Playing Fair in Love and Climate Change
Today’s’ guest post comes from Mallory McDuff, the author of the soon to be released book Sacred Acts: How Churches …
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Energy-Wise Landscape Design
A New Approach for your Home and Garden
Residential consumption represents nearly one quarter of North America's total energy use, and the average homeowner spends thousands of dollars a year on power bills. To help alleviate this problem, Energy-Wise Landscape Design presents hundreds of …
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Green Restorations
Sustainable Building and Historic Homes
Some 40 percent of North Americans live in homes built prior to 1940, and when it comes time to remodel or restore our older homes, homeowners and contractors can find themselves lost in a morass of wildly divergent information and opinion. With …
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Choosing Green
The Home Buyer's Guide to Good Green Homes
Energy efficient, non-toxic, healthy homes are the hottest trend in the building industry. Homebuilders are constructing green homes in astonishing numbers -- nearly 200,000 in the US alone in 2006.
How does a home buyer who wants a green home know …
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Prescriptions for a Healthy House, 3rd Edition
A Practical Guide for Architects, Builders & Home Owners
Although there is nothing complicated about constructing healthier homes, building for health is still not standard practice, and in fact there are many aspects of conventional home construction that are detrimental to human wellbeing.
From …
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Green Building Products
The GreenSpec® Guide to Residential Building Materials -- 3rd Edition
Interest in sustainable, green building practices is greater than ever. Whether concerned about allergies, energy costs, old-growth forests, or durability and long-term value, homeowners and builders are looking for ways to ensure that their homes …
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Extreme Weather Hits Home
Protecting Your Buildings from Climate Change
We know how to prepare our homes for each seasonal change, but do we know how to prepare for climate change? Violent weather events like floods, tornadoes, ice storms and hurricanes only tell part of the story. Climate change is frequently more …
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Green Building A to Z
Understanding the Language of Green Building
Green building is the fastest-growing trend to hit since the Internet, bringing with it an enormous range of new products, systems and technologies. Green Building A to Z is an informative, technically accurate and highly visual guide to green …
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Real Goods Solar Living Sourcebook - Special 30th Anniversary Edition
The Complete Guide to Renewable Energy Technologies and Sustainable Living
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 …
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