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See more detail | | A guide to finding where your gifts, passions, and purpose intersect. You'll learn how to find partners who will help make your venture successful, how to do world class market research, how to innovate, how to build resilience into your enterprise, and how to avoid the landmines that sink to many small businesses.
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See more detail | | A guide to running a successful company, community, or country. Some of the biggest problems facing the world- war, hunger, poverty, and environmental degradation, are essentially system failures.
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See more detail | | Masonry stoves offer good solutions to many of the problems associated with wood burning. They provide clean combustion at a high temperature, good efficiency, a high degree of safety, and little or no pollution. Masonry stoves require little care, needing to be fed only once or twice a day.
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See more detail | | The Green Living Handbook assist you in translating your desire to do the right thing into a program of environmental action that will make a difference. The program simplifies the overwhelm of information, and divides it into six steps each carried out over a two week period. Reducing your solid waste, water efficiency, energy efficiency, transportation efficiency, eco-wise consuming, and empowering others.
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See more detail | | Soap Making Kit. Set includes: Pre-measured oils (palm, coconut, olive), pre-measured sodium hydroxide (lye), custom-made reusable wood soap mold, rubber gloves, safety goggles, thermometer, custom recipe, and Introduction to Basic Soap Making instructional DVD plus an immersion blender. You will need a sturdy 1/2 gallon plastic pitcher and an inexpensive stainless steel stock pot.
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See more detail | | Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
Deep Economy. Contending that "more is not better" for consumers, bestselling author McKibben offers a realistic, if challenging, scenario for a hopeful future. For those who wonder if there isn't more to life than buying, he provides insight on individual responsibility as well as global awareness.
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See more detail | | Living More with Less
Presents a pattern for living with less and contains a wealth of practical suggestions for living a simpler life that puts less stress on the environment.
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See more detail | | In several short essays with telling images Living Within Our Means helps us think through key ideas as we consider our energy choices. From the engineering marvels of the past which did not rely on fossil fuel to the claims of the ultimate energy just around the corner, from the end of a era awash with "cheap" energy to the kind of community planning necessary to live within our energy means, Enshayan brings his sensibilities as an engineer and as a city councilman to the conversations that need to take place in our communities and places of learning.
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See more detail | | Scratching the Woodchuck
The author, an Amish dairy farmer and acclaimed writer and naturalist, is an alert observer of the natural world and it's creatures. You'll feel as though David was walking with you along the fence rows of the farm where he has lived for more than 50 years as he holds you spellbound with tales of everyday life tuned to the sights and voices of the natural world. A delightful book illustrated with pen and ink drawings.
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See more detail | | Great Possessions
Amish dairy farmer David Kline pays homage to this longstanding intimacy in essays that celebrate the splendid and mysterious order governing the plant and animal life on his Ohio farm. These essays go beyond the genre of natural history, and thus greatly increase their value, by showing us also a kind of life in which delight in the wild creatures is ordinary.
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See more detail | | How to Care for Aging Parents
Featured on Oprah, completely revised, updated, and expanded, with nearly 300 pages of new material. Compassionate and thorough, How To Care for Aging Parents is a caregiver's bible. and hailed as an "excellent resource" by the Family Caregiver Alliance,
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See more detail | | All Flesh Is Grass
All Flesh Is Grass. Gene Logsdon, the Contrary Farmer, offers practical ways to farm that ensures a livelihood for the family farmer, takes care of the land, treats animals with respect and provides fresh, healthy food for all.
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See more detail | | Living on an Acre
Who hasn't daydreamed at one time or another about selling produce at a farmer's market, keeping chickens, or planting an orchard of fruit trees? Inside every do-it-yourselfer is a longing for a more independent lifestyle and the satisfaction that comes from getting your hands dirty while turning some earth. Whether you're thinking about a second home in the country, starting a part-time farm, or going back to the land, Living on an Acre is the classic USDA handbook.
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See more detail | | Homebrewer's Garden
This book will show you how to easily grow, prepare, and use your own hops, malts and brewing herbs. If you have a garden, backyard or even a south-facing porch, you can greatly enhance the flavor, aroma and uniqueness of your brews by growing your own organic hops, brewing herbs and malt grains. You'll learn how to build a hop trellis, malt grain at home, and what to plant.
