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New second edition: completely updated! Are you prepared for when disaster strikes? Would you know what to do to save, protect, and feed your family? We live in uncertain times. In recent years, natural disasters have killed thousands of people and left many more people homeless and injured. We barely survived a financial crisis, and terrorist attacks are more prevalent than ever. Would you be able to survive if a disaster or catastrophe changed the world as you know it?

If you’ve struggled with inconsistent results from tutorials or found other resources too complicated, this book is your comprehensive, step-by-step guide to mastering the art of food preservation. Packed with practical advice, expert tips, and foolproof methods, The Preserver’s Handbook is designed to help you avoid common mistakes and achieve success in every method.

Renowned scientist and best-selling author Jane Goodall delivers an eye-opening and empowering book that explores the social and personal significance of what we eat. In Harvest for Hope, Jane Goodall presents an empowering and far-reaching vision for social and environmental transformation through the way we produce and consume the foods we eat.

Mindfulness in Gardening explores the activity of gardening as an exercise for both body and mind. Ark Redwood, a professional gardener for over 30 years and currently head gardener at Chalice Well, one of Britain’s most sacred gardens, guides you through the changing seasons, expanding your knowledge of how to be conscious of the living and providing expert insight on meditating in your natural environment. Practical exercises are included for listeners to imitate in their own garden.

Less Stuff is a guide for people who find it difficult to declutter and who don’t want to see things go to waste. Step by step, you’ll explore finding your ‘enough’, learn how to let go of your old possessions without sending them to landfill, and eventually break the cycle of stuff. The end result is a planet with less strain, a home with more peace and a life with more meaning.

In her landmark investigation Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion, Elizabeth L. Cline first revealed fast fashion’s hidden toll on the environment, garment workers, and even our own satisfaction with our clothes. The Conscious Closet shows exactly what we can do about it. Whether your goal is to build an effortless capsule wardrobe, keep up with trends without harming the environment, buy better quality, seek out ethical brands, or all of the above, The Conscious Closet is packed with the vital tools you need.

Are you sick of turning your home upside down just to find something? Are there places in your house you're too ashamed to show friends or guests? Are you losing the war against clutter in your home? It's time you do something about it. Clutter is sneaky. If left to go on, it will consume your home and your life. What's more, instead of experiencing the joy of less, you experience damaging stress instead. But it doesn't have to stay that way. To beat clutter for good, it's not enough to just clean up.

Tiny houses on wheels are glamorous and solve a lot of problems for people, but actually building one is a different story entirely. Maybe you've spent a lot of time researching and planning, but you're not quite sure you are ready. Or perhaps you are having a tiny house built for you but don't know what your builder will really do or how to communicate with them. Whatever your situation, this audiobook will arm you with construction knowledge in simple terms.

Secrets of Home Staging isn't just an indispensable guide for the everyday homeowner; it's also geared to realtors and those committed to real estate investing and flipping houses. With potential home buyers pre-shopping homes online and dismissing many of them in as little as three seconds, it is essential that your home is staged to look its best. Secrets of Home Staging will help you navigate the home-staging process with an easy-to-follow guide.

Whether you already have the experience, or you are looking to learn the basics to live off-grid, part one of this audiobook offers over 50 ways to become a successful off-grid dweller. You’ll learn how to live off-grid without sacrificing the things you love. You will feel closer to your family and to the land, where you know you are doing your part to reduce climate change and help to create a more sustainable life.

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!

Is your life crowded with stuff but unfulfilling? Understanding what brings value to your life and what doesn’t helps you release the objects that have cluttered up your home for maybe years. Clearing your physical space can help you attain more mental clarity as well and allow you to clear out your mental baggage as you take out the physical trash.

If 20 percent of the population implemented half the solutions in this book, it would solve the biggest global problems. All without writing to politicians, joining protests, signing petitions, or being angry at the people that are causing the problems. Good solutions are often different from conventional environmental wisdom. The average American adult has a carbon footprint of 30 tons per year. Replacing a petroleum car with an electric car will cut 2 tons. But if you live in a cold climate and you switch from electric heat to a rocket mass heater, you will cut 27 tons!

Do you want to reduce the clutter in your home, organize what's left, and keep it that way? Does the sheer scope of the project give you an anxiety attack? Don't let fear stop you! Organizing and time-management experts Sandra Felton and Marsha Sims show you how - with the right game plan and a healthy dose of adrenaline - you're just five days from your goal. With their proven team-based approach, even the most overwhelming de-cluttering job becomes doable.

The most beautiful guide to the Danish custom of hygge, the everyday life philosophy for better living. Hygge is a feeling of belonging and warmth, a moment of comfort and contentment. This beautiful little book will help you to find hygge and embrace it every day. Make a pot of coffee, relax in your favourite chair and discover for yourself how life is better with hygge.

Have you ever attempted to get rid of the things you don't need and organize, but ended up feeling like you didn't make the progress you'd hoped for? Armed with this guide, decluttering will not feel disheartening. In this book, you will discover the ultimate tidying tactics and so much more.

Do you wish a decluttering expert could come alongside you to help tackle specific roadblocks that always derail your decluttering journey? Dana K. White, self-proclaimed recovering slob and author of Organizing for the Rest of Us, is here to help with her audio original series, Decluttering Deep Dives.

Do you produce lots of organic waste? Are you tired of seeing all that waste go to...waste? Do you need something homemade to enrich your garden soil and make your plants healthier? Welcome to Composting - you’ve just found your ultimate guide to creating organic compost from kitchen scraps and backyard waste.

Decluttering our homes can be difficult. Letting go of things can be challenging. Living with less seems impossible. With wit and tough love, Stop Buying Bins seeks to break down the obstacles that tether us to our possessions. Why do we hold onto belongings that no longer serve us? How do we change our perspective regarding our things? And once we've tackled those questions, how do we go about actually downsizing our clutter?

No one likes to think of the worst case scenario, but if you're not prepared, "worst case" could become much worse than you ever imagined....You hope that you’ll never need an emergency plan, but the truth is, it’s only if you have one that you’ll be ready.