The Solar House: Passive Heating and Cooling21 reviews Daniel D. Chiras Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2002 Amazing book - quite possibly the BEST on solar building + An excellent overview + Gives more detail than other books + A Great Reference for building + Good overview of passive solar designs             Prefab10 reviews Bryan Burkhart, Allison Arieff Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 2002 Interesting overview of prefab homes, past, present and future + Interesting book In PREFAB, author Allison Arieff presents an interesting overview of "prefabricated" buildings, past, present, and future. Yet, I would not recommend this book to average modular home consumers, as many of the projects described in PREFAB are highly customized, somewhat eccentric, and generally ...             Green Building Materials: A Guide to Product Selection and Specification4 reviews Ross Spiegel, Dru Meadows Wiley, 2006 An excellent and long-needed guide to green specifications! + High Praises to Amazon!!!! + "Green Remodeling" would be a good companion guide This is an absolute MUST-HAVE addition to the libraries of every firm and organization that deals with designing, constructing, maintaining, or restoring commercial and public buildings. It should be required reading in every architectural school. It also offers much value to residential ...             Insulate and Weatherize: Expert Advice from Start to Finish (Build Like A Pro)20 reviews Bruce Harley Taunton, 2002 Good coverage + Great 101 on insulation + important information clearly presented + The most complete guide to insulating your house + great series             Consumer Guide to Home Energy Savings: All New Listings of the Most Efficient Products You Can Buy4 reviews American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy, 2003 Practical energy savings information + Consumer Guide to Home Energy Savings + A terrific book + Save money on energy bills with this big little book             Sustainable Landscape Construction: A Guide to Green Building Outdoors, Second Edition3 reviews J. William Thompson, Kim Sorvig Island Press, 2007 One of the most comprehensive books on sustainable landscape construction + Textbook style yet very interesting and engaging + for sustainable living! Time has changed. A few years ago, few people knew about sustainable design and construction, green buildings or LEED. Today, sustainable design and construction has gone mainstream. How do we know? We actually have clients asking us to design a LEED certified building or do a sustainable landscape ...             Compact Houses: Architecture for the Environment10 reviews Cristina Del Valle Universe, 2005 Small is Beautiful and Less is More.... As a member of the Small House Society I love this book. The houses are small and to the point without all the clutter some small houses tend to have. And as the title says its Compact Houses: Architecture for the Environment. And in an era of McMansions its so refreshing to see small homes that ...             Sun, Wind & Light: Architectural Design Strategies, 2nd Edition13 reviews G. Z. Brown, Mark DeKay Wiley, 2000 Integrated Review of Two Top Books That Mesh Well + A must have... + I love this book, but the information is hard to use + AAE 330             The Homeowner's Guide to Renewable Energy: Achieving Energy Independence through Solar, Wind, Biomass and ...11 reviews Dan Chiras New Society Publishers, 2006 Very informative book. + Very interesting and readable book + Good review to renewable energy + The Homeowner's Guide to Renewable Energy: Achievi...             The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture11 reviews Alanna Stang, Christopher Hawthorne Princeton Architectural Press, 2005 Good ideas + Excellent Purchase! + The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture + Nice             Green Building Handbook: A Guide to Building Products and Their Impact on the Environment Tom Woolley Spon Press, 1998 Updated from the Green Building Digest Journal , this handbook provides a detailed reference for environmentally concerned puchasers of building products. Containing at-a-glance tables for buyers and specifiers, the handbook also includes an overview of the concepts and resulting literature covering this highly contentious subject, policy thinking, covering methodology for specifiers, case ...             The Solar Electric House: Energy for the Environmentally-Responsive, Energy-Independent Home10 reviews Steven J. Strong Sustainability Press, 1994 Still Good + Excellent Book on Solar Energy I bought this book in 2005, almost 20 years after the first publication of the book. I went through a couple of emotional phases while reading the book. First I thought this was a great book: it has so many practical details and insights. When I got to the part on system controls and routing the ...             Ecological Design4 reviews Sim Van der Ryn, Stuart Cowan Island Press, 1995 What is sustainable design? + One of the best sustainable design books out there + Designs according to nature + Landscape Architect             The Natural House: A Complete Guide to Healthy, Energy-Efficient, Environmental Homes7 reviews Daniel D. Chiras Chelsea Green, 2000 One of the best in this subject area! + Great resource, but a little outdated + An excellent overview of "natural" building; buy it! + Good Introduction + The Primer on Natural Building             The Big Book of Small House Designs: 75 Award-Winning Plans for Your Dream House, All 1,250 Square Feet or ...17 reviews Don Metz, Catherine Tredway, ... Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2004 Drawings - not pictures The book have a lot of good ideaas for how to draw / design houses. There is a lack of pictures of the actual solutions, in order to give a good idea of how the the solutions actually work. Jan T.             Building Green: A Complete How-To Guide to Alternative Building Methods Earth Plaster * Straw Bale * Cordwood ...12 reviews Clarke Snell, Tim Callahan Lark Books, 2005 building green + the eco book + Building Green: A Complete How-To Guide to Alternative Building Methods Earth Plaster * Straw Bale * Cordwood * Cob * Living Roo + Building Green + Realistic Green Building for the long haul             Your Green Home: A Guide to Planning a Healthy, Environmentally Friendly New Home (Mother Earth News Wiser ...4 reviews Alex Wilson New Society Publishers, 2006 Great overview of building a green home. + good primer + Nice text, appeals to broad audience This book was a overview/introduction to building a green home. Should be a must read for builders and anyone planning on building a new home. Not all strategies will work for every situation, but there's lots here that would apply for any situation or budget.             Energy-Efficient Building (Best of Fine Homebuilding)3 reviews Editors of Fine Homebuilding Taunton, 1999 Excellent overview of cutting edge energy efficient building technique + Practical energy savings This book is really a book. It is a collection of magazine articles from a well respected building magazine that cover different building techniques. One chapter per article. There is an article for every currently used, but not quite mainstream building technique to improve energy efficiency of ...             Sustainable Construction: Green Building Design and Delivery2 reviews Charles J. Kibert Wiley, 2005 Covers everything... + Sustainable Construction Since I am the 1st person to review this book, I want to just say that I started with a smaller book that gave me the basics of green architecture, terminology and the run down on LEED and the USGBC. Next I followed up with this book and I must say that this book was EXTREMELY informative and ...             The Philosophy of Sustainable Design7 reviews Jason F. McLennan Ecotone Publishing Company LLC, 2004 Visionary - Uncompromising - Accessible + Sustainability Design + Can Be Considered "Ref A" or the Prime Directive + I will recommend this book! + High Quality Publication for Learning the Basics of Sustainable Design