Learn about "green" design with The Ecological Design Handbook!
The best A-TO-Z book available
on "green" design. Covers everything from alternative energy source
hardware to design...aesthetics...permaculture...energy-saving
retrofitting...interior air quality... hybrid construction materials...cohousing...bioremediation...infrastructure...and
the New Urbanism. Includes practical guidance on zoning, financing, and
implementation and up-to-the-minute ideas of international leaders in the field.
480 pp.
The Ecological Design Handbook - Table of Contents:
- Part I: Architecture and Building: The Greatest Opportunity
- Why Go Green?
- Green Building Design
- Why is Architecture Oblivious to the Environment
- Design Theory
- Part II: Site
- Nature and Architecture
- How to Uncover the Secrets of the Land
- Selecting a Site for Your Passive Solar Home
- The Living Landscape: An Ecological Approach to Landscape Planning
- The Passive Solar Concept
- Passive Solar: Sunspaces and Special Design Considerations
- Calculating Solar Energy and Power
- Building the Home Energy Machine
- Wind Power Evaluating the Technology-What Works and What Doesn't
- Part IV: Alternative Materials and Construction
- History and Evolution of Earth Construction
- Benefits of Straw Bale Construction
- The Building Envelope: Walls, Roofs, and Foundations
- Earth Casting
- Part V: Alternative Living
- The Case for Reuse
- Cluster Development
- Indoor Air Quality
- Villages Around the World
- Part VI: Eco Politics
- The Seduction of Planning
- The Economics of Building Codes and Standards
- Part VII: Waste, Bioremediaiton, & Permaculture
- Living Machines
- From Bioshelters to Solar Villages to Future Human Settlements
- Living Machines and the Years Ahead
- Part VIII: Architects and Their Work
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