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The New Create an Oasis With Greywater
by Art Ludwig  Publisher Comments Create an Oasis with Greywater describes how to quickly and easily choose, build, and use a simple greywater system. Some can be completed in an afternoon for under $30. It also provides complete instructions for more complex installations, how to...
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The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It: The Complete Back-To-Basics Guide
by John Seymour 
Powells.com Staff Pick This book reminds me of those Laura Ingalls books I read as a kid. Laura's family lived by the seasons. In the summer they harvested hay, canned preserves and tended to livestock. In the fall, they butchered pigs and stored food in the attic for...
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Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands Volume 2
by Brad Lancaster Publisher Comments Turn water scarcity into water abundance!Earthworks are one of the easiest, least expensive, and most effective ways of passively harvesting and conserving multiple sources of water in the soil. Associated vegetation then pumps the harvested water back...
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Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World
by Alan Weisman Publisher Comments The eastern savannas of war-ravaged Colombia, known as the llanos, are among the most brutal environments on Earth, an unlikely setting for one of the most hopeful environmental stories ever told. Here, more than twenty-five years ago, an intrepid...
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Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands, Volume 1: Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain Into Your Life and Landscape
by Brad Lancaster Publisher Comments This is Volume One of the three-volume set, Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands. Volume One helps bring your site to life, reduce your cost of living, endow you with skills of self-reliance, and create living air conditioners of vegetation growing beauty...
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Design for Water: Rainwater Harvesting, Stormwater Catchment, and Alternate Water Reuse
by Heather Kinkade-Levario Publisher Comments In an era of dwindling resources, water is poised to become the new oil. The entire world now faces the reality of a decreasing supply of clean water. To avert a devastating shortage, we must not only look at alternate water sources for existing...
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MaryJane's Outpost: Unleashing Your Inner Wild
by Maryjane Butters Publisher Comments Get out No matter what your age, MaryJane Butters walks you to the door and OUT you go. Wilderness ranger turned Idaho organic farmer, MaryJane is a woman OUTSIDE . . . the norm. Drawing from her own diverse background, she'll show you exactly HOW to get...
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The Self-Sufficiency Specialist: The Essential Guide to Designing and Planning for Off-Grid Self-Reliance (Specialist)
by Alan Bridgewater Publisher Comments With frequent warnings about water and energy shortages, or the potential dangers of pesticides and genetically modified foods, many people nurture a dream of living a self-sufficient life. This comprehensive yet easy-to-read addition to the Specialist...
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Encyclopedia of Country Living 10TH Edition
by Carla Emery Synopsis The most complete source of information available about growing, processing, cooking, and preserving homegrown foods from the garden or field, this revised and updated edition of the classic text is an indispensable resource on country living...
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The Self-Sufficiency Handbook: A Complete Guide to Greener Living
by Alan Bridgewater Publisher Comments Anyone considering a shift to a greener way of living must get this inspirational and practical guide. With easy-to-read layouts and simple text, it runs the full ecological gamut, from geothermal heating to crop rotation to soap making. The Bridgewaters,...
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Low-Cost Sanitation: A Survey of Practical Experience
by John Pickford Publisher Comments About two billion people in the world have no adequate sanitation provision whereby they can relieve themselves in a healthy, convenient and private way. This book addresses itself squarely to this enormous problem. It is a guide to what has been...
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The Homestead Builder: Practical Hints for Handy-Men
by Charles P Dwyer Publisher Comments A practical classic filled with handy advice on the best ways to plan and construct dwellings in any location, using wood, earth, and gravel....
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The New Agritourism: Hosting Community & Tourists on Your Farm
by Barbara Adams Publisher Comments Agritourism—the practice of attracting travelers or visitors to an area used primarily for agricultural purposes—may be the most dependable cash crop available to modern-day farmers. For those interested in developing their own...
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Cabbages & Roses Guide to Natural Housekeeping
by Christina Strutt
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Women and Sustainable Agriculture: Interviews with 14 Agents of Change
by Anna Anderson Publisher Comments This interdisciplinary book is composed of fourteen interviews with women involved in different areas of agriculture. Each interview provides a broad perspective of the complexities of agriculture today -- from conservation practices to court battles...
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Agroforestry in Sustainable Agricultural Systems (Advances in Agroecology)
by Louise E Buck Publisher Comments Agroforestry in Sustainable Agricultural Systems examines the environmental and social conditions that affect the roles and performance of trees in field- and forest-based agricultural production systems. Various types of ecological settings for...
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Sustainability of Horticultural Systems
by L Bertschinger
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Simple Living an Illustrated Workbook
by Jacques Massacrier
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Other homes and garbage :designs for self-sufficient living
by Jim Leckie
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