Sustainable living favourites

Darning: Repair Make Mend

Hikaru Noguchi

This is the first UK edition of the cult darning book by Hikaru Noguchi who has become a guru of visible darning in Japan.

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Use it All

Alex Elliott-Howery,Jaimee Edwards

A kitchen skills handbook to buy less, waste less, save money and make more with what you’ve got by the original waste warriors, Cornersmith.

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Stars & Snowflakes

Jennie Lantz, Cecilia Moeller Kirchsteiger

A sustainable guide to making beautiful paper decorations for Christmas and the festive season.

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The Milkwood Permaculture Living Handbook

Kirsten Bradley

Create the sustainable life you want to live with this practical guide packed full of all the habits, skills and inspiration you'll need.

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Regenerative Fashion

Safia Minney

Fashion has been inspired by nature for centuries, yet its impacts are now devastating people and planet.

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Organic Beauty

Maru Godas

Harness the best of nature by making your own organic, natural skincare.

Maru Godas celebrates nature and self-care in this beautifully illustrated guide. Decide what goes on your skin while…

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Beyond Darning

Hikaru Noguchi

This is the perfect guide for those interested in preserving their garments and fabrics with mending techniques and creating darning brooches

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Sustain

Jo Barrett

Sustain: Groundbreaking Recipes and Skills that Could Save the Planet features over 90 recipes across 30 meals mastering a series of skills, which lead to a more sustainable kitchen.

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Mending with Boro: Japanese Running Stitch and Patching Techniques

Harumi Horiuchi

One simple stitch can bring new life to hundreds of your favourite things!

Boro is the Japanese straight stitch used to repair and reinforce fabrics that is the basis for…

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The Compost Coach

Kate Flood

Spin food waste and household carbon into garden gold, learn about how and why soil matters, and make climate activism an everyday mission, with compost coach Kate Flood.

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Sustainable Wardrobe: Volume 6

Sophie Benson

Sustainable Wardrobe gives you everything you need to cultivate a more sustainable, ethical and planet-friendly wardrobe that is still easy, accessible and affordable!

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Eco-Houses: Sustainability & Quality of Life

Various Authors

Sustainable design integrates consideration of resource and energy efficiency, healthy buildings and materials, ecologically and socially sensitive land-use, and an aesthetic sensitivity that inspires, affirms, and ennobles… The construction process…

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Visible Mending

Arounna Khounnoraj

Mending techniques to renew the clothes you love

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The Art of Gifting Naturally

Angela Maynard

The Art of Gifting Naturally is a unique and contemporary guide to the joy of making gifts by hand

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Mending Matters

Katrina Rodabaugh

Join the slow fashion movement by learning Sashiko and other beautiful stitching techniques

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Mending Life

Nina Montenegro, Sonya Montenegro

Learn the art of visible mending-a joyful, meditative, and restorative practice-to repair the clothes and belongings you love!

"Mending Life is not only a compendium of practical knowledge, but a…

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The New Naturals

Jennifer Haslam

The New Naturals celebrates 18 global homes that put well-being and environment first, incorporating eco elements and sympathetic natural materials that provide a nourishing connection to nature.

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The Mending Directory: Over 50 Modern Stitch Patterns for Visible Repairs

Erin Eggenburg

Learn 50 beautiful mending patterns to give clothes and accessories a new lease of life.

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Mending and Alterations Made Simple: A Complete Guide to Clothes Repair

Anna de Leo

Easy, well-illustrated manual which describes how to mend clothes.

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Grow, Cook, Dye, Wear

Bella Gonshorovitz

A fully illustrated, practical guide that explains how to follow a sustainable approach to food and fashion.

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The Re:Fashion Wardrobe

Portia Lawrie

Join the movement against throw-away fashion, and refashion once-loved clothing to create a sublime capsule wardrobe that is contemporary, classy and environmentally conscious.

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Remodelista: The Low-Impact Home

Margot Guralnick, Fan Winston

The ultimate guide to designing an eco-conscious home, from the bestselling and authoritative Remodelista team.

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Creative Mending: Beautiful Darning, Patching and Stitching Techniques (Over 300 color photos)

Hikaru Noguchi

Mend, rethink, transform, recreate!

Mending your favorite fabric items–from jeans to sweaters to sofa covers–becomes a true art form in Creative Mending. In this book, mending guru Hikaru Noguchi shows…

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The Modern Gardener

Frances Tophill

A guide to creating a modern outdoor space that provides us with the materials we need to eat, be creative, learn and get the most out of our garden.

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The Preserving Garden

Jo Turner

Grow your garden to fill your pantry with bottled fruit, fermented vegetables and over forty sorts of preserved homegrown food.

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Off-Grid Getaways: Organic Architecture

The multiple signals coming from all corners of the planet, represents a new warning for the awareness of the need to promote global policies that protect the environment in all…

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The Land Gardeners: Soil to Table

Henrietta Courtauld, Bridget Elworthy

Bridget Elworthy and Henrietta Courtauld established The Land Gardeners to research soil and plant health through growing, cutting and designing. They are globally renowned for their Constance Spry inspired arrangements…

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Mending with Love: Creative Repairs for your Favorite Things

Noriko Misumi

Extend the life of well-worn, beloved pieces using these creative techniques.

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Slow Living

Daniela Santos Quartino

An illustrated selection of recent projects by architects and interior designers from around the world who seek through their work to create wellbeing environments for an unhurried life.

