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.

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.

Green Living: How To Live A More Sustainable, Earth Friendly Lifestyle

Green Living: How To Live A More Sustainable, Earth Friendly Lifestyle Review

Green living, the environment, being earth friendly, using solar and wind power - these are all very hot topics in today's society. And thanks to recent government efforts, everyone is trying to learn how to make their own homes and lives more sustainable and earth friendly.

If you're new to the concept of living green... whether you want to learn how to start doing your part for the environment or you just want to learn how to reduce your bills and keep more money in your wallet from month to month, this kindle book is just for you.

It's written for beginners, so you don't have to worry about technical concepts and language that goes too far over your head. Instead you can get a general overview of the basics, and learn about a number of environmentally friendly tactics which can be put to work in your own home from day one.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Alternative Power & Energy
Solar Power Basics
Solar Panels
Wind Turbines & Windmills
Natural Passive Solar Techniques
Solar hot water
Passive Solar Collectors
Solar Hot Water Tanks
Solar cooking
Greening Inside Your Home
The Basics: Plugs and Lights
Reduce and Recycle
Using gray water
Non Toxic, Natural cleaning
Composting Toilets
Greening Outside Your Home Yard and Garden Design
Composting
Rainwater & Gray Water
Resources


This kindle book has 10,108 words

NATURAL HOUSE CATALOG: Where to Get Everything You Need to Create an Environmentally Friendly Home

NATURAL HOUSE CATALOG: Where to Get Everything You Need to Create an Environmentally Friendly Home Review

The Natural House Catalog is more than a book, it's a movement!

If you are looking to design a truly healthy home. The Natural House Catalog draws on the very latest environmentally sound technology, providing all the information you need to create and maintain your ideal living space. With the enormous number of materials, products, and services now offered, this book is the ideal reference.

For easy accessibility, The Natural House Catalog is divided into two parts:

Part One features over 100 Topic Pages, covering everything from water power to worm bias, thermal storage to feng shui. Completely illustrated in color and black and white, each page describes alternative systems, how to make them work efficiently, the most appropriate locations, and different available options. Also featured are full-color Shopper's Pages, which display a diverse range of obtainable products. Here you will find a variety of goods such as photovoltaics, paints, control devices, and candles, all fully credited to the manufacturer, retail outlet, or catalog.

Part Two comprises the Directory, which combines suppliers, products, and resources. It is divided into sections for easy reference and contains up to 2,000 listings and advertisements. The Resource Pages cite groups, organizations, and publications offering more advice on specific topics. The Natural House Catalog is an indispensable and comprehensive source book that evokes and shares an optimistic vision for a brighter future and helps make that future accessible to all.

PAINT IT GREEN.(Lifestyle)(Environmentally friendly home improvement a growing trend): An article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)

PAINT IT GREEN.(Lifestyle)(Environmentally friendly home improvement a growing trend): An article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) Review

This digital document is an article from The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), published by Thomson Gale on January 8, 2007. The length of the article is 1435 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: PAINT IT GREEN.(Lifestyle)(Environmentally friendly home improvement a growing trend)
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication:The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) (Newspaper)
Date: January 8, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Page: B1

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