and making the most out of your weekly shop...
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248 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"Plastic pollution has been headline news since David Attenborough's shocking Blue Planet II in 2017. But plastics are only part of the story, and the invisible world of chemical pollutants - in the soil, the air, our water systems and our own bodies - is just as concerning. There's been a huge rise in chemical related health issues (affecting IQ, fertility, cancer and more) in recent years, and this isn't surprising when over 70 per cent of chemicals...
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