Living Green in the City: 50 Actions to Make Your Surroundings Greener

by Ophelie Damble

Overview

Discover 50 practical actions on how to you can make your environment greener.

With suggestions for your home, your building, your neighborhood, and your city as a whole, Living Green in the City is full of smart ideas on how you can revegetate the area around you.

With illustrated tutorials and testimonials, this is the perfect guide for anyone wanting to bring more greenery around them.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781784885007
Publisher:	Hardie Grant
Publication date:	05/03/2022
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	6.80(w) x 8.95(h) x 0.85(d)

About the Author

Ophélie Damblé is the founder of the blog and YouTube account Your Mother Nature. She is also the author of the comic book Guerilla Green.

Table of Contents

In My Home

I'm cleaning up My Apartment 12

I'm Sowing My Own Seeds 14

I'm Getting Free Plants: The 100% Salvaged Life Hack 18

I'm helping the Bees 22

I'm Growing My Own Sprouts 26

I'm Making My Own Wormery 28

I'm putting up a Stout Trellis for My Climbing Plants 32

I'm Giving Away Plantable Seed Paper 34

I'm Conserving My Food Better 38

I'm making a Mini-Drier for My Aromatic and Medicinal Herbs 42

I'm Making My Own Plant-Care Products 46

I'm Turning My Balcony Over to Permaculture 50

I'm Giving Biodiversity a Helping Hand in Winter 52

I'm Pimping My Bike 54

I'm Adopting a Hen 56

In My Building

I'm becoming a Master Compost Maker 60

I'm Pimping the Stairwell 64

I'm Providing Couch Surfing for Insects 66

I'm Arranging Plant-Sitting for the Holidays 70

I'm Installing Solar Panels 72

I'm Organising a Preserve Swap 74

I'm Growing Chicory in the Basement 78

I'm Making My Workplace Green without Driving My Colleagues Crazy 82

I'm setting up a Sharing Box 86

I'm setting up a Beehive 88

In My Neighbourhood

I'm Building a Wicking Bed 94

I'm learning to Recognise the Wild Things in My Street 96

I'm Planting Trees 100

I'm making a Nesting Box 104

I'm gardening on Straw Bales 106

I'm Taking Cuttings from the Wild 108

I'm Collecting Seeds So I Can Propagate Plants for Free 112

I'm putting up Hanging Plants

I'm Saving Water with Ollas 118

I'm Recruiting the Kids 120

I'm Building a Geodesic Dome 122

I'm Building a Flowerbed at the Base of a Tree 126

I'm starting a Box Scheme 130

In My City

I'm Throwing Seed Bombs 134

I'm pulling on My Leggings and Going Plogging 138

I'm Getting Organic Food into the Work Canteen 142

I'm Organising a Disco Soup 144

I'm Spreading Propaganda 148

I'm getting into Moss Graffiti 152

I'm making Music with Plants 154

I'm Organising a Park(king) Day 156

I'm creating a Community Garden 160

I'm Cracking open the Asphalt 164

I'm Setting up a Zad 168

I'm Packing It All in to take up Urban Farming 172