| Title |
Description |
Where
to buy |
Rating |
| Business |
|
|
|
| A Place in the Sun |
| Author |
John
Schaeffer |
| Pages |
287 |
| Year |
1997 |
| ISBN |
(invalid)
0-89013-201-2 |
| Contents |
The Big Idea
Getting Real: Real Goods and Its Customers
Landscape Plan: A Place Study
Design: Manifesting the Vision
Power and Climate Response Systems
A New Way of Working
Making the Most of Your Visit
A Solar Living Center in Every State |
| Summary |
The
amazing story of how John Schaeffer and his "collaborative design
team" build The Solar Living Center. |
|
Click
here to purchase this book from Chapters. |
Excellent |
| Design |
|
|
|
| Ecological
Design |
| Author |
Sim
Van Der Ryn and Stuart Cowan |
| Pages |
201 |
| Year |
1996 |
| ISBN |
1-55963-389-1 |
| Contents |
Part One: Bringing
Design to Life
Sustainability and Design
An Introduction to Ecological Design
Nature's Geometry
Part Two: The Ecological Design Process
Introduction: The Compost Privy Story
First Principle: Solutions Grow from Place
Second Principle: Ecological Accounting Informs Design
Third Principle: Design with Nature
Fourth Principle: Everyone Is a Designer
Fifth Principle: Make Nature Visible |
| Summary |
Excellent
book for setting priorites for changes you can make in your lifestyle
and living based on scientific principles. |
|
Click
here to purchase this book from Chapters. |
Good |
| Homes |
|
|
|
| The
Natural House Book |
| Author |
David
Pearson |
| Pages |
287 |
| Year |
1989 |
| ISBN |
0-671-66635-5 |
| Contents |
Natural House
Dangerous House
Three Life Systems
Materials
Living Spaces
Sleeping Spaces
Bathing Spaces
Health Spaces
Greenspaces |
| Summary |
Inspiring
pictures and text show the creative side of eco-homes. |
|
Click
here to purchase this book from Chapters. |
Good |
| Living
Spaces - Ecological Building and Design |
| Author |
Thomas
Schmitz-Gunther |
| Pages |
466 |
| Year |
1999 |
| ISBN |
3-89508-925-7 |
| Contents |
Ecology, Technology
and Building
The First Steps Towards Your Own Home
Internal Building Components
Home Technology
Functional Rooms
Pests
Decor
Yard and Garden |
| Summary |
A
great overview of everything you need to think about when contemplating
and eco-home. Based on extensive real examples of homes mainly in
Europe. |
|
Click
here to purchase this book from Amazon. |
Excellent |
| Economics |
|
|
|
| Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble |
| Author |
Lester R. Brown |
| Pages |
365 |
| Year |
2006 (Updated), 2003 |
| ISBN |
0-393-06162-0(hardcover) 0-393-32831-7(pbk.) |
| Contents |
Entering a New world
Beyond the Oil Peak
Emerging Water Shortages
Rising Temperatures and Rising Seas
Natural Systems Under Stress
Early Signs of Decline
Eradicating Poverty, Stabilizing Population
Restoring the Earth
Feeding Seven Billion Well
Stabilizing Climate
Designing Sustainable Cities
Building a New Economy
Plan B: Building a New Future |
| Summary |
Our global economy is outgrowing the capacity of the earth to support it, moving us ever closer to decline and possible collapse. We have lost sight of how vast the human enterprise has become. A century ago, annual growth in the world economy was measured in billions of dollars. Today it is measured in trillions. As a result, we are consuming renewable resources faster than they can regenerate. Forests are shrinking, water tables are falling, and fisheries are declining. We are using up oil at a pace that leaves little time to plan beyond peak oil, and we are discharging greenhouse gases into the atmosphere faster than nature can absorb them. Sustaining progress now depends on replacing the fossil fuel --based, throwaway economy with a new economy, one powered by abudndant sources of wind, solar energy, hydropower, and biofuels. The tansportation systems will be far more diverse, relying more on light-rail, buses, and bicycles and less on cars. And it will be a comprehensive reuse-recycle economy. We have the technologies needed to build the new economy, including, for example, gas-electric hybrid cars, advanced-design wind turbines, highly efficient refrigerators,, and water-efficient irrigation systems. We can see how to build the new economy brick by brick. With each wind farm, rooftop solar panel, and reforestation program, we move closer to an economy that can sustain economic progress. |
|
Read the book for free in PDF format or to buy it. |
Must Read |
| Natural
Capitalism |
| Author |
Paul
Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins |
| Pages |
396 |
| Year |
1999 |
| ISBN |
0-316-35316-7 |
| Contents |
The Next Industrial
Revolution
Reinventing the Wheels: Hypercars and Neighborhoods
Waste Not
Making the World
Building Blocks
Tunneling Through the Cost Barrier
Muda, Service, and Flow
Capital Gains
Nature's Filaments
Food for Life
Aqueous Solutions
Climate
Making Markets Work
Human Capitalism
Once Upon a Planet |
| Summary |
A
vision of how our economics systems could be used to power the ecological
revolution required to stop the destruction of our environment. |
|
Click
here to purchase this book from Chapters. |
Excellent |
| Lifestyle |
|
|
|
| A
Reasonable Life: Toward a Simpler, Secure, More Humane Existence |
| Author |
Ferenc
Máté |
| Pages |
259 |
| Year |
1997 |
| ISBN |
0-920256-36-8 |
| Contents |
1. The American
Dream
2. The True Cost of a Thing
3. Sunday
4. Home?!
5. The Home Garden
6. The Myth of the Steady Job
8. Human Corporations
9. Our Devastated Agriculture
10. True Security in the Country
11. Unliviable Cities
12. The Death of the Individual
13. Losing Our Children
14. The Self-Helpless Society
15. Television: Zeros as Heros
16. A Government of the $ by the $ for the $
17. Reasonable Lives
18. A Reasonable Future |
| Summary |
A
simple plan for a simple way to live. |
|
Click
here to purchase this book from Chapters. |
Excellent |
| The
Consumers's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices |
| Author |
Michael
Brower, PH.D and Warren Leon, PH.D |
| Pages |
292 |
| Year |
1999 |
| ISBN |
0-609-80281-X |
| Contents |
Part I: Consumers
and the Environment
1. How Many Simple Things Do People Need to Do to Save the Planet?
2 Media Makes the Message--Garbage as a Case Study
3. The Real Impacts of Household Consumption
Part II: What You Can Do
4. Priorities for Personal Action
5. Avoiding High-Impact Activities
6. Seven Rules for Responsible Consumption
7. What You Can Ask Government to Do
Epilogue: From Walden to Wal-Mart--Consumers and Their Critics,
By Susan Strasser
Appendixes
A. Research Methods and Results
B. Resources for Environmentally Concerned Citizens |
| Summary |
Excellent
book for setting priorites for changes you can make in your lifestyle
and living based on scientific principles. |
|
Click
here to purchase this book from Chapters. |
Good |
| |
|
|
|
