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Make Your Place: Affordable & Sustainable Nesting Skills

affiliate program Raleigh Briggs collects her zines, illustrations, and thoughts around what it is that makes a great DIY household: homemade cleaning solvents that aren’t made from poison, herbs that will heal you, and how to setup a great garden. These tips and tricks fill in the gaps for those of us longing to live [...]

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Toolbox for Sustainable City Living: A do-it-Ourselves Guide

The tools you need to create self-sufficient, ecologically sustainable cities “A surprisingly effective model for connecting people with dreams to the resources they need.” —Austin Chronicle With more than half the world’s population now residing—and struggling to survive—in cities, we can no longer afford to think of sustainability as something that applies only to forests [...]

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Sufficient: A Modern Guide to Sustainable Living

A global shift has begun that is slanted towards slowing down and consuming less, embracing artisan foods, and championing human-scale organic growing methods that are safe, compassionate, and pleasurable. This comprehensive reference is designed to inspire, educate and encourage a process of change towards a simple, gentle, and sustainable way of living. It features a passionate [...]

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How To Cut Energy Costs, And Reduce Your Carbon Footprint

Rather than whine about how miserable the current outlook for our environment is, you can actually make a lot of difference by starting your own conservation revolution at home. Apart from implementing your own green initiatives at home, it would also help if you write or call your congressmen and senators and ask them to [...]

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Nutritional Facts About Quinoa

Quinoa, the recently rediscovered super food, is often mistaken for a type of grain. On the contrary, it is actually the seed of a leafy plant related to spinach and amaranths. (Some people label it as a pseudo-cereal.) It is an organic food grown in the Andes mountains of Ecuador where it thrives quite well. [...]

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Quinoa – The Making Of A Super Food

Considered a “sacred grain” by the ancient Incas, Quinoa was also called “chisaya mama” (mother of all grains). The ancients must probably know how such a lowly seed was actually a nutritional heavyweight. As records would have it, Quinoa was even available as staple food to pre-Columbian people some 6,000 years before the Incas discovered [...]

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Eco-Friendly Gardening

Gardening is one of the most popular activities for homeowners, which gives a new layer of aesthetic beauty to your home. In addition, gardening offers a lot of worthwhile fun as you get to nourish various species of fauna, whether it be for ornamental or eco friendly purposes. New eco trends in gardening have therefore [...]

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You Can Make Your Small Business Greener

You must have read or heard it before:  turning your enterprise into a green business could actually help you save on costs and help you earn more.   But how do we do it?  Home and small business owners are usually hesitant on becoming more environmentally friendly.  It is not because they don’t care but because [...]

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