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BOSH! How to Live Vegan will cover all aspects of vegan living, everything from food to toiletries to travel. Should you be eating avocados? Is it still okay to wear an old leather belt? What do you tell your friends when they offer you a glass of non-vegan wine? Henry and Ian will answer these questions and more in this fully-comprehensive guide to a plant-based lifestyle. Whether you are a committed vegan, looking to improve your vegan lifestyle or starting out for the first time, this book has all the know-how and inspiration you need.

Why would a successful American physician choose to live in a twelve-foot-by-twelve-foot cabin without running water or electricity? To find out, writer and activist William Powers visited Dr. Jackie Benton in rural North Carolina. No Name Creek gurgled through Benton’s permaculture farm, and she stroked honeybees’ wings as she shared her wildcrafter philosophy of living on a planet in crisis. Powers, just back from a decade of international aid work, then accepted Benton’s offer to stay at the cabin for a season while she traveled.

From the creator of This Girl Can Organise, the ultimate guide to decluttering your home in a fun, sustainable and meaningful way. Are you drowning in clutter? Do you dread opening your cupboards because of the mess that awaits inside? Are you ready to sort out your house for good and discover a...

How to Do Things is a fascinating window into life in early 20th century America, and was the first book to collect centuries of practical information, neighborly wisdom, and generational knowledge and compile it into one comprehensive volume...

A Zero Waste Life is the ultimate guide to radically reducing your waste, without losing your lifestyle. In her 30-day challenge, Anita provides you with the rules, tips and tricks you need to eliminate plastic and live a cleaner, kinder life. This practical audiobook is a call to action with a fresh ‘can do’ approach. Over 30 days you will learn how to make sustainable, ethical choices when it comes to shopping, eating, travel, beauty and so much more. Small changes can make a big difference, and by following these easy, creative steps we can all do more to save our world.

Throughout Reduce, Reuse, Re-imagine, Beth Porter provides a great resources about recycling, explaining the complexity, guiding individual action, and contextualizing its history. This book reveals how we arrived at this state of dysfunction, and what steps we need to employ to be an active participant in strengthening our recycling system. Nature knows how to recycle itself, decomposing waste back into the soil to continue the circle of growth. We should follow its lead.

The future of our cities is not what it used to be. The modern-city model that took hold globally in the twentieth century has outlived its usefulness. It cannot solve the problems it helped to create - especially global warming. Fortunately, a new model for urban development is emerging in cities to aggressively tackle the realities of climate change. In Life After Carbon, urban sustainability consultants Pete Plastrik and John Cleveland assemble this global pattern of urban reinvention from the stories of 25 "innovation lab" cities across the globe.

What makes everyday spaces work, how do they shape us, and what do they say about us? The spaces we live in - whether public areas, housing, offices, hospitals or cities - mediate community, creativity and our very identity, making us who we are. Using insights from environmental psychology, design, and architecture, The Shaping of Us reveals the often imperceptible ways in which our surroundings influence our behaviour.

Without big action, at the current rate, pieces of plastic will outnumber fish in the ocean by 2050. That is the legacy we are leaving our children and grandchildren. Journalist, broadcaster and eco lifestyle expert Lucy Siegle provides a powerful call to arms to end the plastic pandemic along with the tools we need to make decisive change. Plastic flows into our lives from every direction and most of it is not recycled. 

"The time for stepping up and protecting our planet is now. And this book is an easy, enjoyable place to start." -- Moby It's time to put your good intentions into action. It's time to give a shit -- about your health, your footprint, and your planet. Give a Sh*t guides you through the...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of How to Give Up Plastic by Will McCallum, read by Joe Sutherland. 'We have a responsibility, every one of us' David Attenborough Around 12.7 million tonnes of plastic are entering the ocean every year, killing over 1 million seabirds and 100,000 marine...

A revolutionary guide to the art of mindful buying that will teach you how to resist cheaply made goods and make smart, fulfilling purchases that last a lifetime. With the whole world trying to convince us to spend our way to happiness, we’ve been left cluttered, stressed, and unfulfilled...

“This is the book where self-help turns into helping the world—and then turns back into helping yourself find a better life. Fascinating and timely!”—Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet What does it take to achieve a successful and satisfying life? Not...

BODACIOUS: THE SHEPHERD CAT is a heart-warming and charming tale in which Bodacious tells us about life as The Shepherd Cat on Black Sheep Farm. ‘I am Bodacious, The Shepherd Cat , and this is my story. I wasn't always called Bodacious. I must have been called something else in my kitten-hood...

Inspiring stories of 10 urbanites who decided to ‘the simple life’ in the rural mountains of Japan—for anyone interested in sustainable living, Japanese culture, and Eastern spirituality. “Subversive in the best possible way.” —Bill McKibben, New York Times–bestselling author The...

“A profound, graceful, and literary work of philosophy and economics, well tempered for our times, and yet timeless. . . . It will change the way you look at the food you put into your body. Which is to say, it can change who you are.” — Boston Globe Barbara Kingsolver's New York Times...

Your ecofriendly guide to safer, healthier housekeeping Want to go green as you clean? This authoritative guide provides expert, proven advice on cleaning your home with organic, nontoxic, sustainable resources. From the kitchen and bath to the living room, laundry, and even your garage, you get...

En 2013, las amigas Liesl Clark y Rebecca Rockefeller se dieron cuenta de la cantidad de residuos que había en sus playas locales - desde plumas y popotes hasta juguetes y cepillos de dientes - y decidieron hacer algo al respecto. Así nació el proyecto Buy Nothing.

Veränderungen erleichtern das Leben. Veränderungen erweitern den Horizont. Veränderungen sind eine Herausforderung, welche positive Hormone aktiviert und die Seele aufatmen lässt. Nichts ist so beständig wie die Veränderung. Sie haben sich fest vorgenommen, etwas in Ihrem Leben anders zu gestalten? Sie wissen nicht so recht, was? Ich gebe Ihnen einen Tipp: Beginnen Sie mit dem Erhalt Ihres eigenen Lebensraumes, dem Ihrer Kinder und deren zukünftigen Nachkommen.

Dieser Ratgeber soll als Inspiration dienen, Ihnen eine Hilfestellung geben und gleichzeitig eine Anleitung dazu sein, endlich Ihr eigenes Gartenparadies in Ihrem Außenbereich entstehen zu lassen. Egal, ob auf der Terrasse oder dem Balkon, er beinhaltet die Grundlagen des Urban Gardening und stellt diese anschaulich dar. Der Ratgeber bietet außerdem Lösungsansätze für verschiedenste Probleme, die Ihnen in Ihrer Laufbahn hin zum Hobbygärtner sicherlich das ein oder andere Mal begegnen werden.