Sustainable Food

<p><span style=color: rgba(85 85 85 1)>After renovating his inner-city Sydney terrace and making it almost entirely self-sufficient in energy water and waste disposal Michael Mobbs realised his house was sustainable but he wasn't. While his house saves 100000 litres of dam water a year the same amount of water is used to produce ten days' worth of food for the average Australian. In this companion book to the bestselling </span><em style=color: rgba(85 85 85 1)>Sustainable House</em><span style=color: rgba(85 85 85 1)> Mobbs turns his attention to reducing the carbon emissions associated with growing processing transporting selling and disposing food. With his own experiences anchoring the book </span><em style=color: rgba(85 85 85 1)>Sustainable Food</em><span style=color: rgba(85 85 85 1)> contains practical advice on establishing community and backyard vegetable gardens keeping chooks and bees and reducing water usage along with insights into dealing with councils sidelining supermarkets and what we eat and why.</span></p><p><br></p>