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People & Permaculture: Caring & Designing for Ourselves, Each Other & The Planet by Looby Macnamara, 2012. This is the first book to explore how to use permaculture design and principles for people - to restore personal, social and planetary well-being. People & Permaculture widens the definition of permaculture from being mainly about land-based systems to include our own lives, relationships and society. This book provides a framework to help each of us improve our ability to care for ourselves, our friends, families and for the Earth. It is also a clear guide for those who may be new to permaculture, who may not even have a garden, but who wish to be involved in making changes to their lives and living more creative, low carbon lives. People & Permaculture transforms the context of permaculture making it relevant to everyone.
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The Permaculture Handbook: Garden Farming for Town and Country
by Peter Bane, 2012. The urban landscape has swallowed vast swaths of prime farmland across North America. Imagine how much more self-reliant our communities would be if thirty million acres of lawns were made productive again. Permaculture is a practical way to apply ecological design principles to food, housing, and energy systems, making growing fruits, vegetables, and livestock easier and more sustainable. The Permaculture Handbook is a step-by-step, beautifully illustrated guide to creating resilient and prosperous households and neighborhoods, complemented by extensive case studies of three successful farmsteads and market gardens. This comprehensive manual casts garden farming as both an economic opportunity and a strategy for living well with less money. It shows how, by mimicking the intelligence of nature and applying appropriate technologies such as solar and environmental design.
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Tending the Soul's Garden: Permaculture as a Way Forward in Difficult Times by Denise Rushing, 2011. Permaculture, also known as regenerative design or ecological agriculture, (permanent agriculture) provides a design framework for empowerment and action; cultivating inner wisdom and gifts, honoring the wisdom of nature and engaging in the world as nature does. Permaculture ethics, intentions and principles are those of nature herself, and can be applied to the garden, the farm, and indeed any living system including human structures. Tending the Soul's Garden is an introduction to applied permaculture and how it can help us engage in difficult and sometimes overwhelming work with a sense of balance, hope and purpose. A Kindle Edition is available.
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The Permaculture Garden by Graham Bell, 2005. Working entirely in harmony with nature, The Permaculture Garden shows you how to turn a bare plot into a beautiful and productive garden. Learn how to plan your garden for easy access and minimum labor; save time and effort digging and weeding; recycle materials to save money; plan crop successions for year-round harvests; save energy and harvest water; and garden without chemicals by building up your soil and planting in beneficial communities. Full of practical ideas, this perennial classic, first published in 1995, is guaranteed to inspire, inform, and entertain.
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The Permaculture Way: Practical Steps To Create A Self-Sustaining World by Graham Bell , 2005. The Permaculture Way shows us how to consciously design a lifestyle which is low in environmental impact and highly productive. It demonstrates how to meet our needs, make the most of resources by minimizing waste and maximizing potential, and still leave the Earth richer than we found it. Graham Bell is the former editor of Permaculture News. He worked for the Prince's Trust and is now a freelance environmental consultant.
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The Ultimate Guide to Permaculture by Nicole Faires, 2012. Permaculture is an important but often misunderstood method of growing food and building homes in a manner that works with nature, rather than against it, to create beautiful, healthy, and useful gardens. Blending ecology, organic agriculture, green home design, appropriate technology, and biology can be confusing and overwhelming, but The Ultimate Guide to Permaculture simplifies this vast field for practical application. This is a hands-on guide, taking the beginner through each step of the design process, so that anyone can apply permaculture principles to their own life.
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Permaculture Design: A Step-by-Step Guide
by Aryana, 2012. Are you excited about permaculture but unclear how to put it into practice for yourself? In this unique, full colour guide, experienced permaculture teacher Aranya leads you through the design process from beginning to end, using clear explanations, flowcharts and diagrams. It is based on course worksheets which have been designed, refined and tested on students over time. Linking theory to practice, he places the ethics, principles, philosophies, tools and techniques directly into the context of the process itself. While written for anyone with a basic grasp of permaculture, this book also has plenty to offer the more experienced designer.
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Coping with Water Scarcity: Addressing the Challenges by Luis Santos Pereira, Ian Cordery, Iacovos Iacovides, 2009.
