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More and more homebuyers and homebuilders are focusing on "right-sizing" their dream home instead of mortgaging their dreams away. Building Today's Green Home gives you instruction and advice on best practices for building a smaller, more cost effective house without compromising comfort or quality. Building a right-sized, energy-efficient home can free up your investment capital for the retir... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
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Building Without Borders describes pioneering efforts to create sustainable shelter for billions currently under-housed. It surveys projects around the world that are housing the homeless without destroying natural habitats to do so, by drawing upon local traditions such as bamboo, straw bale and earthen construction. Highly illustrated and popular in style, it includes case stu... [click here for more] |
New Society |
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Energy efficient, non-toxic, healthy homes are the hottest trend in the building industry. Homebuilders are constructing green homes in astonishing numbers -- nearly 200,000 in the US alone in 2006.
How does a home buyer who wants a green home know what to look for, what questions to ask a builder, which green home rating systems to trust, and what homes are on the market? Nationally re... [click here for more] |
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After graduating from the Yale School of Architecture, Don Metz decided to take up a small country parctice in lieu of seeking success with a popular commercial firm. His choice led to personal and philosophical fulfillment, as well as recogition as a maverick architect who could build honest, reliable, and sustainable homes. It only followed that he would go on to write several books on architect... [click here for more] |
Bunker Hill Publishing |
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How efficient are front-load washing machines? When is it time to replace your old refrigerator? These questions and many more are answered in The Consumer Guide to Home Energy Savings, a one-stop resource for consumers who want to improve their home's energy performance and reduce costs. Zeroing in on the most useful response can be a challenge-this 9th edition guide cuts through the co... [click here for more] |
New Society |
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In an era of dwindling resources, water is poised to become the new oil as the entire world now faces the reality of a decreasing supply of clean water. To avert a devastating shortage, we must not only look at alternate water sources for existing structures, we must also plan our new developments differently. Design for Water is an accessible and clearly written guide to alterna... [click here for more] |
New Society |
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An earth-sheltered, earth-roofed home has the least impact upon the land of all housing styles, leaving almost zero footprint on the planet.
Earth-Sheltered Houses is a practical guide for those who want to build their own underground home at moderate cost. It describes the benefits of sheltering a home with earth, including the added comfort and energy efficiency from the modera... [click here for more] |
New Society |
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Over seventy percent of Americans cannot afford to own a code-enforced, contractor-built home. This has led to widespread interest in using natural materials -- straw, cob, and earth -- for building homes and other buildings that are inexpensive, and that rely largely on labor rather than expensive and often environmentally-damaging outsourced materials.
Earthbag Building is the ... [click here for more] |
New Society |
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EcoNest identifies homes designed and built respectfully, in appreciation of the harmony and beauty of nature and in a way that uses nature's resources so as to consume less energy, create less waste, nurture our health, and enrich our senses.
A bird builds its nest using the materials at hand to create a perfect shelter for its bioregion. It doesn't fly to the next state for twigs nor ... [click here for more] |
Gibbs Smith |
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We know how to prepare our homes for each seasonal change, but do we know how to prepare for climate change? Violent weather events like floods, tornadoes, ice storms and hurricanes only tell part of the story. Climate change is frequently more subtle but its effects on our homes and properties can still be devastating. Nearly 50 percent of North America has a potential for structural d... [click here for more] |
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Written for newcomers and professionals alike, GREEN BEGINNINGS: The Story of How We Built Our Green & Sustainable Home shares the husband and wife authors’ experience learning about, planning and building a USGBC LEED* Silver home in a refreshing approach to help others understand green homes and green homebuilding.
