The House with the Green Shutters

The House with the Green Shutters Review

This novel lays bare the seductive and crippling presence of patriarchal authority in Scottish culture at large, symbolized by the terrible struggle between old John Gourlay and the weak but imaginative son who will eventually kill him.

Limestone Concrete

Limestone Concrete Review

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Llewellyn's 2009 Green Living Guide (Annuals - Green Living Guide)

Llewellyn's 2009 Green Living Guide (Annuals - Green Living Guide) Review

Renew, re-use, recycle has become a call to action for millions who care about our planet. What can each of us do to ensure a bright future for our children, grandchildren, and forthcoming generations? "The Green Living Guide" - a new annual from Llewellyn - offers fresh ideas and Earth-friendly advice for sustaining our world. From green careers to green houses to green weddings, this collection explores how to live in harmony with the environment. Ranging from personal lifestyle options to broad solutions, you'll find a bounty of ways - small and large - to make a difference. This issue features over twenty in-depth articles on ecotravel, hybrid cars, bike commuting, rain gardens, vermicomposting, beekeeping, wind turbine power, permaculture, and more. Also included are practical tips and resources for those who want to become an Earth advocate in their home, community, and world.

Green Remodeling: Your Start toward an Eco-Friendly Home (The Green House)

Green Remodeling: Your Start toward an Eco-Friendly Home (The Green House) Review

Green Remodeling: Your Start toward an Eco-Friendly Home (The Green House) Feature

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Ultimate Guide to Green Remodeling shows homeowners how they can take part in the "green" revolution through remodeling. Some of the topics covered include reducing home energy use, selecting nontoxic products, saving water, and supporting the environment through the use of products that support responsible manufacturing and the sustainable harvesting of natural resources.

Kitchen Living: Contemporary Ideas for the Heart of the Home

Kitchen Living: Contemporary Ideas for the Heart of the Home Review

As society has evolved, so has the kitchen, and today, it is very much the center of the home. In the true sense of the term, it has become the home’s “living room”—the place where we eat and drink, talk, work, read, gossip on the phone, and entertain friends. Kitchen Living takes a fresh look at the heart of the home, infusing it with innovative ideas for storage, decoration, furniture, table settings, and more. Whether your style is Tuscan Farmhouse or Laboratory Chic, Elizabeth Hilliard provides you with a wealth of practical and aesthetic choices for color, lighting, and flooring. With more than 150 stylish color photos, this is an outstanding guide to enhancing the way we live—in the kitchen. Elizabeth Hilliard is an award-winning design writer; among her many books are Country Style, Finishing Touches, Brilliant Color at Home, Paint: The Big Book of Natural Color, The Tile Book, Perfect Order, Kilims: Decorating with Tribal Rugs, and Chandeliers.

Real Estate Savvy For Owners and Investors

Real Estate Savvy For Owners and Investors Review

This concise easy-to-read book will save you money on your home or real estate investment properties in ways you probably have never heard of. Learn ways to pay zero capital gains forever, save on your property taxes and insurance, get free appliances, building materials, furniture and more...and save BIG on heating and cooling costs.

Discover 'green' and natural ways to deal with weeds, smelly basements and roaches,mice and bees. Learn new ways to use common household products and some uncommon ingredients that will save you money on maintaining your properties. What you save in a week will more than cover the cost of this timely little gem of a book!

Solar Home Design Manual for Cool Climates

Solar Home Design Manual for Cool Climates Review

If you want an inexpensive, environmentally sound source of energy for your home, you need look no further than the sun. Solar heat is not subject to rate increases, is totally renewable, pollution free and requires little or no technology. It is here for you today, and can easily provide up to 50% of your space and water heating requirements. This is a book that simply and clearly explains the principles of using solar energy to heat your home. Anyone building a new home, or renovating an old one can incorporate one or several aspects of solar energy into their design. Taking you through the process of designing a solar home from the ground up this manual is also a basic course in conservation and sustainable house design. If you live in a 'heating' climate, meaning if you have space heating requirements for most of the year then this is an invaluable resource. A house is the biggest single investment most of us will make in our lives - the way it is built and how it operates can reflect a long term investment in both the building and the planet.

Building Green, New Edition: A Complete How-To Guide to Alternative Building Methods Earth Plaster * Straw Bale * Cordwood * Cob * Living Roofs (Building Green: A Complete How-To Guide to Alternative)

Building Green, New Edition: A Complete How-To Guide to Alternative Building Methods Earth Plaster * Straw Bale * Cordwood * Cob * Living Roofs (Building Green: A Complete How-To Guide to Alternative) Review

The best-selling and highly regarded reference to sustainable construction gets an update! It’s refreshed with a completely revised introduction, a bright new cover, and extensive online resource tie-ins. Plus, it’s now printed on recycled paper with agri-based inks, so it’s greener than ever!

