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This fantastic book is your ultimate guide for do-it-yourself, off-the-grid, green living in the city. Kelly Coyne and Eric Knutzen will show you how to compost in a garbage can, raise chickens in your backyard, grow potatoes in old tires, build your own food dehydrator, make your own non-toxic cleaning solutions and even hack into your plumbing to reuse your greywater. For the especially ambitious (and cash-infused), they also discuss how to "Be Your Own Utility" by harvesting your own power. For the most part, however, Coyne & Knutzen give practical, realistic, and damn hilarious advice on how to live sustainably, even if you live in a 500 square foot apartment with no yard and no money. There are no new-age peddlers hawking their unnecessary composting claptraps here! As Coyne and Knutzen say themselves "Composting is free!" Everything rots. So don't let the Man convince you to buy the modern equivalent of Indulgences like hydrogen cars in the name of Saving the Earth. Use your legs! (from my staff pick this month)