About Energy-Wise Landscape Design

About the Book

Residential consumption represents nearly one quarter of North America’s total energyuse, 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 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 products and materials with lower embedded energy costs

make a positive difference without a major investment or change in lifestyle.

This book is for homeowners, gardeners, landscape professionals and students...everyone who's involved in designing, planning building and caring for environments large and small. 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.

"It's time for us to imagine a new kind of landscape, one in which beauty is not just a social convention or a glossy magazine image, but also an expression of our social values. Now in the 21st century, we can design, build and care for our landscapes so that in addition to looking attractive they will also work for our own good and the good of the larger world." page 255

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