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CLEARANCE ITEM. PREVIOUS RETAIL PRICE WAS $19.95 AVAILABLE ONLY WHILE SUPPLIES LAST! Find, cut and dry your own lumber. This essential guide will save you money and expand your knowledge of wood.

For woodworkers who want to purchase wood wisely and save money by finding, cutting and drying it on their own, this guide from the experts at American Woodworker is a must. Along with learning the most economical way to buy and process lumber, there are a number of how-to's in this book, including:

• Interpreting rough lumber
• Working with defects
• Deciding which grade is most economical for the project
• Re-sawing thick wood
• Storing lumber
• Using boards that are not perfect

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This celebrated, essential handbook for the urban homesteading movement shows how to grow and preserve your own food, clean your house without toxins, raise chickens, gain energy independence, and more. Step-by-step projects, tips and anecdotes will help get you started homesteading immediately. The Urban Homestead is also a guidebook to the larger movement and will point you to the best books and Internet resources on self-sufficiency topics.

Written by city dwellers for city dwellers, this copiously illustrated, two-color instruction book proposes a paradigm shift that will improve our lives, our community and our planet. By growing our own food and harnessing natural energy, we are planting seeds for the future of our cities.

Recommended Product for Wiser Living: Today, more than ever before, our society is seeking ways to live more conscientiously. To help bring you the very best inspiration and information about greener, more sustainable lifestyles, MOTHER EARTH NEWS is recommending books to readers. For 40 years, MOTHER EARTH NEWS has been North America’s “Original Guide to Living Wisely,” creating books and magazines for people with a passion for self-reliance and a desire to live in harmony with nature.

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Made of sleek stainless steel with chic, natural bamboo accents, this 7-inch-long, durable Natural Home bottle opener is a handsome addition to any kitchen.

Tough, durable and lightweight, bamboo is a natural in the kitchen. One of nature's most sustainable resources, bamboo is stronger than oak and reaches maturity in just four years — without pesticides. Bamboo's density makes it naturally water-resistant, which inhibits germs and bacteria. It won't scratch your pans like metal and doesn't absorb moisture like conventional wood.

Though used like timber, bamboo is a grass that self-propagates as it spreads underground via a network of rhizomes. A white oak tree takes 120 years to grow to maturity; bamboo takes three-and-a-half to seven years. This self-regenerating plant grows without pesticides and needs very little water; some species grow as much as 3 feet a day. Because of its fast growth rate, bamboo sequesters carbon dioxide at faster rates than hardwood trees — another bonus for the environment.

Stainless steel does not leach chemicals and is 93 percent recycled. The grade of the stainless steel used is 18.8.

Care instructions: Hand wash only.
Manufactured in China.

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Made of sleek stainless steel with chic, natural bamboo accents, this 13.5-inch-long, durable, modern Natural Home spaghetti server is a beautiful addition to any kitchen.

Tough, durable and lightweight, bamboo is a natural in the kitchen. One of nature's most sustainable resources, bamboo is stronger than oak and reaches maturity in just four years — without pesticides. Bamboo's density makes it naturally water-resistant, which inhibits germs and bacteria. It won't scratch your pans like metal and doesn't absorb moisture like conventional wood.

Though used like timber, bamboo is a grass that self-propagates as it spreads underground via a network of rhizomes. A white oak tree takes 120 years to grow to maturity; bamboo takes three-and-a-half to seven years. This self-regenerating plant grows without pesticides and needs very little water; some species grow as much as 3 feet a day. Because of its fast growth rate, bamboo sequesters carbon dioxide at faster rates than hardwood trees — another bonus for the environment.

Stainless steel does not leach chemicals and is 93 percent recycled. The grade of the stainless steel used is 18.8.

Care instructions: Hand wash only.
Manufactured in China.

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This do-it-yourself guide makes it easy to upgrade residential and commercial lighting to reduce costs and environmental impact while maintaining or even improving the quality of the lighting. Filled with step-by-step instructions, Green Lighting shows you how to save money and energy with light-emitting diodes (LEDs), compact fluorescent lighting (CFL), solar lights, windows, skylights, fixtures, controls and other bright ideas. Methods for calculating return on investment, plus recommended sources for energy-efficient products, are included in this practical resource.

