Here’s the reading list I never managed to get to on the slides: (says Steve)
• rmi.org – Amory Lovins – free books like ‘winning the oil endgame’. Watch Amory’s Stanford energy lectures.
• buildinggreen.com – best site for green building material reviews.
• chrismagwood.ca – Sustainable Building and Design teacher – VERY strawbale, alternative building systems.
• cagbc.ca – LEED in Canada
• growingpower.org – urban agriculture training centre.
• oasisdesign.net – greywater systems design
• passivhaus.org.uk/ - net zero housing standard and methodology
• TED.com – can watch McDonough and Kunstler on this site WARNING: Kunstler language not for all viewers.
• Natural Capitalism (available free online from rmi.org – general discussion of why environmentalism and capitalism work together)
• Cradle to Cradle (William McDonough – all about materials and the philosophy of green design)
• Geography of Nowhere (James Kunstler – discussion of American urban design – mostly a rant, but a good one.)
• A Pattern Language – general architectural theory on design
• Home Power magazine – do-it-yourself-renewables.
• Fine Homebuilding magazine –good discussion of methods and tools for general residential building.
• More Straw Bale Building (Chris Magwood – good general book.)
Steve Massey
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