Do-It-Yourself Home Energy Audits: 140 Simple Solutions to Lower Energy Costs, Increase Your Home's Efficiency, and Save the Environmen (Tab Green Guru Guides)

Do-It-Yourself Home Energy Audits: 140 Simple Solutions to Lower Energy Costs, Increase Your Home's Efficiency, and Save the Environmen (Tab Green Guru Guides) Review

Reduce your utility bill and your carbon footprint

This hands-on guide shows you how to access your home's energy efficiency, and offers 140 energy- and money-saving solutions you can use right away. Inside, you'll find simple, no- and low-cost measures to identify problems and increase your home's livability and efficiency--as well as your expendable income--each and every year.

Whether you're moving into a brand new home, buying an existing property, or improving your current residence, you'll find the practical tips and step-by-step projects inside Do-It-Yourself Home Energy Audits will dramatically reduce your energy usage and boost your savings in no time.

Discover how to:

• Implement immediate no- and low-cost improvements for lighting, heating, electricity, insulation, water use, and more
• Identify and modify the most costly appliances in your home
• Reduce carbon emissions
• Develop a personal energy plan
• Determine how and when to contract your green renovation
• Understand ratings, standards, and conversions
• Fund your green home improvement projects and take advantage of grants, rebates, and tax incentives

Your Green Home: A Guide to Planning a Healthy, Environmentally Friendly New Home (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series)

Your Green Home: A Guide to Planning a Healthy, Environmentally Friendly New Home (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series) Review

More and more homeowners today want houses that are healthy to live in and cause minimal damage to the environment. That’s what green building is all about.

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.

Your Green Home covers:

• Home location and its relationship to the community
• Site design
• Construction systems
• Building design to optimize energy performance
• Renewable energy systems
• Material selection
• Indoor environmental quality
• Water efficiency
• Material selection

Written by the founder of BuildingGreen—North America’s premier green building authority—this book will prove useful not only to future homeowners, but also to designers and builders seeking to meet this demand. Building professionals well-versed in green building may find this a useful book to give to potential clients to convey the scope and principles of green building.

Alex Wilson is president of BuildingGreen, Inc. and executive editor of Environmental Building News, the oldest and most respected publication serving North America’s green building industry. A green building expert since the 1970s, he has authored countless articles on the topic and several books, including Green Building Products, the Consumer Guide to Home Energy Savings, and Green Development: Integrating Ecology and Real Estate.

New Solar Home, The

New Solar Home, The Review

Authors Dave Bonta and Stephen Snyder of USA Solar Stores illustrate exceptional homes that are groundbreaking not only in their use of renewable energy but also in their commitment to recycling and repurposing materials used in construction and reducing the impact on the surrounding environment through sensitive building methods. With details on why these homeowners decided to go solar and how having a solar home can save money in the long run, these solar beauties are sure to inspire homeowners to create or remodel their own solar sanctuaries.

Dave Bonta writes about alternative energy and sustainable living for Green Living, Back Home Magazine, Alternative Energy Retailer, and the Vermont Guardian. He is a frequent speaker at major green energy conferences and lives in Perkinsville, Vermont.

Stephen Snyder, communications director for USA Solar Stores, is a freelance writer who lives in Perkinsville, Vermont.

Shows how solar technology can be stylishly utilized in various home sizes and locales

Wind Power for Home & Business: Renewable Energy for the 1990s and Beyond (Real Goods Independent Living Book)

Wind Power for Home & Business: Renewable Energy for the 1990s and Beyond (Real Goods Independent Living Book) Review

In 1993, Chelsea Green published Paul Gipe's landmark guide to the newest and best techniques for harvesting wind energy with small and medium-sized turbines. Now in its fourth printing, the book has sold more than 10,000 copies and inspired countless independent power producers to take control of their own electrical supply.

Your Natural Home: A Complete Sourcebook and Design Manual for Creating a Healthy, Beautiful, Environmentally Sensitive House

Your Natural Home: A Complete Sourcebook and Design Manual for Creating a Healthy, Beautiful, Environmentally Sensitive House Review

Drawing upon the expertise of one of the world's premier designers of ecologically sensitive houses, this unique guide provides both inspiration and practical advice for creating a natural, more energy-efficient home. The heart of the book is a compendium of 2,000 building, remodeling and decorating products. Detailed illustrations & informative sidebars.

