PublicationsGaia Booklets and Manuals - How to ...
The Gaia booklets are practical instructions in how to use simple technologies, which help both people and environment.
They are in pdf format and the booklets can directly be printed out and folded as booklets (To download: rightclick - then choose save target as)
Many of these manuals and booklets are instructions made by other organisations which have been adapted, simplified and translated.
List of Booklets:
30e Local Leafy Vegetables
29e Seed Priming
28e Drip Irrigation
25e Biopesticides
24e Soil Conservation
23e Conservation Farming
21e Protected areas
20e The biopesticide - Tephrosia
19e Nursery Production
18e Water posts
17e Bilharziasis
14e Firewood Saving Stove
13e The Subsurface Dam
10e Rain Water Tank
9e The Rope Pump
8e Grow Fertiliser
7e Water Harvesting
6e Reuse of Water
5e Water Purification
4e Malted Grains, Fermented Foods
3e Soy Foods
2e The Solar Drier
1e Vermiculture
List of Manuals:
15e Rope Pump Construction
14e The subsurface dam
13e Firewood saving stove of clay (DAPP Zambia)
13.1e Firewood saving stove of clay (Malawi)
12e The Arbour Loo
11e Jatropha
10e Moringa
9e Tephrosia - a biopesticide
8e The Bamboo Refrigerator
7e Box Solar Cooker
6e Briquette Press
4e Cardboard Solar Cooker
3e The Biodigester
2e Fish Farming
1e Conservation Farming
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 40 Green World Actions
Download or read the manuals describing how to set up low-cost or no-cost systems to improve environment and livelihoods |
 Manual 11e
Describes how to use the jatropha plant for efficient fencing of fields against animals, and how to use the oil from the seeds as lamp oil, for soap making or as diesel. |
 Manual 10e
Describes how to use the Moringa tree as fencing, leaves for food, seeds for cooking oil and water purification. |
 Manual 9e
Describes how to use the plant Tephrosia - not only to improve the soil and reduce erosion, but also against problem insects in the crops |
 Manual 8e
Describes how to build a simple cooling system for food products from bamboo or other basket material. |
 Manual 7e
Drawings of box solar cooker, which can be built with reflective sheet material. |
 Manual 6e
A manual of how to build a briquette press, which can be used to produce briquettes from waste paper, leaves, sawdust and other organic material. |
 Manual 5e
Describes how to build a fuel saving stove made of clay - the Jika from East Africa. |
 Manual 4e
Describes how to build a solar cooker from cardboard and reflective material such as opened soft drink cans. |
 Manual 3e
Describes in details how to build a biodigester to produce biogas and fertiliser from animal dung using tubular plastic. |
 Manual 2e
Describes in details how to establish a fish pond and how to achieve a good production of fish. |
 Manual 1e
Describes the CF system in details - a system based on no burning, permanent planting holes, preparation in the dry season, keeping the ground covered, crop rotation, and continuous weeding. |
 Booklet 10e
A description of how to build a system to collect rainwater from the roof by using a tubular plastic tank in the ground. |
 Booklet 8e
Describes how to use leguminous plants to improve soil fertility. By growing crops between rows of these plants - alley cropping, or by using them for an improved fallow system. |
 Booklet 7e
Describes how to harvest rainwater in the soil by growing crops between rows of vetiver grass. Describes also how to reduce water consumption for watering vegetables or flowers by using drum drip irrigation. |
 Booklet 6e
Describes how to reuse wastewater from kitchen and bath in a safe way either by using a reedbed system of vetiver grass, or by producing duckweed in a water tank. |
 Booklet 5e
Describes how to make safe drinking water by using solar radiation, and how to purify turbid water (unclear because of dissolved material) with seeds of the moringa tree. |
 Booklet 4e
Describes how to make malted grains, which can be used for improving the nutritional value of the traditional baby foods in Southern Africa. Describes also how to make fermented gruel as a way of decreasing the frequency of diarrhoea. |
 Booklet 3e
Describes how to make soy milk, soy yoghurt and the soy "meat" used in the food. |
 Booklet 2e Solar Drier
Describes how to build a solar drier for drying fruit and vegetable so that the vitamins and minerals are preserved for periods with limited access to these. |
 Booklet 1e Vermiculture
Describes how to create good compost by using earthworms to transform waste material into enriching nutrients for the garden.
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