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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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