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Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins
Three top strategists show how leading-edge companies are practicing "a new type of industrialism" that is more efficient and profitable. Natural capitalism shows that business can be good for the environment and increase revenues and employment. A fascinating and provocative read for public-policy makers, environmentalists and capitalists.
Paperback: 396 pages
List Price: $26.95
Hardcover: 396 pages
The Natural House: A Complete Guide to Healthy, Energy-Efficient, Environmental Homes by Daniel D. Chiras
This sourcebook examines the options for building a house that is economical, energy-efficient, nontoxic, kind to the environment, and pleasurable to inhabit. Explores the pros and cons of 14 natural building methods, including straw bale, rammed earth, cob, cordwood, adobe, earthbags, papercrete, earthships, and others, all well- illustrated.
Paperback: 468 pages
Natural House Catalogue: Where to Get Everything You Need to Create an Environmentally Friendly Home
by David Pearson
If you are looking to design a truly healthy home, The Natural House Catalog draws on the latest environmentally sound technology, providing all the information you need to create and maintain your ideal living space. With the enormous number of materials, products, and services now offered, this book is the ideal reference
Paperback: 288 pages
The Natural Paint Book
by Lynn Edwards and Julia Lawless
For the environmentally conscious and style-conscious homeowner and designer . A guide to understand natural paints with more than 50 recipes and techniques for natural paints and finishes. Use readily available ingredients to create beautiful eco-friendly interiors. Illustrated with 200 gorgeous photographs.
Paperback: 192 pages
The Natural Step Story: Seeding a Quiet Revolution
by Karl-Henrik Robèrt and Ray Anderson
The Natural Step has been adopted world-wide by high-profile companies who want to make a profit and be environmentally and socially responsible. A dramatic story of how an entire nation worked together to understand and implement a solution to the world's fundamental environmental problems in a non-adversarial, non-prescriptive way.
Hardcover: 274 pages
by Edward O. Wilson
Arguably one of the most important thinkers of our time, in this autobiography, Wilson describes both his growth as a scientist and the evolution of the science he has helped define. Wilson's memoir gives a rare glimpse into the evolution of scientific theory. "One of the greatest scientific autobiographies ever written."
Paperback: 416 pages
New Bamboo: Bamboo architecture and design
by Marcelo Villegas (Author), Ximena Londono (Author)
A color portfolio and an anthology of bamboo construction by different experts: an agronomist, architects, a designer, and a builder, that showcases projects in Mexico, Brazil, Ecuador, Panama, and Colombia, where this product has been used as a traditional construction material for centuries. Also covered are France and Germany, where architects are discovering the delights of working with bamboo
Hardcover: 206 pages
The New Economy of Nature
by Gretchen C. Daily and Katherine Ellison
Accepting that the rich now hold the environment hostage, and will only allow it to be saved if we make it worth their while, Daily (interdisciplinary science, Stanford U.) and journalist Ellison explain ways to reconstruct the natural world into goods and services, determine market values for each, and make sure everyone pays their share.
Hardcover: 250 pages
The New
Natural House Book:
Creating a Healthy, Harmonious, and Ecologically
Sound Home
by David Pearson
The Natural House Book, first published in 1989, originated the phrase "natural house" and established the presence of the Green movement in home design. An updated and expanded eco-aware homebuilder's classic with new resource listings, a new photo-essay and revised text describing the latest and best developments in natural construction.
Paperback: 304 pages
Revised edition
The Newman's Own Organics Guide to a Good Life: Simple Measures That Benefit You and the Place You Live
by Nell Newman, Joseph D'Agnese (Contributor)
A practical handbook to environmentally and socially conscious living and excellent beginner's resource that makes it look very simple. Her suggestions range from the commonsense to the surprising. Newman assumes her readers are people who want to just do right by the earth, perhaps learn how make nontoxic household cleaners, buy "green power" from the power company, shop more responsibly, practice "social investing" or to encourage their pets to eat organic people food, and offers the secrets.
Paperback: 256 pages
No-Regrets Remodeling: Creating a Comfortable, Healthy Home That Saves Energy by Home Energy Magazine (Editor)
Understanding the ways changing and "improving" our homes affects the comfort and performance of the whole house is a science that has advanced tremendously in the last ten years. This is the first book for the homeowner/do-it-your-selfer that makes all that building science accessible and practical. You'll save the price of the book the first month in reduced energy bills, and thank yourself every month for the added comfort and the peace of mind. You will also want to keep it for reference and to loan out.
Paperback: 222 pages
The Not So Big House Collection:
The Not So Big House and Creating the Not So Big House
by Sarah Susanka
Sarah Susanka's best-selling books, The Not So Big House and Creating the Not So Big House, are available for the first time in one slipcase set. These two volumes offer all of Sarah Susanka's trendsetting architectural ideas in one handsome package. The rooms pictured in the book are both practical and lovely.
Paperback: 472 pages
The Not So Big House: A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live
by Sarah Susanka, Kira Obolensky (Contributor)
This book contends that people are naturally drawn to intimate spaces. Large structures inspired by outdated patterns tend to result in houses that just don’t work. In The Not So Big House, she proposes clear guidelines for creating homes that serve spiritual needs as well as material requirements. Topics covered include designing for specific lifestyles, budgeting, building a home from scratch, and using energy-efficient construction. See Susanka's Creating the Not So Big House.
Paperback: 208 pages
List Price: $30.00
Hardcover: 199 pages
Not So Big Solutions for Your Home
by Sarah Susanka
Do more with less space is the key concept of this down-to-earth design guide for both new home builders and remodelers. This book provides simplified design principles in jargon-free language for the nonprofessional contemplating a residential building project. The author offers advice on how to redefine space to create happier living areas that function more efficiently. For example, analyzing the family's television habits and planning set placement in advance may avert future squabbles and smooth out daily living.
Paperback: 160 pages
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