Reading
Great Recycling Books
Great Books on Recycling
McGraw-Hill Recycling Handbook, 2nd Edition… ( This is one, if not the most gigantic source of ways you can recycle I’ve found yet. Rather expensive, but well worth it!)
By: Herbert F. Lund
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Save Our Planet : 750 Everyday Ways You… Can Help Clean Up The Earth
By: Diane MacEachern
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Cradle to Cradle : Remaking the Way We… Make Things
By: William McDonough, Michael Braungart
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101 Exciting New Uses for Condoms
By: Lori Katz,et al
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The Gift : A Magical Story About Caring… for the earth-
By: Isia Osuchowska
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Choose to Reuse : An Encyclopedia of… Services, Businesses, Tools & Charitable Programs That Facilitate Reuse : (This book will definitely empower you and makes it easy to immediately begin recycling)
By: Nikki Goldbeck
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A Practical Recycling Handbook
By: Kindred Association
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The Envelope Mill: Recycle Magazines… into envelopes and book/templates! ( This is really an awesome book you can actually earn money doing the activities shown while learning to do things you never thought possible but yet it’ll be so simple. I had to order it!)
By: Haila Harvey
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Gene Logsdon’s Moneysaving Secrets : A… Treasury of Salvaging, Bargaining, Recycling, and Scavenging Techniques
By: Gene Logsdon
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The Bag Book: ( Another one on basic and simple ways to create merchandise for sale.)
By: Vicki Lansky
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Recycled Papers : The Essential Guide
By: Claudia G. Thompson
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Re Uses : 2,133 Ways to Recycle and… Reuse the Things You Ordinarily Throw Away :
By: Carolyn Jabs
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The Recycler’s Manual for Business,… Government, and The Environmental Community ( An important guide for those wishing to really become proactive and ways to go about accomplishing it.)
By: David R. Powelson
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The Complete Guide to Recycling at Home…
By: Gary D. Branson
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Recycle It : Once Is Not Enough (We Can…
By: Stuart A. Kallen
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Recycling Household Waste : The Way Ahead
By: The Association of Municipal Engineers
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The Great Recycling Adventure : A… Lift-A-Flap Look at Old Things Made New
By: Jan McHarry
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Sew Vintage: New Creations from Found… Fabrics ( I had to order this one as well…couldn’t stop reading about all the great ways to reuse fabrics and materials around the house to create some fabulous new stuff!)
ANOTHER ONE ABOUT GENERATING MONEY FROM HOME!
By: Jennie Archer Atwood
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Trash to Treasure : The Year’s Best…
By: Anne Van Wagner Childs
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Rinds and Peels : A Recycling Cookbook CHECK IT OUT!!!
By: Prosperity and Profit Unlimited
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I JUST WANTED TO POINT OUT THAT ALTHOUGH I MAY HAVE HIGHLIGHTED CERTAIN BOOKS OR MENTIONED SOMETHING ABOUT ONLY A FEW, I CHOSE THIS LIST OF RECYCLING BOOKS FROM AN AMAZING ARRAY OF BOOKS I RESEARCHED, READ AND OR REVIEWED…THESE WERE MY FAVORITE AND THE MOST INFORMATIVE AS WELL AS ENJOYABLE!
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Good luck to all and let’s leave something good behind.
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Peace Always-Gigi
Simplitudes
Suggested Reading:
Natural Cleaning for Your Home:
95 Pure and Simple Recipes
Casey Kellar
Clean and Green:
The Complete Guide to Non-Toxic and Environmentally Safe Housekeeping
Annie Berthold
The Natural Formula Book for Home & Yard
Dan Wallace
Use Less Stuff:
Environmental Solutions for Who We Really Are
Robert Lilienfeld and William Rathje
Living Cheaply With Style:
Live Better and Spend Less
Ernest Callenbach
The Whole Woman
Germaine Greer
Simple Abundance : A Daybook of Comfort…
Sarah Ban Breathnach
The Foxfire Books
Elliot Wigginton
Foxfire 11 : The Old Homeplace
The Natural Guide to Women’s Health
Lynda Wharton
Woodswoman
Anne LaBastille
“Living the Simple Life”
The Elaine St. James Value Collection :…
Elaine St. James
The Encyclopedia of Country Living
Carla Emery
The Big Book of Life’s Instructions
Simple Solutions for Complicated Lives Bykofsky,Sheree/Paul Fargis
The Ultimate Natural Health and Healing
The complete Guide to Achieving and Maintaining Health and Well-Being Through Natural Remedies and Therapies
Mark Evans
Homes Are for Living.
