The Carbon Buster's home energy handbook : slowing climate change and saving money
Record details
- ISBN: 0865715696 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780865715691
- ISBN: 0865715696
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Physical Description:
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xii, 171 p. : ill ; 23 cm. - Publisher: Gabriola, B.C. : New Society Publishers, c2007.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Chapter 1. Carbon Busting for Fun and Profit -- Chapter 2. Conventions and Assumptions -- Assumptions and Methodology -- Correcting for Savings -- Interactions -- Conventions -- Sources of Information -- Interpreting Savings Figures -- Chapter 3. For Busy People: Top Recommendations at a Glance -- From Carbon Miser to Carbon Buster -- Chapter 4. Your Family?s Carbon Pie -- Interpreting Home -- Consumption Graphs -- Electricity: The Most Expensive Form of Energy -- What?s the Carbon Balance? -- How to Benefit from Fuel Switching -- Your Home?s Carbon Pie -- How Much Does It Cost? -- Chapter 5. Home Improvement: Green Home Design -- The Law of Diminishing Returns -- Tunneling Through the Cost Barrier -- Whole System Design -- Chapter 6. Green Transportation -- Efficiency Comparisons -- Bicycling -- Public Transit -- Cars -- Chapter 7. Electric Power -- Your Home?s Power Bill -- Lighting -- Power Vampires -- Refrigerators -- Freezers -- Dishwashers -- Cooking -- Solar Ovens -- Clothes Washers -- Dryers -- Computers and Home Office Equipment -- Entertainment Electronics -- Green Power -- Renewable Energy Sources: Making your Own Green Power -- |
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Subject: | Dwellings -- Energy consumption Dwellings -- Energy conservation Renewable energy sources |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Portage la Prairie Regional Library.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Portage la Prairie Regional Library | 644 STO (Text) | 3675000118168 | Adult Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |