Green Home

How to Start Composting: A Beginner’s Guide to Eco-Friendly Practices is your ultimate resource for transforming organic waste into a powerful tool for sustainability. Whether you’re new to composting or looking to refine your methods, this guide is packed with practical composting tips to help you reduce waste, enrich your soil, and embrace an eco-friendly lifestyle. Composting is a simple yet impactful way to turn kitchen scraps and yard waste into nutrient-rich compost. By integrating home composting into your routine, you can minimize landfill contributions and support a healthier planet.

In light of concerns about food and human health, fraying social ties, economic uncertainty, and rampant consumerism, some people are foregoing a hurried, distracted existence and embracing a mindful way of living. Intentional residential communities across the United States are seeking the freedom to craft their own societies and live based on the values of nonviolence, self-sufficiency, equality, and voluntary simplicity.

Sixteen-year-old climate activist Xiuhtezcatl Martinez and his group the Earth Guardians believe that choices made now will have a lasting impact on the world of tomorrow, and they want to ensure a positive, just, and sustainable future. Beginning with their empowering story, We Rise explores many aspects of effective activism and provides step-by-step information on how to start and join solution-oriented movements.

Danny Seo is known for his ability to make natural, healthy living accessible. In his nationally syndicated column, "Do Just One Thing," Danny showed readers how to make small but powerful choices every day that would positively impact the planet. Now, 365 of his best tips have been gathered together in this giftable package. From conserving energy to recycling properly to looking out for our ecosystems, this book gives you one simple way to waste not, want not every day of the year.

Did you know that you could grow up to 10,000 pounds of food on a small quarter-acre lot? Now pause and think for a moment. You're spending at least 10 percent of your monthly income on food that you can actually grow in your backyard. Highest-quality organic vegetables, flavorful freshly picked herbs and mouth-watering fruit - you can have all of these for free.

Step into the world of foraging with Foraging Wild Edibles for Beginners, the ultimate guide to identifying, harvesting, and enjoying wild foods. Whether you're a nature lover, a culinary enthusiast, or a beginner seeking self-reliance, this book provides the foundational skills you need to explore wild edibles safely and sustainably.

A complete guide to growing plants using Hydroponic and Aquaponic systems! Having your own garden means knowing exactly where your food comes from. Growing plants is certainly challenging, and some plants can’t even grow in certain conditions. However, the science of hydroponics and aquaponics makes it easy and possible for you to grow fruits, veggies, and greens in your own backyard. Hydroponics means growing plants without soil, using mineral, and nutrient solutions. And aquaponics means producing the food yourself!

Become a gardening master and grow over 30 kinds of popular fruits and veggies for complete self-sufficiency. Here’s how. Raised bed gardening is the perfect choice for a small backyard and even for indoor food production. Maintenance is a breeze, and you’ll get optimal yields simply by following some of the best practices. You’ve probably experimented with gardening in the past, and your appetite for fresh, crunchy, and organic home produce has grown (literally and figuratively!). It’s now time to take your gardening efforts to the next level.

Lead in lipstick? 1,4-Dioxane in baby soap? Coal tar in shampoo? How is this possible? Simple. The $35 billion cosmetics industry is so powerful they've kept themselves unregulated for decades. Not Just a Pretty Face chronicles the quest that led a group of health and environmental activists to the world's largest cosmetics companies to ask some tough questions....

Does the growing toxicity of the environment concern you? Do you want to cut down on the toxic load in your home and around your family? Have you ever wanted to make your own household cleaning products, but weren’t sure where to start? If you answered yes to any of these questions then this book is for you... 50 Things to Know About Natural Green Cleaning in Your Home: How to Make And Use Natural Cleaners by Marisa Tolsma offers an easy to follow approach to making and using your own natural, non-toxic cleaning products.

You don’t need to be a professional landscaper to be able to grow your own thriving garden, and you definitely don’t need four acres of land to add a touch of nature to your home. Whether you’re a lifelong gardener looking for inspiration, or you’re just someone who loves being surrounded by nature, this comprehensive guide will give you everything you need to know about growing plants in small spaces with raised beds, containers, and vertical structures, so you can finally start on a gardening journey that will last a lifetime.

Do you have a small backyard space that is brimming with potential? Have you always wanted to grow your own food and save up money in the process? Are you looking to take a simpler, more self-sufficient path in life? You’re in luck! If you’re looking to create a highly productive, sustainable space that provides homegrown fruits, vegetables, honey, eggs, milk, and meat...then Sustainable Backyard Homesteading for Beginners by D.G. Smith is for you!

Boosting your health is easier than you think—everything that's good for you can be made more delicious with a smoothie. But there’s one powerful weapon that can help you in your quest to become healthier: a blender. A blender is your answer to taking the hassle out of plant-based living. With a comprehensive guide to smoothies for every health goal, you can drastically increase your intake of the world’s most healthy ingredients.

Welcome to "Greening Your Nest"— your ultimate guide to transforming your personal space into a beacon of sustainability and a sanctuary of green living. Imagine embarking on a journey that not only brings you closer to nature but also arms you with the power to make a lasting impact on our planet, all from the comfort of your own home. Dive into the opening chapter, "Green Foundations," where you embark on a thoughtful exploration of your environmental footprint. Cultivate a mindset attuned to sustainability with attainable goals, and begin your transformation with deep-dive sections ...

Public Gardens and Livable Cities uses a prescriptive approach to synthesize a range of public, private, and nonprofit initiatives from municipalities throughout the country. In doing so, the authors examine the initiatives from a practical perspective to identify how they were implemented, their sustainability, the obstacles they encountered, the impact of the initiatives on their populations, and how they dealt with the communities' underlying social problems.

The real estate market can be very intimidating, because of the competition and the amount of money that is at stake. With thousands of seasoned experts dominating the game, how would a novice like myself ever get started? Do I even have enough money to get into the market? Are these questions you are asking yourself? If you are anything like myself, the answer is yes. Real estate is very important, if you want to grow your wealth. Everyone had to start somewhere, even those dominating the market right now. The best thing you can do is get started as soon as possible.

If you want to know how to be environmental friendly while using computers at home, then check this How to Start Green Home Computing guide.

Hugelkultur raised bed gardening. This is perhaps one of the most ancient of the no-dig gardening techniques for growing fruit and vegetables, originating in the Black Forest region of Germany, it has been around for many centuries. Created as a way to grow food in areas where good arable land was limited, the Hugelkultur makes use of material that would otherwise be discarded as useless - forest debris and other garden waste.

Nature’s Clean: The Homesteader’s Guide to Eco-Friendly Cleaning with Vinegar By Tracey Glenn Discover the power of nature’s most versatile cleaning agent—vinegar—and transform your home into a toxin-free, sustainable sanctuary. In Nature’s Clean, homesteading expert Tracey Glenn guides you through the art of natural cleaning, showing how simple ingredients from your pantry and garden can replace harmful chemicals and expensive commercial products. Whether you're a seasoned homesteader or just starting your journey to greener living, this comprehensive guide covers everything ...

Reduce, reuse and recycle – the nineteenth century way! This book is packed full of helpful hints and recipes from the early 1800s to the early 1900s, when the United States and Canada expanded their frontiers and intrepid pioneers set up frugal, self-reliant homesteads. It is not just for homesteaders or self-sufficiency purists – whether you live in a country cottage, a city apartment or a college dorm, this book contains a wealth of hints to help you save money, live a greener lifestyle and ‘downsize’.