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See more detail | | Primitive Living, Self-Sufficiency, & Survival Skills
Clear, well photographed and diagrammed instructions on skills like the bow-drill fire, cordage making, basket making, fishing, shelter building, but there's something else going on here - Elpel doesn't just want to pass on the skills, he wants to pass on the understandings that runs underneath and through them,
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See more detail | | Root Cellaring
Root Cellaring is a way of using the earth's naturally cool, stable temperature to store perishable fruits and vegetables. It is a low-cost, simple technology, energy-saving way to keep the harvest fresh all year long. In Root Cellaring, the Bubels tell how to successfully use this natural storage approach. You'll learn how to choose vegetable and fruit varieties that store best, how to build all sizes and types of root cellars, indoors and out, plain or fancy; case histories of what worked and what doesn't; specific storage conditions for more than 100 crops.
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See more detail | | You Can Go Home Again PB
You Can Go Home Again. The author, Gene Logsdon, witnessed the dying-down days of a farming culture that really had not changed much since the invention of the scythe.
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See more detail | | To Build the Life You Want
Whether you are out of work or interested in reframing your job, this book will speak to your soul. There is a comforting tone in Marsha's personal approach to the search for jobs and career. This is an affirming book that encourages experimentation, trust of the inner voice and a spiritual perspective to achieving financial security and new avenues of work. Her prescriptions make sense. They apply to real life as we all know it.
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See more detail | | Plain and Simple: A Woman's Journey to the Amish
This book is the captivating and true story of a harried urban Californian moved by the beauty of a display of quilts to seek out and live with the Amish. Discovering lives shaped by unfamiliar yet comforting ideas about time, work, and community, Bender is gently coaxed to consider whether there is a better way to lead a good life. Her journey begins in a New York men's clothing store. There she is spellbound by the vibrant colors and stunning geometric simplicity of the Amish quilts used as background in a display. Heeding a persistent inner voice, Bender searches for Amish families willing to allow her to visit and share in their daily lives.
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See more detail | | Frontier Living
Frontier Living - An Illustrated Guide to Pioneer Life in America, including Log Cabins, Furniture, Tools, Clothing, and More. Written and Illustrated by, Edwin Tunis. Frontier Living brings to light every significant aspect of daily life on the American frontier, with vivid text and more than 200 wonderful drawings. Immerse yourself in the character and culture of the men and women who stood at the harsh cutting-edge of our civilization: their dwellings, clothing, food, furniture, household articles; their hunting, farming, schooling, transportation, government; their amusements, superstitions, and religion.
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See more detail | | Making Toys That Teach
Don't miss out on the joy of crafting these toys and watching the children learn while they play. Making Toys That Teach comes with step-by-step instructions and plans,.
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See more detail | | With plain and simple advice on everything from dusting and swabbing to polishing and vacuuming, best-selling author Donna Smallin shows you how to make the most of your valuable cleaning time. Hundreds of quick tips and practical solutions for every imaginable cleaning situation promise you the sparkling, healthful environment you want for your family. Donna defines four types of cleaners: "The Super Cleaner", The Speed Cleaner", "The Green Cleaner" & "The Catch-up Cleaner". I fall into the third definition of Green Cleaner with a heavy dose of Catch-up mixed in. Those who know me will wonder how I ever decided to even open this book much less encourage others to buy it. It actually has so many wonderful suggestions that I have been referring to it several time a week. Did you know that good old baking soda and vinegar are both terrific cleaners? In addition they are easy on the environment. There are lots of recipes for make it yourself products from all-purpose to wood cleaners. Included are strategies for clearing clutter and getting ready to clean. The cleaning challenges are broken into room-by-room, everyday and household challenges such as clean air, pests and seasonal. There is even a section on how to keep your computer running smoothly by periodically "cleaning" the operating system.
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See more detail | | Wise Words for the Good Life
Wise Words for the Good Life. By grouping the wisdom of the ages into categories that are quirky yet eminently sensible, the author brings to life the contemporary relevance of some of the most profound chroniclers of our rural heritage.
