| View Larger Image | The Carbon-Free Home: 36 Remodeling Projects to Help Kick the Fossil-Fuel Habit | Paperbackby Stephen & Rebekah Hren (Author)
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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Chelsea Green Publishing | | Edition: | 1St Editionst Edition | | Page Count: | 320 Pages | | Publication Date: | July 15, 2008 | | Sales Rank: | 466,944th |
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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. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 7 reviews)
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Finally! A book for the rest of us! by Pampered Mom  5 Stars
February 05, 2009
We've been wanting to make some changes in our life to reduce our carbon footprint and have read a number of books/suggestions along those lines. Unfortunately most of the suggestions have been out of reach of our limited budget. This book was such a great surprise which left me thinking - "Finally, a book for the rest of us!"
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the carbon-free home by russ martin (new england)  4 Stars
January 06, 2009
A good place to start if you're interested in alternative energy sources. The discussions are aimed at pointing you in the right direction prior to launching a project. Excellent presentation.
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Finally, some expert renewable energy authors in the Southeast! by A. Wilson (Wake Forest, NC) 5 Stars
December 04, 2008
I have an extensive collection of books written about renewable energy and natural building and was getting desperate to find some experts that lived in the part of the country and in the same climate as me and I finally found them!
The book is a terrific source of new ideas and source references. Definitely a good buy, especially for those of us who don't happen to live on the West Coast but still want to be really green!
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Interesting, could use some tweaking by Andi (United States) 4 Stars
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.
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Packed with tips and practical retrofit ideas by Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) 5 Stars
October 13, 2008
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
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