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.

Strawbale Home Plans

Strawbale Home Plans Review

Strawbale Home Plans
Wayne J. Bingham and Colleen Smith
Strawbale building experts Wayne J. Bingham and Colleen Smith present 30 unique plans to build a strawbale home, along with stunning photographs that illustrate projects from around the world. A broad range of building types, from small retreats and rural off-the-grid homes to urban houses and commercial buildings are featured.
Benefits of strawbale building:
It is the healthiest and most energy-saving building option.
Results in dramatic reductions on heating and cooling bills.
Significantly decreases the risk of allergies from airborne molds, pollens, and toxins.
Strawbale houses offer 3 times the fire resistance of conventional construction.
Is a green building option, which has been a hot topic in national media.

Whole Green Catalog: 1000 Best Things for You and the Earth

Whole Green Catalog: 1000 Best Things for You and the Earth Review

As interest in living a sustainable life has exploded, so has the green marketplace. It has become difficult to distinguish companies that provide truly eco-friendly products and services from those that "greenwash." Now, from the company that founded Organic Gardening when eating close to the land was far from mainstream and published Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, comes this timely guide to all things green. Modeled on the classic Whole Earth Catalog, the touchstone for an earlier generation, Whole Green Earth Catalog is poised to become the bible of green living for the 68 million Americans—about one-third of U.S. adults—who now take environmental and social issues into account when they make purchases. Leading experts in every imaginable category—from home furnishings and appliances to clothing and children's toys, from pets and beauty products to travel and investing—share their authoritative tips, reviews, and advice. Whole Green Earth Catalog provides succinct answers to such questions as: Can one go green and save money? Can people reduce their carbon footprint if they are business travelers? Is there an environmentally friendly disposable diaper? Beautifully packaged with more than 1,000 photographs and illustrations, and manufactured with 100 percent post-consumer waste materials, this volume is the perfect gift for those who care about the future of the planet.

Sustainable Home Refurbishment: The Earthscan Expert Guide to Retrofitting Homes for Efficiency (Earthscan Expert Series)

Sustainable Home Refurbishment: The Earthscan Expert Guide to Retrofitting Homes for Efficiency (Earthscan Expert Series) Review

A retro-fit offers many benefits: cutting electricity and heating bills, increasing the resale value of homes, slashing carbon emissions and creating a healthier place to live. This book is the guide to making it happen. It looks at: - draught-proofing, insulation and damp - ventilation, heating and cooling - electrical efficiency and renewable energy - water use and re-use - materials' life cycles and incorporating nature - protection from climate change impacts - modelling energy flows and embodied energy - how we can meet the need to cut carbon emissions from dwellings by 80% by 2050. Projects can apply to apartment blocks, recent builds and older, solid-walled properties. Enlivened with helpful diagrams and photographs, plus plenty of pointers for further information, it provides a comprehensive resource handbook for any building professional and contractor, students - or any homeowner serious about efficiency (cash and carbon) savings.