How to Permaculture Your Life

How to Permaculture Your Life

AU$ 32.50

Strategies, skills and techniques for the transition to a greener world

Ross Mars and Simone Willis

How to Permaculture Your Life is a resource book for everyone interested in Transition, permaculture and more self-reliant and satisfying lifestyles. This book is packed with information on permaculture design principles, soil building, nutrient-dense food growing, including top plant and tree selections for all climatic zones.

Caught between climate change and a fossil fuel-driven economy that demands ever more growth, the world faces a great transition – by design or disaster – away from fossil fuels to a less energy intensive future.

What proven tools are available to aid in making a successful, deliberate transition to a resilient, sustainable future?

This is the original self-published print version by Candlelight Trust. See the UK printing here.

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Description

This permaculture resource discusses rainwater harvesting and irrigation, human waste management, strategies for rural properties with a unique focus on applying permaculture to small urban spaces for decluttering and efficient food growing.

Also find ideas for using hand tools, food preservation, energy production, and low-carbon housing and a plethora of nearly forgotten skills such as soap making, basket weaving, seed saving, and rope and candle making, and more.

On the desert island of a world in decline this is the one-stop guide to vibrant, resilient living you’ll want to take with you.

“… a toolkit of useful plants; alternative farming systems that repair and build soil; skills to add value to your produce; strategies for energy and water efficiency; and techniques to enable us to re-skill and re-learn arts and crafts many of us have lost in recent generations… this book offers us a powerful crash course in the thinking we will need if we are to create a future that actually works for everyone.” – Rob Hopkins, Founder of the Transition movement and author of The Power of Just Doing Stuff, from the foreword from the UK printing

Product details

Published 2015
Candlelight Trust
Paperback, 204 pages. b&w with illustrations throughout, 204 x 255mm.
ISBN: 9780958762694

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ross MarsRoss Mars is a highly regarded permaculture teacher, designer and consultant. He is the author of the bestselling books, Getting Started in Permaculture, The Basics of Permaculture Design and How to Permaculture Your Life and has produced two videos on energy efficient housing design and renewable energy systems for power generation. Ross founded Candlelight Farm, a permaculture demonstration site and training centre in Western Australia. Over the past decade, he has delivered dozens of basic, design, advanced and diploma-level Permaculture Courses. Both a scientist with a PhD in Environmental Science and an entrepreneur, Mars also manufactures and supplies greywater and rainwater tank systems, and installs waterwise gardens and water-sensible irrigation systems.

Additional information

Weight 0.54 kg
Dimensions 254 × 204 × 13 mm

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