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26 years of online Green Building information Home Water Indoor Water Conservation Composting Toilets Pervious Paving Materials Xeriscape Greywater Irrigation Harvested Rainwater Energy Heating and Cooling SOLAR HOT WATER, HEATING AND COOLING SYSTEMS Energy Recovery Ventilator Programmable Thermostat Ground Source Heat Exchange Gas Water Heating Ductwork Radiant Barrier Ridge and Soffit Venting Fans Passive Solar Design Earth Sheltered Design Passive Solar Design Earth Sheltered Design Landscaping for Energy Savings Photovoltaic Systems Lighting Electromagnetic Fields Energy Efficient Appliances Building Materials Wood DIMENSIONAL LUMBER Wood Treatment Non Toxic Termite Control Wood Flooring Engineered Structural Materials Engineered Sheet Materials Engineered Siding Wall Systems Structural Insulating Panels (SIPs) Straw Bale Construction Flyash Concrete Earth Material Roofing Insulation Windows and Doors Cabinets Paints, Finishes, and Adhesives Floor Coverings Recycle/Reuse/Etc Home Recycling Compost System Construction Waste Recycling Shipping Container Housing About Portfolio Our Services Web Hosting Plans Web Development WordPress Monitoring, Update,Backup Service WordPress Site Hardening WordPress Hack Recovery Web Hosting Plans Web Development Site Updates Advertising STAFF, CONTRACTORS,CONTRIBUTORS Disclaimer Payments Resources Books/Videos/Software/Periodicals INTERNATIONAL STRAW BALE BUILDING REGISTRY GREEN BUILDING DATABASESDESIGN RESOURCES Country Abbreviations Menu Search for: Green Home Building Author(s): Miki CookDoug Garrett Publisher: New Society ISBN: 9780865717794 Order From: New Society (links will open in a new window) According to conventional wisdom, building a green home is an expensive endeavor. The standard approach treats green as an add-on, tacking premium” products, finishes and equipment onto a traditional home design. As a result, many green home projects end up over budget or fail to achieve their environmental and performance goals. Green Home Building explodes the myth that green homes have to cost more. Using proven methods based on applied building science, the authors show how to: Lower base construction costs to provide funding for high performance upgrades Achieve a net zero energy home, including zero-ing” water, waste, carbon and associated costs within fifteen years Live affordably into the future, despite anticipated rising costs for fuel, water, materials, taxes and health care. This comprehensive guide to building green on any budget defines the strategies that maximize the return on green investments. Written for anyone who has ever been swayed by the argument that the price tag limits how green a home can be, Green Home Building is a must-read for builders, contractors, architects, designers and homeowners. Build It With Bales Authors: Matts Myhrman and S. O. McDonald One of the original books on straw bale contrstuction Now available as a series of free PDFs thanks to the Authors Build It With Bales – full book Front Cover through QA (13 pages, includes table of contents, intro, how to use) BIWB instruction page BIWB Part One Build It With Bales Part Two: Steps 1-3 Build It With Bales Part Two: Steps 4-6 Build It With Bales Part Two: Steps 7-8 Build It With Bales Non-Loadbearing Option Small Strawbale: Natural Homes, ProjectsDesigns Authors: AthenaBill Steen and Wayne Bingham Publisher: Gibbs Smith Paperback: 240 pages ISBN-10: 1586855158 ISBN-13: 978-1586855154 Order From: Amazon.com or direct from the publisher . Review from Mark Piepkorn , former editor of The Last Straw Journal: A copy of the new book Small Strawbale: Natural Homes, ProjectsDesigns by AthenaBill Steen and Wayne Bingham, published by Gibbs Smith, came into the office today. It’s gorgeous, like all the projects the Steens involve themselves with – and, as usual, it opens doors beyond strawbale. Love them for that. Chapters include Garden WallsFences, Open-Air Structures, Greenhouses, Canelo Outbuildings (that’s their place), Tiny StudiosMeditation Retreats, The Shed Roof, The Gable Roof, Small Houses, and Clustered Compounds. Most of the photos are sumptuous, the accompanying text insightful and inspiring – not at all overbearing. It’s not a how to *build* book, but a *how* to build book. It was an excellent surprise to see the Lander’s beautiful Shimizu-gaki bamboo gate featured (and later in the book their home, with a photo of them that makes me miss them even more), several of Athena’s stunning murals, and – Jack’s Flat! Kudos to Mr. Glassford! This book fires my imagination and gives me joy. The Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure, 2nd edition Author(s): J. C. Jenkins Publisher: Chelsea Green Pub Co ISBN: 0964425890 Order From: Amazon.com (links will open in a new window) Written in laypeople’s terms by a humanure composting practitioner with twenty years’ experience, this book is for anyone interested in a unique topic that is fundamentally related to every human being on planet Earth. The second edition of The Humanure Handbook is completely revised, expanded, and updated, but retains that element of improbable humor that made this book an underground classic. This fascinating, one-of-a-kind book tells you how to safely recycle human manure, and includes color photographs of humanure-compost gardens, listings for international commercial compost toilet sources and manufacturers, and a list of backyard composting bin and compost thermometer retailers. This new edition also contains a chapter on alternative graywater systems; illustrated, step-by-step instructions for building a simple, low-cost, composting toilet for household, camp, or emergency use; current information about community-level composting; and the latest material on composting microbiology. From the author, J. C. Jenkins (JCJenkins@JenkinsPublishing.com) , 11/29/96: This may be the start of a Big Movement. From the Publisher This is the 3rd edition of a self-published book. No respectable publisher would touch it with a ten foot shovel. The 1st edition of Humanure was published in 1994 with a print run of 660 copies, which the author fully expected would last the rest of his life.Now, 11 years later, the book has sold over 25,000 copies in at least 59 countries worldwide and has been published in foreign editions on four continents. The 2nd Edition was a 2000 Independent Publisher Outstanding Book of the Year, deemed the book Most Likely to Save the Planet,” a 2000 Finalist in ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year Awards, and a Finalist in the 2000 Benjamin Franklin Awards for Excellence in Publishing. It was an Amazon.com #1 bestseller in its category for several years, and has been reviewed by Mother Earth News , Whole Earth Review , Countryside Journal , The Journal of Environmental Quality , Natural Health , and many other popular print media. It has been talked about on NPR, BBC, CBC, Howard Stern, The Wall Street Journal , Playboy Magazine , Organic Gardening Magazine and many other national and international venues. The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life Author(s): Gary Selden, Robert O. Becker, David Bichell Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; 1 edition (July 22, 1998) Paperback: 368 pages ISBN: 0688069711 ISBN-13: 978-0688069711 Order From: Amazon.com (links will open in a new window) The Body Electric tells the fascinating story of our bioelectric selves. Robert O. Becker, a pioneer in the filed of regeneration and its relationship to electrical currents in living things, challenges the established mechanistic understanding of the body. He found clues to the healing process in the long-discarded theory that electricity is vital to life. But as exciting as Becker’s discoveries are, pointing to the day when human limbs, spinal cords, and organs may be regenerated after they have been damaged, equally fascinating is...