Sustainable Home: Practical projects, tips and advice for maintaining a more eco-friendly household (Volume 1) Hardcover – October 4, 2018

This book was laid out in a very practical, easy to follow manner and packed with useful content for living a sustainable lifestyle. 10/10 recommend.

This book is an easy read! Its written in a conversational manner. It’s like the author is just giving you information about beginning the sustainable journey.

Love this book and the tips it provides. A great starting point for anyone who wants to get a holistic overview of environmental susatinability and how it relates to the home.

Sustainable Home by Christine Liu takes every part of the house and recommends, for each and every room, solutions and recipes - not always food-related - aimed at creating a household with a higher awareness for the environment. Such an awareness means many things and the complexity of the book allows choices. Don't expect to achieve all the processes described overnight, but at least you can start somehow. For instance, by separating the garbage, adding more indoor plants to your home or even creating your own herb garden, repairing and/or repurposing clothes instead of just buying piles of unuseful outfits. The most complicated for me was the part about evaluating and eventually creating your own furniture, but with a bit of patience, this part of the plan can also work smoothly.At a certain extent and provided the limits of decency and moderation are maintained, Sustainable Home ofers tips and simple ideas for a different, less consumerist kind of life. It offers to the reader the option of picking up her or his own choices and adapting to his or her own household needs. I will not end up preparing my own toothpaste - except purely by curiosity for the challenge of doing it - or start creating my own furniture, but would prefer to make more balanced and realistic purchase decisions, based on my needs and not on the latest product trends (except books, obviously).Recommended if you are looking for a New Year's resolution or if you need more structure and aim in organising your medium or long-term decluttering plans.Disclaimer: Book offered by the publisher in exchange for an honest review

I learned a lot about how to become more zero waste from this book. Would definitely recommend to a friend

Useful and easy to implement ideas

This book is aimed at people who want to be more environmentally friendly in their behavior but don't know where to start. It's basically a collection of suggestions about simple ways to reduce how much waste you produce, minimize what you buy, and support more sustainable practices. The author went through the main rooms in a house plus briefly discussed work and eating out. She talked about things like buying food at a farmer's market, using natural light when you can, unplugging electronics when you aren't using them, growing house plants or a garden, recycling, buying used, and composting. I had expected more DIY projects from the book description, but there were only a few recipes and DIY instructions. While a decent book if you're new to this and don't want to be overwhelmed, it was much too basic for me. I've been doing most of her suggestions for years.I received an ebook review copy of this book from the publisher through Netgalley.

Came in good condition, excited to read!