Green Your Home All in One For Dummies [Paperback]

Yvonne Jeffery (Author), Liz Barclay (Author), Michael Grosvenor (Author), Elizabeth B. Goldsmith (Author), Betsy Sheldon (Author), Eric Corey Freed (Author), Rik DeGunther (Author), Ann Whitman (Author), The National Gardening Association (Author), Owen E. Dell (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 9, 2009

Green Your Home All-in-One For Dummies empowers readers to make ecologically-friendly improvements to each and every area of their home. At $29.99 and 696 pages, this package is a real value and a true source book for readers looking for a substantial breadth of information and solutions yet unwilling to invest in four, five, or six books on the wide range of content that they seek.

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From the Back Cover

Practical, simple home solutions for reducing your impact on the planet

Want to go green in and around your home? This value-packed guide gives you easy-to-follow, budget-friendly tips that will reduce your ecofootprint. From using greener cleaning tools and building materials to cutting your energy costs and working with your lawn, you'll discover how to make your home cleaner, healthier, and more energy efficient.

• Go green, save money — using less means saving more

• Reduce, reuse, recycle — the reasons behind going green and tips for getting the whole family involved

• Improve your energy use — simple fixes for making your heating, air conditioning, lighting, water use, and appliances more efficient

• Bring green to your clean — practical tips for eliminating toxic cleaners from your home and cleaning every room of the house

• Remodel the ecofriendly way — using sustainable construction materials in your home projects

• Plan your garden and landscaping — organic options for growing your garden and beautifying your yard with less waste

• Tap into the power of solar energy — projects to make solar work for your home

Open the book and find:

• How to cut back on consumption

• Ways to reuse and repurpose your possessions

• Recipes for green cleaning solutions

• Green options for heating and cooling systems

• Strategies for organic gardening

• Great green food choices

• Tips for financing solar investments

• Green finish and construction materials

• How to raise ecoconscious kids

About the Author

Yvonne Jeffery, coauthor of Green Living For Dummies, is an author, editor, and award-winning feature writer with 15 years’ experience writing home and lifestyle stories, many of them focused on sustainable living. Yvonne’s work has appeared in newspapers, magazines, and books around the world. Her credits include National Geographic Traveler, American Profi le, The Sunday Telegraph (UK), and CanWest newspapers.

Liz Barclay, coauthor of Green Living For Dummies, has worked as an adviser, trainer, and manager with the Citizens Advice Bureau, a nonprofi t organization in the United Kingdom that provides free, impartial advice to help individuals resolve legal, fi nancial, consumer, and other problems. Liz has worked on a wide range of business and fi nance programs for the BBC and has written for News Of The World, The Express, Moneywise, Family Circle, Save Money, and the Mail On Sunday personal fi nance magazine. She also has written UK Law and Your Rights For Dummies and Small Business Employment Law For Dummies.

Michael Grosvenor, coauthor of Green Living For Dummies, is a leading urban planning professional and freelance writer on sustainability. Through his work and writing, Michael promotes the benefi ts of making sustainable lifestyle choices. He is the director of his own consulting fi rm and holds maters degrees in Urban Affairs and Applied Social Research and a degree in Town Planning. He’s also a member of the Planning Institute of Australia and provides advice to the Institute on integrated land use and transportation planning issues.

Elizabeth B. Goldsmith, PhD, author of Green Cleaning For Dummies, is a Family Resource Management professor at Florida State University who green cleans her own home. She is a nationally known expert in how households are run, including the most documented home in America — the White House. Liz is the author of several college textbooks, including Consumer Economics: Issues and Behavior (Prentice Hall; 2nd edition Pearson) and Resource Management for Individuals and Families (Wadsworth Publishing), now in its 4th edition (Pearson). She was a Fulbright Scholar in Trinidad and Tobago, studying family and home-management practices. Liz presents papers on households and consumers at conferences worldwide and has been quoted in various publications.

