GetWithGreen’s Green Building Book List
January 24, 2009
My husband’s brother and sister-in-law know I am into green building, so a thoughtful gift came my way last Christmas: Building Green by Clarke Snell & Tim Callahan. I engulfed the 600+ page resource within a couple of weeks. It was a wonderful read, focusing on step-by-step examples of earth plaster, straw bale, cordwood, cob, and living roofs.
Here are a few other great green building picks:
Green Building Products by Alex Wilson and Mark Piepkorn - resource for green building materials in your home. It has an index of products and suppliers that will help you achieve a healthier home, inside and out.
Green Remodeling: Changing the World One Room at a Time by David R. Johnston and Kim Master - a comprehensive guide that will help you make simple green remodeling changes in your home. Authors are a top remodeler and a green remodeling consultant.
Natural House Book by David Pearson - a recommendation of my favorite green architects: AMD Architecture. It provides homeowners with a practical guide to saving money and energy with some of the latest green homebuilding practices. Included is an updated list of resources for your green building needs.
Green By Design by Angela Dean - invites you to make healthy choices in your home building/remodeling, such as straw bale construction and natural flooring. A reference for green materials as well as a guide to avoiding the possible pitfalls that can be avoided.
Not So Big Remodeling: A Better House for the Way you Really Live by Sarah Susanka - another one of my favorite architects/authors…her series is amazing. This book focuses on remodeling in small ways to achieve large, positive impacts within the home. It will help homeowners discover what they really want and need in their home renovation.
What are your favorite Green building books and resources?
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Check out this Green Home Show promoting awareness to the Green Movement Coming next year to TV, looks good.
It is produced by Carbon America.
Carbon America intends to promote awareness of the world’s green movement and America’s carbon footprint reduction. Their strategies is to show America and the world how being green can be affordable and the return on investment to the planet and our pockets can be sizable. Their intention is to help the global environment by appealing to the general public through the mass media. Specifically, by capitalizing on “Green Game Shows” and “Green Reality Show” trends.
The Show is called “America’s Gone Green” along with two spins off shows “Green Improvements” and “Green Seeding”
“America’s Gone Green”
The Game format is as follows.
The purpose of game show is for America to determine which contestants home is the greenest and has the smallest carbon foot print while retaining mass market appeal or “green sex appeal”. Once the home has been qualified contestants receive cash to improve on their homes and carbon footprint and compete with other qualifying round winners.
The format will be similar to other shows consisting of Subject Matter Experts (SME) as panel judges intermixed with celebrities or other notable figures that are currently identified with the “Green” movement. These SME judges could include professionals and members of organizations such as LEED, Green Building Council, and Energy Star.
The final winner will receive a lump sum cash prize donation for to their favorite Green organization.
The process will consist of qualifying rounds and a final round elimination. Outlined below are the proposed recommendations for each round.
Check out the rest of the Game info at http://www.carbonamerica.net
Looks great, I think these guys got the right ideas appealing to the mass media, what do you think?
A great “green” book I just finished is Micro Eco-Farming by Barbara Berst Adams. It talks about growing your own organic fruits, vegetables, and even having livestock on small acreages or even city lots. Many of the folks mentioned in the book are making money from it too by selling at farmers’ markets or to local upscale restaurants. Interesting reading!
a lot of companies are getting greener thats a good step this list will help
That is definitely a great idea: a “green” game show.