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See more detail | | The Directory features community listings of over 600 communities in North America, each with a brief description and contact information, over 100 listings on other continents, 33 pages of articles about community living, an extensive index of community resources, recommended reading, maps, a cross-reference chart and a very helpful index.
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See more detail | | Women of the Celts
Women of the Celts. For the Celts, the quest for the Holy Grail becomes a search for love and for the paradise that is concealed, but ever alive, in the depths of the unconscious, In this hidden realm, woman wears the mask of man's initiator, transformer, and deliverer.
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See more detail | | Nonviolent Communication
Nonviolent Communication - A Language of Life by, Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D.. Most of have been educated from birth to compete, judge, demand, diagnose -to think and communicate in terms of what is "right" and "wrong" with people. At best the habitual ways we think and speak hinder communication, and create misunderstanding and frustration in others and in ourselves. And still worse, they cause anger and pain, and may lead to violence. Without wanting to, even people with the best of intentions generate needless conflict. In Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, Marshall Rosenberg shows us how to reach beneath the surface and discover what is alive and vital within us, and how all of our actions are based on human needs that we are seeking to meet.
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See more detail | | Do What You Love, the Money Will Follow
Do What You Love, the Money Will Follow. No more Monday morning blues! You are about to be liberated! Here is the book you've been waiting for - a step-by-step guide to finding the work that expresses and fulfills your needs, talents, and passions. Using dozens of real-life examples, Marsha Sinetar shows you how to overcome your fears, take the little risks that make big risks possible, and become a person whose work means self-expression, growth, and love.
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See more detail | | Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
"This is a story of a year in which we made every attempt to feed ourselves animals and vegetables whose provenance we really knew ... and of how our family was changed by our first year of deliberately eating food produced from the same place where we worked, went to school, loved our neighbors, drank the water, and breathed the air"
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See more detail | | Hydrogen Age, The
Our planet is quickly showing the effects of our massive over consumption of earths finite natural resources. The authors, Geoffrey B. Holland and James J. Provenzano, have given the layperson historical, technical, environmental and social context to the necessary quest of realizing a truly pollution-free energy economy.
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See more detail | | Winning Our Energy Independence
Winning Our Energy Independence. As more and more citizens of this planet earth realize the future in using oil and coal for fuel is bleak, the visionaries such as author, Dave Freeman, have already sought out the new, safer, cleaner possibilities, such as solar, wind power, ethanol and other biofuels, geothermal energy and hydrogen.
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See more detail | | Quick Fixes for Eco Conscious Cleaning
Quick Fixes for Eco Conscious Cleaning. If you think that vinegar is just for making salad dressing, think again. In this handy book of instant cleaning fixes, Bridget Bodoano details all the essential kits needed - and how to use them
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See more detail | | Quick Fixes for the Home Handywoman
Quick Fixes for the Home Handywoman. Packed with tips, useful facts, and quick fixes, it's the ultimate guide to DIY projects. It explains different kinds of tools how and when to use them. This guide will help you to judge when it's a DIY job or when it's time to call in an expert.
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See more detail | | Keeping Life Simple
For most of us each day is packed and life can feel pretty cluttered. how do people who feel they are doing more/earning more/getting more but enjoying it all less manage to turn things around and focus on building more satisfying lives? How do we sort through all the "stuff" and find the meaning that we long for?
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See more detail | | Our Farm
Our Farm is a real life look at a family-five kids and three dogs included-and the farm they work together, season by season. Told through the voices of the children and candid photos of them, this inside view of life on their cattle farm is authentic and sometimes surprising.
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See more detail | | Country Wisdom Almanac
Country Wisdom Almanac. Country Wisdom Almanac provides hundreds of ideas and methods for living the good and simple life, plus information on weather, gardening, buying produce and cooking by season, holidays, frost dates, moon phases, and more.
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See more detail | | Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology PB
Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology . What happens when a graduate of MIT and his bride move to a community so primitive even some Amish groups consider it antiquated? Author Eric Brende conceives a real life experiment to see if today's modern technology really has made life better or would life be preferable without them? A smart, often comedic and always riveting book that mingles scientific analysis with the human story, demonstrating how a world free of technological excess can shrink stress-and waistlines- and expand health, happiness and leisure.
