| The Carbon-Free Home: 36 Remodeling Projects to Help Kick the Fossil-Fuel Habit | 
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Sales Rank: 211734
Category: Book
Author: Stephen & Rebekah Hren
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Studio: Chelsea Green Publishing
Manufacturer: Chelsea Green Publishing
Label: Chelsea Green Publishing
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 8 x 0.8
ISBN: 1933392622
Dewey Decimal Number: 644
EAN: 9781933392622
ASIN: 1933392622
Publication Date: July 15, 2008
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Product Description
You've read the stories and watched the documentaries. So you're convinced--burning fossil fuels leads to global climate change; supplies of fossil fuels are diminishing in quantity and increasing in price. You've fretted and worried, but still go through your day consuming some quantity of non-renewable fossil fuels to accomplish nearly every task (and you may not even realize it). You want to do something besides worry but you are unsure where to begin.
Read this book--then grab your handsaw, tape measure, and drill, and get started! A life powered by the sun is waiting for you. Meant as a guide for renovating existing homes, this book gives you the hands-on knowledge necessary to kick the fossil fuel habit, with projects small and large listed by skill, time, cost, and energy saved. For every aspect of your life currently powered by fossil fuels, we offer alternatives you can accomplish yourself to get started using renewable and sustainable sources of power.
Inspired by their own determination to wean themselves completely from fossil fuels, Rebekah and Stephen Hren provide a map for others interested in the path to producing all their own energy and living a fossil fuel-free life. It shows first how to reduce energy consumption as much as possible, then how to retrofit an existing home in order to obtain all heating and cooling, all cooking and refrigeration, and all hot water and electricity from renewable sources. The Hrens also provide advice on renewable methods of transportation and home gardening, as poor choices about food and mobility often negate hard-won gains in the home. Like many today, the Hrens felt they had a moral obligation to mitigate humankind's contribution to the ravages of pollution, including global warming as a result of fossil fuel addiction. In this book, the Hrens offer practical approaches that fit into anyone's budget, and can be done over time as a way to wean oneself from fossil fuel dependency.
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 Interesting, could use some tweaking November 14, 2008
I came to this book from an article in Ode Magazine and the article showed that the authors have great personalities, but that does not come through in the book for me.
If you, like my family, don't want to live out in the middle of nowhere, this is a great book for "greening" an existing home.
Definitely goes beyond "buy different light bulbs" and that is refreshing.
Packed with tips and practical retrofit ideas October 13, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The authors weaned their lives of fossil fuels in their standard 1930s urban house - and they then tell consumers how to retrofit existing homes to do the same, obtaining all power and heating and cooling from renewable sources. From cooking with biogas to using earth plaster to increase the biomass of a house, THE CARBON-FREE HOME is packed with tips and practical retrofit ideas, making it a fine acquisition for any homeowner's library and for general-interest lending collections.
Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch
How to live with-out fossil fuels September 7, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Great guide for both the the greenest of green and those who just want to take a few steps to cut their utility bills. The part of book which deals with why the authors decided to leave their hand built cob round house in the woods for the urban living is particularly interesting.
The Carbon-Free home August 11, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
The Carbon Free home is one of the most useful guides I have ever seen to greening your old white elephant. They give practical advice to city dwellers on how to retrofit your home to make it much less of an energy hog and perhaps even carbon free. There are three dozen realistic DIY projects and hundreds of usable tips and suggestions.
Nanny Nature gives this book four paws and a tail.
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