Ebook: The Zero-Carbon House

Cover; Title Page; Table of Contents; DEDICATION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Preface; CHAPTER 1 : Zero Carbon; CHAPTER 2 : Evolutionary Houses; CHAPTER 3 : Old Houses; CHAPTER 4 : New Houses; CHAPTER 5 : Earthships; CHAPTER 6 : Communities; CHAPTER 7 : Lifestyles; Appendix: Top Twenty Tips; Glossary; Further Information; Copyright; Advertisement.;'Zero Carbon' is an abstract concept for most people, but we have lived energy-profligate lifestyles for too long on finite fossil-fuel resources. We now face potential environmental catastrophe from climate change and global warming, with a continuing exponentially expanding global population that doubles every four decades. The capacity of the planet to reabsorb carbon dioxide is about two to three tonnes of carbon equivalent per person at current population levels of seven billion and therefore there is a desperate need for us to reduce our carbon footprint. A way of helping to achieve this.