Hastings District Libraries

We spoke with Dominic Salmon, the HDC Waste Minimisation Officer, about the Sus’d campaign on Radio Kidnappers….did you know your library has SUS’d information available including the booklet Twenty Five Easy Steps Towards Sustainability?

You can read more about SUS’d and get lots of great tips on www.susd.org.nz.

Here are a few of the titles available to help you in your mission to save money while helping the environment!

Energy and green living

• Cut your energy bills now : 150 smart ways to save money & make your home more comfortable & green / Bruce Harley.
• Building green : a complete how-to guide to alternate building methods--earth plaster, straw bale, cordwood, cob, living roofs / Clarke Snell & Tim Callahan.
• Living green : the New Zealand handbook for an eco-friendly, toxin-free, sustainable life / Annmaree Kane, Christina Neubert.
• Eco Kiwi : green solutions for everyday life / Simon and Jane Cotter
• 1001 easy ways for earth-wise living : natural and eco-friendly ideas that can make a real difference to your life
• Green living : eco-friendly homes, natural gardening, organic food, energy saving, recycling / Sarah Callard & Diane Millis.
• Greeniology : the art and science of living more lightly on the planet / Tanya Ha.
• Organic home : the Australian guide to clean, green living / Rosamond Richardson ; photography by Russell Sadur.
• Natural ideas for Christmas : fantastic decorations to make / Josie Cameron-Ashcroft and Carol Cox.
• I'm dreaming of a green Christmas : gifts, decorations, and recipes that use less and mean more / by Anna Getty.

Recycling

• The bag book : over 500 great uses--and reuses--for paper, plastic and other bags to organize & enhance your life / by Vicki Lansky ; illustrations by Martha Campbell.
• Don't throw it out : [recycle, renew, and reuse to make things last] / Lori Baird and the editors of Yankee Magazine.
• Recycling things to make and do / Emily Bone and Leonie Pratt.
• The smash smash truck / Professor Potts.

Gardening and cooking

• The cook's garden : for cooks who garden and gardeners who cook / Mary Browne, Helen Leach & Nancy Tichborne.
• Grow it, cook it / Sally Cameron ; photography by Charlie Smith.
• The joy of pickling : 200 flavor-packed recipes for all kinds of produce from garden or market / Linda Ziedrich.
• Cooking green : reducing your carbon footprint in the kitchen : the new green basics way / Kate Heyhoe.
• The kiwi smoker : ideas and recipes to get the most from your smoker / by Carl Scott.
• Drying food / Ricky M. Gribling.
• Bicarbonate of soda : cleaning, health and beauty recipes
• Backyard poultry in New Zealand / Glenys O'Byrne.
• Raise happy chickens and other poultry / Victoria Roberts.
• New Zealand growing today
• New Zealand gardener
• Grow it, eat it / DK Royal horticultural society
• I can grow things : how to grow activity projects for the very young / Sally Walton & Stephanie Donaldson.

Include the children

• Get out! : 150 ways for kids and grown-ups to get into nature and build a greener future / Judy Molland.
• True green kids : 100 things to do to help save the planet / authors, Kim McKay ; Jenny Bonnin.
• The little New Zealand green book : simple steps to save the planet / Peter Davis and Judith Hodge.
• How green are you? / David Bellamy ; illustrations by Penny Dann.
• Why should I bother about the planet? / Susan Meredith ; illustrated by Sara Rojo.