This book is a guide to the establishment of regional and/or local guidelines for developing and implementing new ideas for coping with water scarcity. The basic premise underlying the book is that water scarcity will persist, so personal, human and society-wide skills will be needed to cope with it while living in harmony with the necessary environmental constraints. The book provides basic information to assist decision makers, water managers, engineers, agronomists, social scientists and other professions (and their students) in formulating coherent, hopefully harmonious and consolidated views on the issue. Guidelines are also given for introducing the general public to the concept of water scarcity and how to deal with it.
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Gaia's Garden: A Guide To Home-Scale Permaculture by Toby Hemenway, 2009.
Many people mistakenly think that ecological gardening-which involves growing a wide range of edible and other useful plants-can take place only on a large, multiacre scale. As Hemenway demonstrates, it's fun and easy to create a "backyard ecosystem" by assembling communities of plants that can work cooperatively and perform a variety of functions, including: building and maintaining soil fertility and structure, catching and conserving water in the landscape, providing habitat for beneficial insects, birds, and animals, growing an edible "forest" that yields seasonal fruits, nuts, and other foods. This revised and updated edition also features a new chapter on urban permaculture, designed especially for people in cities and suburbs who have very limited growing space. Whatever size yard or garden you have to work with, you can apply basic permaculture principles to make it more diverse, more natural, more productive, and more beautiful.
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Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability by David Holmgren, 2002. David Holmgren brings into sharper focus the powerful and still evolving Permaculture concept he pioneered with Bill Mollison in the 1970s. It draws together and integrates 25 years of thinking and teaching to reveal a whole new way of understanding and action behind a simple set of design principles. The 12 design principles are each represented by a positive action statement, an icon and a traditional proverb or two that captures the essence of each principle. Holmgren draws a correlation between every aspect of how we organize our lives, communities and landscapes and our ability to creatively adapt to the ecological realities that shape human destiny. For students and teachers of Permaculture this book provides something more fundamental and distilled than Mollison's encyclopedic Designers Manual. For the general reader it provides refreshing perspectives on a range of environmental issues and shows how permaculture is much more than just a system of gardening. For anyone seriously interested in understanding the foundations of sustainable design and culture, this book is essential reading. Although a book of ideas, the big picture is repeatedly grounded by reference to Holmgren's own place, Melliodora, and other practical examples.
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Permaculture: A Designers' Manual by B.C. Mollison, 1997. An encyclopedic treatment of permaculture, this book is essential for students, landowners, public-policy makers, and others interested in revolutionizing modern farming and land use. Highly detailed chapters cover everything one might ever need to know about the permaculture philosophy and its application to land-use design, systems analysis, climatic factors (including tailored strategies for drylands, aquaculture, and other special circumstances), and much, much more.
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The Basics Of Permaculture Design by Ross Mars, 2012 [Kindle Edition]. The Basics of Permaculture Design, first published in Australia in 1996, is an excellent introduction to the principles of permaculture, design processes, and the tools needed for designing sustainable gardens, farms, and larger communities. Packed with useful tips, clear illustrations, and a wealth of experience, it guides you through designs for gardens, urban and rural properties, water harvesting systems, animal systems, permaculture in small spaces like balconies and patios, farms, schools, and ecovillages. This is both a do-ityourself guide for the enthusiast and a useful reference for permaculture designers.
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Taking on Water: How One Water Expert Challenged Her Inner Hypocrite, Reduced Her Water Footprint (Without Sacrificing a Toasty Shower), and Found Nirvana
by Wendy Pabich, 2012. When Wendy Pabich received a monthly water bill for 30,000 gallons (for a household of two people and one dog), she was chagrined. After all, she is an expert on sustainable water use. So she set out to make a change. Taking on Water is the story of the author's personal quest to extract and implement, from a dizzying soup of data and analysis, day-to-day solutions to reduce water use in her life. She sets out to examine the water footprint of the products she consumes, process her own wastewater onsite, revamp the water and energy systems in her home, and make appropriate choices in order to swim the swim. Part memoir, part investigation, part solution manual, the book is filled with ruminations on philosophy, science, facts, figures, and personal behavioral insights; metrics, both serious and humorous, to track progress; and guidelines for the general public for making small (or perhaps monumental) but important changes in their own lives. Told with humor and grace, Taking on Water offers a raw account of how deep we need to dig to change our wasteful ways.
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Water Consciousness by Tara Lohan, 2008.
