Achieving ecological sustainability through social learning, community empowerment and participation

DIY skincare is fun, easy and empowering. The Hand-made Beauty Book is packed with safe, 100% natural, organic, eco-friendly skincare potions that you can make at home that are gorgeous yet affordable.

Show how the world's economic elites, who continue to benefit by plundering the environment, have access to 'lifeboats' that insulate them from the resulting catastrophes.

Looks at ways in which self-sufficiency projects can be designed that care for the people involved in them as well as the earth that they are trying to protect. Offers a framework, backed up by real life examples, of issues to consider when setting up a new project, or for overcoming human-energy-based problems in existing projects.

Modern Life: As good as it gets? examines how people can empower themselves with the necessary intellectual skills so they can lead truly self-determined lives in a complex world, and how we can put people and planet before profit.

Key insights from the foremost holistic educational college in the world

Packed with ideas for using your leftovers including that sad-looking carrot or hard cheese at the back of the fridge. Soups, stews, pies, and risottos sit alongside delicious quick recipes and tasty juices and smoothies.

Unless humanity learns how to rekindle community, all other efforts will wither on the vine. This timely new Schumacher Briefing explores three integrated pillars of community Ñ with one another, with the natural environment and with the spiritual ground of all being.

For anyone who is trying to keep up with the extremely rapid developments in the biodiesel industry, the second edition of Biodiesel: Growing a New Energy Economy is an invaluable aid. The second edition concludes with updated views on where the industry is headed in the years to come from some of its key players.

50 circular routes to explore in some of Devonís most beautiful countryside

How-to-build step by step an adobe and ceramic architecture that is affordable and self-help. How to build arches, vaults, domes, and utilize the natural energy of wind, sun-and-shade to help save forests and create a sustainable architecture. How to fire and glaze an entire building after it is constructed from clay-earth on site.

A guide to radically reduce home energy consumption, and even completely liberate your home from fossil-fuel dependency

The original book on forest gardening, which shows how to maximise the output of your garden using the seven layers of a natural forest.