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Eco House Book

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Too often, books on green building hector their readers, or at best, pay a little lip service to environmental issues while pushing products. Not so "Eco House Book," by Terence Conran, who has written yet another sensible work that should help homeowners to think carefully about their living spaces.

Conran identifies and explains what we're seeing, moving from a house built to survive the wind on a desert mesa in New Mexico, to a home in Chicago designed to capture natural light to an off-the-grid home in Oregon and to a home in Sweden that is entirely unpainted but still well-insulated and warm, and plenty of other structures along the way.

Each of the 17 homes illustrates a point in a given category: services (energy and heating, for example), basic fabric, meaning windows, floors, etc., design, outdoor spaces and maintenance. Photos and text flow together, taking readers on an architectural and design tour of the many possibilities, given the landscape and weather of where the home is located and the preferences of their owners.

Though many of the homes shown here are in the United States, this is very much a British book, but that shouldn't get in the way of Americans looking to build a green life. The terms may differ; the cause and value do not.

Intelligence, not preaching, reigns in this pages, and readers are left with a sense of empowerment, knowing that they too, with some thought, can live healthier lives and yet not sacrifice beauty or practicality in the process.

You can judge a book by it's cover!!
Excellent effort and it look great on your coffee table to boot.