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A Conscious Garden

Rebecca Sullivan

Grow your sustainable gardening skills with expert tips on: making the most of your soil and space, companion planting & how to plant vegetables and herbs, must-grow medicinal and food…

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Foodwise

Lucy Bell, Lucy Leonardi

Did you know?

We produce enough food in the world to feed everyone, but one in nine people doesn’t have enough to eat.

Almost half of all fruit and vegetables…

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The Art of Repair

Molly Martin, Jeremy Langmead, Jo Glanville, Milad Shadrooh

In this beautiful book, master repairer, Molly Martin, champions the value of slow fashion and the psychological benefits that go with it.

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Making Things

Erin Boyle, Rose Pearlman

Make handmade crafts that infuse the no-waste ethos with some glamour and fun.

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Backyard Bees

Doug Purdie

Fully revised and updated bestselling beginner’s bee book, now with info on the Flow Hive and bee-friendly planting plus more on native bees.

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Permaculture:: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainablity

David Holmgren

2017 revised edition

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Loved Clothes Last: How the Joy of Rewearing and Repairing Your Clothes Can Be a Revolutionary Act

Orsola de Castro

This book will equip you with ways to mend, rewear and breathe new life into your wardrobe to achieve a more sustainable lifestyle. By teaching you to scrutinise your shopping…

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Low Tox Life Food

Alexx Stuart

A toolkit for answering the question ‘what should I eat for my health and for the planet?’ by the bestselling author of Low Tox Life.

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Future Homes: Sustainable Innovative Designs

Avi Friedman

New challenges on a global scale have forced a rethinking about the way homes and communities are designed. Future Homes provides an engaging and in-depth analysis of possible solutions.

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Off the Grid: Houses for Escape

Dominic Bradbury

Off the Grid reveals the creative architecture and cutting-edge technologies that are redefining where and how we live-enabling us to escape to some of the most extraordinary and secluded natural…

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Mend & Patch

Kerstin Neumuller

Throwing away damaged, yet beloved, clothes can sometimes be one of the saddest things, but what if you were able to fix those holes and extend their life? With Mend…

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Life Unhurried: Slow and Sustainable Stays across Australia

Celeste Mitchell, Krista Eppelstun, Katie Gannon

Based on the travel and lifestyle website of the same name, Life Unhurried is a fresh and inviting coffee table book featuring 50 of the best slow and sustainable stays…

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Slow Escapes: Rural Retreats for Conscious Travelers

Responsible hospitality connects to rural communities and creates lasting impressions.

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Perfectly Good Food

Margaret Li, Irene Li

How to cook flexibly and fight food waste, with 80 recipes and 150 ideas to use up what you have

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The Edible Garden

Paul West

River Cottage Australia host Paul West shows you how easy and rewarding it is to grow and cook some of your own food with the people you love.

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Thrifty Household

Country Women's Association Victoria

A modern classic for a new generation looking for environmentally friendly, thrifty, tried and true solutions for tackling everyday household tasks.

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Cabin

Will Jones

The story of the author's cabin build in the wilderness, packed with practical advice for aspiring builders and insights into of the history of cabin culture around the world.

In…

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Wear, Repair, Repurpose: A Maker’s Guide to Mending and Upcycling Clothes

Lily Fulop

Reclaim your clothes and reduce fashion waste with illustrated instructions for mending and more.

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Sashiko for Making & Mending: 15 Simple Japanese Embroidery Projects

Saki Iiduka

Let this book show you the pleasure of repairing, reinforcing and making beloved items using sashiko embroidery!

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Sustainable living favourites

Darning: Repair Make Mend

Use it All

Stars & Snowflakes

The Milkwood Permaculture Living Handbook

Regenerative Fashion

Organic Beauty

Beyond Darning

Sustain

Mending with Boro: Japanese Running Stitch and Patching Techniques

The Compost Coach

Sustainable Wardrobe: Volume 6

Eco-Houses: Sustainability & Quality of Life

Visible Mending

The Art of Gifting Naturally

Mending Matters

Mending Life

The New Naturals

The Mending Directory: Over 50 Modern Stitch Patterns for Visible Repairs

Mending and Alterations Made Simple: A Complete Guide to Clothes Repair

Grow, Cook, Dye, Wear

The Re:Fashion Wardrobe

Remodelista: The Low-Impact Home

Creative Mending: Beautiful Darning, Patching and Stitching Techniques (Over 300 color photos)

The Modern Gardener

The Preserving Garden

Off-Grid Getaways: Organic Architecture

The Land Gardeners: Soil to Table

Mending with Love: Creative Repairs for your Favorite Things

Slow Living

A Conscious Garden

Foodwise

The Art of Repair

Making Things

Backyard Bees

Permaculture:: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainablity

Loved Clothes Last: How the Joy of Rewearing and Repairing Your Clothes Can Be a Revolutionary Act

Low Tox Life Food

Future Homes: Sustainable Innovative Designs

Off the Grid: Houses for Escape

Mend & Patch

Life Unhurried: Slow and Sustainable Stays across Australia

Slow Escapes: Rural Retreats for Conscious Travelers

Perfectly Good Food

The Edible Garden

Thrifty Household

Cabin

Wear, Repair, Repurpose: A Maker’s Guide to Mending and Upcycling Clothes

Sashiko for Making & Mending: 15 Simple Japanese Embroidery Projects