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See more detail | | Codependent No More
Codependent No More is someone else's problem your problem? If, like so many others, you've lost sight of your own life in the drama of tending to someone else's, you may be co-dependent and you may find yourself in this book.
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See more detail | | The Revolution: A Manifesto by Congressman Ron Paul. If we are to enjoy peace, freedom, and prosperity once again, we absolutely must return to the principles upon which America was founded. But finally, there is hope.
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See more detail | | Scats and Tracks of North America
Scats and Tracks of North America. Was that track on the trail left by a dog or a coyote? A caribou or a moose? A white-tailed deer or a peccary, perhaps? Was that pile of droppings deposited by a bobcat or a fox?
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See more detail | | Making Native American Hunting, Fighting, and Survival Tools PB
Construction directions also cover digging tools, axes, knives, hide scrapers, spear points, shields, baskets and packs, chisels, harpoons, hooks and line, fish traps, fish nets, spear throwers, slings, blow guns, bolas, rabbit sticks, game clubs, trap and snare decoys, calls, spears, darts, bows, arrows, tomahawks, clubs, daggers, and lances.
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See more detail | | We Wanted a Farm
We Wanted a Farm by M. G. Kains. Kains shows how he and his family moved from New York City apartments to a full-fledged farm in easy stages. A back-to-the-land adventure from 1941.
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See more detail | | Clean Your Home Healthy. Full of facts, tips and tricks, this handy book will show you why Green is the best way to clean.
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See more detail | | Naturally Clean Home
Naturally Clean Home. Recipes include laundry and dishwashing detergent; bathroom cleaners; wood, glass, and metal cleaners; air and carpet fresheners; car and pet care products; and insect repellents.
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See more detail | | Made from Scratch
Made from Scratch. Inspired by her growing admiration for small farmers and her growing distaste for rampant consumerism, 26-year-old web designer Jenna Woginrich decided to take control of her life, what she ate, what she wore, and how she spent her free time.
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See more detail | | The Open-Hearth Cookbook, Revised Ed
The Open-Hearth Cookbook, Revised Ed. The authors emphasize the appliances and techniques that make open-hearth cooking realistic in today's homes where the fireplace is not in the kitchen. The authors explain the art of building a good cooking fire and maintaining the three basic temperatures - low, medium and high - needed to prepare almost all foods, and suggest ways to keep the hearth clean and the cook safe.
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See more detail | | The Forgotten Art of Building & Using a Brick Bake Oven
The Forgotten Art of Building & Using a Brick Bake Oven . In earlier times, building and using a brick bake oven involved skills that were passed on from generation to generation by work of mouth, observation and example from the days of the American colonist until the advent of the cast iron cook stove.
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See more detail | | The American Frugal Housewife
The American Frugal Housewife. Includes interesting recipes, remedies, advice on parenting, and the myriad responsibilities of housekeeping are all put forth in straightforward no-nonsense, Yankee prose.
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See more detail | | Equine Forestry, DVD
Equine Forestry, DVD. The camp has a 20 man crew,11 horses, four saw mills, and a camp cook. The camp logged and sawed 36000 board feet in eight days using horses to pull out the logs.
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See more detail | | Horse Logging Bundle, 2 DVDs
Horse Logging Bundle, 2 DVDs. See what this lifestyle is all about and hear from some of the clients who have used these services and know, first hand, the benefits to the land and the landowner.
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See more detail | | Sew What! BAGS
Sew What! BAGS. The 17 core projects in Sew What! BAGS shows how to use bold, contemporary fabrics to make totes, drawstring sacks, messenger bags, organizers, satchels, and purses in a wide range of sizes and shapes. Every project is shown in a full-color photo accompanied by step-by-step, illustrated instructions.
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See more detail | | Drip irrigation is the best way to help any plant flourish and survive tough times, especially short or long droughts. Pick the wrong stuff and you easily can feel overwhelmed. Robert Kourik's Drip Irrigation for Every Landscape and All Climates clearly explains how to use less water yet increase the yields of vegetables and promote the growth and flowering of all plants trees, shrubs, and container plants in any climate, even where it rains irregularly.
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