Everyone dreams at some point in their lives of living the good life, albeit not in terms of the BBC comedy series. In this revised and fully updated edition of John Seymour's classic guide to self-sufficiency, the dream becomes more attainable. Now running a School of Self-Sufficiency in Ireland, John Seymour is as committed as ever to living a better life, more simply, by living off the land rather than out of shops. His magnum opus covers every conceivable topic from animal husbandry and butchering, seed sowing and cropping, dairy production and food storage, rubbish and recycling.
This book is completely brilliant, well written and simple to understand and easy to follow. I love everything by Victora Boutenko anyway because she's so inspirational :-) ... If you haven't watched any of her DVDs, I highly recommend you do so.
It would surprise me if anyone reads this book completely and then doesn't adopt a green smoothie a day attitude! They really DO taste great and make you feel and look great!
Although I am high raw, this book would also be extremely useful for non raws and non vegans who want to improve their diet. A litre (3 glasses) of green smoothies would cover most of an adults nutritional needs for a day. I have 2 large glasses for breakfast and a glass mid afternoon - very energising. I am totally hooked!
Best bit is, they are so easy to make and don't cost much to create. This is the best health insurance for my money!
Environmental tips balancing fact and humour A great deal has been written and said about environmental issues. It is undoubtedly something we have to take seriously, but most people's impressions of environmental threats are of huge, vague and unstoppable nightmares. This gives you two choices: ignore it, or sit and worry. This book aims to provide a path between these extremes: it provides hassle-free tips on how to make your everyday existence a little greener. These facts and tips are (hopefully) peppered with just enough humour to keep you sane while you fret about the future of the planet. Flick through, adopt what you like, and save the planet from the comfort of your own living room.
This key handbook provides a detailed reference for environmentally concerned purchasers of building products, and complements the Green Building Handbook Vol 1. Following the format of the original, this book discusses current issues in green building before moving on to consider eight building component types: fencing products, flat roofing membranes, glazing products, electrical wiring, adhesives, straw bale building, interior decoration and indoor air quality and ventilation. Invaluable for the specifier, this companion handbook will be useful to all those interested in finding greener ways of designing and making buildings.
The ultimate user′s manual to green building materials —for building design that reuses our past and reimagines our future
When it comes to selecting and specifying green building materials, architects need more than innate design sense. They need real–world advice on how to select and use nontoxic, recycled, and recyclable products, and how to integrate them into the design process to capitalize on the many practical and economic advantages of "going green"—from reducing waste and improving energy efficiency to promoting proper code compliance and safeguarding against liability claims.
The latest addition to the Wiley Series in Sustainable Design, Green Building Materials is an excellent hands–on guide to today′s wide range of green building materials—what they are, where to find them, and how to use them effectively. Written by two nationally known experts on green building methods and materials, Green Building Materials offers in–depth practical information on the product selection, product specification, and construction process. Organized by CSI MasterFormat(r) category for fast access to specific information, it features:
Important guidance on how to evaluate the "greenness" of building materials, including a section–by–section specification summary of environmental issues
Helpful sample forms to aid in selecting and specifying green materials
A brief history of relevant environmental legislation and the evolution of environmentally conscious design
An appendix listing useful sources of additional information. Green Building Materials is an essential tool for designing environmentally friendly buildings: ones made from materials that preserve the earth′s natural legacy for future generations.
In this follow up to his previous book on Hubbert's Peak/Peak Oil, Deffeyes gives us some engrossing info on such subjects as the Alberta tar sands, the Green River oil shale and nuclear power. Out of all the peak oil books I've read so far, this one is the only one that gives a very concise and knowledgable summary on these and other "alternatives" to cheap oil. Most other peak oil writers aren't old school geologists with hydrocarbon strings pumping in their veins instead of blood, so you don't get the feeling they really know what they are talking about. Several books I've read casually dismiss the Alberta tar sands and the Green River oil shale and shouldn't. Deffeyes doesn't. I'm actually a bit more hopeful and optimistic about the world's energy future after reading this book. (Not by much, though.)
Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century
The depletion of nonrenewable fossil fuels is about to radically change life much sooner than anticipated. The Long Emergency describes what to expect after the honeymoon of affordable energy is over, preparing readers for economic, political, and social changes of an unimaginable scale.
By: James Howard Hunstler Publisher: Grove Press ISBN: 978-0802142498
In The Hydrogen Economy, Jeremy Rifkin envisions a new economy powered by hydrogen that will fundamentally change the nature of our market, political, and social institutions. Because hydrogen is so plentiful and exists everywhere on earth, Rifkin says, a hydrogen economy would make possible a vast redistribution of power. Today's centralized, top-down flow of energy, controlled by global oil companies and utilities would become obsolete. In this new era, every human being could become the producer as well as the consumer of his or her own energy—so called "distributed generation." When millions of end users connect their fuel cells into local, regional, and national hydrogen energy webs (HEWs), and create a new decentralized form of energy production.
This comprehensive introduction to the natural building field is for lay people, architects, and designers who wish to build beautiful, low-cost, and environmentally-sensible structures. From straw bale and cob, to recycled concrete and salvaged materials, this anthology of articles from leaders in the field focuses on both the practical and the esthetic concerns of ecological building designs and techniques. Profusely illustrated and packed with resources.
All three editors are central practitioners in the natural building movement. Joseph F. Kennedy has expanded the boundaries of ecological architecture with NASA's space station habitability module. Michael Smith is the author of The Cob Cottage (Chelsea Green, 2001), among others. Catherine Wanek is the editor of The Last Straw Journal.
by Joseph F. Kennedy (Editor), Albert Bates, Catherine Wanek (Editor), Michael Smith ISBN: 9780865714335
In this follow up to his previous book on Hubbert's Peak/Peak Oil, Deffeyes gives us some engrossing info on such subjects as the Alberta tar sands, the Green River oil shale and nuclear power. Out of all the peak oil books I've read so far, this one is the only one that gives a very concise and knowledgable summary on these and other "alternatives" to cheap oil. Most other peak oil writers aren't old school geologists with hydrocarbon strings pumping in their veins instead of blood, so you don't get the feeling they really know what they are talking about. Several books I've read casually dismiss the Alberta tar sands and the Green River oil shale and shouldn't. Deffeyes doesn't. I'm actually a bit more hopeful and optimistic about the world's energy future after reading this book. (Not by much, though.)
In The Hydrogen Economy, Jeremy Rifkin envisions a new economy powered by hydrogen that will fundamentally change the nature of our market, political, and social institutions. Because hydrogen is so plentiful and exists everywhere on earth, Rifkin says, a hydrogen economy would make possible a vast redistribution of power. Today's centralized, top-down flow of energy, controlled by global oil companies and utilities would become obsolete. In this new era, every human being could become the producer as well as the consumer of his or her own energy—so called "distributed generation." When millions of end users connect their fuel cells into local, regional, and national hydrogen energy webs (HEWs), and create a new decentralized form of energy production.
