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This fully updated classic of sustainable living technology tells how and gives you access to the world's most extensive selection of hardware to make it all happen. The Real Goods Solar Living Sourcebook-12th Edition is the ultimate resource on renewable energy, sustainable living, alternative construction, green building, homesteading, off-the-grid living and alternative transportation, written by experts with decades of personal experience and a passion for sharing their knowledge. In print and regularly updated since 1982, the Sourcebook has sold over 600,000 copies in 44 countries. This 12th edition includes brand-new sections on solar utility intertie, alternative sources of fuel (including biodiesel and hydrogen fuel cells) and hybrid vehicles, and completely rewritten sections on land and shelter, emergency preparedness and energy conservation, and much more. |
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Building With Awareness: The Construction of a Hybrid Home |
Our own award-winning* in-house production. A beautifully presented, step-by-step DVD video on building the sustainable solar-powered home that you have dreamed about. Designer and filmmaker Ted Owens walks you through the entire design and construction process of building his energy-efficient house, showing that aesthetics, comfort, and energy efficiency can all come from the same materials and design parameters.This video demonstrates all phases of designing and building a passive solar home. Learn about post-and-beam construction for straw bale walls, straw bale construction techniques, adobe construction techniques, earth plastering by the experts, rainwater cisterns, photovoltaic electrical generation, passive heating and cooling, and everything you need to know on how to build a green home. We are the publisher of this video and and you can also purchase the DVD from this web site. * Recipient of 3 Telly Awards, including the highest award for Outstanding Multimedia DVD. The Telly Awards honor outstanding local, regional, and cable television commercials and programs, as well as the finest video and film productions nationwide.
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The Solar House: Passive Heating and Cooling |
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One of the best books written on passive solar heating and cooling. The informaiton is easy to understand and is well presented. Passive heating and cooling should be incorporated into all house designs, regardless of the materials that are used for construction. You can potentially greatly reduce your heating and cooling bills as well as make a home that is comfortable to live in. Both owner-builders and architects will find this book an essential resource.
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The Solar Electric House: Energy for the Environmentally-Responsive, Energy-Independent Home
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Solar electricity is the direct conversion of sunlight into electricity by solar photovoltaic cells. It is a truly elegant means of producing electricity on site, allowing you to take control of your energy destiny and create your own lifestyle without concern for energy supply or environmental harm. No pollution, no by-products, no depletion of resources, these solid-state devices simply make electricity out of sunlight. | |
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"This book addresses a broad audience: water and environmental engineers, planners, landscape architects, developers and public officials responsible for planning and environment protection. Written in a clear way, it is accessible to a wider audience than engineers and scientists, and can be a useful compliment in studying. Indeed, anyone interested in sewage treatment, water protection, landscape planning and ecology may find this book useful. Specialists may benefit from a new, broader perspective on their professional problems." (Hydrological Sciences Journal, Feb. 2002) | |
