Grow, Create, Inspire

Grow, Create, Inspire

Author: Crystal Stevens

Publisher: New Society Publishers

Published: 2016-09-01

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1550926322

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“Stevens has skillfully tied the seemingly mundane—how to grow food, cook, shop, stay healthy—to our deepest spiritual and transformative aspirations.” —Toby Hemenway, author of Gaia’s Garden How can we embrace the absolute necessity of preserving and protecting the earth for our descendants, creating a future in which there is still clean water to drink, fresh air to breathe, and fresh, healthy food vital to human existence? Grow Create Inspire is a rallying cry, itself an inspiration urging all of us to help fill the vital need for growth—not only of food, but also in the hearts and the minds of individuals around the globe. Focusing on step-by-step approaches to accumulating skills toward self-sufficiency, Grow Create Inspire is a comprehensive guide to creating a beautiful, regenerative, and deeply satisfying life, covering everything from basic and more advanced growing tips, preparing and preserving harvest, and generally greening those aspects of life which bring about happiness, including, food, art, music, beauty, and time in nature. Increasing individual happiness ultimately leads to creating positive changes in our families and communities, and empowering others to do the same. Together, we can grow, create, and inspire a new world of beauty and abundance, while helping ensure our descendants can do the same in a healthy, vibrant world. “The perfect read for anyone searching to transform their time on this earth into a truly satisfying journey! . . . Certainly a powerful antidote for these times of decadent destruction—full of wise words and useful suggestions to help recreate Eden here on Earth.” —Jenni Blackmore, author, Permaculture for the Rest of Us


Library Lin's Curated Collection of Superlative Nonfiction

Library Lin's Curated Collection of Superlative Nonfiction

Author: Linda Maxie

Publisher: Spoon Creek Press

Published: 2022-05-05

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13:

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Trust a librarian to help you find books you’ll want to read Library Lin’s Curated Collection of Superlative Nonfiction is a librarian’s A-list of nonfiction books organized by subject area—just like a library. Linda Maxie (Library Lin) combed through 65 best books lists going back a century. She reviewed tens of thousands of books, sorted them according to the Dewey Decimal Classification system, and selected an entire library’s worth for you to browse without leaving home. Here you’ll find • Summaries of outstanding titles in every subject • Suggestions for locating reading material specific to your needs and interests In this broad survey of all the nonfiction categories, you will find titles on everything from the A-bomb to Zen Buddhism. You might find yourself immersed in whole subject areas that you never thought you’d be interested in.


Your Edible Yard

Your Edible Yard

Author: Crystal Stevens

Publisher: New Society Publishers

Published: 2020-02-18

Total Pages: 528

ISBN-13: 1771423110

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Unleash the potential of your yard by transforming it into a beautiful and vibrant space offering a continuous supply of food Journey into the good food movement by unleashing the potential of your yard, transforming it into a beautiful and vibrant space that offers a continuous supply of food. Using dozens of beautiful color photographs and watercolor planting charts, infographics, and landscaping designs, Your Edible Yard is the comprehensive how-to guide you need to turn your yard into a bountiful feast. It features: Practical gardening methods and maintenance from weeding to wintering, including foodscaping, container gardening, and saving seeds Permaculture principles including soil building techniques, garden preparation, raised beds, and natural/non-toxic DIY pesticide alternatives How to integrate culinary and medicinal herbs, edible flowers, mushrooms, fruits, vegetables, and wild edibles Gardening resources: where to go for help, buy seeds, and source supplies on a budget Instructions on preserving, fermenting, freezing, drying, and making simple medicines General tips, such as how to find loopholes in laws preventing edible front yards. Whether you're a beginner or experienced gardener in the city, the suburbs, or the country, this manual is the A-Z guide for how to make use of the space you have, highlighting the colorful and abundant array that edible landscapes promise.


Worms at Work

Worms at Work

Author: Crystal Stevens

Publisher: New Society Publishers

Published: 2017-06-23

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 1550926357

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Fertilize your garden naturally--a guide to growing your plants in healthy, happy soil People want to know where their food comes from, who grows it and how it is grown. Interest in permaculture, backyard composting, and gardening in general, is growing. So how does the budding gardener ensure that his soil is healthy and nutrient-rich enough to support all the produce he intends to grow? Here's a hint--think worms! Vermiculture is the healthiest and most cost-effective way to ensure that your soil receives the nourishment that it needs. A simple vermicompost bin can produce the completely natural , nutrient-rich fertilizer that can be used to boost soil health and, in turn, increase your crop yield. In true Crystal Stevens' fashion, Worms at Work is a practical, easy-to-implement guide to fertilizing your garden naturally. It discusses the vital role worms play in boosting soil health, and the reasons why every gardener should use vermicompost in order to decrease reliance on toxic synthetic fertilizers. Coverage includes: Simple designs to build your own vermicompost bin Caring for your worms Garden applications for your worm castings Lesson plans to incorporate vermicomposting into the school science curriculum Whether you're tending to a small backyard garden or managing a large farm, Worms at Work can show you how to start vermicomposting today in order to grow healthy plants in healthy, happy soil. Crystal Stevens is the author of Grow Create Inspire and has been co-manager of La Vista CSA Farm for the past 7 years. She teaches regular Vermiculture 101 workshops.