This groundbreaking book doesn’t just tell you about “green” house-building techniques: it actually shows you, with more than 1,200 step-by-step photographs that follow the actual erection of an alternative building from site selection to final-touch interior details. Readers will get a clear sense of the real world challenges as Snell and Callahan create a lovely country cottage using four methods: straw bale, cob, cordwood, and modified stick-frame.

Along with sidebars throughout, there’s a thorough discussion of the fundamentals of building construction, alternative approaches, and designing a beautiful yet environmentally responsible home. Building Green was the first book of its kind—and it remains heads and shoulders above other titles in this field.  

 

Sensible Chic (Home & Garden Television)

Sensible Chic (Home & Garden Television) Review

Respected interior designers showcased on the popular HGTV program offer tried-and-true decorating advice for all budgets and personal styles.

Includes rooms with designer looks and their low-cost alternatives.

Offers "make-a-statement" decorating ideas for remarkable living and family rooms, dining rooms, and bedrooms.

More than a dozen easy-to-make projects with step-by-step instructions, estimated completion times, and materials costs—to help readers stretch their decorating dollars.

Helps home decorators make rooms look professionally designed through creativity, planning, and smart shopping.

An informative quiz helps readers identify their personal style.

Bonus shopping guide assists with choosing furnishings and accessories that suit budgets and tastes.

The Naturally Clean Home: 150 Super-Easy Herbal Formulas for Green Cleaning

The Naturally Clean Home: 150 Super-Easy Herbal Formulas for Green Cleaning Review

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It's time to "green" that cleaning routine! Millions of Americans are replacing harsh chemical cleansers with eco-friendly alternatives. Unfortunately, most commercial green cleaners are expensive, and they often come with dubious environmental claims.

Effective, nontoxic alternatives can be mixed up easily from kitchen staples — baking soda, vinegar, lemon juice, herbs, and borax — plus a handful of easy-to-find essential oils. In the second edition of The Naturally Clean Home, Karyn Siegel-Maier offers 150 all-natural recipes for cleaning every area of the home — from bathrooms to bedding, and from carpets to cabinetry.

Siegel-Maier, a writer specializing in complementary therapies whose work is featured in such publications as Mother Earth News and Natural Living Today, presents quick recipes for cleansers that are nontoxic, biodegradable, and freshsmelling. Formulas are so simple that even a novice can make them, yet they are as effective as the commercial options. Best of all, these recipes are much less expensive than commercial cleaners; most can be made for mere pennies per use.

With the second edition of this popular book comes a host of hard-working new recipes, including Rosemary-Geranium Floor Wipes for electrostatic floor mops, Thyme to Make Your Own Carpet Steamer, Weekend Warrior Wicker Wash, Telephone Dirty Talk Tamer, Clear the Air Room Spritzer, and Lavender Lift Automatic Dishwasher Soap.

Siegel-Maier also offers recipes for outdoor spaces — like Shoo-Fly Shake to keep flies away from your backyard barbecue — and covers areas less commonly considered in the cleaning routine: garden, houseplants, computer, even the septic tank!

Whether scrubbing or scouring, degreasing or dusting, The Naturally Clean Home makes it fun to mix up chemical-free products that are easy on home and planet!

All London: The Source Guide (Source Guides)

All London: The Source Guide (Source Guides) Review

This series of guides for finding everything from fine antiques to wine cellar equipment is an indispensable companion for the enthusiastic traveler/shopper in the never-ending quest for hidden treasures. Each book contains thousands of complete listings of carefully screened dealers and merchants who offer the beautiful things that make for gracious and elegant living. Categories range from priceless art and antiques to porcelain, silver, fine linen, parquet, stained glass, books, maps, and all kinds of collectibles. The authors have pounded the pavements of the world's richest and most exciting cities, searching out not only the best sources for beautiful things but also the skilled craftsmen who create and restore them. They apply their well-known rigid standards for dealers, merchants, and artisans: everyone listed not only is an excellent source for the best quality products and services but also has a reputation for honesty and fair dealing.