How to Create Your Own Painted Lady : a Comprehensive Guide to Beautifying Your Victorian Home

How to Create Your Own Painted Lady : a Comprehensive Guide to Beautifying Your Victorian Home Review

How to Create Your Own Painted Lady : a Comprehensive Guide to Beautifying Your Victorian Home Feature

• Elizabeth Pomada
• E. P. Dutton
• Book

Several painters tell why they painted a house a specific way and give a small glimpse into their thought processes. From this you are given the chance to design the paint scheme on a couple of uncolored houses at the end of the book

The Simply Solar House: Green Building on a Budget

The Simply Solar House: Green Building on a Budget Review

The Simply Solar House: Green Building on a Budget Feature

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"The Simply Solar House" is unique in its practical approach to designing a highly energy efficient house using common construction materials and practices. Drawing upon their experience building a solar house in central North Carolina, the authors describe the key features of energy efficient home design in simple and easy to understand language. This book is the perfect guide for cost conscious homebuilders who are inspired by the Green Revolution and passionate about preserving our environmental quality.

The Homeowner's Guide to Renewable Energy: Achieving Energy Independence Through Solar, Wind, Biomass, and Hydropower

The Homeowner's Guide to Renewable Energy: Achieving Energy Independence Through Solar, Wind, Biomass, and Hydropower Review

Energy bills have skyrocketed in the United States, and traditional energy sources can be as damaging to the environment as they are to your pocketbook. The Homeowner's Guide to Renewable Energy will show you how to slash your home energy costs while dramatically reducing your carbon footprint.

Completely revised and updated, this new edition describes the most practical and affordable methods for making significant improvements in home energy efficiency and tapping into clean, affordable, renewable energy resources. If implemented, these measures will save the average homeowner tens of thousands of dollars over the coming decades.

Focusing on the latest technological advances in residential renewable energy, this guide examines each alternative energy option available including:

• Solar hot water and solar hot air systems
• Passive and active solar retrofits for heating and cooling
• Electricity from solar, wind, and microhydro
• Hydrogen, fuel cells, methane digesters, and biodiesel

This well-illustrated and accessible guide is an essential resource for those wanting to enter the renewable energy field. Packed with practical tips and guidelines, it gives readers sufficient knowledge to hire and communicate effectively with contractors and is a must-read for anyone interested in saving money and achieving energy independence.

Dan Chiras is the author of twenty-nine books on residential renewable energy and green building and the director of The Evergreen Institute's Center for Renewable Energy and Green Building, where he teaches workshops on energy efficiency, renewable energy, and green building.

Cut Your Energy Bills Now: 150 Smart Ways to Save Money & Make Your Home More Comfortable & Green

Cut Your Energy Bills Now: 150 Smart Ways to Save Money & Make Your Home More Comfortable & Green Review

We have all heard the news: oil prices have exceeded 0 a barrel and natural gas rates have exploded by 74% over the past four years. And these costs will continue to rise. So how can the average homeowner lower their energy bill and still maintain a comfortable, healthy, and green house? The answer is: Bruce Harley's 150 Ways to Cut Your Energy Bills Today. Offering eye-opening incentives and easily achievable methods, Harley's uncluttered and organized approach will not only benefit the environment, it will help anyone reduce their heating, cooling, and electrical expenses. Highlighted by numbered tips and techniques for easy reference, the book presents a treasure trove of simple and inexpensive ways for cutting energy costs by up to 20% -- and even 40% in some cases.

The Healthy Home Handbook: Eco-Friendly Design

The Healthy Home Handbook: Eco-Friendly Design Review

Essential for anyone wanting to create a home that is stylish and environmentally sound.

Green My Home!: 10 Steps to Lowering Energy Costs and Reducing Your Carbon Footprint

Green My Home!: 10 Steps to Lowering Energy Costs and Reducing Your Carbon Footprint Review

There is some confusion out there about what it really means to be green. Call them urban or suburban myths if you like.  Planting a tree for example is not going to solve the problem of greenhouse gases. Even if everyone on the planet planted one, or ten or a hundred.  It’s not even the equivalent of a band aid on the problem.  The only thing that will make a difference is reducing, perhaps drastically reducing, our consumption rate of carbon based energy sources.  The next time you see the word green in the context of an environmental impact on the atmosphere evaluate what is being presented as valid against that very real measure.  So then what does being “green” really mean?   It means Getting Reduced Energy Expenditure Now!  This book introduces you to ten projects you can do, now…yourself, to reduce greenhouse gases. It allows you to calculate the difference these green my home improvement projects will make in your home, your pocketbook and on the environment. You can calculate the savings not only in dollars and cents, but in carbon and equivalents not sent into the atmosphere.   Some of these projects have immediate payback others are longer term. In the daylight of a longer term view for ROI (return on investment) these projects have appeal beyond a single ownership of a home and look to the entire life span of the home or building for considering the ROI.  Some of these longer term projects you may want to consider as a legacy towards fulfilling some degree of social and generational responsibility.