Water Consciousness is designed to change the way people think about water. It explores all aspects of the water crisis and what we can do about it. Compelling contributions by Bill McKibben, Maude Barlow, Vandana Shiva, Wenonah Hauter, Sandra Postel, Tony Clarke and other top environmental writers explain the problems and inspire readers to action. The book contains over 50 stunning photographs and a quiz to find out your own water footprint. Beautifully designed to be accessible to readers, it provides essays on privatization, bottled water, conservation, appropriate technology, lessons from indigenous cultures, and an argument for the need for new public policy on the right to water.
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Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit by Vandana Shiva, 2002. While draught and desertification are intensifying around the world, corporations are aggressively converting free-flowing water into bottled profits. The water wars of the twenty-first century may match-or even surpass-the oil wars of the twentieth. Vandana Shiva shines a light on activists who are fighting corporate maneuvers to convert this life-sustaining resource into more gold for the elites. Shiva uses her remarkable knowledge of science and society to outline the emergence of corporate culture and the historical erosion of communal water rights. Using the international water trade and industrial activities such as damming, mining, and aquafarming as her lens, she exposes the destruction of the earth and the disenfranchisement of the world's poor as they are stripped of rights to a precious common good. In her passionate, feminist style, Shiva celebrates the spiritual and traditional role water has played in communities throughout history, and warns that water privatization threatens cultures and livelihoods worldwide. Shiva calls for a movement to preserve water access for all, and offers a blueprint for global resistance based on examples of successful campaigns.
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Water: How to Use and Conserve our most Precious Resource by Susan McClure, 2000. In The Hands-On Gardener: Water, Susan McClure, author of Smith & Hawken Seeds and Propagation, clears up one of the most common yet mystifying problems gardeners face--the right way to deliver the right amount of water to the right plant at the right time. Rooted in the belief that good gardening is water-conscious gardening, Water shows how to have your garden and water, too, and covers when and how much to water; soil types; improving drainage; minimizing stress; the importance of mulch; watering systems--from the old-fashioned watering can to sophisticated drip and trickle irrigation; and ends with an encyclopedia that lists over 100 water-conserving plants.
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The Home Water Supply : How to Find, Filter, Store and Conserve It by Stu Campbell, 1983. Campbell had coped with water problems in both the East and the West, from the many-state shortages of the West to a cantankerous pump in Vermont. And he's probed the minds of experts -- dowsers, well diggers, plumbers, electricians, and those who know about the flow of water deep underground. In a friendly, knowledgeable manner, Campbell discusses your difficulties. He provides concrete and money-saving answers to questions that range from locating water to digging a pond to hooking up the plumbing in your home. You'll know when to try something yourself, when to call a plumber or other expert. You'll learn-- How to find water.-- How to move it.-- How to purify it.-- And how to store and distribute it in your home.
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Cottage Water Systems: An Out-of-the-City Guide to Pumps, Plumbing, Water Purification, and Privies by Max Burns, 1999. The subtitle for this attractive paperback is "An Out-of- the-City Guide to Pumps, Plumbing, Water Purification, and Privies," and it deftly fulfils its promise. Mr. Burns uses humor interspersed with excellent illustrations to convey technical information in layman's terms. He provides a comprehensive overview of all possibilities... the pros and cons of each alternative are thoroughly examined.
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The Future of Water by Steve Maxwell, 2012. Around the world, water tables have dropped lower and lower as more straws are dipped into the finite number of water aquifers. With the challenges of population growth, dilapidated infrastructure, and polluted water, the solutions take on new complications. The authors present scenarios for the broad trends that will have a significant impact upon future water challenges: population, economic growth, energy, climate change, and general demographic trends. Examine what might be in store for us and how individuals, water utilities, industries, and countries can change the future of water. With a Foreword by Bruce Babbit, the book discusses how water usage and storage must change in our homes, in agriculture and industry to deal with this crisis.
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Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands: Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life And Landscape by Brad Lancaster, 2006. Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands: Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life and Landscape is the first volume of three-volume guide on how to conceptualize, design, and implement sustainable water-harvesting systems for your home, landscape, and community. This book enables you to assess your on-site resources, gives you a diverse array of strategies to maximize their potential, and empowers you with guiding principles to create an integrated, multi-functional water-harvesting plan specific to your site and needs. Volume 1 helps bring your site to life, reduce your cost of living, endow you with skills of self-reliance, and create living air conditioners of vegetation growing beauty, food, and wildlife habitat. Stories of people who are successfully welcoming rain into their life and landscape will invite you to do the same!
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Design for Water: Rainwater Harvesting, Stormwater Catchment, and Alternate Water Reuse by Heather Kinkade-Levario, 2007. Design for Water is an accessible and clearly written guide to alternate water collection, with a focus on rainwater harvesting in the urban environment. The book outlines the process of water collection from multiple sources -- landscape, residential, commercial, industrial, school, park and municipal systems; provides numerous case studies; details the assembly and actual application of equipment; includes specific details, schematics and references. All aspects of rainwater harvesting are outlined, including passive and active system set-up, storage, stormwater reuse, distribution, purification, analysis and filtration.
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Water From The Sky by Michael Reynolds, 2005. This book takes its readers from problem to solution. It addresses the water shortage in New Mexico, the United States, and around the world. Step by step the book outlines how to solve the problem of water shortage through catching, storing, using, reusing and treating rainwater.
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Rainwater Catchment Systems for Domestic Supply: Design, Construction and Inplementation by Erik Nissen Petersen, John Gould, 2000. This book reviews the art of roof and ground catchment systems for rainwater. The water collected can be used for household or other purposes. The designs are aimed for individuals with limited access to electricity and/or civic water utilities. The text includes drawings, photographs and step-by-step instructions. Erik Nissen-Petersen has over 20 years' experience in the design and construction of rainwater harvesting systems. He is currently Managing Director of ASAL Consultants. John Gould is the Project Coordinator, Engineering Projects for Developing Countries, Lincoln University, Cantebury, New Zealand.
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Every Last Drop: Rainwater Harvesting and Sustainable Technologies in Rural China by Zhu Qiang, Li Yuanhong and John Gould, 2012.
Over the past two decades a quiet revolution has been taking place in the countryside of China where hundreds of millions of people have been lifted out of poverty. This book focuses on some of the practical actions and clever use of appropriate technologies which have been at the heart of this positive grassroots-driven change in rural Gansu Province. Key to this has been mobilizing the population and their expeditious use of rainwater harvesting both to dramatically improve crop yields and provide households with reliable domestic water supplies. Since Gansu is semi-arid and stored rainwater a scarce resource, ingenious systems of providing crops with just the right amount of supplementary irrigation at critical periods have been developed. Challenges such as lack of fuelwood have been overcome by the development of simple low-cost solar cookers, which by focusing the sun’s rays using tiny mirrors can boil a kettle in minutes.
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The New Create an Oasis With Greywater: Choosing, Building and Using Greywater Systms - Includes Branched Drains by Art Ludwig, 2006. This book describes how to choose, build, and use twenty different types of greywater systems. Topics include: Why to use or not use greywater, health guidelines, greywater sources, irrigation requirements, biocompatible cleaners, greywater plumbing principles and components, maintenance and troubleshooting, freezing, rain, preserving soil quality , storing rainwater, suppliers, and references.
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Branched Drain Greywater Systems by Art Ludwig (2000) describes how to design, build and use a branched drain greywater system in just about any context. A decade of experience with dozens of residential greywater systems led ecological designer Art Ludwig to question everything about conventional greywater system design. He stripped away every possible bit of complexity until the essence of a greywater system remained: a pipe network for distributing water from the house to a number of trees around the yard. Branched drains provide economical, reliable, sanitary, low maintenance distribution of household greywater to downhill plants without filtration, pumping, or surge tanks. Requires Create an Oasis with Grey Water (book).
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Builder's Greywater Guide: The Guide to Professional Installation of Greywater Systems, 1998. This is an essential supplement to Create an Oasis with Greywater for those serious about designing or building a greywater system. It describes how to work within and around building codes to install greywater systems in new construction and remodeling projects. It contains new construction details and tips that will help you include a greywater system in your project, even if you have little experience with greywater. Building Professionals Greywater Guide includes reasons that builders should or should not install greywater systems, working with inspectors, legality checklist, latest construction details and tips, maintenance suggestions, estimating irrigation demand and the complete text of the California greywater law with insightful annotations. This book builds on the information presented in Create an Oasis with Greywater and is not complete in itself. |
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compost toilets: a practical DIY guide by Dave Darby, 2012. Compost toilets reduce water usage, prevent pollution and produce fertiliser from a waste product. Built properly they can be attractive, family friendly and low maintenance. This DIY guide contains everything you need to know about building a compost toilet, plus proprietary models, decomposition, pathogens and hygiene, use and maintenance, environmental benefits, troubleshooting and further resources.
