The Integral Urban House: Self-Reliant Living in the City
by Farallones Institute
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A comprehensive guide to achieving a completely sustainable urban lifestyle by creating a mini-ecosystem where residents grow their own fruits and vegetables, raise chickens, rabbits, and fish, recycle 90% of their waste, solar heat their hot water, and use a variety of other alternative technologies -- all on a 1/8-acre city lot.Tags
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I should have trusted the title of this book. There is nothing useful for the apartment-dweller. I got excited when I reached the section "growing plants indoors," but the authors meant in a greenhouse, not in containers in a normal sunny room. Oh well!
A description of how even urban living can be made compatible with ecological realities.
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