Green Living For Dummies (For Dummies (Home & Garden))

Green Living For Dummies (For Dummies (Home & Garden)) Review

Want to do your part to reduce energy consumption, waste, and pollution; clean up the environment, and save the planet? Green Living For Dummies is packed with practical suggestions you can follow to make your lifestyle greener by doing as little damage as possible to the planet and the animal and plant life that depend on it.

This practical guide delivers an array of realistic practices and changes you can undertake to help the environment and create a better home for yourself and your loved ones. You’ll discover easy and innovative ways to make a difference by reducing energy use and waste, scaling back reliance on your car, and even making minor adjustments to your diet. You’ll also find how to live green at work and in your community, and you’ll develop a deeper understanding of how these changes benefit both the environment and your own health and well-being! Discover how to:

• Go green gradually
• Make eco-friendly home improvements
• Work greener transportation into your lifestyle
• Save money by going green
• Eat locally and organically
• Raise your children’s environmental awareness
• Reduce waste by repairing, restoring, and reusing
• Become a green consumer
• Invest in green companies for fun and profit

Complete with handy lists of things you can do to make a difference right away and down the road Green Living For Dummies is the resource you need to start taking steps toward shrinking your footprint.

What Would the Buddha Recycle?

What Would the Buddha Recycle? Review

If the Buddha were alive today, he'd be the living embodiment of green living. He'd be collecting cans on the freeway, riding his bike to work, and replacing all his light bulbs--one little satori at a time. In this book you can channel His Holiness, reduce your footprint, and experience little Aha! moments when you

• Eat mindfully and lose the meat
• Make a Zen garden that nourishes the earth
• Choose sustainable clothing
• Meditate while walking instead of driving
• Let go of attachment to things by giving away belongings

Living green is living Zen. Now you can take right action and walk a green talk, starting today--just think how proud the Buddha would be!

Efficiant PLANET & HOME- SOLAR DIY - CUT LIVING COSTS BY UP TO 85%!

Efficiant PLANET & HOME- SOLAR DIY - CUT LIVING COSTS BY UP TO 85%! Review

Build And Install Your Own Solar Power System From Home Today !

* Easy Fully Illustrated Step By Steps

* 100% Safe and tested plans

* How to build different solar panels

* Potential to save thousands yearly

* Increase the value of your home

* How to build your own generator

* Become a leader in your neighborhood

* Help Save Our Planet Today!

The Efficient Planet Solar Conversion Manual is going to take you through the process of building your own home based solar panels with ease. What's best is you'll be able to accomplish this with less than a few hundred bucks and a few afternoons.

This panel will be able to power all your appliances including your kitchen (fridge, stove, dishwasher etc), laundry room facilities, home entertainment centers and anything else that plugs into your wall!

Our fully illustrated manual is going to make the process as simple as it gets!

No hard to read steps and no need for special tools. Once you are fully complete, you'll start to see your electricity meter run BACKWARDS on your home! You'll even be able to fully get yourself - OFF - the - grid!

Independent Builder: Designing & Building a House Your Own Way (Real Goods Independent Living Book)

Independent Builder: Designing & Building a House Your Own Way (Real Goods Independent Living Book) Review

This is a comprehensive manual of design and building methods for owner-builders as well as professional builders and their clients. In addition to presenting specific building techniques, the book explains the design principles and planning processes that underlie all good building, so that readers can develop their own exceptional designs, independently.
The Real Goods Independent Builder develops subjects not covered thoroughly in other books, but critical to success:

Designing small houses that seem big

Understanding innovation

Estimating and controlling costs

Incorporating ergonomics and accessibility

Doing drawings and scale models

Making contracts that work

Build an Extreme Green Composter

Build an Extreme Green Composter Review

This no-nonsense writing style and practical get-down-to-business approach will persuade even the most hesitant gardener to give composting a try.

Embracing a start-to-finish high-level understanding of why you should compost and exactly how it works is a refreshing breeze in the midst of techno-slammed and fluffy-say-nothing guides.

Focusing on size, material ratios, maintenance, and techniques that apply across all styles of composting, this guide solves problems and explains issues others gloss over.

Hammer. Nail. Wood.: The Complusion to Build

Hammer. Nail. Wood.: The Complusion to Build Review

Glynn has written an exceptional book here, not strictly a "how-to" book and not precisely a novel, but a beautifully, movingly written account of his "compulsion to build" and his experiences as a result of it. This is the quintessential "learning-by-doing" story, giving the reader not only the nuts and bolts of building a house, but pulling one in to a compellingly written, sometimes tragic, sometimes hilarious, but always readable story of one man's obsession to build a house. --Mark Hetts