Betsy Sheldon, contributor to Green Cleaning For Dummies, has served as editor in chief for three travel publications, and is the author or co-author of six books on topics from job-hunting for women to Jewish travel. Betsy writes “Green Watch,” a regular column for Indianapolis Monthly Home magazine, and contributes articles about environmental issues and sustainability to publications including Indiana Living Green and Vacation Industry Review. She is involved in a number of environmental initiatives, including the greening task force for the American Resort Development Association and the Indiana Sustainability Coalition, and also serves on the board of Earth Charter Indiana. She facilitates “Low Carbon Diet” workshops, which help participants discover the steps to lowering their own carbon footprint and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Eric Corey Freed, author of Green Building and Remodeling For Dummies, is an architect, lecturer, and writer based in San Francisco. He has 15 years of experience in green building and is a practitioner in the tradition of organic architecture fi rst developed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Eric is founder and principal of organicARCHITECT, part architecture fi rm, part think tank. Eric teaches in the Sustainable Design program he co-developed at the Academy of Art University and the University of California, Berkeley. His monthly column, Ask the Green Architect, is published by GreenerBuildings and syndicated to dozens of publications.

Rik DeGunther, author of both Solar Power Your Home For Dummies and Energy Effi cient Home For Dummies, is CEO of Effi cient Homes, an energy efficiency auditing firm in Northern California. He is actively engaged in designing and developing new solar equipment, including off-grid lighting systems and off-grid swimming pool heaters. He attended the University of Illinois as an undergraduate and Stanford University as a graduate student, studying both applied physics and engineering economics. He holds several United States patents and has designed a wide range of technical equipment, including solar power systems, weather measurement equipment, and explosive devices (strictly by accident).

Ann Whitman, coauthor of Organic Gardening For Dummies, was fortunate enough to grow up around parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles who kept compost piles out back and had keen interest in growing food and fl owers. She’s been tending her own patches of soil for more than 30 years. Ann earned a bachelor of science degree in Plant and Soil Science at the University of Vermont. She also completed a master of arts degree in Landscape Design from the Conway School of Landscape Design in Massachusetts. Ann is the author of Trees and Shrubs For Dummies, as well as How-To Landscaping Basics and Water Gardens: Simple Steps to Adding Beauty of Water to Your Garden, both published by Time Life.

The National Gardening Association (NGA), coauthor of Organic Gardening For Dummies, is committed to sustaining and renewing the fundamental links between people, plants, and the earth. NGA is best known for its gardenbased curricula, educational journals, international initiatives, and several youth garden grant programs. Together, these reach more than 300,000 children nationwide each year. To fi nd out more about the NGA, visit www.garden.org/home.

Owen Dell, author of Sustainable Living For Dummies, is an internationally recognized expert in sustainable landscaping. He has authored numerous publications for Sunset Magazine, National Gardening Magazine, Southern California Gardener, Pacifi c Horticulture, and many others. An international speaker, he is also the cowriter and cohost of the California television series Garden Wise Guys (www.citytv18.com), a sustainable landscaping sitcom.
His book How to Start a Home-Based Landscaping Business (Globe Pequot Press) has helped budding professionals get a healthy start on their careers. Owen’s work has been featured on HGTV, Peak Moment Television, and NBC and in The Wall Street Journal, Fortune Magazine, Landscape Architecture magazine, the Los Angeles Times, and in many other publications.

Product Details

• Paperback: 696 pages
• Publisher: For Dummies; 1 edition (January 9, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470407786
• ISBN-13: 978-0470407783
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #635,657 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Value for Less than $20 on amazon, April 5, 2009

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This review is from: Green Your Home All in One For Dummies (Paperback)

We bought this after recently purchasing the Dummies guide to Sustainable Landscaping, which was also a good purchase. Particularly strong are the "books" on green remodeling choices and the organic gardening. Also included are books on energy efficiency, sustainable cleaning choices, solar power, and yes, sustainable landscaping. A ton of coverage for a $29.99 sticker price, and less on amazon.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good place to start, but not for seasoned greenies!, January 31, 2010

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This book covers all the basics and then some. It's a good resource to have around for everything from green cleaning products to natural remodeling to solar power.
A good buy and worth it, however, I feel it was too basic for someone, like myself, who has been doing most of this for years already. If you've never looked into green, this is a good place to start. If you are already fairly green, this will validate your choices and give you a few new ones.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A great starting point..., February 1, 2010

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This book is a great starting point for anyone who wants to give their life a 180 degree "eco-twist"... I'm an architect currently completing an eco-house project and this book proved to be a great resource for simple common sense knowledge that technical books leave out...