Green Your Home: The Complete Guide to Making Your New Or Existing Home Environmentally Healthy
- ISBN-10
- 160138128X
- ISBN-13
- 9781601381286
- Category
- Ecological houses
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- Atlantic Publishing Company
- Author
- Jeanne Roberts
Description
This book offers thousands of ways to make your home environmentally healthy and will help you to make ecologically aware supply choices. From recycling to alternative cleaning materials, minor changes can add up to real benefits. Greening your home means finding things you can do to reduce your impact on the planet. We dissected your house, looking for easy (but not always obvious) ways that homeowners can conserve energy and water and money at the same time.
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