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This book came about from my many years experience as an independent solar installer and the thousands of questions that people have asked me when they find out I work in solar. I have put together an easy to understand and straightforward guide without the sales pitches. The tools in this book will help you avoid many of the mistakes I have seen over my career installing solar PV. You'll get the information you need to make the solar installation...
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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 "R’s" stand for,48 Things To Know About Sustainable Living can help you make small, affordable (or free!) changes that will have a major impact on the environment and simplify your everyday life.
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Living in a world that is getting more and more expensive can be a frustrating experience. This book gives you tips on how to be successful in your day to day activities, providing you with tried and tested tips. Some of the areas covered are food, schooling, mind mapping and raising children. We have lived all over the US, Hawaii, and New Zealand and these tools have been successful in all areas.
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• A guide to humanely raising and ranching rabbits as a profitable meat avenue.
• Topics cover housing, feeding, breeding, disease management, market outlets, laws and regulations of the rabbit meat industry, and much more.
• Learn to make rational management decisions for your own rabbit farm.
• Author Deborah Mays has a degree in Wildlife Biology and academic experience in animal husbandry, and runs her own successful rabbit ranching business....
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For a large number of homeowners, the importance of the environment has been highlighted as issues such as global warming becomes big news. With 7 chapters covering elements including Light, Power and Heat, this book covers alterations that anyone can make to their home, from changing to energy-saving lightbulbs and harvesting rainwater to harnessing sunlight through solar panels. Information is given on changes from the very small through to major...
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Build your way to a more self-sufficient lifestyle with step-by-step projects for backup and supplementary utilities--including independent water, heat, and electricity--growing and storing food, raising small livestock, beekeeping, and more. Many of the projects require basic materials available at your everyday home center, but this book also provides valuable DIY resources for solar, hydro, greenhouse, and gardening needs. This book will help you...
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In his new book Watts In This For Me? A Skeptic's Guide To Home Energy Efficiency, Jeffrey Tamburro addresses the simple premise that energy efficiency is something that will benefit everyone and the information about it can be conveyed without getting into political discussions or being overly technical. If you ever considered making energy efficiency upgrades to your home, but were turned off by a political agenda you didn't agree with, didn't want...
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Bad times may be coming. We all know that, right? But what are we doing about it to prepare? What can we do? We are not talking about localized natural disasters, which are temporary situations and relatively easy to recover from. These bad times, which may very well loom on the horizon as we speak, could render all the money in our bank accounts worthless. When the trucks stop rolling, there is no more food. Even if you have some stored up, how long...
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* Un libro profusamente ilustrado con soluciones prácticas y nuevas propuestas de los mejores arquitectos italianos
* Múltiples y creativas ideas para hacer que incluso el ambiente menos prometedor resulte habitable y acogedor
* La vivienda ecológica: sepa todo sobre el uso de materiales, la iluminación, puertas y ventanas, y la decoración.
* Los consejos que vienen de Oriente. Una ciencia en especial nos ayuda a conseguir bienestar: es el...
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What does it mean to "downshift"? Why is it now imperative that millions of people begin moving towards a simpler, more sustainable lifestyle? If you, too, are to join this worldwide effort to create a different sort of world, when should you start? How should you set about it? Might you need to move house in order to live more sustainably, and if so, to where? And, to whom can you turn for advice and guidance? This easy-to-read guidebook, by an author,...
51) How to Harmonize and Balance the Energy Around Your Home: Create a Healthier, Safer Home Environment
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Toxic energies in your home environment are the cause of many risks to your physical and emotional health, and polluted EMF energies affect children more deeply than adults. This book will show you how easy it is to move EMF pollution away from and out of your home. The process of eliminating toxic energy from your home is known as a GEOPATHIC CLEARING. You can watch how it's done on HOME AND GARDEN TELEVISION. In this episode of MY FIRST PLACE the...
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Omlet's easy-to-clean, safe and stylish Eglu chicken houses became an instant design icon when they were launched in 2004. Omlet quickly became most popular brand among chicken keepers, appealing to a new generation of people wanting to keep chickens as pets in their back gardens. This complete guide covers everything a novice chicken keeper needs to know, and reimagines the way you live with and look after your chickens. From helping you select the...
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Learn how to live sustainably in the city, the suburbs, or the country
Many people are cutting back on consumerism and trying to simplify their lives, realizing that the "new way" isn't necessarily the best way. The sustainable living movement goes beyond a desire to protect the environment and practice green living; it's about rediscovering simple survival skills that, in an earlier time, were known and practiced by almost everyone.
The New American...
54) Solar Power for Sustainable Living: What to Consider Before Going the Do It Yourself Solar Route
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NOTE: This book is written for those COMTEMPLATING getting a solar panel system if they don't know enough about it yet. A good, basic understanding of what you need to know "before" diving into it is what you will learn in order to make an informed decision; especially if you are in the United States (or Canada). So if you are considering do it yourself solar panels for your home, or solar panel installation through a contractor, "Solar Power for...
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A Buyers Guide to Floating Homes addressing questions that all first time floating home buyers have, including those they don't know they have. Can you feel the house move? What is a float? How do you inspect a float? Can you finance floating homes? What about insurance? Do you own the slip or rent the slip? What is the lifestyle like? What are the pros & cons of living on a floating home? All this and more is covered in this guide.
56) When The Grid Goes Down: Disaster Preparations and Survival Gear For Making Your Home Self-Reliant
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Disasters come and go each year. It is through developing a self-reliant mindset, having essential survival gear and a handful of critical skills that you and your family will be able to prevail in an urban crisis. Jammed with field-tested information from real-world applications, survival instructor Tony Nester covers how to prepare for both short-term survival ranging from 24-72 hours as well as long-term situations resulting from a grid-down emergency...
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Welcome to the Agrihood, Living, Shopping, and Gardening for a Farm-to-Table Lifestyle, has something for everyone-new homebuyers, city-dwellers, and retirees. Award-winning author Anna DeSimone explains all the ways that sustainably sourced, locally grown food is healthier, preserves farmland, and lowers your carbon footprint.
LIVE IN AGRIHOOD, an eco-friendly, healthy-lifestyle community centered around a professionally managed farm. Discover why...
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From the editors of Urban Farm magazine, Urban Farm Projects expands the boundaries of city and suburban self-sustainability. Over 40 innovative do-it-yourself projects are stylishly presented and compiled in this entertaining and easy-to-follow user's manual.
With projects ranging from the simple (candle making and canning) to the more ambitious (raising bees to pollinate your own crops), this crafty book will appeal to the thrifty and eco-conscious...
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The Complete Illustrated Guide to Farming is a comprehensive, one-stop encyclopedic guide for the beginning farmer, hobby farmer, and small-scale family farmer.
Are you interested in the country lifestyle or becoming more self-reliant? Do you think about someday raising livestock or growing crops? If you're ready to make these thoughts a reality, The Complete Illustrated Guide to Farming is the perfect place to start. Farming experts Philip Hasheider...
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A complete guide to modern pedaled-powered, treadled, and hand-cranked devices for the home.
What if I could harness this energy? An unusual question for anyone putting in a long stint on a treadmill perhaps, and yet human power is a very old, practical and empowering alternative to fossil fuels. Replacing motors with muscles can be considered a political act-an act of self-sufficiency that gains you independence.
The Human-Powered Home is a one-of-a-kind...
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