This site used to allow you to download the Humanure Handbook for free. They now have a detuned 'Humanure Composting toilet Condensed Manual' for free. If you want the book, you have to buy it.
This is a PDF version of an old haybox ccoker cookbook called the fireless cook book. Written in the early part of the 20th Century, it is a great find!
Paper bag cookery is a way to reduce mess while maximising energy efficiency and nutrients. This old book tells you how and provides specific recipes.
This book is about improving nutrition and food security using leaf crops. Fascinating stuff!
This book is about improving nutrition by extracting and using leaf concentrate from home grown or foraged leaf crops.
This book appears to have been put together to help out food growers in third world countries but it has lots of ideas that could be implemented by anyone.
This is a system of natural farming developed in Asia and uses a mixture of local biota and plant based fertilisers and ferments. It is based on the Nutritive Cycle Theory, developed by Dr Cho.
This is a report from the University of South Australia. We seem to be getting more frequent and severe heatwaves here in Aus as in other places. This book provides lots of info on adapting in place, including something that fascinates me: retrofitting part of your home as a "cool retreat".
This report, by Russ Grayson, talks about the issues around, realities of and benefits from, verge gardens. Designing and starting a verge garden is also covered.
This book covers the principles of the biointensive food growing technique including deep soil preparation, composting. intensive planting, companion planting, carbon farming, calorie farming, open pollinated seeds and a whole systems approach.
This one is pretty technical, being the final report from a group developing a hand washing machine which could also charge batteries.
While being a bit 'prepper' (OK a lot prepper!) but there is quite a bit of good info on DIY water, sanitation, cooking, lighting and heating in trying circumstances
This is a classic if you are interested in blacksmithing, and has been in my library, in hard copy, for over 30 years. It is now available for free download and contains lots of information for novice and experienced blacksmith alike.
This is a link to the construction details for a stove which can be used to cook your food, while producing biochar. It is make from two metal cans (hence toucan).
Got fruit going to waste from fruit trees growing in your area? This book will tell you how you can harvest and make the best of this free resource.
There are 10,000 cookbooks in this archive, not all are freely downloadable, but a lot are, especially the older ones. It is worth a look.
The ultimate guide on what greenwashing is, how to detect it and what to do about it. From the Environmental Defenders Office,