Self-Sufficient Living

This booklet is based very largely on the experiences of the writer, who was born and bred in India. It gives mostly Indian solutions to problems encountered in an earlier age before the onrush of modernity. It tells how to cool a house without air-conditioning, how to chill beer without a refrigerator, how to produce gas for cooking and lighting where there is no town supply, a way to make crows trap themselves, several ways of getting hot water at no expense, and so on and so forth.

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This book is about creating an efficient and sustainable off-grid home in a city environment using wise design to achieve thermal comfort, energy efficiency, and sustain its occupants.

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Cloudburst is an introduction to the arts/ skills/ technologies of living and working on the land. It attempts to cover with depth some of the basic problems facing the growing movement of people seeking to decentralize society and re-populate the countryside.

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This volume discusses fiddle making, springhouses, horse trading, sassafras tea, berry buckets, gardening, and further affairs of plain living

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Learn everything there is to know about self-reliance living.

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This book answers the questions, "Why do pioneering anyway?" and "What is its practical application in the modern world?"

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This volume talks about animal care, banjos and dulcimers, hide tanning, summer and fall wild plant foods, butter churns, ginseng, and still more affairs of plain living.

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This book completely revises and updates the wealth of practical information contained in the original edition while including 30% more material. Here is the latest information in areas that have seen vast technological advancement in recent years including: alternative architecture, small-scale generation of electricity from renewable energy sources, solar heating, agriculture and aquaculture, and much more.

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This book provides you with around two dozen ways to help you maximize your resources and participate in the march toward greater self-reliance. It contains many projects related to the production and storage of food from your own homestead.

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This book is an attempt to bridge the gap between primitive inability and a wholesome use of science, technique, and civilization. After answering the why and the where of homesteading, I intend to analyze into its components a balanced homestead environment-from human and animal shelter forms to crop production and utility functions.

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