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The Hands-On Home: A Seasonal Guide to Cooking, Preserving & Natural Homekeeping
by Erica Strauss
A fresh take on modern homemaking, this is a practical (and sometimes sassy) guide to maximizing your time, effort, and energy in the kitchen and beyond. With a focus on less consumerism, it will teach you how to organize your kitchen and home to make the best use of your time. For those yearning to live a more ecologically minded, grounded lifestyle, this book is full of practical, no-nonsense advice, fabulous recipes, and time- and money-saving techniques.
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150 Best Sustainable House Ideas
by Francesc Zamora Mola
Showcasing examples and exploring current global house trends, this valuable resource for designers, interior decorators and architects features the latest innovations used in creating environmentally friendly home design.
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New Eco Homes: New Ideas for Sustainable Living
by Manel Gutiérrez
Exploring various aspects of modern eco design, a full-color showcase of the latest innovations in sustainable architecture is an essential resource for architects, designers and homeowners interested in creating warm and inviting homes that protect and conserve our natural environment.
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Rethink: The Way You Live
by Amanda Talbot
Filled with inspiring images of homes all over the world, this guide, combining age-old resourcefulness with new technology, shows readers how to rethink their design choices today for a more sustainable tomorrow, revealing how to build a better world from the inside out.
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Grow. Cook. Preserve: The Complete Guide to Sustainable Food
by Helen Lynne Culpepper
Provides information on how to grow sustainable produce at home, including how to create an ideal composting environment, planting fruits and vegetables based on growing period, and preserving and canning harvests.
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Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades: The Complete Guide to Organic Growing
by Steve Solomon
Now in its seventh edition, the book has been thoroughly updated and includes a new formula for complete organic fertilizer and how to tweak it for a variety of different soil conditions, how-to sections for herbs and ornamental plants, new organization for better usability, updated sources for appropriate seed suppliers, and information about natural pest controls.
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Compost City: Practical Composting Know-How for Small-Space Living
by Rebecca Louie
Describes how to select and care for a compost system—regardless of space, schedule and lifestyle—offering tips and techniques for easily composting food scraps and yard waste and how to avoid hard work, horrible odors, messes and creepy crawly critters.
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Living in a Sustainable Way: Green Communities
by Megan Kopp
Looks at the ways that people in different parts of the world use technology and smart practices to live in a more sustainable way by recycling, using green energy resources, and changing travel patterns.
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Urban Gardening
by Carol Hand
Offers tips and techniques for urban gardening and discusses how it affects the food we eat.
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A Teen Guide to Eco-Gardening, Food, and Cooking
by Jen Green
Suggests different ways of being eco-conscious with food, including using gray water in the garden, knowing where a product comes from to find its environmental impact, and tips on saving energy in the kitchen.
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The Green Teen Cookbook: Recipes for All Seasons
by Laurane Marchive
A comprehensive primer created by teens demystifies confusing misinformation to explain how to save money, protect the environment and cook for optimal health, providing dozens of recipes as well as essays on such topics as vegetarianism, flexitarianism and freeganism.
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Composting: Turn Food Waste Into Rich Soil
by Brian Hanson-Harding
Presents an introduction to composting, discussing how decomposition works, how to build and maintain a compost system, and how compost improves the soil and helps plants grow.
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