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Building With Awareness: The Construction of a Hybrid Home DVD and Guidebook |
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Ted Owens The Building with Awareness DVD/guidebook combination brings you the best of both worlds. The award-winning DVD is inspiring and informative, with over five hours of material on every aspect of building a green home. The handy reference guidebook complements the DVD, with color photographs, diagrams, suggestions, and step-by-step methods, all condensed into a nuts-and-bolts format. Used together, these two valuable resources provide a visually dynamic and easy-to--understand library of information. |
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Compact Houses: Architecture for the Environment |
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Cristina del Valle In an age of McMansions, this international survey of the latest in residential architecture proves that small is beautiful-and responsible. The houses profiled are designed to make maximum use of the smallest possible footprint in order to protect the environment. The houses profiled here prove that efficiency as well as beautiful, thoughtful design can be had in a tiny setting. Each project includes a case history describing its design challenges and how the architect overcame them, a detailed blueprint for each house, full-color photos of the interior and the exterior, and plans of the layout. This book will be an inspiration to anyone in the interior design or residential architecture field as well as to anyone considering a second home, and proves that environmentally responsible design principles are not just a style but a philosophy for sustainable living. |
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The Natural House: A Complete Guide to Healthy, Energy-Efficient, Environmental Homes |
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Daniel D. Chiras 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. This comprehensive sourcebook offers in-depth information that will guide your search for the perfect sustainable dream home. It is a must for home builders, contractors, and architects. |
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Green Recovery: Get Lean, Get Smart, and Emerge from the Downturn on Top |
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Andrew Winston When the economy turns rough, many companies sideline their green business initiatives. That's a big mistake. In Green Recovery, Andrew Winston shows that no company can afford to wait for the downturn to ease before going green. Green initiatives ratchet up your company's resource efficiency, creativity, and employee motivation. They save energy, waste, and money, preserving precious capital-and give precise focus to your innovation efforts and strategic priorities. Part manifesto and part how-to guide, this concise and engaging book provides a road map for using green initiatives to deliver short-term gains and position your company for long-term strategic growth. Green Recovery is your guide to establishing your competitive positioning in difficult times and emerging even stronger into a vastly changed economy. |
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The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation |
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The Findhorn Community The founders of Findhorn were guided to begin growing a garden (including tomatoes, roses and tropicals) on an infertile, sandy plot in cold coastal Scotland. The quality and quantity of what they grew stunned horticulturists around the world. Enjoy this photo-filled book and learn the surprising secret of their success. |
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Cohousing: A Contemporary Approach to Housing Ourselves |
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McCamant, Durrett and Hertzman If you think intentional communities are too much like communes, but typical modern housing creates too much isolation, cohousing may be the answer youre looking for. Explore these European neighborhoods built with the aim of fostering community while simultaneously respecting each familys personal space. |
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