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Residential consumption represents nearly one quarter of North America's total energy use and the average homeowner spends thousands of dollars a year on power bills. To help alleviate this problem, Energy-Wise Landscape Design presents hundreds of practical ways everyone can save money, time, and effort while making their landscapes more environmentally healthy, ecologically rich, and energy efficient. Combining general guidelines with tips, techniques,...
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Are you looking for creative ways to lower your energy costs, generate more of your own power, or become less reliant on the grid? Paul Scheckel offers practical advice for taking matters into your own hands. Explaining the fundamentals of solar, wind, water, and biofuel energy production, Scheckel shows you how to build and maintain a wide variety of energy-saving and energy-producing equipment, ranging from thermosiphon solar hot water collectors...
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Climax Change! represents the much-needed overview of how climate change and the current environmental emergency will affect the practice of architecture, both in terms of its design philosophy and rising opportunities to innovate and radically transform the current tenet of architecture's aesthetic, ethical and professional drives.
Climax Change! offers an overview of how the current environmental emergency will impact the practice of architecture....
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Film Ideas
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Danny Lipford shows how to make anyone's home more energy efficient by altering habits and some remodeling and fixing or relacing appliances. Brief segments show quick solutions to handling everyday repair and maintenance tasks [Simple solutions] and tips for gardening [Around the yard].
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ASHRAE standard volume 90.1
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American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers
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English
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Testimony volume GAO-03-545 T
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U.S. General Accounting Office
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[2003]
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English
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NREL/TP volume 550-47502
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National Renewable Energy Laboratory
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[2010]
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English
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English
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"This book is based on the premise that climate change is happening around us today and its impacts on our lives will be far worse than commonly acknowledged. It argues that many modern buildings are not only 'unsustainable' but are also having a catastrophic effect on the global climate.
In a uniquely frank argument, the book illustrates that the only way we can hope to survive the following century, with our societies intact, is if we begin to...
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Conference paper) volume 550-39533
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National Renewable Energy Laboratory
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[2006]
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English
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RIBA Publishing
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[2020]
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English
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"If you've ever wondered how leading architectural firms successfully embed energy modelling into their practices, this book is for you. Featuring expert contributions from leading architects and practices, this book illustrates architects' approaches to learning, sharing and integrating energy modelling across a range of design projects, in both small and large firms in the UK and internationally. Discussing the practical and business implications...