green living

Until recently, green living meant household waste recycling or choosing bamboo or cork flooring. This book explains new directions in architecture where efficiency is the new priority in building culture, offering the latest trends in conserving resources, maintaining healthy indoor environments, and reducing environmental impact of your house.  Eco House is a thorough guide to the structural features and interior and exterior elements that make a house eco friendly and “green”.

Eco House explains, among other things: the principles of thermal and geothermal installation; how to build a mini

After seeing this book at the bookstore, I checked our catalog to see if we owned it. However, I thought it was something along the lines of badger, ground squirrel or some other rodent lifestyle. But once I figured out it was Possum Living, I couldn't get enough.

In a time where we are living on little, hoarding what we have and looking for peace in an uncertain economy, this book provides a few quotes that will knock your socks off...or at least mine anyway.

"People don't own possessions, their possessions own them." - Diogenes

"It's easier to learn to do without some of the things that

Organic Housekeeping (or Green Housekeeping as titled for the newer paperback version) is a useful and informative guide to green cleaning and organizing. Ellen Sandbeck will help you to enjoy your home more by simplifying your cleaning process, using non-toxic cleaners and time saving techniques. It is a lighthearted and highly readable book full of common sense, practical and inexpensive tips some of which go back to good old-fashioned advice. “Clean it, don’t chemically contaminate it!” that is what Ellen says.

The chapters are well organized by parts of the house you are dealing with. The

When Fine bought his 41 acre ranch in New Mexico, he had four goals in mind. “1. Use a lot less oil 2.  Power my life by renewable energy 3. Eat as locally as possible 4. Don’t starve, electrocute myself, get eaten by the local mountain lions, get shot by my UN-fearing neighbors, or otherwise die in a way that would cause embarrassment if the obituary writer did his or her research.”

Over the course of a year, as he worked toward accomplishing his goals, Fine found the task a little more difficult that he anticipated and discovered many environmental contradictions in “living green”. For