Product Description
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…. More >>
The New Ecological Home: A Complete Guide to Green Building Options
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This book was a little bit hard to understand, especially if you are not knowledgable on the subject. I would recommend something more clear and easier to read.
Rating: 3 / 5
This books organically combines introductions into various aspects of green home building with practical suggestions, calculations and brief product reviews.
Rating: 5 / 5
I was expecting a more practical book, like “green from the ground up”, with more design guidelines. Although the nice cover does not reflect the quality of the contents, it’s worth reading it.
Rating: 3 / 5
Having been the first of it’s kind I have read, this book is well-organized and readable. It seems good for the person brainstorming on what steps to take in the design of their eco-home. For more specific information to carry out the tasks, I would suggest other resources.
Rating: 4 / 5
This book could very easily serve as a textbook for a green building course. It’s not a coffee table book – the photos are small, and black and white – but very useful in supporting the text. This is a serious book about alternative building written by and about a group of people who have been creatively, responsibly, thoughtfully building for a very long time. It’s a good choice for builders who want to learn more about sustainability, students who want to go into the field, or homeowners who are looking to build. It’s not so much glitzy and inspirational as it is informative and useful: comprehensive from site selection and design through building options and techniques, to landscaping, it also contains a great resource guide.
Rating: 5 / 5