Energy-Wise Landscape Design: A New Approach for your Home and Garden - Softcover

Reed, Sue

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0865716536 ISBN 13: 9780865716537

Publisher: New Society Publishers, 2010

Synopsis

Residential consumption represents nearly one quarter of North America's total energy use, and the average homeowner spends thousands of dollars a year on power bills. To help alleviate this problem, Energy-Wise Landscape Design presents hundreds of practical ways everyone can save money, time and effort while making their landscapes more environmentally healthy, ecologically rich and energy efficient.

Combining general guidelines with tips, techniques and actions, this fully illustrated guide explains the many opportunities our landscapes provide for conserving energy. Readers will learn how to:

• lower a home's heating and cooling costs
• minimize fuel used in landscape construction, maintenance and everyday use
• choose landscape products and materials with lower embedded energy costs
• make a positive difference without a major investment or change in lifestyle.

Intended for homeowners, gardeners, landscape professionals and students, the design ideas in this book will work in every type of setting-large or small, hilly or flat, urban or rural. Written in non-scientific language with clear explanations and an easy conversational style, Energy-Wise Landscape Design is an essential resource for everyone who wants to shrink their energy footprint while enhancing their property and adding value to their home.

About this title

About the Author

Sue Reed is a registered Landscape Architect with thirty years' experience designing sustainable landscapes that are ecologically rich, energy efficient, and climate-responsive. Sue served for 14 years as adjunct faculty at the Conway School of Landscape Design and has led numerous workshops on the subject of ecological landscaping. Sue is the author of Energy-Wise Landscape Design, for which she also provided much of the photography.

From the Back Cover

AN INSPIRING INSTRUCTIONAL HANDBOOK FOR TRANSFORMING IDEALISM INTO SOCIAL CHANGE

For those of us who have been kind of making it up as we go along, this book is a real resource for change-making! --- Bill McKibben, founder 350.org

… a book that seeks to teach people (particularly those in ostensibly democratic societies) how to “disturb the peace” [in order to] to avoid the worst of the catastrophic effects that now manifest as social and ecological crises across the face the planet .―Richard Kahn, Core Faculty in Education, Antioch University Los Angeles

Educating for Action collects the voices of activists whose combined experience in confronting injustice has generated a wealth of key insights for creating social change. This practical, hands-on guide explores such topics as:

• Community organizing and direct democracy
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Written in an inspirational tone, Educating for Action consciously straddles the line between street activism and classroom instruction. Bridging the gap between these two worlds makes for an engaging and instructive manual for social justice, helping students, teachers, and larger activist communities turn their idealism into action.

This is exactly the right book, at the right time. ―Sandy Grande, Ph.D., author of Red Pedagogy: Native American Social and Political Thought

Jason Del Gandio is a scholar-activist and Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Public Advocacy at Temple University. He is the author of Rhetoric for Radicals: A Handbook for 21st Century Activists. Anthony J. Nocella II is a scholar-activist and Senior Fellow of the Dispute Resolution Institute at the Hamline Law School. He is a long-time anti-racism, youth justice, prison abolition, Hip Hop, animal, disability, and Earth liberation activist and has published over fifty scholarly articles and book chapters and sixteen books.

Edition details

• Publisher: New Society Publishers
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0865716536
• ISBN 13: 9780865716537
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304