Customer Reviews

The Carbon-Free Home: 36 Remodeling Projects to Help Kick the Fossil-Fuel Habit

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The Carbon Free home is one of the most useful guides I have ever seen to greening your old white elephant. They give practical advice to city dwellers on how to retrofit your home to make it much less of an energy hog and perhaps even carbon free. There are three dozen realistic DIY projects and hundreds of usable tips and suggestions.
Nanny Nature gives this book four paws and a tail.

I have an extensive collection of books written about renewable energy and natural building and was getting desperate to find some experts that lived in the part of the country and in the same climate as me and I finally found them!
The book is a terrific source of new ideas and source references. Definitely a good buy, especially for those of us who don't happen to live on the West Coast but still want to be really green!

The text of this book has proved to be interesting reading. but the charts interspaced throughout were difficult to read. It appears as though the original art work was done in color, but its contrast was lost to a great extent, by the gray scale used in the printing process.

We've been wanting to make some changes in our life to reduce our carbon footprint and have read a number of books/suggestions along those lines. Unfortunately most of the suggestions have been out of reach of our limited budget. This book was such a great surprise which left me thinking - "Finally, a book for the rest of us!"

Great guide for both the the greenest of green and those who just want to take a few steps to cut their utility bills. The part of book which deals with why the authors decided to leave their hand built cob round house in the woods for the urban living is particularly interesting.

I came to this book from an article in Ode Magazine and the article showed that the authors have great personalities, but that does not come through in the book for me.

If you, like my family, don't want to live out in the middle of nowhere, this is a great book for "greening" an existing home.

Definitely goes beyond "buy different light bulbs" and that is refreshing.

A good place to start if you're interested in alternative energy sources. The discussions are aimed at pointing you in the right direction prior to launching a project. Excellent presentation.

The authors weaned their lives of fossil fuels in their standard 1930s urban house - and they then tell consumers how to retrofit existing homes to do the same, obtaining all power and heating and cooling from renewable sources. From cooking with biogas to using earth plaster to increase the biomass of a house, THE CARBON-FREE HOME is packed with tips and practical retrofit ideas, making it a fine acquisition for any homeowner's library and for general-interest lending collections.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch