The Building Today’s Green Home: Practical, Cost-Effective and Eco-Responsible Homebuilding (Popular Woodworking) (Paperback)

More and more homebuyers and homebuilders are focusing on “right-sizing” their dream home instead of mortgaging their dreams away. Today’s Dream Home gives you instruction and avice on best practices for building a smaller, more cost effective house without compromising comfort or quality. Building a right-sized, energy-efficient home can free up your investment capital for the retirement years, and this book gives you the information you need to build to the right home for your (more…)

Fundamentals of Integrated Design for Sustainable Building (Hardcover)

“Fundamentals of Integrated Design for Sustainable Building offers an introduction to green building concepts as well as design approaches that reduce and can eventually eliminate the need for fossil fuel use in buildings while also conserving materials, maximizing their efficiency, protecting the indoor air from chemical intrusion, and reducing the introduction of toxic materials into the environment. It represents a necessary road map to the future designers, builders, and planne (more…)

A Primer on Sustainable Building

Updated for 2007, this book demonstrates how a holistic approach to design can result in a building even better than the sum of its parts.

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Understanding Green Building Guidelines: For Students and Young Professionals (Paperback)

Summarizes the main issues and strategies of the forceful and fast-paced green building movement. Many professions are increasingly producing tools to assist clients in breaking down and understanding the different elements that reside under the umbrella of the sustainability movement. For the design and construction professions, this unpacking often takes the form of green building guidelines and rating systems. This book aims to look at a selection of both national and local gree (more…)

Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000 (Paperback)

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“Dolores Hayden is a unique urban pathfinder. She hunts down the relationships among popular aspirations, big urban players, and the everyday experience of domestic life. In this book she traces the history of our suburban metropolises, guiding the reader through seven easily recognized on-the-setreet patterns. The end of the history is the now when the government and private corporations anxously push to maintain our cities of consumption. And yes, she has found a way leadin (more…)

Green Building Magazine [MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTION]

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The Benefits of Building Green, Show Me How Videos

About the Actor
Michael Baldwin is a leading green building contractor

About the Director
Stephen Showalter produces instructional videos for Show Me How Videos

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The Building of the Green Valley: A Reconstruction of an Early 17th-Century Rural Landscape (Paperback)

This book presents the story of the construction of the 17th century historical landscape used in the BBC2 television series ‘Tales from the Green Valley’. On one level it is the tale of a bizarre social project carried out by some 400 muscular historians, re-enactors, international volunteers, cavers and mountain climbers. On another it provides a detailed account of the development of a valuable experimental history project with wide educational and research applications, on a mi (more…)

The Barefoot Architect: A Handbook for Green Building [BAREFOOT ARCHITECT] (Paperback)

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WGBH Boston Specials: Building Green (4pc) (2008)

Studio: Wgbh Wholesale Release Date: 04/22/2008 Run time: 360 minutes

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Profit from Building Green: Award Winning Tips to Build Energy Efficient Homes (Paperback)

Develop an effective green home building business with the NAHB Research Center’s resident expert, Jeannie Leggett Sikora. She has combed through hundreds of annual contest entries and talked to past award winners to develop specific examples and tried-and-true techniques to give home builders the inside track to create successful green building practices, for choosing products to marketing energy efficient homes.

About the Author
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Green BIM: Successful Sustainable Design with Building Information Modeling (Paperback)

Meet the challenge of integrating Building Information Modeling and sustainability with this in-depth guide, which pairs these two revolutionary movements to create environmentally friendly design through a streamlined process. Written by an award-winning team that has gone beyond theory to lead the implementation of Green BIM projects, this comprehensive reference features practical strategies, techniques, and real-world expertise so that you can create sustainable BIM projects, n (more…)

The New Ecological Home: A Complete Guide to Green Building Options (Chelsea Green Guides for Homeowners) (Paperback)

In this new comprehensive volume, Chiras includes chapters on green building materials, earth-sheltered architecture, passive solar heating and cooling, sustainable approaches to water and waste, energy efficiency, and environmental landscaping. He sets the record strait on the vast potential for passive heating and cooling and provides a resource guide, recommendations, and a green-building checklist.

