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Country Plumbing: Living with a Septic System, 2nd Edition
ISBN: 9780911469349 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. You can keep your septic system running day-after-day, year after-year. First published in 1984, Country Plumbing, in its initial edition, went through eight printings and has educated and entertained thousands of country dwellers who live beyond the reach of public sewer systems. Now, with the contribution of Mike Haupt, this revised edition contains information about some of the more recent developments in the world of private sewage treatment facilities. Even in restricted areas such as lakeside properties or small lots, you can live without a public sewer hook-up and still be a good...
You can keep your septic system running day-after-day, year after-year. First published in 1984, Country Plumbing, in its initial edition, went throug...
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Green Barbarians: How to Live Bravely on Your Home Planet
ISBN: 9781416571827 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sandbeck preaches a return to a more primitive way of life--a life with more joy and fewer household products. Green Barbarians demonstrates that by mustering a bit of courage and relying less on many modern conveniences, we can live happier, safer, more ecologically and economically responsible lives..
Sandbeck preaches a return to a more primitive way of life--a life with more joy and fewer household products. Green Barbarians demonstrates th...
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Living Green: The Missing Manual
ISBN: 9780596801724 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Taking care of the earth is more important than ever, but the problems we're facing can seem overwhelming. Living Green: The Missing Manual helps make earth-friendly decisions more manageable by narrowing them down to a few simple choices. This all-in-one resource is packed with practical advice on ways you can help the environment by making simple changes in your home routine, work habits, and the way you shop and get around town. You don't have to embark on a radical new lifestyle to make a difference. Living Green: The Missing Manual shows you how small changes can... Taking care of the earth is more important than ever, but the problems we're facing can seem overwhelming. Living Green: The Missing Manual |
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Green Made Easy: The Everyday Guide for Transitioning to a Green Lifestyle
ISBN: 9781401922849 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Green Made Easy, author and green pioneer Chris Prelitz shares how to be both environmental and economical at the same time. Going green is not only good for our planet, it's good for your pocketbook. For over 20 years, Chris has been helping businesses, home owners, and corporations lower their monthly expenses by going green. Chris and his wife, Becky, share a green solar-powered home in Laguna Beach, California, which Chris designed and built. Most months they produce more power than they use and receive a credit from their power company instead of a bill In this...
In Green Made Easy, author and green pioneer Chris Prelitz shares how to be both environmental and economical at the same time. Going g...
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Self Sufficient Home: Going Grpb
ISBN: 9780811735582 / Angielski / Miękka / 265 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How to cut heating and cooling costs, utilize solar energy, construct nonflush toilets and solar showers, collect rainwater, and apply permaculture techniquesHundreds of photographs and diagrams illustrate ways to use natural resources and embrace self-reliance Sustainable living advice from self-reliance expert Christopher Nyerges, editor of Wilderness Way magazine and author of How to Survive AnywhereIn an ever-changing economy, cutting costs and utilizing available resources is essential. From embracing solar energy and wind power to using fluorescent bulbs and growing backyard vegetable...
How to cut heating and cooling costs, utilize solar energy, construct nonflush toilets and solar showers, collect rainwater, and apply permaculture te...
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The Economical Environmentalist: My Attempt to Live a Low-Carbon Life and What It Cost
ISBN: 9781844078073 / Angielski / Twarda / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a reference guide to low-cost and low-carbon living for everyone. Using three real-life examples, readers can follow the attempts of a young person starting out in work, a father of two holding down a job and a pensioner on a fixed income as they try to decarbonise on a budget.
This book provides a reference guide to low-cost and low-carbon living for everyone. Using three real-life examples, readers can follow the attempts o...
