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Back Yard Ovens

Earth Garden Publication 2007

Build your own wood-fired oven following the advice in Back Yard Ovens, then sit back and enjoy your own delicious home baked meals. Covers cob, clay and earth ovens, high-temperature cement and brick ovens, as well as information on commercially available ovens. From basic ovens to artistic wombats and dragons, Back Yard Ovens contains lots of practical advice, photographs and recipes from experienced back yard oven builders and users. This book is a must for those seeking to build a back yard oven.

BB115 $20.00


Making Your Home Sustainable: A Guide to Retrofitting

Derek Wrigley 2005

Making Your Home Sustainable is a practical and easy-to-follow guide for home owners, builders and architects in cool temperate climates who are concerned about the effects of climate change and environmental degradation and want to do something about reversing the trend. It shows how simple modifications to existing houses can help to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and utilise natural rather than imported energies and resources. It includes detailed descriptions, 46 photographs and over 100 diagrams.

BM106 $43.00

Building Your Straw Bale Home: From Foundations to the Roof

Brian Hodge CSIRO Publishing 2006

This practical guide is written especially for the owner-builder and provides step-by-step instructions supported by diagrams and photographs. It covers the construction process from site preparation through to foundations, concrete slabs, strip footings and stumps. Special techniques for straw bale construction and the integration of these techniques with those of conventional house buildings are also covered, including floors, timber wall -frames, ceilings and roof framing. Advice is offered on plumbing and electrical work in a straw bale house.

BB114 $70.00


Built Like a Woman    

Sandra Broman   

An inspiring and motivational guide to DIY, specifically for women. Includes advice on how to get started, select materials, budget, health and safety; all planning, building aspects are covered. 192pp

BB105 $35.00

 


Green House Plans

Earth Garden 2002

Why live in a mass-produced, energy-hungry box? This book showcases some of the most sensitively-conceived, innovative and eco-friendly home designs ever brought together in one publication which you can use to help plan your dream home. 80pp

BG111 $20.00

Switch - Home Based Power, Water and Sewerage Systems for the 21st Century
Jackie French and Bryan Sullivan 1994
An easy-to-follow guide to creating practical, cheap and simple home-based systems. Chapters include power supply, lights and appliances, heating and cooling, water supply, sewerage treatment and garbage processing. 178pp

BS110  $20.00 


Warm House Cool House: Inspirational Designs For Low-Energy Housing          

Nick Hollo CHOICEBOOK 1995

This book gives a simple explanation of the principles of energy-efficient house design for Australia. It illustrates these principles with over 110 case studies. It is an excellent ‘how-to’ manual that will give much architectural inspiration if you are building, designing or renovating. 172 pp

BW105 $37.50  


A Pattern Language

C Alexander, S Ishikawa and M Silverstein  (USA) 1977

Probably the most holistic book ever published on architectural design, inspiring for anyone interested in designing homes or landscapes. You can use this book to design a house for your family; work with your neighbours to improve your suburb or to design an office. It is a book to inspire and empower every person who reads it. It is a manual to create spaces for humans to interact socially and spiritually. 1171pp

BP108 $149.00


The Humanure Handbook - A Guide to Composting Human Manure

Joseph Jenkins (USA) 2005 3rd edition
Literally everything you need to know (and then some!) regarding the safe disposal via composting of human manure. It covers in great detail composting toilets and greywater systems. 255pp

BH107 $50.00

Award Finalist: Benjamin Franklin Awards

Three Rivers Environmental Awards

Foreword Magazine Book of the Year

"The Humanure Handbook is one of the most serious and humorous, well-researched yet humble, and motivating works I have read in a while."


 

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