Environmentally-friendly (‘green’) architecture and design

The only how-to manual on the subject directed to mainstream owner-builders An earth-sheltered, earth-roofed home has the least impact upon the land of all housing styles, leaving almost zero footprint on the planet.

This book clears the smoke for boards faced with the challenge to make their governing model, either Policy Governance(R) or Coherent Governance(R) , work in real life.

The Real Estate Investor's Handbook is a must-have for beginning investors, real estate veterans, commercial brokers, sellers, and buyers.

Historic Preservation for Designers offers a comprehensive overview of historic preservation with a focus on historic interiors, historic building materials, and the adaptive reuse of interiors.

Facilities management is a broad-based discipline that calls into play architectural, construction, engineering, and management and human skills-particularly for running and maintaining commercial, institutional, academic, and industrial buildings.

Despite the volumes of information they contain, few libraries, whose population at any given moment is as unpredictable as the weather, know how to prepare for, endure, and survive a disaster, whether natural or man-made, and even fewer put their know-how to paper.

Revised and Expanded Edition - Includes CD-ROM with Custom Design SoftwareFor the past ten years The Passive Solar House has offered proven techniques for building homes that heat and cool themselves, using readily available materials and methods familiar to all building contractors and many do-it-yourself homeowners.

This new book explains everything you need to know to locate and purchase real estate with no down payment from individuals, banks, and other sources.

The Pre-Foreclosure Real Estate Handbook explains everything you need to know to locate and purchase real estate bargains from banks, public auctions, and other sources.

Fundamentals of Fire Protection for the Safety Professional provides safety managers with a guide for incorporating fire hazard awareness and protection into their safety management plans.

Fundamentals of Fire Protection for the Safety Professional provides safety managers with a guide for incorporating fire hazard awareness and protection into their safety management plans.

The world faces challenges that supersede and ignore national and regional boundaries and cannot be solved by a single individual, nation, science, or profession.

To conserve our natural assets-our green infrastructure-we need to map them, and plan for their protection.

The devil is in the details-the science and art of designing and building durable, efficient, straw bale buildings Straw bale buildings promise superior insulation and flexibility across a range of design aesthetics, while using a typically local and abundant low-embodied energy material that sequesters carbon-an important part of mitigating climate change.

Building a Revolution, one handful at a time.

Build High-performance, Low-impact Walls with Light Straw Clay Part of the Sustainable Building Essentials series, Essential Light Straw Clay Construction is the first fully illustrated, step-by-step guide to using light straw clay a durable, energy-efficient, and environmentally friendly wall material.

Create Beautiful, Durable Finishes with Natural Plasters That Last for Generations Part of the Sustainable Building Essentials Series, Essential Natural Plasters is the definitive hands-on guide to working with clay, lime, and gypsum plasters for healthy, high-performance interior and exterior finishes.

Build Beautiful, Durable, and Low-impact Homes with Cordwood Construction Part of the Sustainable Building Essentials series, Essential Cordwood Building is the complete guide to using log-ends set in insulating mortar for versatile, economical, and environmentally friendly construction.

Skyrocketing energy costs and constant reminders of the impacts of conventional energy sources are making homeowners and businesses look at different ways to use energy more efficiently and to generate their own electricity to reduce fuel bills and their carbon footprint.

Dreamers, owner-builders, natural and sustainable building contractors, modern homesteaders Cordwood construction - log-ends set in insulated mortar - is a versatile, economical, low-impact, and beautiful building method.

Build your own passive solar greenhouse for year-round food production in any climate The Year-round Solar Greenhouse is the one-stop guide to designing and building greenhouses that harness and store energy from the sun to create naturally heated, lush growing environments even in the depths of winter, covering principles of solar greenhouse design and siting, glazing material properties and selection, controlling heat loss, ventilation, and construction methods.

Heat your home with 80% less wood while eliminating smoke, ash, and constant fire-tending.

Build Strong, Energy-efficient, Sustainable Walls with Prefab Straw Bale Panels Part of the Sustainable Building Essentials series, Essential Prefab Straw Bale Construction is the complete guide to designing and installing prefabricated straw bale wall panelsan innovative, low-carbon alternative to conventional construction.

The Complete Guide to High-Performance Hempcrete Building Part of the Sustainable Building Essentials series, Essential Hempcrete Construction is the definitive step-by-step guide to designing and building with hempcretean energy-efficient, breathable, low-carbon insulation material for walls, roofs, and floors.

Buildings and their associated systems are the largest source of greenhouse gases in the world.

The original, complete, user-friendly introduction to natural building, now fully revised and updated The popularity of natural building has grown by leaps and bounds, spurred by a grassroots desire for housing that is healthy, affordable, and environmentally responsible.

Flush it and forget it is the plumbing mantra of the industrialized world.

When the rivers run dry--water solutions for a thirsty planet.

An inspiring instructional handbook for transforming idealism into social change The pursuit of freedom and justice is a timeless one, but new activists may not know where to begin, while more experienced ones often become jaded or fatigued.

All those of us without traditional skills need to know to build with timber framing Many natural building methods rely upon the use of post and beam frame structures that are then in-filled with straw, cob, cordwood, or more conventional wall materials.

A powerful tool for leveraging change toward sustainability.

How to research, visit, evaluate, and join the ecovillage or sustainable community of your dreams.

Most of the world's population now lives in cities.

The only how-to manual on the subject directed to mainstream owner-builders An earth-sheltered, earth-roofed home has the least impact upon the land of all housing styles, leaving almost zero footprint on the planet.

A completely rewritten and updated edition of this straw building classic.

The cohousing "e;bible"e; by the US originators of the concept.

How to build community, reduce waste, and create affordable, unique homes.

Landscape Urbanism and New Urbanism - negotiating the relationship between cities and the natural world In contemporary Western society, urban development is regarded as an unfortunate blight from which nature provides a much-needed respite.

Sustainable building from the ground up - the pros and cons of the latest green and natural materials and technologies From foundation to finish, a wealth of information is available on sustainable construction methods-entire volumes have been published on individual green and natural building techniques.

See the world around you with fresh perspective.

This is an excellent, clear and comprehensive book for Year 1 architecture students, which will continue to be useful throughout their course and into practice.

This book introduces a groundbreaking approach to urban design, addressing site-specific challenges arising from the impacts of climate change.

The ability to imagine different possible futures and the will to influence the course of events are deeply human.

A existência de áreas verdes nas cidades, sobretudo na forma de parques urbanos, é destacada como um fator determinante para a qualidade de vida local pois, além de oferecer um espaço para o convívio e o lazer da população, estas áreas proporcionam um embelezamento da paisagem e uma série de serviços ambientais que contribuem para a melhoria do clima local.

Designing buildings and physical environments depends on social structure, social needs, economic data, environment, and technological development.

The concept of conserving heritage for future generations is not a new idea.

This book brings to light a diverse range of innovative architectural design studio methodologies formulated to educate future graduates to combat the climate crisis through carbon neutral design.

The green building movement has produced hundreds of ';how-to' books and websites that are filled with tips about green building and what homeowners should do to go green.

The book provides the authoritative statement on the current law on rights of light in England and Wales.