Green Lighting covers:

Color temperature measurements
In-depth details on the differences between LEDs and CFLs
How utilities bill for electricity usage
Comparing wattage and determining energy savings
ENERGY STAR® ratings
Purchasing appropriate bulbs, fixtures and sensors
Developing a comprehensive green lighting plan for your entire home, office or commercial environment
Incandescent, halogen and gas-discharge lighting
Solar and next-generation lighting

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Nearly four decades after her mother, Frances Moore Lappé, published Diet for a Small Planet, sparking a revolution in our thinking about the social and environmental impact of our food choices, Anna Lappé picks up the conversation, examining another hidden cost of our food system: the climate crisis. From raising cattle in industrial-scale feedlots to razing rainforests to make palm oil for Pop-Tarts, the choices we make about how we put food on our plates, and what we do with the waste, contribute to as much as one third of total greenhouse-gas emissions. Lappé exposes the interests resisting this crucial conversation while she educates and empowers readers and eaters committed to healing the planet.

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Filled with more than 250 cookies recipes from the "Cookie of All Cookies" contest, Best of Country Cookies features everything from drop cookies to sandwich cookies, from refrigerator favorites to bar and brownies!

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Creative, flavorful meals made with fresh, natural ingredients can bring the strength and vitality of nature into your life. Packed with 901 pages of useful information, the Whole Foods E-book Projects Collection can teach you the secrets to cooking with edible flowers, cooking and preparing wild game and more.

For the first time, Mother Earth News is proud to offer the complete Whole Foods and Cooking E-book Project Collection on CD-ROM. This comprehensive collection includes 25 useful e-books with titles ranging from "Cooking with Honey" to "Perfect Grilled Meats". The Whole Foods and Cooking E-handbook Set on CD-ROM is packed with practical information, innovative ideas and creative projects to inspire nutritious and delicious dining.

E-handbooks Included in the Set:

• Cooking with Honey
• Cooking with Dried Beans
• Cooking with Tofu
• Cooking with Winter Squash and Pumpkins
• Baking with Sourdough
• Cooking with Edible Flowers
• Great Rhubarb Recipes
• Perfect Grilled Meats
• Food Drying Techniques
• Cooking with Yogurt
• Cooking with Rice
• Making Quick Breads
• Salsas!
• Making Ice Creams and Frozen Yogurts
• Making and Using Flavored Vinegars
• Fast and Easy Ways to Cook Vegetables
• Making European Breads
• Basic Bread Baking
• Jams, Jellies & More
• Making Maple Syrup
• Cooking with Oats
• Preparing and Cooking Wild Game
• Making Homemade Wine
• Making the Best Apple Cider
• Building Homebrew Equipment

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Harness the medicinal, sensual and flavorful power of herbs with both centuries-old and modern methods. Find the secrets to utilizing herbs like mint, rosemary and more within the 504 pages of the Herb E-book Projects Collection on CD-ROM.

For the first time, Mother Earth News is proud to offer the complete Herb E-book Projects Collection on CD-ROM.

This comprehensive collection includes 14 useful e-handbooks with titles ranging from "Herbal Teas for Lifelong Health" to "Making Your Own Incense". The Herb E-book Projects Collection on CD-ROM is packed with practical information, innovative ideas and creative projects to encourage natural health and happiness through herbs.

E-book Projects in the collection:

• 15 Herbs for Tea
• Herbal Teas for Lifelong Health
• Making Your Own Incense
• Growing and Using Rosemary
• Growing and Using Oregano
• Growing and Using Cilantro
• Growing and Using Basil
• Growing and Using Dill
• Growing and Using Terragon
• Growing and Using Chives
• Growing and Using Echinacea
• Growing and Using Lavender
• Growing 15 Herbs for the Kitchen
• Growing Herbs for Cold & Flu Relief
• Growing and Using Garlic

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Add a feeling of accomplishment to your life and personalization to your home with the ultimate practice in self-sufficiency: do-it-yourself projects from Mother Earth News. Get the know-how to fashion custom furniture, erect personal fences and more with the 479 pages of project tips and instructions in the Do-It-Yourself E-book Projects Collection on CD-ROM.

For the first time, Mother Earth News is proud to offer the complete Do-It-Yourself E-book Projects Collection on CD-ROM. This comprehensive collection includes 14 useful e-books with titles ranging from "How to Build a Pond for Fun or Food" to "How to Keep Your Basement Dry". The Do-It-Yourself E-book Projects Collection on CD-ROM is packed with practical information, innovative ideas and creative projects to inspire self-sufficiency.

E-book Projects Included in the Collection:

• How to Build Simple Furniture
• How to Build Cold Frames
• How to Build Easy Composters
• How to Build a Pole Woodshed
• How to Build a Smokehouse
• How to Build Fences
• How to Build a Pond for Food and Fun
• How to Manage a Woodlot
• How to Build Easy Bird Feeders
• How to Maintain Axes & Chainsaws
• How to Build Bat Houses
• How to Keep Your Basement Dry
• How to Build Cold Storage for Fruits & Vegetables
• How to Buy an Old House