Uit Cambridge Ltd : 130 books
Polytunnel Handbook
Planning/Siting/Erecting/Using/Maintaining
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
A polytunnel can be used as an affordable, low-carbon aid to growing your own food all year round, and this manual looks at all aspects of using a polytunnel, from planning your purchase to harvesting the rewards. It includes a step-by-step guide detailing how polytunnels are constructed and maintained....
Media, Ecology and Conservation
Using the Media to Protect the World's Wildlife and Ecosystems
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
This book focuses on global connectivity and the role of new digital and traditional media in bringing people together to protect the world's endangered wildlife and conserve fragile and threatened habitats. New media offers opportunities for like-minded individuals, community groups, businesses,...
Fair Economics
Nature, money and people beyond neoclassical thinking
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Alternative economics for the 21st centuryModern economics bases its view of the world on assumptions about nature and people laid down by Adam Smith, nearly 300 years ago, in a time when people traveled by horse and carriage and wrote by the light of candles. We now live in a globally connected,...
Food from Your Forest Garden
How to Harvest, Cook and Preserve Your Forest Garden Produce
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Forest gardening—a novel method of growing edible crops in different vertical layers—is attracting increased interest for gardens large and small. When it comes time to harvest, however, making the most out of the produce can be a daunting proposition. This expert guide offers readers creative...
Apocalypedia
A Utopian Guide to What Is and What Isn't
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
Encyclopaedias and dictionaries are often boring, of no help when it comes to secretly filling train carriages with subversive balloons and they rarely manage to offend everyone. Lexicographers assume that language is a big machine that you need an instruction manual to use, rather than a river of...
Smart Growth
From Sprawl to Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Smart Growth explains what the UK must do to improve the quality of life in an overcrowded land. Urban sprawl is unsustainable in an age of climate change and peak oil. But for 100 years, the UK’s planning policies have been based on ideals of low-density living and attitudes that favor the individual...
Passivhaus Handbook
A Practical Guide to Constructing and Retrofitting Buildings for Ultra-Low Energy Performance
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
An essential guide for anyone wanting to realize a supremely comfortable, healthy, and durable home with exceptionally low energy costs, this book brings together current thinking and best practice in Passivhaus design. This type of design focuses on getting the building fabric right, to achieve ultralow...
by Richard Douthwaite, Bernard Lietaer
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
In this Schumacher Briefing, Richard Douthwaite argues that just as different insects and animals have different effects on human society and the natural world, money has different effects according to its origins and purposes. Was it created to make profits for a commercial bank, or issued by a government...
How to Grow Your Food
A Guide for Complete Beginners
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
If you've never opened a seed packet before and want to grow your food but don't know where to start, this book is for you. It gives advice on everything from planting seeds to harvesting your crops and dealing with problems—and it doesn't matter whether you have a whole garden or just a patio,...
Allotment Gardening
An Organic Guide for Beginners
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005
Allotment Gardening is a practical guide to growing your own fruit and vegetables organically. Aimed at those who have not had an allotment before, or are new to growing their own, it is packed with advice from choosing and planning your allotment through to harvesting and storing your produce. In...
Youth-led Development
Harnessing the energy of youth to make poverty history
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Many strange things are done in the name of ?development?: agencies build concrete boxes with tin roofs, cram 120 children into them and call it ?education?; millions are invested in youth?training? but little in job creation, which means youth move from being unskilled unemployed to skilled unemployed....
Eco-Centres & Courses
Over 150 Places Which Offer Practical Courses and Fun Days Out
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Would you like to: learn how to install a solar panel on your roof? Build with cob or straw bales? Learn how to keep bees, or make cider? See wind and hydropower in action? Learn how to safeguard seed varieties for the future? Take part in a wildlife workshop? This book gives more than150 places that...
Surviving and Thriving on the Land
How to Use Your Spare Time and Energy to Run a Successful Smallholding
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Surviving and Thriving on the Land looks at ways in which projects can be designed that care for the people involved in them as well as the Earth that they are trying to protect. It's a dream come true when you finally get a piece of land or join an eco-community, and start to plan your sustainable...
by Robin Stott, June Crown
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
In this Briefing, Robin Stott proposes solutions to the key problems that beset our present health system. He argues that if we are to develop a true public health service rather than a 'disease service', we must make radical changes to the decision-making processes.