A guide to simpler, greener, and more sustainable living. It provides advice, tips, and step-by-step instructions for hundreds of projects, offering the entire family the tools they need to make the shift toward self-sufficient living. It helps readers learn to dip candles, bake bread, make maple syrup, start a vineyard, and much more.

Outside the Magic Square considers issues of food security and offers solutions at the street, neighbourhood and global levels. Mixing gardening advice and food plot design with discussion of issues like global warming, dwindling oil supplies, the future for farmers and GM foods, Lolo Houbein challenges us to mobilise for food security.

Shop Class as Soulcraft brings alive an experience that was once quite common but now seems to be receding from society - the experience of making and fixing things with our hands. It seeks to restore the honour of the manual trades as a life worth choosing.

Australia was the first country in the world to officially ban old-fashioned incandescent light bulbs as a solution to climate change - but was it a good idea? Why should we think twice about our shopping choices? And what's the real story behind Australia's light bulb ban? Screw Light Bulbs delivers straight answers to all those questions.