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  1. Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture @ Second Edition

    Toby Hemenway Second Edition The first edition of Gaia's Garden, sparked the imagination of Americas home gardeners, introducing permacultures central message: Working with Nature, not against her, results in more beautiful, abundant, and forgiving gardens. This extensively revised and expanded second edition...
    635.048 HEM

  2. Small-Scale Seed Production, Agrodok 37

    Harry van den Burg 2 Copies Seed production and the maintenance of crop cultivars by small farmers is a subject that has attracted increasing attention over the past decade. The increasing dominance of large multinationals in the seed trade, the controversy over genetic engineering, and the recognition of farmersí...
    631.521 AGR

  3. Fruits of Warm Climates

    Julia Frances Morton This 505 page book is an exceptionally exhaustive source of information on tropical and subtropical fruits. It is a well-illustrated and very readable, practical guide for those interested in growing tropical and subtropical fruits either for the home garden or commercially. The fruits are...
    634.091 MOR | PI.006

  4. Compost toilets: a guide for owner-builders

    Ida Daniels Our primary aim is to identify the important construction, installation, and maintenance considerations relative to compost toilets. Our goal is to put the reader in a better position to manage the decisions and subsequent tasks of compost toilet use. 51 pages, illustrated
    628.744 DAN

  5. Toilets that make compost: Low-cost, sanitary toilets that produce valuable compost for crops in an African context

    Peter Morgan Most people in rural Africa do not have access to safe toilets, and their health and well-being suffers as a consequence. There is an urgent need for the construction of simple, low-cost, affordable toilets that are easy to build and maintain. Notebook with 100 pages, photos
    631.875 MOR

  6. A Guide to Composting Human Waste

    Joseph C. Jenkins We do not recycle waste. It’s a common misuse of semantics to say that waste is, can be, or should be recycled. Resource materials are recycled, but waste is never recycled. That’s why it’s called “waste.” Waste is any material with no inherent value that is discarded and has no further use. We...

  7. A Wastewater Recycling Manual for urban areas with case studies

    Centre for Science and Environment This manual has been compiled with the objective of presenting the basics required to undertake wastewater recycling. It is hoped that all will use it, whether they are householders, architects, engineers or professionals interested in spreading the word on ecological sanitation. 48 pages,...
    628.162 AGA

  8. Sanitation Without Water

    by Uno Winblad and Wen Kilama This book deals with dry systems for on site composting or disposal of excreta and organic residues. It has been prepared to meet increasing demand for practical information on how to design, build and operate compost latrines and improved pit latrines. The emphasis is on simple measures that can...
    696.1 WIN

  9. Goodbye to the flush toilet: water-saving alternatives to cesspools, septic tanks, and sewers

    Carol Hupping Stoner Eight articles exploring the construction and environmental benefits of such alternatives to water-borne bathroom-waste systems as composting toilets and compatible greywater systems are followed by a directory of sources for hardware.
    333.914 STO

  10. The Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure

    Joseph C. Jenkins This is the third edition of a self-published book. No respectable publisher would touch it with a ten foot shovel. Nevertheless, the book has now been sold around the world, translated into over a dozen languages and published in foreign editions on four continents. It has been talked about on...
    631.869 JEN | PD.008