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Top 10 Tiny House Books: Small House Designs
In recent years, with the mainstream success of Tumbleweed Tiny House Company, housing prices going through the roof, greater awareness of sustainable and ecological living issues, living in tiny homes has become an attractive option for increasing numbers of people.
Awesome Books Document Folks Who Build Their Own Awesome Eco Homes
In preparation for building my own straw bale home, I have been spending a lot of time flipping through a few specific books for inspiration. Lloyd Kahn‘s series of titles, [ … ]
B.T. Hope’s Curse of the Bone Pirates: Lively, Eco-Themed Juvenile Fiction
We do a lot of book reviews here at sustainablog, but non-fiction tends to dominate… and the little bit of fiction we have covered is aimed at an adult audience. [ … ]
Green Business Blog Carnival #21
Ladies and gentleman, boys and girls, step right up… it’s time once again for the greatest show in the green business blogosphere: the Green Business Blog Carnival! Each week, green [ … ]
Five for Friday: Green Green Blog Posts for the Week (7/30/10)
Is the Gulf Oil spill moving off the green blogosphere radar? Regator shows that the term “Gulf of Mexico” is still on top in Environmentalism right now, but terms related [ … ]
Book Review: Twelve by Twelve — A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid and Beyond the American Dream, by William Powers
Author’s Note: A free review copy of this book was provided to me by the publisher, New World Library, which is part of the Green Press Initiative. Like most of [ … ]
Green Business Blog Carnival #2
Welcome to (or welcome back to) the Green Business Blog Carnival, your weekly wrap-up of some of the most compelling content published on sustainable business. We’re proud to be co-sponsoring [ … ]
Ready for a Home Energy Audit? Why not do it yourself…
Watching the utility bills climb this summer? Ready to take control of your energy use? A home energy audit is a good first step towards figuring out how you use [ … ]
Goat Song: Rediscovering Food by Raising Goats
Recently, I was fortunate to stumble upon a copy of Goat Song in my local library, a book that not only beautifully articulates the wonders of raising dairy goats, but [ … ]
Eco-Libris: The State of Green Printing – An Interview with Deb Bruner of Pinnacle Press
This post was originally posted on Eco-Libris blog on March 18. We’re constantly talking about the need of the book industry to increase its efforts to lower its environmental impacts [ … ]
Book Review: Andrew Nikiforuk’s Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent
Northern Alberta’s vast stores of bitumen–a.k.a. “tar sands” or “oil sands” or “dirty oil”–may well be one of the worst environmental tragedies you never heard of. At least that is [ … ]
The Twelve Days of sustainablog: Urban Homesteading, Green Colleges, and Recycling by the Numbers
Dog days of August? Not at sustainablog! While most people are wondering if the summer heat is ever going to end, we were hitting our stride here: many more posts, [ … ]