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	The Cohousing Handbook Building a Place for Community By Kelly ScottHanson and Chris ScottHanson, Foreword by Gifford Pinchot	Details
	Cohousing offers an end to the isolation of the single family suburban home. Balancing community and personal privacy, cohousing is a chance to create a modern village in an urban or rural setting.

	Design Outlaws on the Ecological Frontier Chris Zelov and Phil Cousineau	Details
	In Design Outlaws, Christopher Zelov, Phil Cousineau and Brian Danitz have gathered together the interviews of over twenty of the leading designers and architects from their award winning documentary film: Ecological Design: Inventing the Future. This far reaching collection is lavishly illustrated and will inspire both the professional and the general reader alike.

	Green by Design Creating a Home for Sustainable Living by Angela Dean	Details
	Green by Design provides a thorough analysis of what it means to build green and offers advice on what to consider when designing a sustainable home. Green by Design features full-color photographs and line drawings of floor plans that show different examples of successful sustainable homes.

	House That Jill Built A Woman's Guide to Home Building by Judy Ostrow Photography: Karen Leffler	Details
	Few experiences are as mind-and-body wrenching or as ultimately fulfilling as the design and building of one's own home. Now, an exhilarating new book offers an inside look at the process from a woman's perspective.

	Old Wood / New Home by G. Lawson Drinkard III Photography: Audrey Hall	Details
	Old Wood/New Home is all about reclaiming a homestead cabin in an imaginative way, either for permanent residence of for vacationing, and preserving nature's resources at the same time.

	Sacred Space By Denise Linn	Details
	In this fascinating and unusual book, Denise Linn shows you how you can dramatically change your life by changing the environment in your home or office.

	Small Adobe House by Agnesa Reeve Photography: Robert Reck	Details
	Building or remodeling an adobe house is an artistic endeavor, with all the satisfaction and occasional frustration of any artistic effort. But once you've lived sheltered by adobe walls, you won't want anything else.

	The Sauna A Complete Guide to the Construction, Use, and Benefits of the Finnish Bath Rob Roy	Details
	This completely revised and expanded edition of The Sauna. contains everything you ever wanted to know about the famous “Finnish bath.” In this inviting book, Roy shares his infectious enthusiasm for the sauna and provides a complete, detailed guide to sauna building, along with resources for equipment and supplies.

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Environmental Impacts from Coal Generated Power

Part 1 of a five-part series: The Health Dangers and Environmental Impacts of Electric Power.

We begin this series looking at Coal-Fired power plants, the largest producer of electric power here in the United States. Currently, coal produces about 52% of our electric power. It is also quite possibly the most environmentally devastating and polluting of the electric power sources.
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LED Light Bulbs Save money and energy with LED light bulbs. LED light bulbs produce light more efficiently and are closer to the color of daylight.

LED Light Bulbs
Save money and energy with LED light bulbs. LED light bulbs produce light more efficiently and are closer to the color of daylight.