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This completely revised and redesigned edition of the bestselling Natural House Book brings you hundreds of practical energy- and money-saving ideas to enhance your home, your environment, and your well-being.

Originally published in 1989, The Natural House Book anticipated our problems with garbage disposal, indoor air pollution, water purification, and environmental hazards. Today more than ever, we need inspiration and cutting-edge information to transform our homes into havens for the body, mind, and spirit.

Lavishly illustrated with more than 100 full-color photos, combining the expertise of top architects, designers, and ecology authorities from all over the world, here is a hands-on, step-by-step, room-by-room architectural and design guide to bring you and your family safely and happily into the twenty-first century.

You'll find out how to:

Use the latest toxin-free materials

Improve air and water quality

Save energy

Minimize maintenance

Create green space

Combat environmental hazards

Incorporate aromatherapy and feng shui

Design a personal space for contemplation

Build an exercise room

Use color, texture, and design to create a nourishing, stress-free environment for your family

Featuring a new Gaia House prototype design, a new Charter for Natural Building, and completely updated appendices on natural paints and varnishes, household cleaners, and indoor air pollution, as well as a mail-order resource list for furniture, carpeting, water filtration, and textiles, The New Natural House Book will help you create a better future..
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What if there was a year-round method of cooking that was low cost, powered by sunlight, non-polluting, and easy to do even in college dorms, apartment balconies and off-the-grid locations? There is: Solar Cooking Solar cooking is easy everywhere in the U.S., and as far north as Canada, and as far south as Australia. In a solar cooker you can do everything from simmering to poaching, steaming, sautéing, braising, baking, roasting, toasting, pan frying, grilling, canning, medical sterilization, and even making ice (at night!). "The Sunny Side of Cooking" includes:How to choose the right solar cooker for you. More than 100 tested vegetarian recipes & tips for cooking. Adapt your favorite recipes to a solar cooker. Create a year-round sustainable cooking system. "Beautifully detailed and informative. I highly recommend it both for beginners and experienced solar cooks. Her recipes make one's mouth water just reading them!" Barbara Prosser Kerr, Solar Cooking Pioneer, Taylor, ArizonaFrom the author of "Growing Food in the Southwest Mountains."128 pages. Dozens of rare and original illustrations. Printed on 100% recycled paper (Post-consumer waste). Spiral bound to lay flat while cooking.Topics from Table of Contents: The basics of solar cooking. Anyone can be a solar cook. Select the right solar cooker for you. Solar cooking basics. Pots & pans for solar cooking. Solar cooking methods. Solar recipes. Preheating, defrosting & melting. Grains, polenta & porridge. Beans, lentils & split peas. Pasta & dumplings. Sautés, roux & gravy. Soups & stews. Fruit, jam & pie fillings. Vegetables. Casseroles & one pot meals. Tofu, tempeh, seitan & veggie burgers. Baked goods. Toasting nuts, seeds, granola & more. Solar pasteurization & canning. Make ice & cool food! The sustainable kitchen. Fireless cooking. Pressure cooking. Earth ovens. Biomass stoves. Sustainable cooking resourcesAppendix (books, websites, DVDs). Illustrations. Acknowledgements. About the author..
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Sustainable Landscaping For Dummies provides hands-on, how-to instruction for realizing the benefits of a sustainable landscape, from selecting sutainable hardscape materials to installing a rain-water catchment system to choosing native plants..
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Die erste Auflage des ökologischen Bauteilkataloges erschien 1999 in deutscher Sprache. Das große Interesse an einer Sammlung ökologischer Bewertungen und Detaildarstellungen, detaillierten baupraktischen Beschreibungen und bauphysikalischen Kennwerten, machten das Buch schnell zu einem konkurrenzlosen Klassiker. Für die zweite Auflage wurden die Regelquerschnitte im Hinblick auf den Passivhaus-Standard dimensioniert und die ökologische Bewertung aktualisiert und anschaulicher dargestellt, erneut zahlreiche Parameter unter die Lupe genommen und wissenschaftlich ausgewertet. Neu ist, dass die Bewertung auf der Grundlage des internationalen Passivhaus-Standards durchgeführt wurde.

In der zweiten Auflage finden Planer, Architekten und Auslober zuverlässige Baudetails für den Passivhaus-Standard, Kriterien für den Nachweis ökologisch optimierter Planung, Baustoffberatungswissen, Kriterien für die Ausschreibung und natürlich ein kompetentes Nachschlagewerk für die Beratung mit dem Bauherren.

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They live near us, with us and even on us, but most of us don't notice bugs unless they're bugging us. In fact, bugs could live without us a lot easier than we could live without them. Show-Me Bugs introduces you to Missouri's most fascinating and most ecologically important wildlife. Use it to get to know some of the little creatures that help keep the Show-Me state clean, green and natural..
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This comprehensive, one-of-a-kind guide is loaded with practical, down-to-earth information on the nature-based products and home improvements that will contribute most to a child's health and well-being and make baby's world a safer place. Includes a toll-free directory of agencies, manufacturers, and contact groups and a complete list of sources of additional baby-safe products..
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Widespread use of broad-spectrum chemical pesticides has revolutionized pest management But there is growing concern about environmental contamination and human health risks--and continuing frustration over the ability of pests to develop resistance to pesticides. In Ecologically Based Pest Management, an expert committee advocates the sweeping adoption of ecologically based pest management (EBPM) that promotes both agricultural productivity and a balanced ecosystem. This volume offers a vision and strategies for creating a solid, comprehensive knowledge base to support a pest management system that incorporates ecosystem processes supplemented by a continuum of inputs--biological organisms, products, cultivars, and cultural controls. The result will be safe, profitable, and durable pest management strategies. The book evaluates the feasibility of EBPM and examines how best to move beyond optimal examples into the mainstream of agriculture. The committee stresses the need for information, identifies research priorities in the biological as well as socioeconomic realm, and suggests institutional structures for a multidisciplinary research effort. Ecologically Based Pest Management addresses risk assessment, risk management, and public oversight of EBPM. The volume also overviews the history of pest management--from the use of sulfur compounds in 1000 B.C. to the emergence of transgenic technology. Ecologically Based Pest Management will be vitally important to the agrichemical industry; policymakers, regulators, and scientists in agriculture and forestry; biologists, researchers, and environmental advocates; and interested growers..
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