| Grow to Live
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| Wednesday, 01 September 2010 06:00 |
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Featherstone, who was born and raised in Zimbabwe, has included almost everything the aspiring home agronomist would ever want to know. Setting up a food garden is tackled from the ground up -- from selecting a site and laying out the beds to starting and maintaining a compost heap -- and there's even a set of exercises to loosen up your body before you start digging.
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 Tristram Stuart is an energetic and talented individual who has turned an early hobby, thinking about food waste, into a life-consuming passion. Unfortunately, his data and associated conclusions are sometimes limited, but he makes up for that with honesty and common-sense. Stuart begins with a U.N. estimate that the world's agricultural land may decline in productivity by up to 25% this century, thereby making food availability a serious matter. (Worse yet is the projected growth in world population from its current 6.8 billion to 8.9 billion by 2050 - a 31% increase.) Stuart believes that about half of the world's food is wasted, though some of that is debatable - eg. feeding leftover human foods to farm animals, 'growing' biofuels. Regardless of the precise amount, as Stuart points out, the food waste is considerable, and this also wastes energy and adds to global warming.
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| SLOW LIFE:
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| Monday, 23 August 2010 06:00 |
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This is the archetype of all coffee-tablebooks. Perfect for when you want to visually drink in nurturance and heavenly decadence, this stunning
book is definitely worth perusing. The pictures are breathtaking and the locations incredible. It teaches us how to delight in the beauty of
this earth in a conscious, sustainable and slow manner.
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| WILD FLOWERS OF SOUTH AFRICA
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| Monday, 16 August 2010 06:00 |
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Almost 20 000 different wild flowers are indigenous in South Africa, constituting as much as 10% of all flowering plant species known throughout the world. Trying to
identify this staggering variety is a daunting undertaking and no single book can hope to cover more than a fraction of all the species; but this book provides the tools and
knowledge that will enable the user to identify wild flowers with greater confidence and skill.
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| OCEANS
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| Monday, 09 August 2010 06:00 |
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Written as a companion piece to the acclaimed film of the same name, this one’s subtitle is: The threats to our seas and what you can do to turn the tide.
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| GREEN GUIDE: FAMILIES
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| Monday, 02 August 2010 06:00 |
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Another in the National Geographic family of publications, this one should
be treated as your daily ‘How To’ guide for everything green for and in the
family
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This is precisely the sort of book we love, since its entire purpose is to
convey the message that we can live much greener lives and not only not
have to give up what’s best about our lifestyles, but actually enhance them
and save money and help save the planet at the same time
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.This is a weighty tome, both figuratively and literally, which sets out to make a very serious, studious assessment of the economics that lie behind climate
change (and by extension, is also an assessment of data supporting the evidence for climate change as a phenomenon in itself). This book is a nearcurrent
and very thorough analysis of what climate change will mean for the economies of the globe
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Ignoring the bleating from the lunatic fringe and those in the pay of carbondependant interests, the fact is that the vast majority of scientists now agree that human-induced climate change is a reality which is dawning upon us.
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| ECO HOUSE BOOK
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| Wednesday, 30 June 2010 06:00 |
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Terence is a powerhouse of a man – he is one of the world's leading designers, retailers, furniture-makers, restaurateurs and founder of the
Habitat group of stores. Besides that, he is also Chairman of Conran Holdings, which oversees his retail and restaurant businesses as well as
his architecture and design practice. And to top that, he is the author and publisher of several books. Upon first touch of this book, the 3D cover to the
size and paper choice inspired me immediately, and somehow seemed to be so perfect for the subject matter at hand.
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