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Do One Green Thing: Saving the Earth Through Simple, Everyday Choices
ISBN: 9780312559762 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If you can only read and reference one green thing, make it this book: an easily comprehensible, clearly presnted source for green living. Everything you need to know is right here at your fingertips. Unlike a lot of other overwhelming green guides on the market, this is green decision making in bite sized pieces.With chose it/lose it comparisons throughout, now it's simple to figure out it's worth switching to a green detergent, what kind of plastic your sports bottle is made of, or which fish is safest to eat. Rather than spending time trying to figure out how best to go green,... If you can only read and reference one green thing, make it this book: an easily comprehensible, clearly presnted source for green living. Everythi... |
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Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid & Beyond the American Dream
ISBN: 9781577318972 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why would a successful American physician choose to live in a twelve-foot-by-twelve-foot cabin without running water or electricity? To find out, writer and activist William Powers visited Dr. Jackie Benton in rural North Carolina. No Name Creek gurgled through Benton s permaculture farm, and she stroked honeybees wings as she shared her wildcrafter philosophy of living on a planet in crisis. Powers, just back from a decade of international aid work, then accepted Benton s offer to stay at the cabin for a season while she traveled. There, he befriended her eclectic neighbors organic farmers,...
Why would a successful American physician choose to live in a twelve-foot-by-twelve-foot cabin without running water or electricity? To find out, writ...
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Mini Farming: Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre
ISBN: 9781602399846 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mini Farming describes a holistic approach to small-area farming that will show you how to produce 85 percent of an average family's food on just a quarter acre--and earn $10,000 in cash annually while spending less than half the time that an ordinary job would require. Even if you have never been a farmer or a gardener, this book covers everything you need to know to get started: buying and saving seeds, starting seedlings, establishing raised beds, soil fertility practices, composting, dealing with pest and disease problems, crop rotation, farm planning, and much more. Because...
Mini Farming describes a holistic approach to small-area farming that will show you how to produce 85 percent of an average family's food on ju...
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Do It Gorgeously: How to Make Less Toxic, Less Expensive, and More Beautiful Products
ISBN: 9781401341398 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It's official: In these tough times, clueless is out--and crafty is in. For both financial and environmental reasons, life is all about doing well with what you have. But that doesn't mean you can't still be fabulous. Do It Gorgeously shows you how to make nearly everything you would otherwise purchase: From the kitchen to the nursery, from your medicine cabinet to your makeup drawer, you'll be astounded by how easy and inexpensive it is to make safe and eco-friendly products for your family. You deserve to have it all--and now you can do it yourself Praise for Sophie Uliano: "To be with...
It's official: In these tough times, clueless is out--and crafty is in. For both financial and environmental reasons, life is all about doing well wit...
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The Heart of Simple Living : 7 Paths to a Better Life
ISBN: 9781440204517 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Heart of Simple Living is your road map to a more balanced life - a life centered on self-discovery. Fewer possessions. More time. More friends. More meaning. This book will help you identify objectives for your life and create awareness of your actions and finances, while planning for your future. This inspirational book delivers seven tangible and actionable paths, woven together with real-life stories and humor along the way. You can follow these paths sequentially or cherry-pick them one at a time. Pursuing a life of simplicity is a journey, and as you blaze the trail... The Heart of Simple Living is your road map to a more balanced life - a life centered on self-discovery. Fewer possessions. More time. More ... |
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The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-Sufficient Living in the Heart of the City
ISBN: 9781934170106 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The expanded, updated version of the best-selling classic, with a dozen new projects. "A delightfully readable and very useful guide to front- and back-yard vegetable gardening, food foraging, food preserving, chicken keeping, and other useful skills for anyone interested in taking a more active role in growing and preparing the food they eat."--BoingBoing.net ..".the contemporary bible on the subject."--The New York Times This celebrated, essential handbook shows how to grow and preserve your own food, clean your house without toxins, raise chickens, gain... The expanded, updated version of the best-selling classic, with a dozen new projects. "A delightfully readable and very useful guide t... |
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Off the Grid: Inside the Movement for More Space, Less Government, and True Independence in Mo Dern America
ISBN: 9780143117384 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Inside the subculture of off-grid living
Written by a leading authority on living off the grid, this is a fascinating and timely look at one of the fastest growing movements in America. In researching the stories that would become Off the Grid, Nick Rosen traveled from one end of the United States to the other, spending time with all kinds of individuals and families striving to live their lives the way they want to-free from dependence on municipal power and amenities, and free from the inherent dependence on the government and its far-reaching arms. While the people... Inside the subculture of off-grid living
Written by a leading authority on living off the grid, this is a fascinating and timely look at ... |
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How to Live a Low-Carbon Life: The Individual's Guide to Tackling Climate Change
ISBN: 9781844079094 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'How to Live a Low Carbon Life' provides the first comprehensive, one-stop reference guide to calculating individual carbon emissions and it lays out clear plans for how individuals can reduce their emissions. The book provides easy-to-use tables for conducting a personal lifestyle 'carbon audit'.
