Building Green, New Edition: A Complete How-To Guide to Alternative Building Methods Earth Plaster *

The best-selling and highly regarded reference to sustainable construction gets an update! It’s refreshed with a completely revised introduction, a bright new cover, and extensive online resource tie-ins.

This groundbreaking book doesn’t just tell you about “green” house-building techniques: it actually shows you, with more than 1,200 step-by-step photographs that follow the actual erection of an alternative building from site selection to final-touch interior details. Readers will get a clear sense of the real world challenges as Snell and Callahan create a lovely country cottage using four methods: straw bale, cob, cordwood, and modified stick-frame.

Along with sidebars throughout, there’s a thorough discussion of the fundamentals of building construction, alternative approaches, and designing a beautiful yet environmentally responsible home. Building Green was the first book of its kind—and it remains heads and shoulders above other titles in this field.  

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• The Hand-Sculpted House: A Practical and Philosophical Guide to Building a Cob Cottage: The Real Goods Solar Living Book
• The Straw Bale House (A Real Goods Independent Living Book)
• Building with Cob: A Step-by-Step Guide (Sustainable Building)
• Serious Straw Bale: A Home Construction Guide for All Climates (Real Goods Solar Living Book)
• Earthbag Building: The Tools, Tricks and Techniques (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series)
• The Rocket Mass Heater Builder's Guide: Complete Step-by-Step Construction, Maintenance and Troubleshooting
• Green from the Ground Up: Sustainable, Healthy, and Energy-Efficient Home Construction (Builder's Guide)
• Earthen Floors: A Modern Approach to an Ancient Practice
• The Year-Round Solar Greenhouse: How to Design and Build a Net-Zero Energy Greenhouse