Green Home

Discover how you can use your purchasing power to create and encourage sustainable change. Not sure what sustainability actually means? This eye-opening book walks you through the products and industries that come with huge hidden price tags. Sustainability shouldn't be a dirty word, but rather an open educational conversation about how the unrestrained usage of raw materials and natural resources doesn't work in the long term and why that should matter to every consumer. Join the conversation about how to change your buying habits to save the world one decision at a time.

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.

A complete guide to growing plants using Hydroponic and Aquaponic systems! Having your own garden means knowing exactly where your food comes from. Growing plants is certainly challenging, and some plants can’t even grow in certain conditions. However, the science of hydroponics and aquaponics makes it easy and possible for you to grow fruits, veggies, and greens in your own backyard. Hydroponics means growing plants without soil, using mineral, and nutrient solutions. And aquaponics means producing the food yourself!

This everyday guide will help you transition into a green and more sustainable lifestyle by helping you make informed green choices and decisions to furnish and clean your house, identify what toxic chemicals to avoid, and understand the damaging impact toxic chemicals in your cleaning products can have on your health and the environment....

Two books in one: Vegetable Gardening: How to Grow Vegetables the Easy Way and Greenhouse Gardening: The Ultimate Guide to Achieving Your Dream Greenhouse! Always wanted to have your own vegetable garden?! Start your new gardening adventure today!

Are you transitioning to off-grid boondocking, know you need a solar system, but you're scared as heck to get started? Building a mobile off-grid solar system can be intimidating to most beginners. Trust me, I used a portable generator for the first couple of years of van life. But understanding the basic principles of off-the-grid solar power can probably save your life if you start connecting wires before you understand what they all do.

A sus 27 años, Valeria había cumplido el sueño americano: un trabajo en la banca privada en Miami con un salario de seis cifras, un apartamento frente al mar y acceso a los eventos más exclusivos. Sin embargo, nada de esto lograba llenar el profundo vacío interior que arrastraba desde hacía mucho tiempo.

The Basics of Homemade Cleaning Supplies is a practical guide that gives simple yet effective recipes for high quality homemade cleaners without the high prices. This book shares simple yet practical knowledge which covers all manner of efficient homemade cleaning agents.

Danny Seo is known for his ability to make natural, healthy living accessible. In his nationally syndicated column, "Do Just One Thing," Danny showed readers how to make small but powerful choices every day that would positively impact the planet. Now, 365 of his best tips have been gathered together in this giftable package. From conserving energy to recycling properly to looking out for our ecosystems, this book gives you one simple way to waste not, want not every day of the year.

Now more than ever, we live in a society where we covet new and shiny things. Not only has consumption risen dramatically over the last 60 years, but we are damaging the environment at the same time. That is why buying quality and why Tara Button's Buy Me Once brand has such popular appeal. Tara Button has become a champion of a lifestyle called 'mindful curation' - a way of living in which we carefully choose each object in our lives....

As a homeowner, you might be looking for ideas to help revolutionize the way that you take care of your home. The ideas in this book represent some of the most popular suggestions on many hack sites that aim to empower home owners. This book is divided into six chapters; each chapter deals with a simple substance found within your home that can be used in a myriad of cleaning applications. And as the title indicates, you will find more than 70 unique ideas to help make cleaning easier for you.

In the midst of carpools and play dates, does the idea of saving the planet feel like something else to feel guilty about not doing? Green Mama puts green living within your reach. Tracey Bianchi offers creative tips, tricks, and resources that will benefit your kids and your community and will draw you closer to God’s heart for this planet.

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, 2006. Shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards, 2006. Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best Book, 2007. David Mitchell comes home to England, 1982, and the cusp of adolescence. Jason Taylor is 13, doomed to be growing up in the most boring family in the deadest village (Black Swan Green) in the dullest county (Worcestershire) in the most tedious nation (England) on earth. And he stammers.

You're about to discover crucial information about communal living. Millions of people have already experienced the amazing benefits that communal life has to offer. It can be overwhelming if you have been thinking about living in a shared arrangement and you haven't been able to find quality information on the topic. You need to understand the risks and benefits before jumping right into it. As someone who has lived this type of lifestyle, I want to provide an unbiased view of what you can expect.

Both Stoicism and Minimalism go hand in hand, decluttering your mind as well as decluttering your life, leaving space and energy for the things that matter and are important to you. Having strategies for both is essential to making the most out of these timeless teachings. Life moves at a very fast pace these days, and the Stoic teachings will enable you to not "sweat the small stuff".

Ecological Intelligence argues that "green" labels and recycling programs may do more harm than good by feeding a vital lie, lulling us into the illusion that we are doing enough already while ignoring the adverse impact of the far vaster proportion of what we buy and do.

Does the growing toxicity of the environment concern you? Do you want to cut down on the toxic load in your home and around your family? Have you ever wanted to make your own household cleaning products, but weren’t sure where to start? If you answered yes to any of these questions then this book is for you... 50 Things to Know About Natural Green Cleaning in Your Home: How to Make And Use Natural Cleaners by Marisa Tolsma offers an easy to follow approach to making and using your own natural, non-toxic cleaning products.

Cleaning is more than the dusting, mopping, and the wiping. It is creating a safe and a healthy home for you and your family. This book will give you a 14-day cleaning plan that you can follow right away. It is a schedule that will guide you in cleaning your home without the stress. Following a 14-day cleaning schedule helps you to identify, prioritize, and organize your list of tasks. It also helps you to set achievable cleaning goals.

Written from the perspective of Bodacious the cat, this is a beautifully written memoir of Bodacious’s life on the farm and everything that entails - early mornings, frosty starts, beautiful sunrises, adventurous rare-breed Zwartbles sheep, hard work, entertaining animals, mouthwatering food, kind people and idyllic country living with its highs and lows.

Space for a big garden. Fruit trees. A huge barn. A deck with an amazing view. The blackberry-infested property on the hill seemed to have limitless potential. When Tammy Owen moved from the city to a five-acre farm, she hoped to learn how to live closer to the land. What she learned instead was a lot about life.