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Resources:

New Builder, a Green Building Press website with information on building green homes or finding green building products.

The Green Guide features green living tips, product reviews, environmental health news and coupons.

Books:

The Ecology of Commerce
Paul Hawken
A foreunning masterpiece of the genre; very far ahead of it’s time.

Natural Capitalism Creating the Next Industrial Revolution.
Paul Hawken
How the world of business is changing to incorporate green alternatives – by necessity.

The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Waking Up to Personal and Global TransformationThom Hartman

The Long Emergency – Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the 21st Century
James Howard Kunstler

Blessed Unrest
Paul Hawken
Social, economic, and environmental grass roots and reform movements around the world.

The Green Studio Handbook: Environmental Strategies for Schematic Design
Alison Kwok, Ph.D., AIA, Walter Grondzik, P.E.

Ecological Design and Building Schools :
Green Guide to Educational Opportunities in the United States and Canada
by Sandra Leibowitz Earley

Big and Green: Toward Sustainable Architecture in the 21st Century
by David Gissen (Editor)

A Handbook on Low-Energy Buildings and District Energy Systems:
Fundamentals, Techniques, and Examples
written by Danny Harvey

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
by William McDonough, Michael Braungart

Adapting Buildings and Cities for Climate Change
by Sue Roaf, David Crichton, Fergus Nicol

Rural Studio: Samuel Mockbee and an Architecture of Decency
by Andrea O. Dean, L. Chua (Contributor), C. Robinson (Contributor), Timothy Hursley (Photographer)

A Green Vitruvius: Sustainable Architectural Design
by J. Owen Lewis

Sustainability at the Cutting Edge: Emerging Technologies for Low Energy Buildings
by Peter Smith

The HOK Guidebook to Sustainable Design
by Sandra F. Mendler, William Odell, Mary Ann Lazarus

The Passive Solar Energy Book
by Edward Mazria

Sustainable Architecture: Hi-Tech Housing
by Arian Mostaedi

Sustainable Architecture: Low Tech Houses
by Arian Mostaedi, Carles Broto, Josep Ma Minguet

Eco-Tech: Sustainable Architecture and High Technology
by Catherine Slessor, John Linden (Photographer)

Energy Efficient Buildings: Architecture, Engineering, and Environment
by Dean Hawkes, Wayne Forster

Biomimicry : Innovation Inspired by Nature
by Janine M. Benyus

Articles:

“Mr. Green” /by Elizabeth Kolbert/New Yorker Magazine Jan 22, ‘07.
A study of environmentalism’s most optimistic guru, Amory Lovin, of the Rocky Mountain Institute
in Boulder, CO.

“The Power of Green”/by Thomas L. Friedman/The New York Times Magazine/
April 15, ‘07/
A study of environmentalism’s most optimistic guru, Amory Lovin, of the Rocky Mountain Institute
in Boulder, CO.

Government Sponsored Information Relating to Energy Efficient Technologies in Housing:

Energy Efficient Mortgages
1-800-7FANNIE (Fannie Mae) www.fanniemae.com
1-800-FREDDIE (Freddie Mac) www.freddiemac.com

Energy Efficient Windows
US Dept of Energy: 202-586-9214
National Fenestration Rating Council 301-589-6372

Energy Efficient Space Heating and Cooling
Energy Star program 1-888-STAR-YES www.energystar.gov
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Clearinghouse (EREC)
1-800 363-3732 www.eren.doe.gov/consumerinfo

Energy Efficient Insulation
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Clearinghouse contact info above

Energy Efficient Appliances
Energy Star Program 1-888-STAR-YES www.energystar.gov
US Dept of Energy’s Oak Ridge national Laboratory www.ornl.gov/ORNL/BTC

Building Orientation
DOE’s Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Clearinghouse (info above)
DOE Energy Efficiency and Renewable Network (EREN) www.eren.doe.gov
National Renewable Energy Laboratory www.nrel.gov/buildings/

Solar Technologies
(EREC) information above 1-800 DOE-EREC

Green Building and Energy
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency www.epa.gov/
U.S. Green Building Council www.usgbc.org/
Energy and Environmental Building Association www.eeba.org/