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Raising
Healthy Children in a Toxic World: 101 Smart Solutions for Every Familyby Phillip Landrigan and Herbert L. Needleman
Plenty of ways to improve the well-being and safety of your family at home, work, daycare, or the local park. Demystifies common sources of toxicity, subdivided into areas of special interest. Each chapter has a short list of questions to help you identify which topics to focus on. Includes info on household chemicals, replacing carpets with wood floors, chemicals known to be instantly deadly and those with a potential of long-range impact. May be overwhelming to novices in the world of chemicals, but great info to read slowly.
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Price: $12.95
Paperback: 152 pages
Real
Goods Solar Living Source Book: The Complete Guide to Renewable Energy Technologies and Sustainable Living (11th Edition)
by John Schaeffer, Doug Pratt (Editors)
Chapters on Independent Living, Land, Shelter, Harvesting Energy, Managing Energy Systems, Heating and Cooling, Water, Energy Conservation, the Nontoxic Home, Home and Market Gardening, Mobility and Electric Vehicles, and Livelihood and Learning. The Real Goods Trading Company is one of the fastest-growing companies in America.
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Price: $30.00
Paperback: 670 pages
Residential Windows: A Guide to New Technologies and Energy Performance, Second Edition by John Carmody (Editor), Stephen Selkowitz, Dariush Arasteh, Lisa Heschong
Covers every aspect of window design and technology and includes a much-expanded section on energy performance, with an extended list of climate zones and glazing options. New tools and methods for making window purchasing decisions are also explained. Incorporates information on skylight selection and looks at the state of the art of windows today and of the future including much new information on window technologies, their performance, and their benefits.
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Paperback: 224 pages
The Resourceful
Renovator: A Gallery of Ideas for Reusing Building Materialsby Jennifer Corson
A lavish compendiuim of design ideas for the homeowner by seasoned home designer and specialist in ecological building. Combines ecological sensitivity with a diehard frugality and a flare for style. From moving entire houses to salvaging a surprising range of materials. highlights environmental impace of some building materials.
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Price: $24.95
Paperback: 250 pages
Rural Studio: Samuel Mockbee and an Architecture of Decency by Andrea Oppenheimer Dean, Timothy Hursley (Photographer)
The genius of an architect who made beautiful and functional homes out of inexpensive materials is celebrated in this book. It showcases work Mockbee undertook recruiting architecture students to help design and build free homes for impoverished residents.the resulting warm, modern homes often incorporate recycled and natural materials like tires and hay bales. The work has been featured on Oprah, Nightline, CBS News and in Time and People.
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Price: $30.00
Paperback: 170 pages
Rustic Retreats: A Build-It-Yourself Guide by David R. Stiles, Jeanie Trusty Stiles
This is a delightful book that promises to deliver loads of fantasy and fun for anyone in need of a rustic place to rest, relax, and retreat from the speed and stress of modern living. More than 20 step-by-step plans for low-cost outdoor buildings. Creativity can make any of the plans described and diagrammed into unique personal statements or fantasies. Many of the plans are so simple they can be built in a few hours or in less than a day.
