Thriving During Challenging Times: The Energy, Food, and Financial Independence Handbook - Softcover

Cam Mather lives independently off-the-electricity-grid with his wife Michelle, using the sun and wind to power his home and business, Aztext Press, which publishes books and DVDs about renewable energy and sustainability. He has produced DVDs on organic vegetable gardening and installing a home-scale wind turbine, and has just written Thriving During Challenging Times, the Energy, Food and Financial Independence Handbook. He is currently putting his 30 years of organic and market gardening to use and is writing The All You Can Eat Gardening Handbook: Easy, Organic Vegetables and More Money in Your Pocket. This will be released March 2010. He’s working towards the goal of making his home “zero-carbon” and with his extensive garden he aims to be completely food and energy self-sufficient. Through his workshops at colleges he has motivated thousands of participants to invest in energy efficiency and renewable energy to save money, reduce their carbon footprint and to make themselves less dependent on outside sources of energy.