'How to Live a Low Carbon Life' provides the first comprehensive, one-stop reference guide to calculating individual carbon emissions and it lays out ...
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Creative Household Tips for Surviving a Recession
ISBN: 9781450577625 / Angielski / Miękka / 82 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many of us are looking for ways to survive the recession as a result of unemployment, lay offs or shortened work-weeks. "Creative Household Tips for Surviving a Recession," offers the reader money-saving tips to reduce day-to-day living expenses. The author, Natalie A. Conway, shares with us practical, yet creative ways to spend less and save more. She encourages us to invest in ourselves and more importantly, the principles of hope, perseverance and simplicity while applying creative solutions to the areas of our lives affected by the recession.
Many of us are looking for ways to survive the recession as a result of unemployment, lay offs or shortened work-weeks. "Creative Household Tips for S...
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The Ultimate Guide to Homesteading: An Encyclopedia of Independent Living
ISBN: 9781616081355 / Angielski / Miękka / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Can you make your own bread (sans bread machine)? Grow a garden all winter? What can you use instead of toilet paper? What if the power went out for a month? What if the grocery store closed? Can you make a solar oven? Store food without electricity? Raise a water buffalo? Make fine linen from stinging nettle? Make your own shampoo? Deliver a baby? Is it possible to be totally self-sufficient? This massive, full-color book answers all these questions and thousands more and includes checklists, diagrams, and instructions on how to buy a sheep. All of the information included meets these...
Can you make your own bread (sans bread machine)? Grow a garden all winter? What can you use instead of toilet paper? What if the power went out for a...
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#Home: 101 Ways To Improve Your Home's Comfort and Energy Efficiency
ISBN: 9780692748701 / Angielski / Miękka / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. #Home; 101 Ways To Improve Your Home's Comfort & Energy Efficiency provides everything you need to: - Save money on energy - Lead a more sustainable lifestyle - Reduce your home's environmental impact - Improve the comfort of your living spaces Whether you're a sustainability expert, have a general familiarity, or even if you're brand new to energy efficiency, "#Home; 101 Ways To Improve Your Home's Comfort & Energy Efficiency" gives you the tools you need to get started on your path towards energy efficiency. Start your epic journey now The 101 tips revealed in this book are smart, simple,...
#Home; 101 Ways To Improve Your Home's Comfort & Energy Efficiency provides everything you need to: - Save money on energy - Lead a more sustainable l...
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48 Things to Know about Sustainable Living
ISBN: 9781596527409 / Angielski / Miękka / 237 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While the debate over our changing environment rages on, one thing remains clear: being green is a hot topic - socially, politically, and economically. Whether you've "been green" from birth or don't even know what the three "Rs" stand for,48 Things To Know About Sustainable Livingcan help you make small, affordable (or free ) changes that will have a major impact on the environment and simplify your everyday life.
While the debate over our changing environment rages on, one thing remains clear: being green is a hot topic - socially, politically, and economically...
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Storing Solar Heat: designs for heating your home
ISBN: 9781453620335 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. new designs for heating and storing heat for use at a later time. complete building details from start to finish with data logged results
new designs for heating and storing heat for use at a later time. complete building details from start to finish with data logged results
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The New Normal: An Agenda for Responsible Living
ISBN: 9780312575434 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Simple Prosperity, Dave Wann showed readers how to have an abundant, sustainable life. In The New Normal, he challenges us to do some heavy lifting and transform our non-sustainable culture by transforming ourselves. For Wann, our current "old normal" lifestyle - buying water in disposable bottles, allowing the government to ignore global warming - will not preserve the planet. To nurture our world, he challenges us to rethink our lives, stand up for a healthy planet and move towards a "new normal" lifestyle in an agenda that includes: In Simple Prosperity, Dave Wann showed readers how to have an abundant, sustainable life. In The New Normal, he challenges us to do s... |
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