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  • Heating with wood (second edition)

    Author: Andy Reynolds | ISBN: 978-0-9549171-7-3

    This book covers everything you need to know about wood heating, from planning a system, choosing, sizing, installing & making a stove, obtaining & storing firewood, and cooking with wood, to heating your water with a back boiler. It includes chainsaw use, basic forestry, health & safety, chimneys, pellet and woodchip stoves, and how to light a fire and keep it going. This edition has been expanded to reflect improvements in appliances, developments in the type and availability of wood-based fuels and the author’s own recent experience of installing and using an automated biomass system. 166 pages, £11.95. Buy from our partner, the Centre for Alternative Technology.

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    There’s a crash coming – a slap from Mother Nature. This isn’t pessimistic; it’s realistic.

    The human impact on nature and on each other is accelerating and needs systemic change to reverse.

    We’re not advocating poverty, or a hair-shirt existence. We advocate changes that will mean better lives for almost everyone.

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