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A Healthy House
Prescriptions for a Healthy House offers real hope and practical help in building homes in which humans can live without getting sick. This invaluable guide for the homeowner / architect / builder / medical doctor takes the mystery out of healthy house building by walking the reader through the construction process. It explains where and why standard building practices are not healthful, what to do differently, and how to obtain alternative materials and expertise. |
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Bamboo Style
Bamboo isn't just for Asia anymore! Author Gale Goldberg shows
us how to creatively bring bamboo home, teaching us how to live with it indoors
and outdoors--even how to grow your own bamboo. Every room in your home can
be decorated or accented with beautiful, sensual bamboo furniture, flooring,
wall covering, ceiling material and accessories. |
| $19.95 |
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Biodiesel
In Biodiesel, Greg Pahl delves into the history
of the biofuels industry. He assesses its recent successes and current shortcomings,
and stands well prepared to estimate its future. If the political, environmental,
or financial woes of our current fuel industry have you concerned, it's time
to take another look at biodiesel! |
| $18.00 |
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The Book Of Masonry Stoves
The Book of Masonry Stoves represents the first comprehensive survey ever published of all the major types of masonry heating systems, ancient and modern. Detailed plans and building information are included in the book. As a complete introduction to masonry stoves, it will help many people rediscover an old way of warming, using masonry stoves. |
| $30.00 |
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Building With Nature
General readers will be just as interested in my book as those readers passionate about the Arts & Crafts Movement and architecture. The book also includes many fascinating anecdotes such as Joseph Worcester's first person account of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, delightful stories, humorous quotes, and previously unpublished letters and photographs. |
| $39.95 |
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Building With Cob
Building with Cob covers everything from design, planning, and siting to roofs, insulation, and floors. It is lavishly illustrated with more than three hundred inspirational color photographs. The authors have recently been commissioned to build a thirty-classroom school in England in 2006; it will be the largest new cob construction project in the Western hemisphere. |
| $45.00 |
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Built By Hand
Built by Hand offers insights into the world of vernacular building, along with potential solutions to many of the problems that plague modern architecture. It is a must-have collection that preserves and documents the rich cultural past of each structure and its community, and offers inspiration for those looking to build in a way that is motivated by something larger than speed, efficiency, and economic profit. |
| $50.00 |
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The Cob Builders Handbook
Cob (an old English word for lump) is old-fashioned concrete, made out of a mixture of clay, sand, and straw. Becky Bee's manual is a friendly guide to making your own earth structure, with chapters on design, foundations, floors, windows and doors, finishes, and of course, making glorious cob. |
| $19.16 |
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The Complete Yurt Handbook
The yurt or ger is a low-impact structure that causes no permanent damage to the land on which it is pitched. It is easy to erect and can be taken down in an hour. It is cool in summer and, with a stove, warm in winter. For centuries, people throughout central Asia have made yurts their homes. Robust and versatile, the yurt has evolved into the ultimate portable dwelling. |
| $21.95 |
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Going Solar
Going Solar contains everything that a budding or experienced solar enthusiast could wish for. By distilling thousands of years of history and knowledge into one book, Tomm Stanley brings together the work of pioneering solar designers, some of the greatest scientists that the world has known and a range of modern, practical applications for hands-on people to create a delicious brew of thought provoking, solar thermal discussion. |
| $29.95 |
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Good Green Homes
With some simple steps outlined in this book, you can save money, and do your part to help save the environment. For instance, using an energy-efficient light bulb saves you money. It also results in less demand for electricity, which in turn results in less pollution from power plants, which may help a child with asthma breathe a little easier. |
| $39.95 |
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Good Green Kitchens
Good Green Kitchens, with its gorgeous photographs and accessible text, is loaded with inspiration and information to help you create your dream green kitchen-one that's beautiful, functional, healthier to spend time in, and easier on the environment. |
| $29.95 |
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Green Building Products
In these pages are descriptions and manufacturer contact information for more than 1,400 environmentally preferable products and materials. All phases of residential construction, from sitework to flooring to renewable energy, are covered. |
| $34.95 |
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Green By Design
Green by Design provides a thorough analysis of what it means to build green and offers advice on what to consider when designing a sustainable home. Green by Design features full-color photographs and line drawings of floor plans that show different examples of successful sustainable homes. It also includes in-depth case studies of more than a dozen homes so readers planning a green home can see what worked for others. |
| $24.95 |
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Green Remodeling
