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Paperback. Zustand: Good. Remarkable and comprehensive, this essential guide provides advice and step-by-step instructions on achieving an environmentally friendly home. Fully revised and updated, this new edition provides tips for working with councils, builders, and engineers while renovating not only kitchens, bathrooms, gardens, and waste systems but also water and energy supplies. Covering the latest revolutions that have occurred in sustainable housing, this problem-solving manual includes an honest assessment of the technologies and materials suggested.…

Paperback. Zustand: New. Fifth Edition. Featuring more than 400 kid-friendly destinations and activities, this essential guidebook for parents in the Sydney area offers valuable information-such as opening hours, admissions fees, and travel options-on everything from museums to puppet shows. Organized by theme and weather conditions, this handbook caters to families with children up to 12 years old and highlights free and inexpensive destinations. Convenient and thorough, this updated reference makes the most of of Sydney's best family-friendly treasures. …

Paperback. Zustand: New. Remarkable and comprehensive, this essential guide provides advice and step-by-step instructions on achieving an environmentally friendly home. Fully revised and updated, this new edition provides tips for working with councils, builders, and engineers while renovating not only kitchens, bathrooms, gardens, and waste systems but also water and energy supplies. Covering the latest revolutions that have occurred in sustainable housing, this problem-solving manual includes an honest assessment of the technologies and materials suggested.…

Paperback. Zustand: New. After renovating his inner-city Sydney terrace and making it almost entirely self-sufficient in energy, water and waste disposal, Michael Mobbs realised his house was sustainable, but he wasn't. While his house saves 100,000 litres of dam water a year, the same amount of water is used to produce ten days' worth of food for the average Australian. In this companion book to the best selling Sustainable House, Mobbs turns his attention to reducing the carbon emissions associated with growing, processing, transporting, selling and disposing food. With his own experiences anchoring the book, Sustainable Food contains practical advice on establishing community and backyard vegetable gardens, keeping chooks and bees, and reducing water usage, along with insights into dealing with councils, sidelining supermarkets and what we eat and why.…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Whether you're planning to build or renovate, whether you live in an apartment or a house, Sustainable House is the essential guide to help you achieve an environmentally friendly home. It includes advice on converting your kitchen, bathroom, water supply, energy, waste system and garden, as well as tips for working with councils, builders and engineers, and the costs and benefits associated with making your home sustainable. First published in 1998, this long-awaited second edition covers the revolutions that have since occurred in sustainable housing, and, critically, includes the author's assessment on technologies and materials used in his own ground-breaking Sustainable House 14 years after installation. Michael Mobbs tells you what pitfalls to look out for and how to choose the best systems, products and suppliers.For the first time we can see what happens in a sustainable house after 14 years of use. Did the solar panels last? Is rainwater in the city safe to drink? How has the garden handled over one million litres of treated sewage? Whether you're planning to build or renovate, whether you live in an apartment or a house, Sustainable House Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Zustand: New. Fifth Edition. Featuring more than 400 kid-friendly destinations and activities, this essential guidebook for parents in the Sydney area offers valuable information-such as opening hours, admissions fees, and travel options-on everything from museums to puppet shows. Organized by theme and weather conditions, this handbook caters to families with children up to 12 years old and highlights free and inexpensive destinations. Convenient and thorough, this updated reference makes the most of of Sydney's best family-friendly treasures. …

Paperback. Zustand: New. Remarkable and comprehensive, this essential guide provides advice and step-by-step instructions on achieving an environmentally friendly home. Fully revised and updated, this new edition provides tips for working with councils, builders, and engineers while renovating not only kitchens, bathrooms, gardens, and waste systems but also water and energy supplies. Covering the latest revolutions that have occurred in sustainable housing, this problem-solving manual includes an honest assessment of the technologies and materials suggested.…

Paperback. Zustand: New. After renovating his inner-city Sydney terrace and making it almost entirely self-sufficient in energy, water and waste disposal, Michael Mobbs realised his house was sustainable, but he wasn't. While his house saves 100,000 litres of dam water a year, the same amount of water is used to produce ten days' worth of food for the average Australian. In this companion book to the best selling Sustainable House, Mobbs turns his attention to reducing the carbon emissions associated with growing, processing, transporting, selling and disposing food. With his own experiences anchoring the book, Sustainable Food contains practical advice on establishing community and backyard vegetable gardens, keeping chooks and bees, and reducing water usage, along with insights into dealing with councils, sidelining supermarkets and what we eat and why.…