We can lead healthier lives with simple choices. From reducing the amount of chemicals in our homes to eating organic foods. Our range of books on Organic Living & Gardening offer ways which you can lead a healthier lifestyle. Our range includes such titles as: The Chemical Maze, The Ethics of What We Eat and the Baby & Toddler Organic Cookbook.
DK Organic Home is THE Australian guide to clean, green living. Create a natural, safe and healthy living environment for you and your family. Topics discussed include home basics, energy saving, decorating, cleaning, laundry, recycling, healthy food, personal care, natural remedies, baby care, pets and working. The book is packed with information designed to raise awareness of the effects of our everyday housekeeping on our health and safety, and to show how easy it is to change even long term habits.
A great gift idea and useful home resource.
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Tanya Ha is an author, television presenter and sustainable living advocate. She has worked with Planet Ark for many years and is on the board of Sustainability Victoria. This book is a guide to greener living in all facets of our lives, and helps you to see that being green is easier than you think. Greeniology is a practical, comprehensive and fun guide to local environmental action in your home, at work and on holiday.
Greeniology contains all the information you need to begin cutting the impact of your lifestyle on the planet, you will learn how to cut your petrol usage, make your home more comfortable for you and your family, save money on power and water bills as well as live in a safer home. All this is possible and the best part is that it doesn’t have to be hard, living green is a lifestyle and Greeniology is the ultimate guidebook to get you started living in harmony with the natural world.
Pick up a copy today as a wonderful gift or a guide to get you and your family on the path to sustainable living.
Guerrilla Gardening outlines the power-to-the-people campaign for greening our cities. The term 'guerrilla' may bring to mind a small band of armed soldiers, moving in the dead of night on a stealth mission. In the case of guerrilla gardening, the soldiers are planters, the weapons are shovels, and the mission is to transform an abandoned lot into a thing of beauty. Once an environmentalist's nonviolent direct action for inner-city renewal, this approach to urban beautification is spreading to all types of people in cities around the world.
These modern-day Johnny Appleseeds perform random acts of gardening, often without the property owner's prior knowledge or permission. Typical targets are vacant lots, railway land, underused public squares, and back alleys. The concept is simple, whimsical and has the cheeky appeal of being a not-quite-legal call to action. Dig in some soil, plant a few seeds, or mend a sagging fence one good deed inspiring another, with win-win results all around.
Tips for effective involvement include:
finding plants and seeds cheap (or free)
handling city officials
getting the dirt on soil
planting to bring back the birds
knowing when to ask permission and when to seek forgiveness
Social activists, city dwellers and long-time gardeners will delight in this fast-paced and funny call to arms.
David Tracey is a journalist and environmental designer who operates EcoUrbanist in Vancouver. He is Executive Director of Tree City Canada, a non-profit ecological engagement group.
The Chemical Maze, Your guide to food additives and cosmetic ingredients. Australian-based, Bill Statham has pulled together an easy to use guide of chemicals including their names, numbers, functions and uses and potential health effects. A great way to sift through the mumble jumble.
The DEAL (Diet, Environment, Attitude, Lifestyle) by Dr. Peter Dingle- A Twenty-first Century Survival guide for parents. This is a fantastic book, one of those ones you can''t put down. Dr Dingle is a senior lecturer in environmental and nutritional toxicology and leading researcher in health and environment at Murdoch University, WA.
Contents: Part 1. Choices, Challenges and Change. What we think is what we get attitude.We are what we eat, digest and absorb. Diet. Where we live is important. Environment.
Part 2. Ideal solutions, our life in practice, Weight control in kids, ADD and ADHD, Asthma, Depression, Stress, Other disorders, Studying and exams.
Part 3. Dealing with the system, Finding a doctor and understanding the medical system, The health system of the future
In The Ethics of What We Eat, Peter Singer and Jim Mason help us to gain a deeper understanding of the environmental and ethical impact of the choices we make about food in our daily lives, their findings are shocking and illuminating.
Singer and Mason scrutinise methods of production for every food group, including the factory farming of cattle and pigs, of chicken and fish, as well as the recent increase of genetically modified foods now available on our supermarket shelves.
They also explore the burgeoning organic food movement, the fair trade movement, the pros and cons of buying locally, and how it is possible to be an ethical consumer in the twenty-first century.
Pick up a copy of The Ethics of What We Eat today to learn the true ecological and ethical impact of the food choices you make.
Go Green Get Gorgeous!
The promise of beauty is as close as the drugstore aisle. But while conventional products say they'll make you more beautiful, they contain toxins and preservatives that are both bad for the environment and bad for your body - including synthetic fragrances, petrochemicals, and even formaldehyde. In the end, they damage your natural vitality and good looks.
Fortunately, fashion writer, nutritionist, and beauty maven Julie Gabriel helps you find the true path of natural, healthy, green beauty. Int the Green Beauty Guide she helps you decipher products labels and avoid toxic and damaging chemicals with the detailed Toxic Ingredients List. You'll also learn valuable tips on what your skin really needs to be healthy, glowing, and youthful, and the last research and advice on the best organic products, including : makeup, hair care, teeth care, moisturizers, acne treatments, makeup remover, shampoos, conditioners, fragrances, sun protection, bug repellants, vitamins and supplements for radiant hair and skin, baby products and much more!
With her thorough and helpful advice, fabulous homemade beauty recipes, products recommendations and ratings, and Toxic Ingredients List, Julie Gabriel gives you all the information you need to go green without going broke and become a more natural, healthy, and beautiful you.
The Green Garden: How To Live Well Be Green and Make a Difference is part of the Greeniology series by Tanya Ha, which is a fun, practical set of guides that shows people how to make their homes, offices and lives more sustainable, more comfortable, healthier and cheaper to run.
The Green Garden includes a guide to using rainwater and grey water practically in your garden, drought tolerant and wildlife friendly plant choices, natural pest control and organic gardening, composting and worm-farming, landscaping to save energy and much more.
Get a copy of The Green Garden, by Tanya Ha, today to make your garden truly green.
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