Auckland Council Libraries: Sustainable home eBooks

Sustainable home eBooks

​When swinging by the supermarket or shopping mall isn't an option, you've got to work with what you have. These titles will teach you to live simply and make everyday products with what you have at home – from skin care to cleaning to recipes.

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Spit and polish

Lucy Lethbridge

eBook

From floor to ceiling, and leaving no awkward corner untouched, here are the household cleaning tricks and techniques that generations once took for granted, distilled for modern use.

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Little House living

Merissa Alink

eBook

From the popular blogger behind Little House Living comes a motivational homemaking book, inspired by Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie, featuring creative, fun ways to live your life simply and frugally.

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Baking Soda

Vicki Lansky

eBook

From making an omelette extra fluffy or deodorizing musty household smells, to washing clay flower pots without leaving residue, the book offers hundreds of tips for making the most of this environmentally friendly and inexpensive product.

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The dirt cheap green thumb

Rhonda Massingham

eBook

Discover how frugal gardening can lead to fantastic results! Rhonda Massingham Hart provides practical, time-tested tips that stretch your dollar even as they yield beautiful, bountiful plants.

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The salvage chef cookbook

Michael Love

eBook

The Salvage Chef begins by demonstrating how to increase food shelf life and determine when food is truly spoiled, and offers 125 easy and scrumptious recipes for cooks of all levels.

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DIY BEAUTY

INA DE CLERCQ

eBook

Treat yourself to a DIY spa day with these simple, natural, and affordable recipes to replicate your favorite beauty products—from bath bombs to face masks!—from Lush, the Body Shop, and more.

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Who knew? 10,001 household solutions

Bruce Lubin

eBook

Whether you're cleaning, cooking, improving your appearance, or fighting a cold, this guide will help you with natural and simple solutions to your daily tasks requiring only basic—and inexpensive—items that you should always keep in your home.

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101 DIY face masks

Jennifer McCartney

eBook

Here are 101 recipes that are easy to make and often use only a few ingredients. There's a remedy for any skin woe— from dull, dry skin to large pores.

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The homesteading handbook

Abigail R. Gehring

eBook

Experience the satisfaction that comes with self-sufficiency, as well as the assurance that you have done your part to help keep our planet green. The Homesteading Handbook is your roadmap to living in harmony with the land.

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The hands-on home

Erica Strauss

eBook

Covering everything from cooking, canning and preserving to making your own nontoxic home and personal care products, this fresh take on modern homemaking will help you make the most of your time, effort, and energy in the kitchen and beyond.

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