DIY Kombucha

DIY Kombucha

Author: Andrea Potter

Publisher: New Society Publishers

Published: 2018-11-06

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 1550926799

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Create refreshing, healthier drinks, from kombucha to herbal sodas and more, in your own kitchen. Since the relatively recent introduction of kombucha onto North American supermarket shelves, this healthy sparkling beverage has exploded in popularity. But can it be brewed at home, with the same tasty, healthy results? With this straightforward, accessible, and highly visual how-to guide, author Andrea Potter does away with specialist jargon and expensive or hard-to-find equipment, showing how sparkling homebrews from kombucha to water kefir are definitely possible for just about anyone to make, and have fun doing it. Coverage includes: Basic fermentation science Controlling fizz, acidity, and alcohol content Secondary fermentation and adding flavours to the brew Wild-fermented sodas, using a ginger bug (a wild yeast culture) Recipes for kombucha's honey-fed relative, Jun, as well as for water kefir. Answering key questions including "where does all that sugar go?", "do I need to get a sitter for it when I go on holiday?", and "does this SCOBY look normal?", and including a comprehensive troubleshooting guide to help you keep brewing confidently and consistently, DIY Kombucha is ideal for foodies, urban and rural homesteaders, and health-motivated people - it's an essential addition to your DIY toolkit!


Sweet Success

Sweet Success

Author: David Sweet

Publisher: Sound Wisdom

Published: 2020-06-16

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 164095192X

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Galaxies away from today’s numerous clichéd self-help and sales-pitch formula books, #SweetSuccess delves into the complexities of arête—excellence—and how to achieve it in all areas of life. The author intelligently and astutely explores myriad realms of topics that balance faiths, cultures, social mores, relational lifestyles, philosophies—the whole gamut of life—to expand and enhance readers’ perspectives and worldview. For serious students of abundant life, the following are just a few of what readers will encounter: the wisdom of Socrates; genius of Hippocrates; talents of Mozart and da Vinci; creativity of The Beatles and Duke Ellington; beauty of poetry; courage of Captain James Cook; seriousness of the Sapri-Whorf hypothesis; imagination of Virginia Woolf and Stephen King; daring of Evel Knievel, and the humorous and intriguing life of the well-traveled, well-schooled, and well-read author himself. Author David Sweet writes: We are born an animal, a homo sapien, and each of us needs to progress into being a human: moving from just an animal with opposable thumbs who collects the most sticks in the best cave or in our modern-day collection of money and the creature comforts of home and food and Netflix, into something greater that creates, develops, and helps the human race progress. The 60 eclectic chapters will change every readers’ outlook on life; thought-provoking and rumination-prompting topics include the following and many more: Earth and Space Science Parenting and Politics Fashion and Fitness Cooking and Literature Writing and Reading Music and Feng Shui World History and Warfare Memory and Dreams Childhood and Eulogies Aesthetics and Angels (And even) Dental Hygiene Each chapter concludes with exercises designed for personal introspection and self-motivation, urging readers to dive into the next step of their journey toward #SweetSuccess with excellence as their core philosophy.


Create Your App and Grow Rich

Create Your App and Grow Rich

Author: B Kris

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2017-06-28

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 1387013920

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Creating a successful app business is one of the smartest and fastest ways to create a life of fun, freedom and growth. We live in a golden era, where any one can impact millions of people across the world with their app idea. In this book, entrepreneur B Kris shows you the exact steps involved in creating a successful app business with real world examples from companies like Uber, Airbnb, Facebook, etc. With inspiring app entrepreneur stories, proven strategies, practical tools and templates, this book is a must-read for early-stage app entrepreneurs and anyone who would like to create a successful app business. Barath is the founder of Appomate, an Australian app development company. He is been involved in building apps since 2008 the year when app store was launched and his apps are used by staff and customers of leading global brands. You can find out about his business at appomate.com.au


Aggieland's Leaders By Example

Aggieland's Leaders By Example

Author: Rusty Burson

Publisher: Outskirts Press

Published: 2024-11-08

Total Pages: 783

ISBN-13: 1977279384

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Aggieland’s Leaders By Example highlights the insightful, fascinating and inspirational stories of some of the great Texas A&M entrepreneurs and business leaders who have chased their dreams, endured hardships, conquered obstacles and succeeded beyond their wildest imaginations. Their stories will serve as a roadmap to success for current and former Texas A&M students with their own career dreams, as each first-person narrative features advice to aspiring leaders of the future.


The WrathBliss Rambles - Dark Strides III - Final Attempt 2015

The WrathBliss Rambles - Dark Strides III - Final Attempt 2015

Author: Timothy D McAllen

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2015-02-16

Total Pages: 135

ISBN-13: 1312912359

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A collection of unique personal poetical prose regarding life, love, dreams, failures, opinions, emotions, doubts, fears, battles between me, myself & I, romance, issues, regression, progression, expression. This is Not just poetry. Not just words. Not just rhyme. What you will find within these pages is my heart, soul & mind...page by page, line by line.


Lone Actors – An Emerging Security Threat

Lone Actors – An Emerging Security Threat

Author: A. Richman

Publisher: IOS Press

Published: 2015-11-17

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1614995850

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Terrorist attacks perpetrated by lone actors have already occurred in several countries, and this phenomenon is emerging as a threat to the security of both NATO members and other countries worldwide. In this context, a lone actor, or 'lone wolf’, is someone who individually prepares or commits violent acts in support of an ideology, group or movement, but who is acting outside of the command structure and without the assistance of any group. Up to now, these individual acts have been seen as almost impossible to forecast, but it is nevertheless important to develop a responsible security policy which takes them into account and incorporates planning for counteraction, prevention and response. This book presents papers, written by leading experts in the field, which reflect the subjects presented at the workshop 'Loan Actors – An Emerging Security Threat', part of the NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme, held in Jerusalem in November 2014. The papers are divided into five sections: the threat of lone actor terrorism; case studies; countering and responding to the threat; legal and ethical aspects; and foresight and policy aspects. The insights, information and recommendations shared in this book will be of interest to all those involved in developing a more efficient response policy to this emerging threat.