Green Remodeling is a comprehensive guide. It first points out the advantages of remodeling. Green remodeling is more energy-efficient, more resource-conserving, healthier for occupants and more affordable to create, operate and maintain. |
| $29.95 |
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Greening School Grounds
Greening School Grounds provides an overview of the school grounds greening movement, complete project plans, and subject integration. From vegetable and butterfly gardens to an amphibian oasis and avian attractors, this comprehensive guide offers a trove of curriculum tie-ins, activities, and plans for educators, parents, and students. |
| $16.95 |
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Grow your Own House
The highly visual and engaging Grow Your Own House will open your eyes to the beauty and lightness of bamboo structures and designs. Bamboo-a widely available and renewable resource almost as strong as steel, yet very light-lends itself to architectural experiments. Buckminster Fuller, Frei Otto, Renzo Piano, Shoei Yoh, and Arata Isozaki are a few of the millions of people worldwide using bamboo to create space and structure around them. |
| $42.00 |
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The Home Energy Diet
The Home Energy Diet involves readers in learning about their own homes by measuring, metering, investigating, and considering habits related to household energy use, then learning how to quantify energy consumption and cost, and to make informed decisions about cost-effective improvements and upgrades. |
| $18.95 |
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Homes that Heal
A passionate examination of our built environment and the alarming impact today's chemically polluted world is having on the health of present and future generations, Homes that Heal is easy-to-read, solutions-oriented, and humorous, full of stories and advice that empower families to take back their health on a daily basis. |
| $26.95 |
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The Homeowner's Guide to Renewable Energy
The Homeowner's Guide to Renewable Energy tells you how. It starts by outlining the likely impacts of fossil fuel shortages and some basic facts about energy. It then discusses energy conservation to slash energy bills and prepare for renewable energy options. |
| $27.95 |
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How To Build With Bamboo
How to Build with Bamboo includes step-by-step illustrations on building your own bamboo items, with 20 unique projects, including a plant holder, picture frame, porch swing, candle holder, privacy panel, lampshade, luggage rack, and much more! |
| $15.95 |
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Linoleum
Drawing upon their expertise in restoring and photographing old homes, the authors share the history and evolution of floor coverings generally, and linoleum in particular. With humor and insight, they single out the differing types and patterns of this durable product, discuss its care and maintenance, and list major flooring companies where linoleum can easily be found. |
| $29.95 |
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Microhydro
Highly illustrated and practical, Microhydro is the first complete book on the topic in a decade. Covering both AC and DC systems, it covers principles, design and site considerations, equipment options, and legal, environmental, and economic factors. |
| $22.95 |
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Natural Home Heating
Natural Home Heating is the first comprehensive guide to heating your home with renewable energy sources. Greg Pahl offers a well-organized, easy-to-understand tour of all available renewable home-heating options, including wood, pellet, corn and grain-fired stoves, fireplaces, furnaces and boilers as well as masonry heaters, active and passive solar systems, and heat pumps. |
| $30.00 |
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The Natural House
The Natural House is a tour of the construction, costs, and pros and cons of fourteen natural building methods. Straw Bale, Rammed Earth, Cob, Cordwood, Adobe, Earthbags, Papercrete, Earthships.whatever the method, the common goal is to create a house that is economical, energy efficient, nontoxic, soothing to the soul, kind to the environment, and pleasing to behold. |
| $35.00 |
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The Natural Plaster Book
The Natural Plasters Book details the entire process of plastering with earth, lime, and gypsum for a long-lasting and durable finish. For builders of natural homes (straw bale, cob, adobe, rammed earth, and other natural materials), this unique step-by-step guide takes the confusion out of choosing, mixing, and applying natural plasters. |
| $29.95 |
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The Natural Step
In this Schumacher Briefing, David Cook tells the story of the organization's evolution from its start in Sweden to the present day. Based upon science and systems thinking, the basic components of The Natural Step framework are laid out in the text. The Briefing gives a deeper exposition of the power of systems thinking and its crucial relevance to leadership in the world today. |
| $9.56 |
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The New Ecological Home
The New Ecological Home provides an overview of green building techniques, materials, products, and technologies that are either currently available or will be in the near future. Author Daniel Chiras provides a wealth of up-to-date, practical information for home buyers, owner-builders, and anyone interested in building for a sustainable future. |
| $35.00 |
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New Old House
New Old House: Designing with Reclaimed Materials utilizes stunning photography to profile homes across the country that use reclaimed architectural materials in their design. Interesting, informative, and entertaining writing tells the story of the reclaimed material as well as the people whose lives it was once a part of. |
| $19.95 |
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The New Strawbale Home
