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Solar Electricity Basics - Revised and Updated 2nd Edition

Powering Your Home or Office with Solar Energy

By:

Dan Chiras

Paperback Book

The indispensable guide to solar electricity systems for homeowners, business owners, builders, and students

$19.99 CAD

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Tiny House

Live Small, Dream Big

By:

Brent Heavener

Hardcover Book

From the founder of the Instagram feed @TinyHouse, which boasts 448k Instagram followers, comes a small, chunky inspiration book filled with photographs of the smallest abodes--from vans and boats to tree houses and cabins.

$24.00 CAD

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Straw Bale Building Details

An Illustrated Guide for Design and Construction

By:

Casba

Paperback Book

The devil is in the details—the science and art of designing and building durable, efficient, straw bale buildings

$39.95 CAD

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Taming the Sun

Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet

By:

Varun Sivaram

Paperback Book

$19.95 CAD

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Off the Grid

Houses for Escape

By:

Dominic Bradbury

Hardcover Book

The imperative to reduce our carbon footprint and focus on renewable energy is having a profound impact on our daily lives and the way we think about living spaces.

$60.00 CAD

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Community-Scale Composting Systems

A Comprehensive Practical Guide for Closing the Food System Loop and Solving Our Waste Crisis

By:

James McSweeney

Hardcover Book

Composting at scales large enough to capture and recycle the organic wastes of a given community, whether a school, neighborhood, or even a small city, is coming of age, propelled by a growing awareness not only of our food waste crisis, but also the need to restore natural fertility in our soils.

$79.95 CAD

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Essential Rammed Earth Construction

The Complete Step-by-Step Guide

By:

Tim Krahn

Paperback Book

Everything you need to know to build with rammed earth in warm and cold climates.

Rammed earth sand, gravel, and clay or lime/cement binder packed into
forms is a low-energy, high-performance building method, yielding
beautiful, sustainable results. Its thermally stable and can be

$39.95 CAD

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Essential Composting Toilets

A Guide to Options, Design, Installation, and Use

By:

Gord Baird

Paperback Book

$39.95 CAD

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Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 2, 2nd Edition

Water-Harvesting Earthworks

By:

Brad Lancaster

Paperback Book

Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 2 is a how-to guide enabling you to plant the rain by creating water-harvesting earthworksor rain gardens.