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This eco-elegant guide to home décor is packed with attractive decorating ideas inspired by the colors, forms, and themes of nature. Focused on the environmental impact of design choices, it offers home design with a point of view and a conscience. Author Janet Sobesky shows how to bring a breath of freshness into home decorating by incorporating natural elements into everyday living. Using organic and eco-conscious materials for earth-friendly designs,...
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"Saving the planet for future generations is a laudable aim, but what about the current populace? Why wait when even quite small lifestyle changes can make a big difference now? Christina Strutt's advice and information will help you take a more sustainable path. Recycling, reusing, and shopping at farmers' markets are a good start, but cutting down on the use of poisonous chemicals is just as important--it's perfectly possible to clean a house using...
3) Going green
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Learn simple and easy tips to make your library and its services more environmentally friendly. The program is divided into two sections. One features tips and strategies for building a new, green library building, while the other discusses ways to make your current facilities more environmentally friendly. Included in the program are tips on “green” programming, environmentally-friendly cleaning policies, and simple tips that can be used by any...
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"Discover the natural way to keep your home clean for less time and money. Natural Cleaning Solutions features: Natural cleaning solutions that are effective and affordable. Sound advice that truly works and is so simple that you will see how easily you can make the change in your everyday life. Homemade recipes to get you started making your own natural dishwashing liquid, laundry detergent, facial cleansers, and much more—using items you probably...
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Learn how small, everyday actions can conserve energy sources, reduce your carbon footprint, and even save money in the process. This program deciphers 'green' marketing claims and labels such as 'Energy star', 'DfE', renewable and sustainable. We illustrate eco-friendly ways to buy, prepare, store and dispose of food, and explore methods of saving water, reusing and recycling and trashing trash. Also learn about environmentally friendly clothing...
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"In an ideal world, all of us would be able to fit the trash we've generated over the past year into a Mason jar. But for most of us, the thought of doing so can be immensely intimidating. For others, it's simply not feasible. Enter The (Almost) Zero-Waste Guide. In this easy-to-use handbook, you'll find more than one hundred simple tips of being less wasteful with what you eat, how you live at home and in your community, what clothes you buy, how...
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"Protest Kitchen is an empowering guide to the food and lifestyle choices anyone can make for positive change in the face of the profound challenges of our time. Our food choices have much more of an impact than most people imagine. They not only affect our personal health and the environment, but are also tied to issues of justice, misogyny, national security, and human rights. Protest Kitchen is the first book to explore the ways in which a more...
10) The clean living handbook: 80+ all-natural soaps, cleaners, detergents & nontoxic household products
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"Commercially bought soaps and shampoos are jam-packed with harmful chemicals that you might want to avoid, but buying organic products can get expensive. With so many DIY attempts resulting in failure, it can be hard to find safe and healthy alternatives. It's time to ditch the expensive creams and serums with ingredients you can't pronounce. The Chem Free Body features 100% natural products you can be confident in. What you put in and on your body...
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In this program, we'll explore the exciting race underway to design greener products of all sorts. You can work toward a green career as an architect, interior designer, industrial engineer, or product designer within a myriad of businesses. This is a contest that will reward those who can envision or help create the "greener mousetraps" of tomorrow. Jobs profiled in this program include: Architect, Interior Designer, Consultant, and Landscape Designer....
15) Pave the road
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This "documentary was self-shot over a decade, giving voice to the children, communities, and neglected citizens of Costa Rica that have suffered from deadly road dust due to government and private-company corruption. Despite threats, Canadian director and cinematographer Kelly Mason interviews government officials, medical experts, and community members. She invests four years of testing waste materials at the National Laboratory at the University...
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"Saving money doesn't have to cost the earth. How can you remove even the toughest stains? How can you make the best use of your microwave and keep meals healthy and tasty? How can you remove mould safely? Sunday Times bestselling author Great British Bake Off winner Nancy Birtwhistle is here to answer all of these questions and more, featuring 101 thoughtful, cheap and time-saving tips and tricks on how to run a budget home--all while protecting...
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