Home Energy How-To Guide For A Green Home: A Consumer Guide On Moneysaving Home Ideas And Energy Saving Tips On How To Save Power, How To Save Water, ... Energy Efficient And Environment Friendly

Home Energy How-To Guide For A Green Home: A Consumer Guide On Moneysaving Home Ideas And Energy Saving Tips On How To Save Power, How To Save Water, ... Energy Efficient And Environment Friendly Review

Is your home energy efficient? Why bother with cost efficiency? It may come as a shock to most homeowners who give little significance to the benefits of energy efficiency that making the effort to go green can actually help them reduce up to 25% or more of the energy consumption in their home. In so doing, they save hundreds of dollars on their monthly expenses for water, gas and electricity. Making your home energy efficient is a costly process. However, doing just a few things can make a tremendous amount of difference in your home. There are some changes that will cost a decent amount of money to implement into a home. But in general, home energy savings does not have to be overly challenging and overly costly if there is proper planning. This book is a how-to guide for homeowners who need to make green home improvements so they can start their home energy savings campaign. The info here will help you examine if, in fact, energy savings is all worth it to you, your family and the environment you live in. Specifically, you will learn some of the following: • How to determine your current home energy costs • How to analyze costs over savings • How to get started with your biggest needs • How to make home improvement ideas that take minimal time to do but matter a great deal • What lifestyle habits you need to make for consistent home energy management • What your options are for alternative sources of fuel Throughout this book, you will learn plenty of ideas that you can implement right away to better your home’s ability to use energy more wisely so that you can start saving money on everyday needs and live in a more efficient and environmentally friendly home.

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.  

 

Building Green: 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 Methods Earth Plaster * Straw Bale * Cordwood * Cob * Living Roofs Review

Clarke Snell and Timothy L. Callahan, whose popular Good House Book helped environmentally-minded readers create an earth-friendly home, have returned with a photo-packed, amazingly complete, start-to-finish guide to "green" housebuilding.

This absolutely groundbreaking manual doesn't just talk about eco-friendly building techniques, but actually shows every step! More than 1,200 close-up photographs, along with in-depth descriptions, follow the real construction of an alternative house from site selection to the addition of final-touch interior details. Co-authors Clarke Snell and Timothy Callahan (a professional builder and contractor) provide thorough discussions of the fundamental concepts of construction, substitutes for conventional approaches, and planning a home that's not only comfortable and beautiful, but environmentally responsible. Then, they roll up their sleeves and get to work assembling a guest house that incorporates four different alternative building methods: straw bale, cob, cordwood, and modified stick frame. The images show every move: how the site is cleared, the basic structure put together, the cob wall sculpted, the bales and cordwood stacked, a living roof created, and more. Most important, the manual conveys real-world challenges and processes, and offers dozens of sidebars with invaluable advice. It's head and shoulders above all others in the field.