Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 --

Chapter 8. Green Heating -- Solar Design -- Weatherproofing -- Insulation -- Windows -- Energy-Efficient Landscaping -- Your Furnace -- Fireplaces -- Wood Stoves -- Geothermal -- Domestic Hot Water -- Chapter 9. - Cooling -- Green Coolth - Passive -- Solar Design -- Cheap Cooling Strategies -- Technological Solutions -- Chapter 10. -- Liquid Assets -- Where Does All the Water Go? -- Toilets -- Showers -- Baths -- Yard Water Usage -- Chapter 11. -- Environmental -- Goods and Services -- Sustainable Wood -- Food -- Recycled Products/Recycled -- Paper -- Organic Flowers -- Protecting Nature at Home -- Green Mortgages -- Chapter 12. -- Putting It All Together -- Financial Cost and Gain -- Rising Energy Prices, Falling Efficiency Costs -- Environmental Gains -- The Kyoto Protocol -- Share Your Success Stories!