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Organic Places to stay in the UK
by Moss, Linda

Based on Linda Moss's successful website www.organicplacestostay.com, Organic Places to Stay is the first guide to B&Bs, guesthouses and small hotels in the UK that specialise in serving organic food. Included in the guide are certified organic farms which offer:
Bed and Breakfast (other meals may also be available);
Self-catering accommodation, some of which offer the opportunity to buy the farm's produce or order local organic produce; Camp sites; Guesthouses and small hotels, offering organic, local and sometimes home-grown produce
The majority of places offering food use at least fifty per cent organic produce over the year; many offer a much higher percentage. Quite a few of them grow their own produce, some use wild or natural foods, and most will aim to use local produce rather than imported food.
With over 520 entries, you can keep your organic lifestyle even when you are on holiday or visiting other parts of the UK.
Paperback Published 2006; 256 pages

Alistair Sawday's Special Places to Stay series

"I love Alistair Sawday's Special Places to Stay books. I've had some of my most memorable weekends at a featured hotel or pub. So far, they have always lived up to, or exceeded their write-up, oozing character and charm" The Observer

Organic Gardening

Environment

ENERGY: Use less, save more
by Clift, Jon & Cuthbert, Amanda

Did you know that:
our demand for electricity grows by about 3% every year?
• just lowering the temperature of your thermostat by 10C can reduce your energy bill by 10%?
• energy-efficient light bulbs last about 12 times longer than ordinary bulbs, and each one will save you about £7 a year?
• almost 40% of all the heat that we buy to warm up our rooms escapes through our walls and roof space if they’re not insulated?
• if we didn’t leave our TVs and other gadgets on stand-by, we could shut down two power stations?
We’re all using more and more energy: charging up our mobiles and laptops, keeping our rooms so hot that we walk around in short sleeves in the winter, or leaving lights on all day and night whether we are using the rooms or not. But the consequences of using so much so freely is causing our climate to change, and our energy bills to rise.

Paperback; 96 pages

REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE!
by Scott, Nicky

What do you do with your old mobile phone? Where can you take your old medicines? Which plastic is recyclable? What happens to the stuff you recycle?
This easy to use guide has the answers to all your recycling questions. Use its A-Z listing of everyday household items to see how you can recycle most of your unwanted things, do your bit for the planet, and maybe make a bit of money while you’re at it.
Did you know that:
• Around 60% of your rubbish can be recycled—but half of all the waste in the UK is sent to landfill, and only 11% is recycled
• Landfill sites are running out
• Recycling a one-metre stack of newspaper saves one tree
• It costs £332 million a year to clean up the litter on Britain’s streets
• A plastic vending cup can be made into a pencil or a pen
• You can make money recycling your aluminium cans
• 150 million plastic carrier bags are used in the UK each week —they can take up to 500 years to decay in landfill
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle is packed with ideas for cutting your consumption, reducing your rubbish, reusing, and recycling. It will also tell you where your old plastic goes to, what happens to your old glass jars, how they handle waste in other countries.
With a comprehensive resources section and information on getting more involved, it's an invaluable guide for anyone who wants to slim their bin and help stop the earth going to waste.

Go make a difference

3rd edition
by Jones, Emma
Over 500 daily ways to save the planet

IF YOU CARE ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT and aren’t sure how to make a positive difference, look no further. Go Make A Difference is full of fascinating facts, thought-provoking statistics and over 500 practical tips to help you go make a difference.
Compiled and updated using information from over 300 leading environmental sources and organisations, the 14 chapters cover all aspects of life – from birth to death, via shopping, holidays, DIY and petcare – with full contact details at the back so you can find out more. Go Make A Difference also has full back up from leading environmental experts:
Go MAD is primarily a guide to ecological living. But it is also a guide to ecological renewal, with vital information on how we can all get involved in pushing for change at policy level. - Zac Goldsmith, editor, The Ecologist;
The hundreds of actions set out here provide everyone with a powerful means to make a difference. - Tony Juniper, executive director, Friends of the Earth;
"Buy this brilliant book! Think you can’t make a difference to the environment? Go MAD helps you think again". - Anita Roddick, OBE, founder of The Body Shop

Ecology begins at home
by Duncanson, Archie

Using the power of choice
How can we help reduce our planet’s pollution? Begin at home! With his positive attitude and ‘what-can-I-do’ approach, Archie Duncanson takes us on a journey of
discovery to find a more sustainable way to live, from reducing rubbish and the use of chemicals, to cooking with almost no energy.
Ecology Begins at Home offers environmentally friendly options—often surprisingly simple—that don’t necessarily require major changes to your lifestyle. Archie gives
hundreds of tips and ideas (some so obvious we wonder why we haven’t thought of them before!) for ways that we can change our habits to live more in harmony with the earth.
There’s no need to wait for the world’s governments to take the initiative. Using the power of choice, we can reduce our share of global pollution, and inspire others to do the same—now!

Babies

The organic baby & toddler cookbook
by Maxted-Frost, Tanyia

Highly practical, with meal planners, recipes and tips"—Home Healthcare
A comprehensive but easy-to-follow nutrition guide for babies from weaning to toddlerhood (four to six months to three years old). It recommends a seasonal, mainly raw wholefood organic diet, emphasising raw food in spring and summer and lightly cooked in autumn and winter, and advises on how to achieve optimum health for babies and toddlers. It includes the basic principles of good nutrition for mother and baby, information on why to eat organic, seasonal meal planners, recipes for meals and juices, tips on how to adapt the meals into the family routine, the ideal lunchbox, and more.

Paperback; 128 pages

Food

This book is a penetrating critique of the modern British bread industry. It presents new research showing the potentially harmful effects on human health of changes in the way wheat is grown, milled and turned into bread. But Bread Matters is more than polemic. It encourages people to take control of part of their diet back from a food industry that cannot be trusted, providing detailed instructions on how to make good bread at home, based on twenty-five years’ experience of producing breads that have won national acclaim. In what one reviewer has called his ‘effortlessly fluent style’, Andrew Whitley debunks a host of baking myths and gives fool-proof methods and recipes that will last for years.
‘The most important book on baking since the publication of Elizabeth David’s English Bread & Yeast Cookery’ – Rose Prince, Daily Telegraph
Published 2006

The Food Our Children Eat

by Joanna Blythman
Practical ideas, recipes and tactics on how to get your children to like good food. Paperback 284 pages