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Carbon Footprint -- Begone!
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Step lightly on the earth, and maybe, just maybe, she won't step on you!
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Noah's Garden: Restoring the Ecology of Our Own Backyards
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Updated Apr 20, 2007
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This isn't just a gardening book - this will change how you view the world. Beautifully written and inspiring, I just can't recommend it enough. Most suburbs are named after the very things they've destroyed: Oak Park, Willow Grove. Get rid of your sterile lawn and welcome wildlife back into the world.
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Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture
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Updated May 30, 2007
This is one of my favorite books ever, and it will introduce you to the idea of permaculture. I made a raised bed using the "hugelkultur" method described here, (using fallen branches & twigs) and it's so cool - it looks like a Goldsworthy sculpture.
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Compact Fluorescent Bulbs
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Updated Dec 4, 2006
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If every American home replaced just one light bulb with a compact fluorescent, we would save enough energy to light more than 2.5 million homes for a year and prevent greenhouse gases equivalent to the emissions of nearly 800,000 cars.**
I bought a dozen of them at 1000bulbs.com, the 15 watt are only 1.89 each +shipping, lights equivalent to 75 watts. A really simple way to save the world, & save on your electric bill too.
**http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=cfls.pr_cfls (via lauriedavid)
I bought a dozen of them at 1000bulbs.com, the 15 watt are only 1.89 each +shipping, lights equivalent to 75 watts. A really simple way to save the world, & save on your electric bill too.
**http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=cfls.pr_cfls (via lauriedavid)
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Elvis Presley Pin Oak - The Historic Tree Nursery Store
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Updated Dec 9, 2006
Own a descendant of the pin oaks that line the drive leading to the front door of Graceland. American Forests' Famous & Historic Trees program brings history alive by propagating and selling the offspring of trees connected to famous people, events, and places.
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$35
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Gaiam - Skystream 3.7 Grid-tie Wind Turbine
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Updated Apr 20, 2007
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I would actually prefer a water wheel (which doesn't kill birds and bats) but the it doesn't photograph well.
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Envirosax Reusable Grocery Bags
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Updated Apr 20, 2007
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A beautiful way to stop the tyranny of plastic bags!
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Lillian Vernon: Reusable Dryer Balls - Set of 2
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Updated May 22, 2008
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Use these in conjunction with a clothes-line to reduce your carbon footprint considerably.
"Designed to reduce drying time and soften fabrics without the use of chemical fabric softeners, Dryer Balls are an eco-friendly solution to landfill-clogging dryer sheets and chemical-laden liquid softeners. As your wet laundry tumbles in the dryer, these bumpy balls lift and separate fabric to make it soft and fluffy, and allow air to flow more efficiently proven to make ironing easier, decrease lint and reduce drying time up to 25%."
"Designed to reduce drying time and soften fabrics without the use of chemical fabric softeners, Dryer Balls are an eco-friendly solution to landfill-clogging dryer sheets and chemical-laden liquid softeners. As your wet laundry tumbles in the dryer, these bumpy balls lift and separate fabric to make it soft and fluffy, and allow air to flow more efficiently proven to make ironing easier, decrease lint and reduce drying time up to 25%."
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carry grocery bags and multiple items with ease and comfort
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Updated Apr 11, 2007
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The plastic bags you bring home from the supermarket probably end up in a landfill. Every year, more than 500 billion plastic bags are distributed, and less than 3% of those bags are recycled. They are typically made of polyethylene and can take up to 1,000 years to biodegrade in landfills that emit harmful greenhouse gases. Reducing your contribution to plastic-bag pollution is as simple as using a cloth bag (or one made of biodegradable plant-based materials) instead of wasting plastic ones. For your next trip to the grocery store, BYOB.
(from time mag's 51 ways to reduce global warming) (via Marvinbl7)
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NatureMill Automatic Kitchen Compost Machine
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Updated Dec 30, 2006
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I live in the country, so composting is easy. Now city-dwellers can take advantage of all those lovely coffee grounds and lettuce leftovers, and make excellent soil for their pot plants.
The author of "Square Foot Gardening" sez: "If every family had a mulch pile and used it to recycle their kitchen scraps and all their leaves and grass clippings, local taxes would be reduced, the price of oil would drop because we wouldn't use so much, and the balance of nature would be greatly restored." (via ac_zverina)
The author of "Square Foot Gardening" sez: "If every family had a mulch pile and used it to recycle their kitchen scraps and all their leaves and grass clippings, local taxes would be reduced, the price of oil would drop because we wouldn't use so much, and the balance of nature would be greatly restored." (via ac_zverina)
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How to Make a Forest Garden
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Updated Apr 20, 2007
A forest garden is a food-producing garden, based on the model of a natural woodland or forest. Low maintenance, natural eco-system gardening.
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Gaiam - Hand-Forged Recycled Iron Leaf Coat Rack
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Updated Apr 20, 2007
Hand made and beautiful, too!
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Sproutman's Kitchen Garden Cookbook
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Updated Apr 20, 2007
Easy recipes for sprout bread from wheatberries - tastes good. And Rejuvelac - a slightly fermented energy drink - tastes good-for-you. 250 low fat, dairy free, vegetarian recipes. You can tell by the writing style that the author is a character. Well, he calls himself the "Sproutman"!
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Raw Food/Real World: 100 Recipes to Get the Glow
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Updated Dec 1, 2006
Get the glow of health with a raw food diet. Great recipes and lush photography. Learn how to make: Zucchini and Green Zebra Tomato Lasagne, Golden Squash Pasta with Black Summer Truffles, and Dark Chocolate Ganache Tart with Vanilla Cream. Created by the owners of Pure Food and Wine.
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Lasagna Gardening: A New Layering System for Bountiful Gardens: No Digging, No Tilling, No Weeding, No Kidding!
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Updated Jan 21, 2007
No, you won't be making gardens out of pasta, cheese & tomato sauce, but you WILL learn to layer a garden with ease. The author had land in the Catskills - like me! - and so she gave up on digging - because every time you dig you hit a rock. Instead, she builds beds with vegetable scraps, ashes, spoiled hay, etc., and plants the same day. A quick way to transform a ratty, tough piece of ground into a bountiful garden. Also, she gives specific info on how to grow various vegetables and flowers -- very helpful. Always, she's choosing the speediest, easiest way to accomplish the goal. I've tried her methods and they all work beautifully.
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Shiitake Mushroom Kit
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Updated Apr 20, 2007
Grow your own 100% organic shiitake mushrooms.
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Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series)
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Updated Jul 18, 2007
So if the doomsayers are right, what's the fashionista to do who hasn't a clue about growing her own food? This book claims to be for the reader with no experience, and to require small inputs of time & water. Question, though. How do you grow tiramisu?
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The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies
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Updated Apr 20, 2007
LATOC - Life after the oil crisis. Out of the 3 books I read on the subject, this is the most accessible and rational. "Beyond Oil" is by a geologist, also very good. And if you prefer thrills and chills, read "The Long Emergency."
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