This book is the first of its’ kind to present the su... [click here for more] |
Green Beginnings Publishing |
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Green building is the fastest-growing trend to hit since the Internet, bringing with it an enormous range of new products, systems and technologies. Green Building A to Z is an informative, technically accurate and highly visual guide to green building, for both decision-makers and interested citizens. It begins with an introduction to the importance of green buildings and a brief histor... [click here for more] |
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Interest in sustainable, green building practices is greater than ever. Whether concerned about allergies, energy costs, old-growth forests, or durability and long-term value, homeowners and builders are looking for ways to ensure that their homes are healthy, safe, beautiful and efficient.
In these pages are descriptions and manufacturer contact information for more than 1,400 environm... [click here for more] |
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There is no "one-size-fits-all" plan for so-called "green" homes; rather, there are universal principles of design that can be applied to individual tastes and needs. Architect Angela Dean offers a variety of ways to incorporate green building into your home, including using healthy building materials such as straw bales and natural flooring, taking advantage of local materials and resources, r... [click here for more] |
Gibbs Smith |
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by Michael Bloomfield, Michael Lithgow ~
Description: An exciting transformation is underway in communities around the world. Citizens and their governments are taking action in their cities and towns to protect the environment, address poverty and other social issues, and improve the quality of life now and for the future. Communities are discovering that when resident... [click here for more] |
Seattle Book Company |
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Green Dollhouse: Creating a Doll's Eye View of a Healthier World
The Green Dollhouse Book celebrates the wonderful ideas produced by entrants to the Green Dollhouse competition, sponsored by Sustainable San Mateo County in 2005. The book showcases the most compelling entrants and highlights the environmental lessons of each of these selected green dollhouses. Illustrated with bea... [click here for more] |
EcoTone Publishing |
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Whether because of changing lifestyles or simply because houses are becoming outdated, millions of North Americans are renovating their homes every year, spending more money annually on renovation than on new home construction. But renovations can be fraught with unintended consequences like indoor air pollution. How do you remodel in a healthy, environmentally friendly way?
Green Re... [click here for more] |
New Society |
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Media reports focus increasingly on the declining health of children in industrialized countries. Asthma, autism, learning and behavior problems, and cancer are all on the rise. At the same time there is consistent news about poor indoor air quality, mold, and how buildings can make people sick. Homes that Heal addresses both of these developments, revealing that our own homes c... [click here for more] |
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Grid beam is a modular, reusable building system that is fast, easy, affordable and virtually goof-proof. Ordinary people, with few skills and even fewer tools (all you need is a wrench!) can tackle projects ranging from furniture and shop benches to more ambitious projects like wind turbines, truck racks, small buildings--even electric vehicles.
Grid beam's modular pieces and bolt-toge... [click here for more] |
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Social issues are, and need to be, a central part of environmental and economic sustainability efforts. Using stories of extraordinary communities across North America, Living Green showcases the social side of living green.
The book features communities that explicitly integrate social and human factors into their design and planning, and examines the impact living in these communities... [click here for more] |
New Society |
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Straw bale houses are easy to build, affordable, super energy efficient, environmentally friendly, attractive, and can be designed to match the builder's personal space needs, esthetics, and budget. Despite mushrooming interest in the technique, however, most straw bale books focus on "selling" the dream of straw-bale building, but don't adequately address the most critical issues faced by bale... [click here for more] |
New Society |
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Green living begins at home, and New Green Home Solutions tells you how. Most of the energy-derived pollution we produce comes as a direct result of our homes - how we heat them, how we cool them, how we keep them well-lit and full of things that make our lives so comfortable. The good news is that we have tremendous power to create change. Renewable energy design, better insulation and more ef... [click here for more] |
Gibbs Smith |
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Concerns over climate change and energy depletion are increasing exponentially.
Mainstream solutions still assume a panacea that will cure our climate ills without requiring any serious modification to our way of life.
Plan C explores the risks inherent in trying to continue our energy-intensive lifestyle. Using dirtier fossil fuels (Plan A) or switching to renewable ener... [click here for more] |
New Society |
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Planet U places the university at the forefront of the sustainability movement. Questioning the university's ability to equip society to deal with today's serious challenges such as economic growth, democratic citizenship and planetary survival, it calls for a new social movement to take a lead in reforming the university - the world's largest industry.