How Your House Can Make You Rich: The Wealth Creating Magic Of Your Home

How Your House Can Make You Rich: The Wealth Creating Magic Of Your Home Review

There’s wealth in your house, lots of it. Your house can be a virtual fountain of riches if you know how to unlock its wealth producing power. This book will show you what you need to do to tap into this incredible resource so you can create your own wealth instead of wishing or hoping that somebody will do it for you.

If you are looking for a get rich quick scheme then you’ve come to the wrong place. You won’t find any advice on buying foreclosed properties or “flipping” real estate. What you will find is a no nonsense, straight up plan for accumulating wealth in the real estate housing market using proven methods. You won’t be told to “think like a millionaire.” Follow the practical, workable six step action plan for financial success and just be yourself.

Now is the time to make your choice between the get rich quick schemes and this common sense guide to creating your own great future. Don’t wake up thirty years from now and say “I was willing to work hard to achieve success but I just didn’t know what to do.” Here’s “what to do.” Do it now. Start today.

Wind Power Basics: A Green Energy Guide

Wind Power Basics: A Green Energy Guide Review

Wind energy is the fastest growing source of energy in the world, and by the year 2020 it is projected to supply at least 12 percent of global electrical demand.

Wind Power Basics provides a clear understanding of wind and wind energy systems, including turbines, towers, inverters and batteries, site assessment, installation, and maintenance requirements.

Whether you’re considering your own small-scale wind energy system or just want a straightforward, detailed introduction to the benefits and challenges of this rapidly emerging technology, Wind Power Basics is the guide you need.

Dan Chiras is a respected educator and an internationally acclaimed author who has published more than twenty-five books on residential renewable energy and green building, including Power From the Wind.

Solar Electricity Basics: A Green Energy Guide

Solar Electricity Basics: A Green Energy Guide Review

The future will be powered by renewables. As we transition away from finite and polluting fossil fuels, clean, reliable, and affordable renewable technologies such as solar electricity will become the mainstay of our energy supply. 

Solar Electricity Basics provides a clear understanding of electricity and energy. It discusses the types of solar electric system you can choose from, their components, solar site assessment, the installation of photovoltaic systems, and much more.

Whether your goal is to lower your energy bill or to achieve complete energy independence, Solar Electricity Basics is the introduction you need.

Dan Chiras is a respected educator and an internationally acclaimed author who has published more than twenty-five books on residential renewable energy and green building, including Power From the Sun.

The Everything Lawn Care Book (Everything (Home Improvement))

The Everything Lawn Care Book (Everything (Home Improvement)) Review

Keeping your yard in prime condition isn't always easy. From too much shade to too little water, and from persistent pests to heavy usage, it seems there is always an obstacle to overcome. But with The Everything Lawn Care Book in hand, anyone can grow a gorgeous lawn!

The Everything Lawn Care Book shows you how to nurture and maintain your lawn based on your property's needs - and according to your lifestyle. Filled with easy-to-follow instructions and professional pointers, this book proves that you don't need a green thumb to have a green lawn. From seeding and sodding to alternative landscaping options for difficult areas, The Everything Lawn Care Book can help you perfect your lawn - no matter what condition it is in.

You'll learn how to:

Select the best grass for your climate

Seed, establish and water your lawn

Mow and edge properly

Fertilize and winterize

Prevent and kill weeds

Eliminate harmful bugs

And much, much more!

Filled with easy-to-follow charts, professional pointers, and a full-color insert packed with photos, this book can help anyone have the lawn of their dreams.

Natural Remodeling for the Not-So-Green House: Bringing Your Home into Harmony with Nature (Natural Home & Garden)

Natural Remodeling for the Not-So-Green House: Bringing Your Home into Harmony with Nature (Natural Home & Garden) Review

This absolutely indispensable and lavishly photographed guide will become a cornerstone work for years to come. It redefines the best way to "go green" and addresses a timely topic in a way designed to appeal to a growing and eager audience. Completely user-friendly and filled with motivational case studies and informative graphics. Every page leads would-be remodellers through the process of understanding their home and surroundings so they'll arrive at the perfect design solution.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Green Living

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Green Living Review

The environmental movement and rising awareness of global warming have sparked an interest in green living. People want to know what they can do to live sustainable lives. In this book, you will find an overview of global warming and environmental degradation of air, water, and soil; what sustainable living is and how to do it; how to cut down on carbon output (the cause of global warming) with alternative cars and fuels; and environmentally friendly home and lawn care products.