How to live more sustainably

This site is for everyone wishing to gain skills & live more sustainably. Browse the boxes below for 200+ topics, each with introduction, books, magazines, articles, videos, advice, courses, products & services, links and more.

Economy

People

Shelter

Utilities

Transport

Crafts

Food

Plants

Animals

Land

Nature

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Our publications

We’re working with our network of specialists to produce a series of books, eventually covering the whole range of our topics, above. They’re the opposite of coffee table books, in that they’re meant for people who are serious about a topic and want to do it themselves. They’ll help you do things like building and installing solar hot water systems, compost toilets or solar electrical and battery systems, as well as making your own natural soaps, essential oils or herbal remedies. We hope they become well-thumbed after being used in workshops, gardens and kitchens. See our range of titles here.

Our online courses

We’re developing online courses in our range of topics. We’re working with specialists to provide 2-3 hours of video content for each course, backed up with text, images, charts, diagrams etc. – everything you need to get started and to succeed in the topic of your choice. The courses will allow you to gain skills to live more sustainably and to potentially use those skills to participate in a different kind of economy. They make great gifts too! See our range of courses here.

NonCorporate.org

NonCorporate.org is our sister site, for people who don’t want to support multinational corporations any more. We’ve put everything in one place and made it easy to switch for (almost) everything you need. Find out how corporate your life is by getting your ‘NonCorporate score’, then switch to non-corporate providers for all the essentials of life.

What we want to achieve

We want to help build a new economy, and we’re happy to collaborate with organisations, businesses and individuals who would like to do the same. We want to do this by helping more people switch their custom to the new economy; helping more people to gain skills to work in the new economy; bringing key people in the new economy together; interviewing new economy actors; establishing a national mutual credit trading scheme; and developing a new governance idea. See here for details. 

Join the network

If you’re an independent business providing courses, products or services in any of our 220+ topics, contact us for a free directory profile & login details to edit your profile. Your profile will be accessible from all the topics that you’re involved with. For example, here’s a topic – if you click on courses or products & services under ‘resources’, all the directory members who provide courses, products and services in that topic are listed. Here’s more information.

Support us

Subscribe for the price of a coffee per month and we’ll use it to add to, maintain & promote the sites, and interview key people for the blog. If you’re a low-impact business, you’ll get a featured Directory profile. More info here.

Subscribe for the price of two coffees per month and we’ll do more of the above. If you’re a low-impact business, you’ll get a featured Directory profile, plus an ad on a page of your choice – like this one. More info here.

Also, let us know if we’ve missed anything, if something’s changed, if we’ve got something wrong, if you find any broken links, or if you’d like to volunteer.

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