PublishedDorling Kindersley, July 2019 |
ISBN9780143796930 |
FormatSoftcover, 304 pages |
Dimensions27.5cm × 23.1cm × 2.2cm |
The most up to date and comprehensive guide on sustainable living for your garden, home and kitchen. Practical Self Sufficiency is a wonderfully useful and accessible book that contains something for absolutely everyone. This fully updated guide, now in a paperback edition, offers clear step-by-step information in classic DK style and offers a greater focus on the issues surrounding sustainable living for people in urbanised parts of Australia.
You will find practical advice on reducing your carbon footprint; growing and using your own fruit and vegetables; keeping chickens and other animals; community gardening, design options for energy saving and retrofitting, and doing more with less. With authoritative advice, step-by-step guidance and fascinating illustrations, Practical Self Sufficiency will help you make simple changes that can have a major impact on your life and reduce your impact on the planet.
This is the perfect guide for those wanting to experience that sense of accomplishment. To fall into your bed exhausted with a self-satisfied smile on your face knowing that you did a little something to help the planet cope, You’ll also engender that the cosy smugness one gets safe in the knowledge you’ll be better prepared than your neighbour for the next apocalypse.
