Taylor Publishing

• Build A Rocket Stove Cooker..Shows how to make a portable, outdoor or emergency stove - A hot, fast burning mini stove for boiling water, and cooking food. Made from inexpensive metal cans, needs only scrap paper, twigs, small wood pieces. ( Folks, I make these with coffee cans and boy do they work! If you can punch a hole in a can, and follow the simple directions you can boil water, fry eggs and burgers, saute, steam, and cook just about anything. ) Shows four different metal can designs, and a clay stove design which needs no tools to construct, and uses local clay and sand. Lots of photos and clear directions. You'll be amazed at how well these little stoves work. Also describes a Haybox retained heat cooker...simple to make and use, increases your cooking & fuel efficiency when combined with rocket stove use! 12 page booklet #5012..$5.00
  A friend tending my rocket stove, (he got the hang of it right away and didn't burn the barn down), a clay version stands by.

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• Safe Rainwater Collection compiled and writen by Charmaine Taylor. Designed for typical American ( traditional housing, not Third World ) collection, with tips and information on water storage, testing, purifying, filters, chemicals to use and avoid, garden use, and use of rainwater and runoff. Covers simple systems you can build (gutters, alternative containers) tools and supplies needed, and more for low cost home collection. You can experiment and just create a simple system to collect water just for gardening and animal needs, and save on your water bill! Booklet, 8.5 x 11 52 pages, plus additinal information provided with booklet. #7560...$10.00

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  Barbara's current bookThe Expanding World of Solar Box Cookers is available now, and is frequently used to teach simple cardboard solar cooker designs. In addition to using the sun for cooking meals for family and pets, she discusses some of the many ways to use a solar oven, such as to pasteurize water and milk, sanitize dishes, utensils, and diapers. You can even sprout seedlings and prepare potting soil, among many uses explained in thisbook. Thousands of women outside the US use her simple cooker designs, and the book includes photographs of ovens made of cob and other practical designs in use around the world. Four easy to make designs are shown, b&w photographs, illustrations, and excellent information on low-cost materials useage. 80 pages, 8.5x11, paperback, index, reprinted (not updated) 1999. #5007...$15.00 (note: the solar through-the-wall oven is not shown or explained in this book.)
  
• Solar StoveTop Cooker Pattern This amazing foil and cardboard cooker focuses the sun's energy so well that temperatures reach 600 degrees in just minutes! Excellent for fast cooking foods ( you can fry eggs in less than 3 minutes), also ideal to pasteurize water to 158 degrees F quickly for safer drinking water in an emergency. Pattern includes the instructions and forms to build the reflective cooker, plus materials list, and tips, recipes. This reflective cooker can also be used INDOORS by a sunny window and works very well. #5011...$13.00 (Shown in photo at top of page.)

BOOKS TO TEACH YOU ABOUT IMMEDIATE NEEDS
Water- Food- Heat- Waste

PROTECT YOUR WATER SUPPLY

The Home Water Supply: How to find, filter, store and conserve it by Stu Campbell. Knowledgeable discussion of home water systems, potential water problems, and practical solutions. Extensive line drawings, and good how to advice on building a pond, a catchment, water for gardens and much more. 8.5x11, 240 pages, paperback. #7020...$19.00

How To Live Without Electricity -And Like It! by Anita Evangelista. There's no need to be dependent on commercial electrical systems for your home's comforts and security. Describes dozens of alternative methods that can help the individual become more self-reliant and free from utility companies. Tells: How to calculate your actual power usage * Employ alternate light sources, including candles, oil, kerosene, gas, and solar-powered lamps * Obtain, pump and store potable water * Cook with gas, wood, and solar heat * Heat and cool your home effectively * Refrigerate food without electricity * Maintain radio communications * Generate power and recharge batteries * And much, much more! Numerous illustrations and photographs, listings for the best mail-order sources for the products depicted. This is a complete sourcebook for those who wish to both simplify and improve their lives.1997, 5x8, 168 pages, illustrated, soft cover. #5013...$15.00

The Humanure Handbook II -A Guide To Composting Human Manure