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"Building Codes for a Small Planet"
Redefines public health, safety, and welfare, connecting buildings with their environmental, social, and economic consequences. It lays the groundwork for a major shift in the way that building regulatory  community views and carries out its work.
You will learn about:
• The unintended effects of current design and construction and their connection to building regulations.
• Surprising facts about both conventional and alternative materials and methods of construction.
• A vision for a future where buildings do more good than harm, and building departments are recognized as community resources for best building practices.
48 minutes. DVD format. $25 plus $5 shipping and handling. Rush shipment available.
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"Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands"
Turn water scarcity into water abundance! Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands, Volume 1 is the core of the complete three-volume guide on how to conceptualize, design, and implement sustainable water-harvesting systems for your home, landscape, and community. This book enables you to access your on-site resources (rainwater, greywater, topsoil, sun, plants, and more), gives you a diverse array of strategies to maximize their potential, and empowers you with guiding principles to create an integrated, multi-functional, and water-sustainable water-harvesting landscape plan specific to your site and needs.
Clearly written with more than 40 photos and 115 illustrations, this volume helps bring your site to life, reduce your cost of living, endow yourself and your community with skills of self-reliance and cooperation, and create living air conditioners of vegetation growing beauty, food, and wildlife habitat. Stories of people who are successfully welcoming rain into their life and landscape will invite you to do the same!
$25 plus $5 shipping and handling. Rush shipment available.
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