Energy Efficiency in The Books Store

Save money—and save the planet! This informative and practical guide will show you how.

Packed with facts and figures, The Energy Saving House covers every aspect of home energy use: from designing and building, through choice of materials, proper insulation, heating options, ventilation, air conditioning, lighting, water consumption and heating, super windows, renovation and retrofitting, to choosing household appliances and fuel suppliers. Throughout, it emphasizes the benefits of "negawatts"—the energy you don’t use—and shows how you can retain the comforts of life, yet save 60% of your energy and water use.

Thierry Salomon is an applied engineer whose company, Gefosat, specializes in energy efficiency and developing renewable energy resources. Stephane Bedel is a heat engineering specialist with Gefosat.

This is the story of how one man used local resources, ingenuity, imagination, and patience to create a homestead powered by the sun. Fowler, who later used his knowledge and experience to become an authority on remote solar electric homes, recounts the unique successes and struggles in developing this new technology for his lifestyle.

It is easy being green!

Teach Yourself Saving Energy in the Home offers you straightforward, achievable cost-cutting and energy saving strategies. It gives you various ways to save energy in the home, even if it's just a rented property, with practical advice on heating, hot and cold water, electricity and appliances, stand-by systems, lighting, cooling systems--even how to manage your teenager's use of energy. There are chapters on how to save energy in your garden and guidelines on how to generate your own power. The book will also offer practical suggestions for "responsible recreation," showing you how leisure interests can impact on the environment. It gives advice on green travel, including what make of car and which fuel to choose, and offers tips for saving energy in your workplace.