Green Your Home: The Complete Guide to Making Your New or Existing Home Environmentally Healthy [Paperback]

Jeanne Roberts (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 20, 2008

This book has thousands of ways to make your home environmentally healthy and will help you make ecologically aware supply choices. From recycling to alternative cleaning materials, minor changes can add up to real benefits. Greening your home means finding things you can do to reduce your impact on the planet. We dissected your house, looking for easy (but not always obvious) ways that homeowners can conserve energy, water, and money at the same time.

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2009 Green Book Festival Award Winner - Honorable Mention --Book Award

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishing Company (April 20, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 160138128X
• ISBN-13: 978-1601381286
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,386,283 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For Anyone Looking To Make Their Home Green Friendly, December 10, 2008

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Mike Hapstein "Mike Hapstein" (Jacksonville, FL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Green Your Home: The Complete Guide to Making Your New or Existing Home Environmentally Healthy (Paperback)

Jeanne Roberts does a wonderful job in this book explaining how to make your home environmentally friendly, and Roberts explains why everyone should look into doing this. The book opens by telling that our fuel supplies are diminishing, particularly the fossil fuels like coal and oil. Roberts goes on to explain that our large-scale use of these supplies has caused, according to scientists, a 1.08 degree Fahrenheit increase in the earth's temperature, and tells many scientists predict that the earth's temperature may increase by 10 degrees F. by the time we hit 2100.

Because of these frightening predictions, Roberts explains in the book what efforts we as humans can make to reverse this escalating temperature. Roberts opens by describing the important basics which can reduce your energy bill like switching from incandescent light bulbs to compact fluorescents. In another very informative section, Roberts also describes how to fill your home with green friendly appliances.

Additionally detailed are the more expensive efforts which homeowners can take such as installing a green friendly roof. Such a roof is very beneficial because it can significantly reduce your heating and cooling costs all the while it will filter out pollutants and carbon dioxide from the air that is in your house. Roberts, also, does a great job detailing which type of roof to buy and how to go about buying and installing it. Additionally, the appropriate, energy-efficient type of refrigerator is discussed as well as dishwashers, trash compactors, and clothes washers and dryers. Every part of your home which you can make green friendly is described in this book. Also, the book is written in very clean, easily understood language that is rife with cost comparisons that show just how financially beneficial of going green can be. Therefore, all who are thinking about how they can make their home more green friendly or are contemplating building a new home, certainly need to read this book.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A tough read!, December 16, 2009

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K. Van Veen (Pacific NW) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Green Your Home: The Complete Guide to Making Your New or Existing Home Environmentally Healthy (Paperback)

This book has a lot of information in it that would prove useful to many people who are interested in 'Greening" their homes. I was impressed at the breadth of topics covered and the detail given to each topic.

Unfortunately, the book is written in a style that is very casual, at times it's judgmental and for me, often irritating. I also felt that a significant amount of information could have been more clearly communicated in a visual manner. For instance, with the use of graphs, photos, more bullet points, or checklists. The use of these things would have made the information more interesting and easier to follow. As a reader, I could have charted my own progress through the task of making my home greener with the addition of checklists.

I would recommend this book to others because it has a lot of information, but I would add when I handed them my copy "It's a tough read".

5.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive, Easy To Follow!, August 3, 2009

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Dale Little, Business Strategist & Speaker (Washington, D.C. metro area) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Green Your Home: The Complete Guide to Making Your New or Existing Home Environmentally Healthy (Paperback)

Green Your Home by Jeanne Roberts offers basic strategies for improving your carbon footprint within your own home. This comprehensive guide includes case studies, web sites for additional information, and easy to follow instructions that help the reader understand and utilize environmentally friendly techniques.

Confused about household plastics products, what's safe and what isn't? Do you need to purchase a new toilet and the variety of types is overwhelming? This book explains all of this and more. In simple terms, Ms. Roberts takes the reader from linoleum to solar electric systems to a discussion of types of construction for a new home or addition. This is a very complete educational tool.