sustainable living

Offers step-by-step instructions to help people reduce their carbon footprint and live a budget-conscious, environmentally-friendly lifestyle in eight weeks or less.

Uses cartoons to make connections for kids on how everyday things are connected locally and globally to explain how they can live an eco-friendly life.

A seasonal guide with subject matter for every DIYer and homesteader.

Explores the trend toward eating locally grown food, including its historical origins, and the benefits and challenges of the practice.

Describes how people worldwide are wasting energy and threatening the environment. Also provides information on how to live more sustainably through such activities as recycling, using green sources of energy, car-sharing, and reducing air travel.

The author describes how he first lived in a yurt in the New Mexico desert as a young man, and years later how he and his wife built an off-the-grid, energy-efficient, straw bale house in Vermont.

Provides families with advice on how to maintain a green, sustainable lifestyle. Includes tips, facts, and activities.

This book will provoke surprise, debate, and laughter while it provides a road map to greater self-reliance and joy, whatever the future brings. Whether it's the end of oil, an environmental disaster, or something entirely unforeseen, Ana Maria Spagna outlines 100 skills you'll find indispensable for life after the apocalypse.

The author reports on the what he learned after traveling the globe in search of the sources of the goods he uses in the course of his everyday life, including coffee, bananas, computers, cell phones, and other items.

Gives readers tips on how they can make simple lifestyle choices to help keep the environment clean and protected, and also explains why people need to change their habits to keep Earth a clean, healthy place to live.