Warm House, Cool House by Nick Hollo

This book reveals environmentally-conscious living at its best, and contains some of the most effective examples of Australian homes that stay cool in summer and warm in winter.

Well-respected architect Nick Hollo gives simple explanations of the principles of low-energy housing design, and illustrates these principles with a refreshing perspective and more than 110 examples from around Australia including project and kit homes, new architect-designed houses, renovations and extensions, and medium-density dwellings from all climatic zones. Basic principles are introduced and explained, and then expanded in more detail in an easy-to-follow progression.

Whether you are planning to renovate, build or buy, this book will offer you inspiration and ideas on how to make any house, anywhere, a comfortable and attractive place to live in all year round, while keeping electricity, gas and water bills comfortably low.

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Your Home  -  Design for Lifestyle and the Future - 4th Edition

Australia's guide to environmentally friendly sustainable homes

Australia's best-selling, most comprehensive guide to building, buying or renovating your home for a sustainable and stylish lifestyle.

The new fourth edition has over 370 pages of comprehensive information including case studies.
•    Discover the secrets of making your home healthy, safe and sustainable
•    Find out how to make your home work with Australian conditions
•    Learn how your home can meet the challenge of climate change
•    Find out how your home can avoid the problems of water shortages and increasing energy costs
•    Understand how your home can make use of orientation, ventilation, insulation and thermal mass
•    Discover how to adapt your home to changes in your lifestyle

Written by architects, designers and builders for Australian practitioners and you. Your Home is a joint initiative of the Australian Government & the building and design industries.

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The Clean Industrial Revolution by Ben McNeil

The world is in the midst of a seismic shift in the way we generate energy and grow economic prosperity. Since the first industrial revolution we've been burning carbon to run our lives, but climate change and dwindling supplies of oil are now forging a new clean industrial revolution which will end our reliance on carbon for good.

So where does Australia's economic future lie in this rapidly changing world? In this compelling book, climate scientist and economist Ben McNeil demonstrates the immense economic opportunities which will open up if Australia leads the new clean industrial revolution. He shows how investing, commercialising and exporting the new fuels, materials and technologies for the twenty-first century will boost economic prosperity as well as environmental sustainability.

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Green House Plans

Architects present eco-friendly plans and ideas for ... mudbrick, strawbale, stone, passive solar, rammed earth, poured earth ... homes.
"Green House Plans" showcases some of the most sensitively-conceived, innovative, and eco-friendly home designs ever brought together in one publication.  At a glance anyone contemplating building a natural home can now see what Australia's leading 'green' designers and architects are producing.

In this book, 20 of Australia's leading eco-friendly architects and designers present real-life examples of their green house plans.  You can study the plans or contact the authors for more detailed help to build your own stylish, affordable, and individual home

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Easy Organic Gardening and Moon Planting by Lyn Bagnall

This book is an essential reference book for all Australian gardeners who care about their family's health and the environment.

Organic gardening is the principle of leaving your patch of earth in a better condition than you found it by working with nature rather than against it.

A practicable and better alternative to chemical-dependant and environmentally unsustainable cultivation practices, organic gardening minimises soil damage, and results in fewer contaminated waterways and poison-resistant pests, and more nutritious food.
Written for Australian gardeners by a certified organic farmer and gardener, Easy Organic Gardening and Moon Planting is an indispensable reference to organic cultivation methods, combined with a moon-planting guide, to help gardeners to work with the cycles of nature. An easy-to-follow moon-planting routine for all aspects of gardening, with a listing of the best planting, harvesting, and pruning days from 2006 to 2013, is provided.

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