Your Green Abode: A Practical Guide to a Sustainable Home - Softcover

Miner, Tara Rae

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9781594852756: Your Green Abode: A Practical Guide to a Sustainable Home

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1594852758 ISBN 13: 9781594852756

Publisher: Skipstone Press, 2010

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* Provides tips that save money as well as carbon emissions
* Real-world advice for busy people on a budget

This sustainable home primer covers ways to green your home from lawn to rooftop, focusing on accessible eco-friendly improvements for any dwelling -- from a cement-walled urban apartment to a turn-of-the-century manse. Your Green Abode is filled with advice on green living, DIY green re-modeling, and green gardening. And any shade of green is better than brown!

Author Tara Rae Miner encourages readers to start small, do what interests them, and handle only what they can afford. The process of greening a home is the process of getting to know a home, and Miner guides readers through different areas, distilling research and advice on everything from window and paint options to more effective ways to recycle to the benefits of planting a garden. With chapters on the home-planet connection, saving energy, and setting policies for a "Personal Clean Air Act," she presents important information on reducing energy bills, ways to measure your "carbon houseprint," and how to eliminate toxic chemicals from your life (be gone, vinyl shower curtains!). Your Green Abode is for real people who want easy-to-understand choices that make their homes a little more earth-friendly -- without signing off on a second mortgage. It's about having realistic expectations and goals, and keeping a sense of humor while learning what makes a home tick.
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About the Author:

TARA RAE MINOR grew up in a small logging town in the foothills of the Oregon Cascades, where she first fell in love with wild rivers, trees, mountains, and critters. This allegience, plus her literary leanings, eventually launched her into a career built on words mostly about the environment. Tara has a master's degree in science from the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Montana. For the past decade, Tara has written for and edited at several print and online publications; appeared on panels at environmental, journalism, and booksellers' conferences and gatherings; and served as a judge for the Reed Environmental Writing Award. Most recently, she was managing editor at Orion magazine, where work that she edited won a Pushcart Prize and was reprinted in Best Creative Nonfiction. These days Tara keeps busy wrangling her toddler daughter in Portland, Oregon, and am very grateful for the help she receives in this endeavor from her husband and remarkable Australian shepherd.

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