Prescriptions for a Healthy House:
A Practical Guide for Architects, Builders, and Homeowners
by Paula Baker, Erica Elliot, John Banta |
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A practical guide, Prescriptions tracks toxicity in standard building practices and recommends alternatives which enhance and promote physical well-being. |
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Green Building Products:
The Green Spec Guide to Residential Building Materials
by Alex Wilson and Mark Piepkorn, foreword by Sarah Susanka |
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From foundations to fixtures,
the green team at Environmental Building News offers an unbiased encyclopedia
of products, web sites and toll-free numbers for the thousand-and-one
decisions you face building, equipping and furnishing a home. An
invaluable reference. |
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Better Basics for The Home:
Simple Solutions for Less Toxic Living
by Annie Berthold-Bond |
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Creating Life Together
by Diana Leafe Christian, foreword by Patch Adams |
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Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages
and Intentional Communities by Diana Leafe Christian. From a leading participant
in the movement comes a new resource providing step-by-step directions
on how to launch and sustain an intentional community. Anecdotes, cautionary
tales and profiles of successful communities offer invaluable insight
into the joys and pitfalls of revisioning the way we might live together.
Included are sample vision statements, agreements, legal structures, options
for financing and developing land, and other resources. |
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Mortgage-FREE!
Radical Strategies for Home Ownership
by Rob Roy |
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A House of Straw
A Natural Building Odyssey
by Carolyn Roberts |
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A single mother with limited funds
and no carpentry experience takes on the challenge of becoming an owner/builder
of her own straw-bale home. While working full-time, Carolyn confronts
her fears, focuses on her values and involves her two teen-aged sons in
a building experience of a life-time. Readers benefit from Carolyn's technical
learning curve, and experience the agony, joys and empowerment of the
building process. |
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The Good House
A Common-Sense Guide to Alternative Homebuiding
by Clarke Snell |
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Superbia!
31 ways to create sustainable neighborhoods
by Dan Chiras and Dave Wann |
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Labyrinths & Mazes
A Complete Guide to Magical Paths of the World
by Jeff Saward |
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ZEGG
by Crystal Lake Video |
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