The Five Stages of Collapse - What are they and what can you do about them?
Dmitry Orlov's long awaited, The Five Stages of Collapse: Survivors' Toolkit is now off press. Note the position of …
Paperback
– 608 pages
8.5 Inches × 11 Inches (w × h)
Weight: 1788 Grams
BISAC:
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / General
Publisher:
Gaiam Energy Tech, Inc.
ISBN: 9780916571061
Pub. Date: 2007-09-01
About the Author
John Schaeffer is the President and founder of Real Goods -- the oldest and largest catalog company devoted to the sale and service of renewable energy products. Now merged with Gaiam, Real Goods has converted over 60,000 homes to solar energy since 1978 when it sold the very first photovoltaic module in America. Real Goods is a co-sponsor of the annual SolFest at the Solar Living Institute headquarters in Hopland, California.
Real Goods Solar Living Sourcebook - Special 30th Anniversary Edition
The Complete Guide to Renewable Energy Technologies and Sustainable Living
by John Schaeffer
Concerns over dwindling resources and environmental degradation are driving many to seek alternatives to our wasteful, polluting lifestyle. Clean technologies such as solar power, wind power and biodiesel fuel are soaring in popularity.
The Real Goods Solar Living Sourcebook - Special 30th Anniversary Edition is the ultimate guide to renewable energy, sustainable living, green building, homesteading, off-the-grid living, and alternative transportation, written by experts with decades of experience and a passion for sharing their knowledge. This fully-updated edition includes brand new sections on Peak Oil, Climate Change, Relocalization, Natural Burial, Biodynamics and Permaculture. It also boasts the latest product listings and completely rewritten and expanded chapters on:
- Land & Shelter
- Natural Building
- Passive Solar
- Biofuels
- Sustainable Transportation
- Grid-tied Photovoltaics
- Solar Hot Water Systems
-- plus over 150 pages of maps, wiring diagrams, formulae, charts, solar sizing worksheets and much more.
Whether you're a layperson or a professional, novice or longtime aficionado, the new Sourcebook puts the latest research and products at your fingertips -- all the information you need to make sustainable living a reality.
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