Would you like to live in a quality house and have low utility and maintenance bills? A house that will re-sell easily and would not have damaged the earth's ecology and natural resources? A house that will retain its beauty and value through the years? You can have this kind of house today. The Timber Reduced Energy Efficient Home is designed and built to use timber more efficiently, to eliminate the destruction of large old trees, and to utilize building materials that consume less energy overall and are less harmful to the environment. It's all in this book with many illustrations and photographs. * * * * * Ed Paschich is an expert at building passive solar adobe homes in the high desert of the American Southwest. Paula Hendricks is a well-known writer and photographer. Her own line of museum quality notecards featuring her photographic images are sold internationally.
Want the high thermal mass, affordability, use of waste products, energy efficiency, and environmental responsibility of an Earthship, but with a more conventional look? This is the book for you. This is a great reference book for DIY green builders. Slim, easy to read with good diagrams and photos, and written with common sense.
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