Ecologisch bouwen en wonen

This is a step-by-step guide to how Ben Law built his home. It covers all the basics, including the design process, materials, costings, and the building stages from foundations and frames, through to interior features.

A unique and practical 'how to' book filled with detailed colour photographs and drawings. It will encourage and help the use of renewable local resources and traditional skills to create durable, ecological and beautiful buildings.

An excellent introduction to permaculture principles, design processes and the tools needed for designing sustainable gardens, farms and larger communities.

The book covers the process of visualising and designing a house through to the practical side of building it.

An excellent introduction for anyone wanting to know how to live a more sustainable lifestyle, explaining what permaculture is and how it provides solutions to our unsustainable consumer society.

While enthusiasts of straw bale house construction praise the exceptional energy efficiency of bale buildings, another reason why bale homes have excited people is because they are often extraordinarily beautiful and inviting.

Practical care anthology for anyone seeking to rebuild existing fragmented villages and communities, establish new group enterprises and ecovillages.

How to strengthen your ability to bring about positive change. Proven strategies for building strengths and increasing effectiveness. Tools for any kind of change, from tackling depression to world issues like peak oil and climate change

This is a book of creative, practical solutions. It is an important and eloquent exploration of humanity's limits to growth and addresses the problems arising from climate change, habitat destruction, population growth and resource depletion.

a practical introduction to solar power and 12 volt supplies for around the house and garden or even live totally off-grid in your boat, caravan or yurt.

Completely revised and updated, this is Patrick's guide to all aspects of tipi living: choosing, pitching, maintaining, moving, fire-making, furnishing and cooking in a tipi.

In this film, Ben Law takes you through the design techniques and build of the roundwood timber framed Woodland Classroom. Other examples of Ben's builds are also explored. DVD 60mins, PAL, Region0.

David Pagan Butler introduces natural swimming pools: beautiful swimming ponds that require no chemicals, just plants and a simple solar powered filter pump to clean the water.