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The Passive Solar HouseUsing Solar Design to Heat & Cool Your HomeJames Kachadorian

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"The book is suffused with a sensitivity to environmental issues of all sorts, a useful perspective in these resource-limited times. An essentially simple book, elegant in presentation and forceful in argument; recommended for extensive scientific and/or broader home-building collections."
--Library Journal
   
Green by DesignCreating a Home for Sustainable Livingby Angela Dean

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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 BuiltA Woman's Guide to Home Buildingby Judy Ostrow  Photography: Karen Leffler

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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.
   
Independent BuilderSam Clark

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This is a comprehensive manual of design and building methods for owner-builders as well as professional builders and their clients. In addition to presenting specific building techniques, the book explains the design principles and planning processes that underlie all good building, so that readers can develop their own exceptional designs, independently
   
Mexican Detailsby Karen Witynski and Joe P. Carr

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In their sixth book, Mexican Details, designers Karen Witynski and Joe P. Carr travel through the Southwest in celebration of the character-rich details of Mexican furniture, architectural elements, and handcrafted accents that resonate with beauty and originality.
   
Natural Home HeatingThe Complete Guide to Renewable Energy OptionsGreg Pahl

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Here is the comprehensive guide to heating your home without heating up the planet. For warm feet and a clear conscience, this is the book you need." --Bill McKibben, author of Enough! Staying Human in an Engineered World
   
Small Adobe Houseby Agnesa Reeve  Photography: Robert Reck

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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 SaunaA Complete Guide to the Construction, Use, and Benefits of the Finnish BathRob Roy

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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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Monthly Environmental Newsletter

July Issue:

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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