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Green Building Books
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The Barefoot Architect: A Handbook for Green Building (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as green-building)
avg rating 4.28 — 336 ratings — published
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 2: Water-Harvesting Earthworks (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as green-building)
avg rating 4.58 — 203 ratings — published 2008
Builders' Cost for 100 Best-Selling Home Plans: The First and Only Resource That Combines Summary Cost Estimates With Designs (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as green-building)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1994
Green Building Illustrated (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as green-building)
avg rating 4.22 — 59 ratings — published 2014
Sustainable Construction: Green Building Design and Delivery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as green-building)
avg rating 3.94 — 78 ratings — published 2005
Green Building: Principles and Practices in Residential Construction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as green-building)
avg rating 4.33 — 15 ratings — published 2012
Recreating the American Home: The Passive House Approach (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as green-building)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 2010
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1: Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain Into Your Life and Landscape (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as green-building)
avg rating 4.47 — 507 ratings — published
Passive Solar House: The Complete Guide to Heating and Cooling Your Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as green-building)
avg rating 3.55 — 86 ratings — published 1997
The Natural House: A Complete Guide to Healthy, Energy-Efficient, Environmental Homes (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as green-building)
avg rating 3.94 — 77 ratings — published 2000
The Solar House: Passive Heating and Cooling (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as green-building)
avg rating 3.91 — 170 ratings — published 1990
The Straw Bale House (Real Goods Independent Living Book)
by (shelved 2 times as green-building)
avg rating 4.06 — 158 ratings — published 1994
The New Ecological Home: A Complete Guide to Green Building Options (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as green-building)
avg rating 3.68 — 37 ratings — published 2004
The Hand-Sculpted House: A Practical and Philosophical Guide to Building a Cob Cottage: The Real Goods Solar Living Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as green-building)
avg rating 4.45 — 581 ratings — published 1990
Building Green: A Complete How-to Guide To Alternative Building Methods - Earth Plaster, Straw Bale, Cordwood, Cob, Living Roofs (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as green-building)
avg rating 4.14 — 269 ratings — published 2005
Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as green-building)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,690 ratings — published 1978
Why Buildings Fall Down: How Structures Fail (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as green-building)
avg rating 4.00 — 828 ratings — published 1992
To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as green-building)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,479 ratings — published 1985
Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as green-building)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,357 ratings — published 2018
The New Science of Strong Materials: Or Why You Don't Fall through the Floor (Princeton Science Library)
by (shelved 1 time as green-building)
avg rating 4.15 — 536 ratings — published 1975
Engineering in Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as green-building)
avg rating 4.21 — 810 ratings — published 2022
Why Buildings Stand Up: The Strength of Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as green-building)
avg rating 3.95 — 864 ratings — published 1980
Neri Oxman: Material Ecology (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as green-building)
avg rating 4.64 — 72 ratings — published
Building Construction Illustrated (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as green-building)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,583 ratings — published 2014
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as green-building)
avg rating 4.29 — 19,909 ratings — published 1961
Re-Use in Construction: A Compendium of Circular Architecture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as green-building)
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published
101 Things I Learned in Architecture School (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as green-building)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,751 ratings — published 2006
Fundamentals of Building Construction: Materials and Methods (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as green-building)
avg rating 3.94 — 383 ratings — published 1986
Tiny Homes: Simple Shelter (The Shelter Library of Building Books)
by (shelved 1 time as green-building)
avg rating 4.16 — 724 ratings — published 2012
Building Construction: Principles, Materials, and Systems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as green-building)
avg rating 4.24 — 41 ratings — published 2006
Artisan Crafted Timber Frame Homes (Schiffer Book)
by (shelved 1 time as green-building)
avg rating 4.40 — 5 ratings — published 2006
Biomimicry Resource Handbook: A Seed Bank of Best Practices (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as green-building)
avg rating 4.36 — 14 ratings — published 2014
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as green-building)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,572 ratings — published 1997
Books The Self-Sufficiency Handbook (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as green-building)
avg rating 3.86 — 116 ratings — published 2007
The Green Book: The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet One Simple Step at a Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as green-building)
avg rating 3.43 — 929 ratings — published 2007
How to Solar Power Your Home: Everything You Need to Know Explained Simply (Back to Basics)
by (shelved 1 time as green-building)
avg rating 3.56 — 39 ratings — published 2009
Living Homes: Sustainable Architecture and Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as green-building)
avg rating 3.92 — 12 ratings — published 2008
Living Homes: Stone Masonry, Log and Strawbale Construction, 6th Edition (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as green-building)
avg rating 3.86 — 63 ratings — published 2001
Climate responsive architecture: A design handbook for energy efficient buildings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as green-building)
avg rating 4.25 — 52 ratings — published 1999
The Earth-Sheltered House: An Architect's Sketchbook (Real Goods Solar Living Book)
by (shelved 1 time as green-building)
avg rating 3.97 — 35 ratings — published 1998
A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as green-building)
avg rating 3.86 — 5,559 ratings — published 1997
LEED Core Concepts Hard Copy: an Introduction to LEED and Green Building (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as green-building)
avg rating 3.14 — 7 ratings — published
Green Fraud: Why the Green New Deal Is Even Worse than You Think (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as green-building)
avg rating 4.28 — 195 ratings — published 2021
Green Architecture: Pengantar Pemahaman Arsitektur Hijau Di Indonesia (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as green-building)
avg rating 4.05 — 40 ratings — published 2010
The Complete Guide to Contracting Your Home: A Step-by-Step Method for Managing Home Construction (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as green-building)
avg rating 4.00 — 54 ratings — published
Building a Sustainable Home: Practical Green Design Choices for Your Health, Wealth, and Soul (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as green-building)
avg rating 3.69 — 51 ratings — published
Green Building & Remodeling for Dummies (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as green-building)
avg rating 3.60 — 50 ratings — published 2007
Building Reuse: Sustainability, Preservation, and the Value of Design (Sustainable Design Solutions from the Pacific Northwest)
by (shelved 1 time as green-building)
avg rating 4.38 — 13 ratings — published
The Eco-Home Design Guide: Principles and practice for new-build and retrofit (Sustainable Building)
by (shelved 1 time as green-building)
avg rating 4.36 — 14 ratings — published 2015
Frank Lloyd Wright: Natural Design, Organic Architecture: Lessons for Building Green from an American Original (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as green-building)
avg rating 4.26 — 38 ratings — published 2012
“In order to create a sustainable world, we need to:
1) Educate people.
2) Educate people.
3) Educate people.
For every person left uneducated about the system of this sphere, the nature will make us all pay for it. Sustainability can only start in the mind.”
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1) Educate people.
2) Educate people.
3) Educate people.
For every person left uneducated about the system of this sphere, the nature will make us all pay for it. Sustainability can only start in the mind.”
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