NO GRID: The Ultimate Survival Bible is the only guide you’ll ever need to thrive in a world without electricity. Packed with over 80 ingenious off-grid living projects, this book shows you how to protect your family and become truly self-sufficient in any crisis.Covering everything from emergency preparedness and home defence to sustainable living and alternative energy, this comprehensive manual is your key to independence — right on your own property.Aut...

NO GRID: The Ultimate Survival Bible is the only guide you'll ever need to thrive in a world without electricity. Packed with over 80 ingenious off-grid living projects, this book shows you how to protect your family and become truly self-sufficient in any crisis.Covering everything from emergency preparedness and home defence to sustainable living and alternative energy, this comprehensive manual is your key to independence - right on your own property.Aut...

A step-by-step guide to building a lifestyle based on independence, security, and sustainability—includes color photos.Build your way to a more self-sufficient lifestyle with step-by-step projects for backup and supplementary utilities—including independent water, heat, and electricity—growing and storing food, raising small livestock, beekeeping, and more. Many of the projects require basic materials available at your everyday home center, but this book also provid...

Build your own passive solar greenhouse for year-round food production in any climateThe Year-round Solar Greenhouse is the one-stop guide to designing and building greenhouses that harness and store energy from the sun to create naturally heated, lush growing environments even in the depths of winter, covering principles of solar greenhouse design and siting, glazing material properties and selection, controlling heat loss, ventilation, and construction ...

Sustainable Landscaping For Dummies provides hands-on, how-to instruction for realizing the benefits of a sustainable landscape, from selecting sutainable hardscape materials to installing a rain-water catchment system to choosing native plants.

Build stylish and functional furniture from salvaged materials. This innovative guide presents dozens of strategies for upcycling scrap cardboard, metal, plastic, or wood into dependable shelving units, sturdy tables, and fun lamps. With directions for 35 easy and inexpensive projects that include a Cardboard Cantilever Chair, a License Plate Bowl, a Conduit Coatrack, and much more, you’ll be inspired to start filling your home with unique high-style furniture that makes sense for both you...

Heat your home with 80% less wood while eliminating smoke, ash, and constant fire-tending. Complete construction manual for building ultra-efficient rocket mass heaters that provide superior comfort, slash heating costs, and burn so cleanly they're legal in smoke-restricted areas.Why Rocket Mass Heaters Outperform Traditional Wood Stoves:Conventional wood stoves waste 60-80% of fuel energy up the chimney. Rocket mass heaters capture and sto...

"The essential guide for people serious about setting up a commercial, cold-water aquaponic system." —Dr. Daniel Baker, Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Vancouver Island UniversityProfitable cold-water fish and vegetable production. Join the aquaponic farming revolution!Built around a proven 120' greenhouse system operable by one person, The Aquaponic Farmer is the game changer that distills vast experience and complete step-by-step guidance ...

The only comprehensive, illustrated, step-by-step guide to building with earthbags.Over seventy percent of Americans cannot afford to own a code-enforced, contractor-built home. This has led to widespread interest in using natural materials-straw, cob, and earth-for building homes and other buildings that are inexpensive, and that rely largely on labor rather than expensive and often environmentally-damaging outsourced materials.Earthbag Building ...

Start Your Own Off-Grid Homestead the Simple, Budget-Friendly WayIf you’ve ever thought about creating your own family homestead but weren’t sure how to get started or if it were even possible, Stewart and Shannon Stonger have been there and can help guide your way. They left their home in the city and moved to an empty plot of land with hopes of building a more sustainable way of life. Their years of research, limited budget, creativity and pursuit of their dream ...

Learn How To Grow Your Own Organic Vegetables and Fish With Aquaponic Gardening!Would you like to grow your own organic:FruitsHerbsVegetablesFishWith Aquaponics, you can!BUY: 'Aquaponics 101'What is Aquaponics?Aquaponic farming is the process of raising fish and growing vegetables. It is basically

Being prepared isn’t about being scared or paranoid—it’s about safety. It’s about having the ability to protect your family and being able to weather any storm, no matter how tough. In today’s modern age, people expect clean food on shelves and drinkable water from taps. But that hasn’t always been the case, and it won’t always be the case. Civil unrest or natural disaster could bring your city or state’s infrastructure crashing down around your eyes. When there’s no food and the water sto...