Keyword: ecological design

Essential Sustainable Home Design
A Complete Guide to Goals, Options, and the Design Process
by Chris Magwood

Many people dream of building a beautiful, environmentally friendly home. But until now there has been no systematic guide to help potential builders work through the complete process of imagining, planning, designing, and building their ideal, …
related subjects: Sustainable Building & Design

Mobilizing the Green Imagination
An Exuberant Manifesto
by Anthony Weston

Dysfunctional cities, catastrophic climate change, ever-deepening distance from nature - today we see environmental disaster everywhere we look. In Mobilizing the Green Imagination, philosophical provocateur Anthony Weston urges us to move beyond …
related subjects: Social Responsibility

The Integral Urban House: Self Reliant Living in the City
by Sim Van der Ryn, Helga Olkowski, Bill Olkowski, Tom Javits & Farallones Institute

The Integral Urban House: Self Reliant Living in the City is a comprehensive guide to achieving a completely sustainable urban lifestyle by creating a mini-ecosystem where residents grow their own fruits and vegetables, raise chickens, rabbits, and …
related subjects: Sustainable Building & Design

Reusing the Resource
Adventures in Ecological Wastewater Recycling
by Carol Steinfeld & David Del Porto

Water has been described as the 21st century oil. Water shortages, water quality and water rights are hot-button issues at the local, national and international levels. Climate change, population growth and contamination from industry, farms and …
related subjects: Energy