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

The Scoop on Poop
Safely capturing and recycling the nutrients in greywater, humanure and urine
by Dan Chiras

Flush it and forget it is the plumbing mantra of the industrialized world. Most people just want sewage to go away, preferably without having to see, smell, or worse yet, touch it. But crap has a bad rap. Human waste is a valuable resource we can …
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 …
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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