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Build an energy-efficient, sustainable home with this introductory guide to green building. With more than 1,200 how-to photos, this 595 page book takes you through the construction of a small building that incorporates a wide spectrum of alternative construction techniques and materials, such as green roofs, straw bale homes and modified stick frame walls.

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Here is the information you need to help you build your own handcrafted log home: detailed, practical instructions by an experienced builder and teacher, Robert Chambers. This is the best and most complete how-to book available, with detailed, how-to instructions and details that no other book has. The Log Construction Manual is the #1 selling how-to log home book.

More than 270 pages of valuable log building lessons. Hundreds of photos and drawings. Clearly written, with easy-to-understand explanations of all topics. Step-by-step directions. Log building secrets revealed by a master builder and teacher. You can learn how to build like a professional, instead of like an amateur.

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MOTHER EARTH NEWS has been a leading source for DIY project plans and advice for over 30 years - and we've compiled 14 of the best projects in this convenient e-book for beginner and intermediate do-it-yourselfers. Learn how to build furniture, handle home plumbing, and many other skills for becoming more self-reliant. Projects include:

• Woodworking Basics
• Build a Solar Food Dehydrator
• How to Unclog Drains
• Build a Cozy Cabin
• Make Safe Paint

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Have fun, save money, and improve your home with these easy step-by-step projects.

Are you looking for a way to make your bathroom a little more beautiful? Or maybe you'd like to give your tired furniture a face-lift, improve your home's air quality, or fix a toilet. No matter your DIY needs and no matter whether you're a DIY novice or expert, home improvement guru Andrea Ridout, host of the nationally syndicated radio show Ask Andrea, has ideas, expertise, and advice to share with you.

If I Had a Hammer offers easy-to-follow instructions and illustrations designed to make home improvement simpler than ever. With a little help from Andrea, you'll be able to tackle repairs, painting and decorating, bathroom and kitchen remodeling, wood care for furniture and floors, and much more with projects that often take as little as an hour. Also, you can try a few of Andrea's energy-conserving projects that can dramatically improve your utility bill—Andrea's projects are friendly on the environment and on your wallet! With If I Had a Hammer, you'll have the tools to keep your home functioning and looking as good as—or even better than—new.

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The Earth-Sheltered House is a classic in the annals of sustainable building books, written by a legend in the field of sustainable architecture. Malcolm Wells has a fundamentally different way of looking at the design and building process, and his iconoclastic perspective has never been more apparent.

Wells’s work is revolutionary, but readers will find his message to be pure common sense. Earth sheltering offers superior comfort with minimal energy input, and it is adaptable to diverse terrains as well as a variety of architectural aesthetics.

This architect's sketchbook will show you how you can build underground homes of different styles. Complete with floor plans, elevation drawings and detailed diagrams, this book is a necessary resource for anyone who is considering building green.

An architect by trade, Wells lives in The Underground Art Gallery, in Brewster, Massachusetts, and has written several books about this subject, which he has promoted since 1964. He is a pioneer of underground building and natural design. His best-selling books include Gentle Architecture,How to Build and Underground House. The Earth Sheltered House is scanned from his own hand-written and illustrated pages.