The author is the most experienced straw bale builder in the UK, who has adapted North American techniques for use in our wetter climate, particularly by using coppiced wood and traditional lime and clay plasters. It gives details of all main construction methods.

This book tells you how to work on wild land without taming it. It is an attractive, knowledgeable and unpretentious guide written with authority and filled with specific information and anyone involved in conservation or ecology should make sure to have a copy

Embracing an eco-friendly lifestyle can be a daunting prospect for your average urban dweller. The good news is that this handbook is here to address these issues head on, dispel the myths and provide viable solutions.

Sequel to Shelter, contains over 1100 photos and 300 drawings of homes, builders, dwellers, dreamers & doers.

This is a revised, new edition of this best-selling book. Living Wood is the sequel to Green Woodwork, and is a practical manual and inspirational guide. The reader can discover the satisfaction and fulfilment to be found from working with wood at its source, within woodland. For the beginner and expert alike, it takes the reader through the process of buying woodland, harvesting timber and firewood and making necessary equipment to construct a range of fine chairs. A compulsive read reflecting the authors 25 years of experience.

Fully revised and updated, this is the classic guide to creating a natural, healthy home based on sound environmental principles. Opening with outstanding examples of modern eco-design this book examines the interior elements of our homes from air and light, to furniture and furnishings and looks at how to introduce comfort and a sense of well-being.

After many years travelling the world as a peace campaigner, Satish finally settled in England to become editor of Resurgence magazine. Written with penetrating simplicity, No Destination is an exhilarating account of an extraordinary life. This revised edition contains two new chapters bringing his story up to date.

This breakthrough book reveals the corruptions of and solutions for a global culture deeply troubled by pollution, greed and suppression. Scientific, ecological, political, social and spiritual approaches are examined. This book is a blueprint for what we must do - a call to action for general readers worldwide. It provides answers needed to implement - a wide variety of clean, renewable and cost-effective energy options, and ways of reversing our abusive global industrial, forestry, agricultural; and water use practises.

An inspiration to self-builders for 25 years, now in a handsome new edition packed full of information and photographs, including a colour section. A modern classic.

In 1985 the author decided to buy his own small wood in Hampshire. This book takes us on a journey of discovery into the history and development of this small corner of the countryside and evokes the beauty of our natural surroundings. Caring for the wood and its natural inhabitants using both ancient and modern skills, the author experiences the evolving cycle of woodland life and encourages us to appreciate our environment first hand in all seasons, all climates.

As featured on Channel 4's Grand Designs. In 2003 Ben Law captivated the nation by building his woodland house on Channel 4's Grand Designs programme - so popular was the show that it was repeated in 2004. The presenter, Kevin McCloud, said that Ben was a born designer and that his was the most watched and popular programme of the original series. Kevin loved the project so much that he has written the forward to this book! Full of stunning colour photographs, this is a visual guide to how Ben built his outstandingly beautiful home in the woods. It is also a practical manual and the story of a man realizing a lifetime's dream to build one of the most sustainable and beautiful homes in Britain. The Woodland House gives details of the evolving design process, the identifying of materials, costings, project management and the actual building. It proves that low cost, low impact and high aesthetics can go hand in hand and that it is possible to build green and to build affordably. As the pre-eminent UK example of building with wood and renewable materials this will also appeal to the growing number of people with environmental and green interests as well as to the building community. Ben Law is an innovative woodsman who has lived and worked in West Sussex for over 20 years. He is a woodlands expert held in the highest regard and the author of The Woodland Way - A Permaculture Approach to Sustainable Woodland Management.