Are you ready to get your hands dirty? Spruce up your home, save money, and protect the environment all at the same time!

Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 12/18/2008
ISBN-13: 9780071549592
ISBN-10: 0071549595
Call Number: 363.7 SHA

This guide for "evil geniuses" offers step-by-step instructions for 50 environmentally friendly projects such as insulating windows, building a compost bin, setting up a rainwater collection system and even creating a wind turbine as an alternative energy source. Shariff, a freelance environmental writer and consultant, begins by stating the benefits, precautions and objectives of each project before providing a materials list and detailed instructions. Photographs are included in each project to clarify the steps, and additional resources are also supplied at the end of each chapter. A foreword from former Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin is included. (Book News) 

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Publisher: Harper Design Intl
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 02/08/2011
ISBN-13: 9780061968792
ISBN-10: 006196879X
Call Number: 720.47 SER

This sourcebook features the latest innovations in sustainable home design by internationally renowned architects and designers, including solar paneling, wind energy systems, environmentally-friendly heating and cooling solutions, thermal glazing and trombe walls.

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Publisher: Chelsea Green Pub.
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 07/15/2008
ISBN-13: 9781933392622
ISBN-10: 1933392622
Call Number: 644 HRE

With an endearing mix of down-to-earth practical solutions and funky DIY projects, this book provides readers with much-needed information on how to renovate habits and home to move closer to a zero-carbon existence. The Hrens, respectively a carpenter and a photovoltaic installer living in Durham, N.C., give specific and technical advice, based on their own experience, on how to lower energy use within and outside the house, with 36 projects ranging from simple and inexpensive activities like sealing drafts, resetting the water heater thermostat and planting potatoes in a barrel to more heavy-duty and costly tasks such as installing a green roof or a solar hot-water heater and replacing a lawn with a permaculture garden. (Publishers Weekly)

Publisher: Atlantic Pub. Group
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/30/2011
ISBN-13: 9781601383648
ISBN-10: 1601383649
Call Number: 690.8047 MAE

A book that covers materials, natural building methods, cost-effectiveness and more explains how to change a home or build a new home that is environmentally conscious and prepared for the changing economic and environmental climate in the coming decades.

Publisher: Alpha Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/06/2009
ISBN-13: 9781592578283
ISBN-10: 1592578284
Call Number: 690.8047 BAR

A guide to home building, renovation, and remodeling for environmentally conscientious readers or home owners looking to promote energy efficiency explains how to reduce one's personal carbon footprint, lower costs, and promote an eco-friendly lifestyle while creating one's dream home.

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Publisher: Creative Pub. International
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 02/01/2011
ISBN-13: 9781589235670
ISBN-10: 1589235673
Call Number: 640 MAT

Step-by-step, how-to projects for home rain collection, solar panels, food storage, solar-energy systems, eco-friendly improvements, beekeeping and more.

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Publisher: Wiley
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/06/2008
ISBN-13: 9780470376027
ISBN-10: 0470376023
Call Number: 644 DEG

Explaining how to improve the energy and water efficiency of a home, a handy guide introduces a range of hands-on, practical solutions for saving money while making smart energy choices and reducing one's carbon footprint, with tips on reducing waste and pollution, lowering household costs and impact on the planet, performing a do-it-yourself energy audit, and more.

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Publisher: Creative Homeowner
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/01/2008
ISBN-13: 9781580113960
ISBN-10: 1580113966
Call Number: 643.7 WAG

Demonstrating how homeowners can become an integral part of the new "green" revolution, a series of home remodeling projects reveals how to use nontoxic building materials and techniques, including products that come from sustainable natural resources, in a volume that includes ways to save energy and water, lower heating and cooling bills, improve indoor air quality, and more.

Publisher: New Society Publishers
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 07/05/2011
ISBN-13: 9780865716865
ISBN-10: 0865716862
Call Number: 644 CHI

A completely updated edition outlines practical and affordable methods for improving home energy efficiency while tapping clean and renewable energy sources, providing coverage of the latest advances in four alternative energy methods.

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Publisher: American Management Association
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 11/12/2008
ISBN-13: 9780814410370
ISBN-10: 0814410375
Call Number: 643.12 DAV

Like their pioneer ancestors, today's consumers are increasingly becoming aware of the value of recycling. A realtor/author of books and articles on homeowning discusses the green building movement with helpful examples illustrating topics from eco- friendly financing to finding and working with eco-friendly materials and contractors. Further tips and resources are appended. (Book News)

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