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The Toilet Papers: Recycling Waste and Conserving Water by Sim Van Der Ryn, 2000. With a forward by Wendell Berry, this classic book from the 1970s is back in print! The history of how humans have dealt with their own waste is handled with intelligence (and wit), and the book provides up-to-date plans for the do-it-yourselfer on water-saving systems, composting privies, and practical greywater systems. One of the photos shows the first compost toilet that I (Kelly Hart) made, based on the Clivus Multrum concept.
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The Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure, Third Edition by Joe Jenkins, 2005. This describes a very practical solution to waste management and a very simple safe way to handle daily human 'waste' and even how to process it for safe garden compost. Joe's family has used this simple 'bucket' system for 15 years. This book answers every question anyone could have about managing a compost toilet and compost pile. 255 pages, indexed illustrated, color photos, funny, fulll of cartoons. Prevent illness, and plan to handle waste safely.
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Toilets That Make Compost: Low-Cost, Sanitary Toilets That Produce Valuable Compost for Crops in an African Context by Peter Morgan, 2008.
Toilets That Make Compost provides practical examples of toilets that, in addition to providing a safe sanitation option, also recycle the nutrients in excreta to produce compost. This compost is valued wherever households have enough space to grow fruit and vegetables in their back gardens; the designs are suitable for regions where there is no high water table or prolonged wet season. This book provides detailed instructions for constructing a range of toilets from the simplest and most affordable to the more sophisticated ecological toilet. |
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Xeriscaping Handbook: A How-To Guide to Natural, Resource-Wise Gardening by Gayle Weinstein, 1999. As water bills skyrocket and concern for conserving potable water increases, homeowners, gardeners, and landscapers are looking for alternatives. Xeriscape plant materials are water-conserving, beautiful and thrive in specific environments. The Xeriscape Handbook provides hands-on advice in creating your own Xeriscape garden, no matter where you live. For the first time, environmental gardening factors, the seven principles of Xeriscape, and good gardening techniques come together in a book that shows the exciting possibilities that await a water-wise gardener.
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Xeriscaping: The Wayside Gardens Collection by Mark Rumay, 2001. “You’ll find detailed descriptions, illustrations, and invaluable knowledge for figuring out which plants are suited to your low-water gardens....Excellent design tips...help gardeners create gardens that look beautiful.”—The Nursery. “A wonderful variety of plants...water-wise gardening, as well as the steps involved in creating a successful dry garden.”—Gardening Life.
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Water: Use Less-Save More: 100 Water-Saving Tips for the Home by Jon Clift, Amanda Cuthbert, 2007. Did you know that Americans now use 127 percent more water than we did in 1950? Or that about 95 percent of the water entering our homes goes down the drain? Our population is growing, our climate changing, and our lifestyles demand more and more water. This book includes one hundred tips for conserving water in the home and garden. Following just a few will reduce your consumption of water, save money, and save the environment.
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Virtual Water: Tackling the Threat to Our Planet's Most Precious Resource
by Tony Allan, 2011.
At a time when the world's resources are being used up at increasingly alarming rates what can we do to help tackle the threat to our planet's most precious resource? World water expert Tony Allan - creator of the virtual water concept - shows the way. In this stimulating and enjoyable book, he exposes the real impact of our modern lifestyle and shows how we as individuals, and governments globally, can make a vital contribution to managing our water use in a more sustainable and planet friendly way.
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The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Fresh Water in the Twenty-First Century by Alex Prud’homme, 2011. With striking instincts for a revelatory story, Prud’homme introduces readers to an array of colorful, obsessive, brilliant—and sometimes shadowy—characters through whom these issues come alive. Prud’homme traversed the country, and he takes readers into the heart of the daily dramas that will determine the future of this essential resource—from the alleged murder of a water scientist in a New Jersey purification plant, to the epic confrontation between salmon fishermen and copper miners in Alaska, to the poisoning of Wisconsin wells, to the epidemic of intersex fish in the Chesapeake Bay, to the wars over fracking for natural gas. Alex Prud’homme will change the way we think about the water we drink. Informative and provocative, The Ripple Effect is a major achievement.
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Safe to Drink?
by Julie Stauffer, 2001
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Sewage Solutions
by Nick Grant, Mark Moodie, Chris Weedon, 2001
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Lifting the Lid
by Peter Harper, Louise Halestrap, 2001
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