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Your Green Abode: A Practical Guide to a Sustainable Home
* Promotes conservation practices for any home
* Provides tips that save money as well as carbon emissions
* Real-world advice for busy people on a budget
This sustainable home primer covers ways to green your home from lawn to rooftop, focusing on accessible eco-friendly improvements for any dwelling -- from a cement-walled urban apartment to a turn-of-the-century manse. Your Green Abode is filled with advice on green living, DIY green re-modeling, and green gardening. And any shade of green is better than brown!
Author Tara Rae Miner encourages readers to start small, do what interests them, and handle only what they can afford. The process of greening a home is the process of getting to know a home, and Miner guides readers through different areas, distilling research and advice on everything from window and paint options to more effective ways to recycle to the benefits of planting a garden. With chapters on the home-planet connection, saving energy, and setting policies for a "Personal Clean Air Act," she presents important information on reducing energy bills, ways to measure your "carbon houseprint," and how to eliminate toxic chemicals from your life (be gone, vinyl shower curtains!). Your Green Abode is for real people who want easy-to-understand choices that make their homes a little more earth-friendly -- without signing off on a second mortgage. It's about having realistic expectations and goals, and keeping a sense of humor while learning what makes a home tick.
* Provides tips that save money as well as carbon emissions
* Real-world advice for busy people on a budget
This sustainable home primer covers ways to green your home from lawn to rooftop, focusing on accessible eco-friendly improvements for any dwelling -- from a cement-walled urban apartment to a turn-of-the-century manse. Your Green Abode is filled with advice on green living, DIY green re-modeling, and green gardening. And any shade of green is better than brown!
Author Tara Rae Miner encourages readers to start small, do what interests them, and handle only what they can afford. The process of greening a home is the process of getting to know a home, and Miner guides readers through different areas, distilling research and advice on everything from window and paint options to more effective ways to recycle to the benefits of planting a garden. With chapters on the home-planet connection, saving energy, and setting policies for a "Personal Clean Air Act," she presents important information on reducing energy bills, ways to measure your "carbon houseprint," and how to eliminate toxic chemicals from your life (be gone, vinyl shower curtains!). Your Green Abode is for real people who want easy-to-understand choices that make their homes a little more earth-friendly -- without signing off on a second mortgage. It's about having realistic expectations and goals, and keeping a sense of humor while learning what makes a home tick.
- GenresSustainability
256 pages, Paperback
Published September 27, 2010
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November 15, 2010
I am always looking for ways to live life for the better of my family and my community. I know that the "Green" band wagon is something that many people think is all hype. HONESTLY! But I see it as something else. No not a tree hugging lifestyle but instead a frugal way to live. I like to look at ways I can make the few dollars that make it to our house to stay at our house for a lil while.
And a few ways to do just that are to be "green". I am happy to have Your Green Abode: A Practical Guide to a Sustainable Home by Tara Rae Miner to give me some ideas and tips.
Your Green Abode is for real people who want easy-to-understand choices that make their homes a little more earth-friendly — without signing off on a second mortgage. Now that I can go with. I am all for reducing my energy bills, going easy on the water and even planting a garden. Things we all can benefit from with out a real discomfort to our lives. Many are old fashion common sense ideas like repairing instead of replacing. So many of us today are into the ease of something instead of the best way to make our money and life stretch. Now I know our home needs insulation really bad. Oh how it does. And that on our lil budget it is just not happening soon. But I also know that I can do small things to help. Close off unused rooms, keep lights off when not in use, rugs on floors to help keep us warmer, even those cute draft shields for under the doors. Easy, inexpensive and actually works too. I know I am going to beg for the use of a vacuum today so I can do just some of those ideas. Actually sitting here freezing my lil tookus off and am looking up ways to get my house warmer very quickly.
November 15, 2010
I am always looking for ways to live life for the better of my family and my community. I know that the "Green" band wagon is something that many people think is all hype. HONESTLY! But I see it as something else. No not a tree hugging lifestyle but instead a frugal way to live. I like to look at ways I can make the few dollars that make it to our house to stay at our house for a lil while.
And a few ways to do just that are to be "green". I am happy to have Your Green Abode: A Practical Guide to a Sustainable Home by Tara Rae Miner to give me some ideas and tips.
Your Green Abode is for real people who want easy-to-understand choices that make their homes a little more earth-friendly — without signing off on a second mortgage. Now that I can go with. I am all for reducing my energy bills, going easy on the water and even planting a garden. Things we all can benefit from with out a real discomfort to our lives. Many are old fashion common sense ideas like repairing instead of replacing. So many of us today are into the ease of something instead of the best way to make our money and life stretch. Now I know our home needs insulation really bad. Oh how it does. And that on our lil budget it is just not happening soon. But I also know that I can do small things to help. Close off unused rooms, keep lights off when not in use, rugs on floors to help keep us warmer, even those cute draft shields for under the doors. Easy, inexpensive and actually works too. I know I am going to beg for the use of a vacuum today so I can do just some of those ideas. Actually sitting here freezing my lil tookus off and am looking up ways to get my house warmer very quickly.
And a few ways to do just that are to be "green". I am happy to have Your Green Abode: A Practical Guide to a Sustainable Home by Tara Rae Miner to give me some ideas and tips.
Your Green Abode is for real people who want easy-to-understand choices that make their homes a little more earth-friendly — without signing off on a second mortgage. Now that I can go with. I am all for reducing my energy bills, going easy on the water and even planting a garden. Things we all can benefit from with out a real discomfort to our lives. Many are old fashion common sense ideas like repairing instead of replacing. So many of us today are into the ease of something instead of the best way to make our money and life stretch. Now I know our home needs insulation really bad. Oh how it does. And that on our lil budget it is just not happening soon. But I also know that I can do small things to help. Close off unused rooms, keep lights off when not in use, rugs on floors to help keep us warmer, even those cute draft shields for under the doors. Easy, inexpensive and actually works too. I know I am going to beg for the use of a vacuum today so I can do just some of those ideas. Actually sitting here freezing my lil tookus off and am looking up ways to get my house warmer very quickly.
March 27, 2013
Same old same old. This one has a great check list for how to "green" your home at the end, but no earth shattering revelations.
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