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As homeowners become more environmentally savvy and dema (more…)

Green Building & Remodeling For Dummies (Kindle Edition)

Want to build responsibly, reduce waste, and help preserve the environment? Green Building & Remodeling For Dummies is your friendly, step-by-step guide to every facet of this Earth-friendly method of construction. Building a home-even a green home-uses plenty of resources and energy. This practical, hands-on book shows you how to build or remodel conscientiously, whether your dream home is a simple remodel or a brand-new multimillion-dollar mansion. You-ll start by identifying gre (more…)

Asset Building and Community Development (Paperback)

Review”This is a very hands-on book, rich with both information and examples . . . what makes the volume especially readable is the insertion of brief case studies into most chapters . . . a productive read for both students of community development and the general public.” — Review
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Green Building Handbook: A Companion Guide to Building Products and Their Impact on the Environment (Paperback)

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“An impressive collection.” — Architects’ Journal.An impressive collection – Architects Journal.From reviews of the Green Building Handbook: The Publisher is to be congratulated on this book – Building.Winner of Gold Medal, 2001 CIOB literary awards (Building Process category)`…a great book. – SEDA`…an ingenious and I think effective way of providing information in such a way that specifiers will be drawn to consider more fundamentally benign solutions. – Scottish Ecolo (more…)

Green Building Fundamentals (Paperback)

This book helps trainees understand the fundamental concepts of sustainable design and green building practices, which will soon become common practice on every project. It is also intended as a practical guide for becoming a LEED Accredited Professional, with a step-by-step study guide and a study assessment (a practice exam with a focused discussion for each example, including references to the USGBC’s LEED-NC Reference Guide.) This book includes a discussion on why this topic (more…)

The Green Building Bottom Line (GreenSource Books; Green Source): The Real Cost of Sustainable Building (Mcgraw-Hill’s Greensource) (Hardcover)

What are the real costs and real benefits of building green? As any builder knows, cost estimation and reality are often two very different things. The Green Building Bottom Line makes the case for green building by providing the insights and data that demonstrate the true costs and benefits of building green. It’s a “why to” and a “how to” that explores everything from the ground up. The Green Building Bottom Line puts an entire development team at the table to (more…)

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Green Building and Remodeling (Paperback)

It’s easy building green! This guide helps environmentally conscious people make real-world decisions about building or remodeling a home. Readers will find information on how to save money by going green when building or remodeling, how to find the right green integrated system design, how to choose heating and cooling equipment, and how to save money on water. ·Focuses on the design integration of green materials ·Residential and commercial green building will grow from 2% (more…)

Green Building Materials: A Guide to Product Selection and Specification (Hardcover)

This excellent hands-on guide to designing environmentally friendly buildings — those made from materials that preserve the earth’s natural legacy for future generations — is written by two nationally known experts on the subject. You’ll find practical information on green product selection, product specification, and construction processes. You’ll also learn just what green building materials are, where you can find them, and how you can use them effectively. This edition includ (more…)

Green Building: Project Planning & Cost Estimating (Means Green Building: Project Planning & Cost Estimating) (Paperback)

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This new edition of Green Building: Project Planning and Estimating is a total revision and update. It includes the latest in green building technologies, design concepts and standards. Purchasers of the book also receive the RS Means Green Building CostWorks CD which provides more than 5,000 unit price line items for green materials and products and over 150 assemblies (high efficiency HVAC systems, gray water systems, etc.). All in all, this is an excellent addition to th (more…)

Contractors Guide to Green Building Construction: Management, Project Delivery, Documentation, and Risk Reduction (Hardcover)

Written for contractors and endorsed by the Associated General Contractors of America Written specifically for contractors, this “how-to” book enables you to meet the challenges of green building construction. You’ll discover how constructing environmentally friendly, sustainable buildings influences project management, delivery, documentation, and risk. Moreover, the book guides you through these important considerations at all phases of a green construction project, including (more…)

Green Building Trends: Europe (Paperback)

The “green building revolution” is a worldwide movement for energy-efficient, environmentally aware architecture and design. Europe has been in the forefront of green building technology, and Green Building Trends: Europe provides an indispensable overview of these cutting edge ideas and applications. In order to write this book, well-known U.S. green building expert Jerry Yudelson interviewed a number of Europe’s leading architects and engineers and visited many exemplary proj (more…)

The Integrative Design Guide to Green Building: Redefining the Practice of Sustainability (Sustainable Design) (Hardcover)

“The members of 7group and Bill Reed are examples writ large of the kind of leadership that is taking this idea of green building and forming it into reality, by helping change minds, building practice, and design process.” —from the Foreword by S. Rick Fedrizzi President, CEO, and Founding Chair, U.S. Green Building Council A whole-building approach to sustainability The integrative design process offers a new path to making better green building decisions and addressin (more…)

Building Green: A Complete How-To Guide to Alternative Building Methods Earth Plaster * Straw Bale * Cordwood * Cob * Living Roofs (Paperback)

From Publishers Weekly
This large, generously illustrated manual is an excellent primer on owner-designed and site-inspired building. Snell, who wrote the eco-friendly The Good House Book, and Callahan, a more conventional but highly experienced builder and contractor, take readers step-by-step through the creation of a charming little guesthouse, demonstrating a variety of “green” techniques along the way. They start with an introduction to building fundamentals and how alternative (more…)

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