Although strawbale construction is beginning to enter the mainstream, many people continue to wonder what a strawbale house looks like. The New Strawbale Home answers definitively, "Anything you want!" Innovative architects and builders are reinventing this century-old technology to create thick walled modern houses of unsurpassed natural beauty. |
| $39.95 |
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Off The Grid
Off the Grid confronts the ecological and cultural problems associated with the way we get and use energy, and explains how it is possible to live in a beautifully designed home using much less--no matter where your home is located. |
| $29.95 |
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The Passive Solar House
True to this innovative, straightforward approach, the new edition of this best-selling guide includes CSOL passive solar design software, making it easier than ever to heat your home with the power of the sun. |
| $40.00 |
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Practical Photovoltaics
Practical Photovoltaics Electricity from Solar Cells Richard J. Komp Practical Photovoltaics, the now-classic reference on solar electricity, offers a unique combination of technical discussion and practical advice. Physicist, lecturer, and solar-home dweller Richard Komp explains the "how" and the "how-to" of PV, while providing valuable information on the industry, new developments, and the future. |
| $18.95 |
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Redux
Redux offers a host of solutions for creating a green home with recycled, reused, and environmentally healthy materials, whether remodeling, redecorating, or building from the ground up. This book combines extensive salvage use with the larger goal of efficiency and environmentalism--and the results are simply stunning. |
| $29.95 |
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Serious Straw Bale
Bergeron and Lacinski's new book is the first to look carefully at the specific design considerations critical to success with a straw bale building in more extreme climates-where seasonal changes in temperature, precipitation, and humidity create special stresses that builders must understand and address. |
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The Small Adobe House
Introducing the traditional ins and outs of each architectural element-roofs and ceilings, doors, windows, floors, walls, and portals--The Small Adobe House is both an introduction to adobe structures and an idea book for people who want to remodel a classic home or build a new one. |
| $21.95 |
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Small Strawbale
This practical guide is filled with rich photos of homes, greenhouses, studios, sheds, open-air structures and more, each pulsating with unique yet subtle creativity. Both a pragmatic construction manual and a philosophical, artistic guidebook, Small Strawbale is an inspirational starting point for a strawbale dreamer, and a great source of information for those who are ready to get bailing. |
| $29.95 |
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The Solar Electric House
The Solar Electric House will tell you everything you need to know to decide if photovoltaics are for you, including: Systems options and economics / Stand-alone and utility interactive systems / Descriptions of all key components / How to determine your electricity requirements / How to design a solar electric house |
| $21.95 |
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The Solar House
In The Solar House, Dan Chiras sets the record straight on the vast potential for passive heating and cooling. Acknowledging the good intentions of misguided solar designers in the past, he highlights certain egregious--and entirely avoidable--errors. More importantly, Chiras explains in methodical detail how today's home builders can succeed with solar designs. |
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Solar Water Heating
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 modern solar energy systems, energy conservation and energy economics. |
| $24.95 |
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The Straw Bale House
Imagine building a house with superior seismic stability, fire resistance, and thermal insulation, using an annually renewable resource, for half the cost of a comparable conventional home. Welcome to the straw bale house! Whether you build an entire house or something more modest-a home office or studio, a retreat cabin or guest cottage-plastered straw bale construction is an exceptionally durable and inexpensive option. |
| $30.00 |
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The Sun-Inspired House
The Sun-Inspired House illustrates numerous house design concepts related to the sun. It also addresses the related subjects of passive solar, passive cooling, energy- efficient construction, green building, and sustainability. Over 50 house plans show examples of integrated concepts. Numerous examples, photos, and testimonials from homeowners describe the livability of these sunny and comfortable houses built in North America. |
| $29.95 |
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The Timberframe Plan Book
The Timberframe Plan Book is a hands-on guide to choosing the floor plan for the home of your dreams. Elegant in its simplicity and immensely strong for its fewer parts, a timberframe home is a thing of beauty, designed as much for its pleasing symmetry as for its strength and longevity. |
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Wind Energy Basics
Wind Energy Basics is the most up-to-date source available of information about small wind systems. The book includes the unique "standard small wind turbine rating" developed by the author, which is designed to help readers wade through conflicting performance claims by manufacturers in the U.S. and overseas. |
| $19.95 |
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Your Green Home
Your Green Home is written for homeowners planning a new home - whether you are working with an architect or builder, or serving as your own general contractor. Intended to improve the overall environmental performance of new houses being built, the book sets out to answer some of the big-picture questions relating to having a home designed and built - and getting what you want. |
| $17.95 |
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