Sustainable Home

Cleaning is more than the dusting, mopping, and the wiping. It is creating a safe and a healthy home for you and your family. This book will give you a 14-day cleaning plan that you can follow right away. It is a schedule that will guide you in cleaning your home without the stress. Following a 14-day cleaning schedule helps you to identify, prioritize, and organize your list of tasks. It also helps you to set achievable cleaning goals.

Space for a big garden. Fruit trees. A huge barn. A deck with an amazing view. The blackberry-infested property on the hill seemed to have limitless potential. When Tammy Owen moved from the city to a five-acre farm, she hoped to learn how to live closer to the land. What she learned instead was a lot about life.

More and more people these days are producing their own foods right at home. The reasons are simple. Home-produced foods are healthier as well as cheaper than what you will get at your nearest supermarket. If you have a small backyard in your house, you can easily plan your own mini farm. Yes, you can actually build a small farm on that vacant plot of land at the back of your house!

There is nothing more stressful than coming home, after a long, hard day at work, to a house that is in disarray and covered in filth. Then again, people find cleaning to be such a chore because that is exactly what it is, a chore, which, by definition, is an unpleasant task.

You're about to discover crucial information about communal living. Millions of people have already experienced the amazing benefits that communal life has to offer. It can be overwhelming if you have been thinking about living in a shared arrangement and you haven't been able to find quality information on the topic. You need to understand the risks and benefits before jumping right into it. As someone who has lived this type of lifestyle, I want to provide an unbiased view of what you can expect.

Most eco-friendly books start with terror-inducing lists of the carcinogenic chemicals you are liberally slathering all over every single surface in your house, painting most people as unwitting eco-villains, happily Lysol-ing their way straight to hell. Well, listeners can just relax and unpack the (plastic) bags - no guilt trips today! All You Need Is Less is about realistically adopting an eco-friendly lifestyle without either losing your mind from soul-destroying guilt or becoming a preachy know-it-all whom everyone loathes.

As things become more and more expensive and various operations are seemingly becoming more interdependent, many seek to be self-sufficient in some way and not be plugged into the grid. It is something that can be carried out quite easily and effectively once one has the necessary tools on hand to get the job done. One great tool to have on hand is Self Sufficiency: Getting Back To Basics. It can teach the listener how they can become self-sufficient with certain practices.

How to Improve Soil Condition in Your Garden is a great audiobook for beginner and intermediate gardeners. The health of your garden, whether it is fruits, vegetables, flowers, herbs, or other plants, is in direct relation to the health of the garden soil. In many cases, today's' soils are not what they were several generations ago, so the need and importance to amend and boost the soil's nutrient levels, as well as improving soil texture exists.

Life is stressful! Having a tool box ready is one of the best ways to manage stress! Whether you want to learn about how stress affects us, manage your stress better, or be able to reduce your stress level in any situation, this audiobook will teach you all you need to know about stress management and help you manage your stress on your own terms.

The tiny house movement is an emerging and growing trend in architecture and home design. It has been present in the real estate market for years but has only now grown to become the latest craze in the architectural world. Many people have decided that less is actually more, and even more are beginning to downsize their living to create a more suitable and much more affordable lifestyle.

In such a frenetic world, finding the time to organize your stuff often seems impossible. It's not really a priority. Yet it should be, because being organized will greatly improve your quality of life. If you're organized, you are always on time for appointments and prepared for meetings. It means you will remember special occasions and to set aside time for all your daily tasks. It means not wasting precious minutes searching for your car keys in the morning or finding your phone when it rings in the evening.

What is minimalism? It doesn't mean living with nothing or living in poor conditions. Minimalism doesn't mean you have to be impoverished or destitute. It doesn't even mean to live with many limitations. In fact minimalism means freedom from the oppression of fitting in to a society that is living with so much covetousness.

Clutter is part of everyday life, but this does not mean you shouldn't do anything about it. To some it's normal that there are bed sheets on the floor, kitchen cupboards that are yet to be cleaned, and closets that are left in disarray. But no matter how true this is, clutter can still be annoying, disabling, and maddening.

Grow your own food, save money, gain self-sufficiency, and live larger with frugal living! Lead a more sustainable and healthier life with this back-to-basics guide on homesteading. Homesteading is an earth-based lifestyle of self-sufficiency. It's about reconnecting with nature and getting back in touch with your authentic self, all whilst making eco-friendly and economically-wise lifestyle choices. Independent and frugal living is the future to living a truly fulfilling life!

Cooler Smarter is based on an in-depth, two-year study by the experts at The Union of Concerned Scientists. While other green guides suggest an array of tips, Cooler Smarter offers proven strategies to cut carbon, with chapters on transportation, home energy use, diet, and personal consumption, as well as how best to influence your workplace, your community, and elected officials. The book explains how to make the biggest impact and when not to sweat the small stuff.

Whether your clutter problem is just beginning to take root or has already grown to mind boggling proportions, the tips below will help you sort through it all and more importantly, help you decide what to throw and what to keep. It will also guide you as you systematically go through the clutter. However, all the suggestions below will not help if you do not take action. So stop waiting for tomorrow. Now is the time to clean and organize your home. Now is the time to restore your home to its former glory.

People often think that when you live in a small house, it's because you don't have the means to live in a larger home. In most cases this couldn't be further from the truth. The fact is that small house living typically equates to a much more fulfilling life. Through the process of downsizing your life in regards to material possessions, clutter, and the size of your dwelling, you come to understand a new ideal in which freedom is the name of the game.

When disaster strikes, the last place you want to be is stuck in a line at the corner grocery. Having a backup food supply - or what doomsday preppers would call a survival or disaster pantry - is essential if you want to live through a disaster and its aftermath. What are Short Term Emergency Foods? There are long term emergency foods and there are short term emergency foods. Long term emergency foods are those that have long shelf lives and will sustain you indefinitely.

Author and YouTuber Zoey Arielle opens up about her struggle with loving all the things in life we bring home. A hoarder in disguise, Arielle has mastered the tools needed to embrace simplicity and the minimalist philosophy. Life can stress anyone out. So, by embracing minimalism, you’ll be saying good-bye to stress and everything that you never needed anyway. Discover a greater focus and true freedom as you live your new life with a real sense of gratitude for everything and everyone around you.

Most Australians know that climate change is real, but many don’t know what to do about it and feel powerless. In Fight for Planet A, Craig Reucassel shows it isn’t as scary as we think and we can make a difference to help protect the world for future generations. Craig sets out solutions and practical day-to-day changes we can make to reduce our carbon footprint, as well changes governments need to make without further delay.