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

Profit from Building Green: Award Winning Tips to Build Energy Efficient Homes

Profit from Building Green: Award Winning Tips to Build Energy Efficient Homes Review

Develop an effective green home building business with the NAHB Research Center's resident expert, Jeannie Leggett Sikora. She has combed through hundreds of annual contest entries and talked to past award winners to develop specific examples and tried-and-true techniques to give home builders the inside track to create successful green building practices, for choosing products to marketing energy efficient homes.

This Green House: Home Improvements for the Eco-Smart, the Thrifty, and the Do-It-Yourselfer

This Green House: Home Improvements for the Eco-Smart, the Thrifty, and the Do-It-Yourselfer Review

This Green House: Home Improvements for the Eco-Smart, the Thrifty, and the Do-It-Yourselfer Feature

• ISBN13: 9781584797869
• Condition: New
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Just the thought of “going green” can make you feel blue. Trying to live sustainably sounds like a whole lot of work and a whole lot of deprivation. Well, Josh Piven aims to both shrink your carbon footprint and soothe your eco-anxiety. In a guidebook that’s as funny as it is practical, Piven shows you how to green every room of the house—and have a good time doing it. 

Projects range from the playful (raising trout in your swimming pool) all the way to big-time, serious home alterations (installing a root cellar) that will have your neighbors green with envy. Don’t fret if you’re not a natural wrench-turner: Most of Piven’s suggestions are inexpensive, totally approachable, and accompanied by clear illustrations. This Green House is likely to be the most entertaining homeowner’s manual you’ve ever used.

Put a Little Green in Your Life: Quick Tips to Help Save the Planet (Refrigerator Magnet Books)

Put a Little Green in Your Life: Quick Tips to Help Save the Planet (Refrigerator Magnet Books) Review

These compact magnetic books deliver concise information in a handy, portable package no larger than a credit card. The innovative design allows the book to fold out to provide 26 pages of useful facts, figures, trivia, and other essential information. The colorful pages are waterproof, tear-proof, and deliver a treasure trove of advice and tips in a guide that slips easily into a pocket, briefcase, or purse. These practical companions also feature a convenient magnetic backing that guarantees to keep them right where they are needed, be it on a refrigerator or file cabinet, for easy access.

 

Encouraging small changes in daily life, this overview demonstrates the positive impact they can have on the environment. Suggestions for simple but effective actions are provided for the entire home, including the living room, bedroom, bathroom, and garage.

Critical Reading Workbook for the SAT (Barron's Critical Reading Workbook for the SAT)

Critical Reading Workbook for the SAT (Barron's Critical Reading Workbook for the SAT) Review

Critical Reading Workbook for the SAT (Barron's Critical Reading Workbook for the SAT) Feature

• ISBN13: 9780764133817
• Condition: Used - Very Good
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Concentrating on the Critical Reading section of the newly structured SAT college entrance exam, this test-preparation workbook presents tips, questions, answers, and answer explanations for the section’s two main question types—sentence completion questions and reading comprehension questions—as well as extensive vocabulary review. Both the sentence completion and the reading comprehension exercises are organized according to level of difficulty and presented in three sections, labeled from A to C. Students who master Level C in both parts are well on the road to achieving a high Critical Reading score when they take the actual SAT. This new workbook replaces Barron's Verbal Workbook for the New SAT, 11th Edition.