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Sustainable Living Library 📚
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items Your gateway to a greener life. This reading list is a guide to conscious eco-living, from zero waste to renewable energy, helping you become a positive change agent for the planet.
Sections
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Fashion 🧥
Home & Lifestyle 🏠✨
Home & Garden 🏡🌿
Food & Diet 🍎🥗
Green Economy 📈
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Fashion 🧥
This book is such a well thought out guide on sustainable fashion. There is truly something for everyone. This book shows people that there are many different ways to practice sustainable fashion.
Sustainable Fashion For Dummies by Paula N. Mugabi, Paperback
The author has such an encouraging, chatty, and kind vibe.
Second Chances: The Ultimate Guide to Thrifting, Sustainable Style, and Expressing Your Most Authentic Self|Paperback
Home & Lifestyle 🏠✨
Highly recommended. Easy reading, educational, helpful. A great book to get started living as much of a green life as possible.
Easy Green Living: The Ultimate Guide to Simple, Eco-Friendly Choices for You and Your Home|eBook
A structured weekly guide that is easy to practice. It provides specific, direct tips. Offers hope and is very reassuring for zero-waste beginners to achieve their goals.
A Year of Compassion: 52 Weeks of Living Zero-Waste, Plant-Based, and Cruelty-Free|Paperback
Full of practical ideas, this Zero Waste guide offers concrete, non-extreme solutions for simplifying your life. It inspires you to change daily actions and focus on buying unpackaged/used goods.
Zero Waste Home: The Ultimate Guide to Simplifying Your Life by Reducing Your Waste|Paperback
Zero-waste guide for busy people. Apply the 80/20 rule for big impact with minimal effort. Practical, time-saving resource.
Zero Waste Living, The 80/20 Way: The Busy Person's Guide To A Lighter Footprint|Paperback
Suitable for beginners (Newcomers) who want to start living zero waste.
Sustainable Badass: A Zero-Waste Lifestyle Guide (Sustainable at home, Eco friendly living, Sustainable home goods, Sustainable gift)|Paperback
Connecting us with eclectic stories from an array of homeowners, builders and dreamers telling us why they chose their locations, building materials and design elements.
Life-Changing Homes: Eco-Friendly Designs That Promote Well-Being|Hardcover
Informative guide packed with DIY tips (like homemade conditioner) to live eco-friendly and save money. Great for beginners.
Green Tea Living: A Japan-Inspired Guide to Eco-friendly Habits, Health, and Happiness|eBook
The Accidental Homesteader is full of real life examples of how adaptable we are as individuals, which is inspiring for anyone who has been wanting to make a big change in their life, feeling called in a different direction than expected or just want...
The Accidental Homesteader: What I've Learned About Chickens, Compost, and Creating Home|Paperback
This has a lot of information. Very helpful.
Family Homesteading: The Ultimate Guide to Self-Sufficiency for the Whole Family|Paperback
Home & Garden 🏡🌿
Recommended for public or school library acquisition, gardening and maker's groups, community gardens, and related groups as well as would-be suburban homesteaders.
50 Projects for Building Your Backyard Homestead, Updated Edition: A Hands-On, Step-By-Step Sustainable-Living Guide|Paperback
Wonderful book of everything needed to know about tomatoes.
Epic Tomatoes: How to Select and Grow the Best Varieties of All Time|Paperback
The basic idea of gardening in one foot squares instead of rows remains the same. However, the layout, organization and full-color pictures make this edition much easier to follow to achieve your dream garden.
All New Square Foot Gardening, 3rd Edition, Fully Updated: MORE Projects - NEW Solutions - GROW Vegetables Anywhere|Paperback
An easy and enjoyable read. The authors style of writting makes you feel comfortable and their info is excellent.
Week-by-Week Vegetable Gardener's Handbook: Perfectly Timed Gardening for Your Most Bountiful Harvest Ever|Other Format
This book is well organized and informative.
Grow Food For Free: The sustainable, zero-cost, low-effort way to a bountiful harvest|Paperback
This is a must-have book for growing gardens in hot, dry climates.
Dry Climate Gardening: Growing beautiful, sustainable gardens in low-water conditions|Paperback
Small-Scale Homesteading is wonderful, accessible guide to everything you ever wanted to know about producing abundant, wholesome food in your garden or backyard and getting it to your family's table.
Small-Scale Homesteading: A Sustainable Guide to Gardening, Keeping Chickens, Maple Sugaring, Preserving the Harvest, and More|Paperback
More than just food for right now, but food for a long term disaster or situation where food needs to be made to support more than a few days. this also includes information to make medicine by these plants and how to figure out what really is edible...
The Prepper's Guide to Foraging: How Wild Plants Can Supplement a Sustainable Lifestyle|Paperback
The Seven-Step Homestead 232 pages and available in paperback. IIf you’re serious about starting a backyard micro farm/homestead, this has everything you need to know, and more!
The Seven-Step Homestead: A Guide for Creating the Backyard Microfarm of Your Dreams|Paperback
If you are considering a garden this year save yourself the hassle of trial and error. Pick up The Container Victory Garden for a successful planting season!
The Container Victory Garden: A Beginner's Guide to Growing Your Own Groceries|Paperback
Food & Diet 🍎🥗
Highly recommended. A wonderful cookbook with easy-to-follow recipes and large ingredient images. It makes plant-based eating simple and enjoyable.
PlantYou: 140+ Ridiculously Easy, Amazingly Delicious Plant-Based Oil-Free Recipes|Hardcover
This book helps you save money, boost your health, and protect the planet."
PlantYou: Scrappy Cooking: 140+ Plant-Based Zero-Waste Recipes That Are Good for You, Your Wallet, and the Planet|Signed Book
Not only does the cookbook offer a wealth of information on sustainable fishing practices, but it also provides readers with an abundance of delicious seafood recipes to try out.
Good Catch: A Guide to Sustainable Fish and Seafood with Recipes from the World's Oceans - A Cookbook|Hardcover
Recipes are absolutely delicious and super easy.
The Complete Anti-Inflammatory Diet for Beginners: A No-Stress Meal Plan with Easy Recipes to Heal the Immune System|Paperback
Very helpful if you’ve been on and off diets most your life and could use a healthier approach!
The Core 3 Healthy Eating Plan: Discover the Simple, Sustainable Way to Lose Weight, Feel Great, and Enjoy Food Freedom!|Paperback
This isn't just a "recipe" book, it includes education on why we use the ingredients and tips on how to shop for them.
Cooking Mindfully: Make Food Your Ally with Sustainable, Low Waste Recipes for Every Season|Paperback
The DEFINITIVE book for anyone focused on the issue of food waste and improving our culture's approach to wasting less food.
Perfectly Good Food: A Totally Achievable Zero Waste Approach to Home Cooking|Paperback
Green Economy 📈
This book is very easy to read, but more importantly, it can help increase business revenue.
Artpreneur: The Step-by-Step Guide to Making a Sustainable Living from Your Creativity|Paperback
Shows how the green transition can benefit both rural and urban communities.
The Conservative Environmentalist: Common Sense Solutions for a Sustainable Future|Hardcover
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Editable Stroke Icons on Ecology, Renewable Energy and Eco-Friendly Practices
Eco Environmental Sustainability Icon Set 50 Stock Vector (Royalty Free) 2427517567 | Shutterstock