Sustainable food

by Mobbs, Michael

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Title Statements

Full title :Sustainable food / Michael Mobbs.

Summary

After renovating his inner-city Sydney terrace and making it almost entirely self-sufficient in energy, water and waste disposal, Michael Mobbs realised his house was sustainable, but he wasnt. While his house saves 100,000 litres of dam water a year, the same amount of water is used to produce ten days worth of food for the average Australian. In this companion book to the bestselling Sustainable House, Mobbs turns his attention to reducing the carbon emissions associated with growing, processing, transporting, selling and disposing food. With his own experiences anchoring the book, Sustainable Food/i> contains practical advice on establishing community and backyard vegetable gardens, keeping chooks and bees, and reducing water usage, along with insights into dealing with councils, sidelining supermarkets and what we eat and why.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2012.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):NewSouth Publishing
Place of Publication:Sydney
Language:eng
Publication Date:2012.

Notes

Includes index.

The Physical Object

Description:1 volume

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781920705541, 1920705546
oclc:ocn785821601
LC Classification:SB453.5
Dewey Decimal:635.0484

Foreword / Peter Newman -- Introduction -- 1. Thinking about food -- 2. Six garden essentials -- 3. Urban farms -- 4. Soil and compost -- 5. Plants -- 6. Water -- 7. Chooks -- 8. Bees -- 9. How to deal with governments -- 10. Why citizens must act now -- 11. Where are we going?