Ina Cumpiano
The Poor Pay More : Consumer Practices…
David Caplovitz
The new cookbook for poor poets and Others
Ann Rogers
Son of hassle-free sewing; further adventures in homemade clothes by the authors of the Illustrated hassle-free make your own clothes book
Sharon Rosenburg and Joan Wiener
The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding
La Leche League
Encyclopedia of Home Building and Decorating Stanley Schuler
How to Design Your Own Clothes and Make Your Own Patterns.
Claudia Ein
Big Book of Country Living
Ernest Thompson Seton
How to Survive and Succeed Without a Credit Card
Bert A. Berthelsen
The Homemaker’s Book of Time and Money Savers
Jean Laird
Health and Beauty the Natural Way
Nerys Purchon
Ancient Healing Secrets :
Practical Herbal Remedies from Around the World That Work Today
Dian Dincin & Buchman, PhD.
Jeanne Rose’s Kitchen Cosmetics :
Using Herbs, Fruit, & Flowers for Natural Bodycare
Jeanne Rose
Country Folk Medicine :
Tales of Skunk Oil, Sassafras Tea, and Other Old-Time Remedies
Elisabeth Janos
Making Aromatherapy Creams and Lotions:
101 Natural Formulas to Revitalize & Nourish Your Skin
Donna Maria Coles Johnson
Modern Ailments, Ancient Remedies :
Healing Manual
Gillian Karr
Natural and Herbal Family Remedies
Cynthia Black
Grandmother’s Remedies
Marian Hoffman
Natural Beauty :
Making and Using Pure and Simple Beauty Products.
Gail Duff
Natural Beauty from the Garden :
More Than 200 Do-It-Yourself Beauty Recipes and Garden Ideas
Janice Cox
Olive Oil
Jacques Chibois
Old Ways Rediscovered
Clarence Meyer
Natural Body Basics :
Making Your Own Cosmetics
Doris Byers
Recipes for Natural Beauty :
100 Homemade Treatments for Natural Beauty
Katie Spiers
Natural Beauty from the Garden :
More Than 200 Do-It-Yourself Beauty Recipes and Garden Ideas
Dorothy Reinhardt
Earthly Bodies & Heavenly Hair :
Natural and Healthy Personal Care for Every Body
Dina Falconi
Inner Peace Outer Beauty :
Natural Japanese Health and Beauty Secrets
Connie Krochmal
What’s In Your Cosmetics?
Aubrey Hampton
Alternative Medicine
(Teach Yourself Books)
Loulou Brown
Alternative Medicine The Definitive Guide
Burto Goldberg, Burton Goldberg
Natural Remedies:
Techniques for Preventing Headaches and the Common Cold
Norman Ford
Prescription for Nutritional Healing:
A Practical A-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements
James F., Md. Balch, Phyllis A. Balch
The Encyclopedia of Natural Remedies
Louise Tenney
Dr. Pitcairn’s Complete Guide to Natural Health for Dogs and Cats
Richard H. Pitcairn
Going to Seed : Edible Plants of the Southwest & How to Prepare Them
Kahanah Farnsworth
The Messies Manual
Sandra Felton
How to Do What You Love for a Living
Nancy Anderson
Baking Soda :
Over 500 Fabulous, Fun and Frugal Uses You’Ve Probably Never Thought of
Vicki Lansky
The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook
By: Joshua Piven-David Borgenicht
The Healthy Kitchen: Recipes for a…
By: Andrew Weil, Rosie Daley
Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach… Their Kids About Money–That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! By: Robert T. Kiyosaki, Sharon L. Lechter
Talking Dirty With the Queen of Clean
By: Linda C. Cobb
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