The Carbon-Free Home: 36 Remodeling Projects to Help Kick the Fossil-Fuel Habit (Paperback)
January 18, 2010 by admin
Filed under Remodeling Books
ReviewPublishers Weekly – With an endearing mix of down-to-earth practical solutions and funky DIY projects, this book provides readers with much-needed information on how to renovate habits and home to move closer to a zero-carbon existence. The Hrens, respectively a carpenter and a photovoltaic installer living in Durham, N.C., give specific and technical advice, based on their own experience, on how to lower energy use within and outside the house, with 36 projects ranging from sim (more…)
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.
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.
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!