The book reviews the unive... [click here for more] |
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IN PREFAB GREEN, architect Michelle Kaufmann shares her vision of creating thoughtful, sustainable design for everyone. Her firm, Michelle Kaufmann Designs, blends sustainable home layouts, eco-friendly materials, and low-energy options to create a "prepackaged" green solution to home design. Kaufmann tells about five eco-principles that are present in every design her firm creates-smart design... [click here for more] |
Gibbs Smith |
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Although there is nothing complicated about constructing healthier homes, building for health is still not standard practice, and in fact there are many aspects of conventional home construction that are detrimental to human wellbeing.
From foundation to rooftop, to home care and repair, Prescriptions for a Healthy House takes the mystery out of healthy-house building, renovation... [click here for more] |
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by Center For Self Sufficiency ~
Solar Education Home Plan Kits Solar Related Companies Info Mapping Workbook is a workbook for researching solar information for housing, cooking, businesses and more.... [click here for more] |
Center For Self Sufficiency |
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Heating water with the sun is almost as old as humankind itself, and it is done all over the world. Yet there are strangely few resources on the topic in North America.
Solar Water Heating fills this gap. It reviews the history of solar water & space heating systems from prehistory to the present, then presents the basics of solar water heating, including an introduction to m... [click here for more] |
New Society |
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The Method Guide to Detoxing Your Home. When Adam Lowry and Eric Ryan founded Method, the environmentally friendly brand of cleaning products, they used packaging stylish enough to showcase on the countertop and pleasant aromas such as green tea and cucumber to transform household products into must-have lifestyle accessories. And when they coined the phrase "People Against Dirty,&q... [click here for more] |
Chronicle Books |
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Stoneview is an octagonal cordwood masonry timber-framed guesthouse with a living roof, located in upstate New York, fully constructed and finished for just $6,000.
In response to the enormous interest in this unique little home, author/builder Rob Roy has written Stoneview.
Over 130 clear line drawings and step-by-step images provide the reader with all the inform... [click here for more] |
New Society |
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THE SHORTEST DISTANCE BETWEEN YOU AND YOUR HAND-BUILT HAVEN!
DISCOVER the SECRETS to building by hand with the NEW SLPP System™
Stop being a BLOCKHEAD
Stop waiting for all those blocks to cure
Stop hauling them from here to there and back again
End all that prep work before it starts!
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The Cheap-Ass Curmudgeon |
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If your compassionate instincts are greater than the time or energy you can spare, The Difference a Day Makes is all you need to turn your good intentions into powerful action. Flip this book open to any page and discover simple yet meaningful things you can do — in a few minutes or hours — to become an “everyday altruist” and improve your world.... [click here for more] |
New World Library |
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The Dumb Architect’s Guide to Glazing Selection will serve as an excellent introduction for architects wanting to make intelligent decisions on how to pick glazing for their building designs in order to lower env... [click here for more] |
EcoTone Publishing |
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by Bernard Darwin, Ben Crenshaw ~
Take a golfing journey with Bernard Darwin and Harry Rountree as they travel the classic courses of England, Ireland, Scotland & Wales on a trip unparalleled in golfing history. Darwin's prose, and Rountree¿s 64 watercolours, oils & charcoals will bring you back to the time when Old Tom Morris, Allan Robertson, James Braid, Edward Ray Tom, Jr., Tom Kidd... [click here for more] |
Tri-Horn International |
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With rising energy costs, homeowners are beginning to examine the energy efficiency of their own homes, asking questions that range from where energy comes from and how much it costs, to how to choose new appliances and what options exist for renewable energy? The Home Energy Diet answers all these questions and more, while helping readers take control of their personal energy us... [click here for more] |
New Society |
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