Product Description

If you want to help conserve natural resources, leave a better planet for future generations and give your family a healthier, more fulfilling lifestyle, it's time to take steps towards A Greener Life. In this new book, Clarissa and Johnny have produced a comprehensive beginner's guide to becoming more self-sufficient in your everyday life - no matter where you live.

Here is everything you need to know to play your part in the green revolution, from growing food to keeping chickens; from natural remedies to alternative energies. Every subject is explored with techniques, practical advice and colour photography so that you can take sustainable living as far as you want to, from small changes in everyday habits… to keeping a household cow! Clarissa and Johnny are passionate countryside campaigners and their experience and wit make this a fascinating, as well as practical, guide to the good life.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #78429 in Books
• Published on: 2005-10-31
• Binding: Hardcover
• 256 pages

The Lady, October 05
a useful guide... lots of invaluable country lore and wisdom

Metro, 28 October 2005
"a bible for anyone who is seeking a less wasteful life"

The Sunday Times (Scotland edition) 16 October 05
clear and commonsensical

Customer Reviews

interesting, but lacking in some areas
This book is very nice to look at, and covers lots of ground: growing your own veg, keeping livestock, some cooking and preserving and a few household tips. It is a great starting point for those wanting to find out what older generations knew, but many brits seem to have lost. It is, however, not a book that covers everything, and although, for example, it is a good place to start looking for veg gardening ideas, a book solely dedicated to it may be better if this is what you are after.
If a coffee table book, that you can browse from time to time, is what you are after this is very good. It is also a good starting point for the complete beginner wanting to live 'the good life'. It is well written and presented, and does have very useful and interesting information.