If your looking for some more info, presented here are some helpful books on varying types of
Environmental Design. Titles with links can be purchased directly from Amazon Books.

• Architecture and the Environment:Contemporary Green Buildings by David Lloyd Jones. Overlook Press, 1998. Hardcover, 256 pp..
  
  

• Earth to Spirit by David Pearson. Chronicle Books, 1995. Hardcover, 159pp.
  
  

• Designing With Nature: The ecological basis for architectural design by Ken Yeang, McGraw-Hill, New York, N.Y., 1995. Hardcover, 243pp.
  
  
• The Ecology of Architecture: A complete guide to creating the environmentally conscious building by Laura C. Zeiher, Watsun-Guptill Publications, New York, N.Y., 1996. Hardcover, 269pp.
  
  
• Green Architecture: Design for an Energy-Conscious Future by Brenda Vale, Robert Vale. Bulfinch Printing Co., 1991.
  
  
• Green Architecture: A Guide To Sustainable Design by Michael J. Crosbie, AIA Press, Washington, D.C., 1994. Hardcover, 199pp.
  
  
• Green Design: Design for the Environment by Dorothy MacKenzie. Books Nippon Publishing Co., 1997. Hardcover, 176pp.
  
  
• Green Shift: Towards a Green Sensibility in Architecture by John Farmer, Kenneth Richardson. Butterworth Architecture, 1996. Softcover, 203pp.
  
  
• Health House Consumer Workbook - A practical Guide to Building a Healthier House by the American Lung Association, Minneapolis Affiliate, at 4220 Old Shakopee Road , Suite 101, Minneapolis, MN 55437, (612) 885-0338.
  
  
• The Independent Home by Michael Potts, Chelsea Green Publishing Co., White River Junction, Vermont.
  
  
• The Natural House Catalog: Creating a healthy, harmonious, and ecologically-sound home for the environment by David Pearson, Simon & Schuster Inc., New York, N.Y., 1989. Softcover, 287pp.
  
  
• Your Natural Home: The Complete Sourcebook and Design Manual for Creating a Healthy, Beautiful and Environmentally Sensitive House by Janet Marinelli & Paul Bierman-Lytle, Little, Brown and Co., New York, N.Y., 1995. Softcover, 256pp.
  

• Alternative Housebuilding by Mike McClintock, Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. New York, N.Y., 1989. Softcover, 367pp.
  
  
• Complete Book of Cordwood Masonry Housebuilding: The Earthwood Method by Rob Roy, softcover, 255pp.. Earthwood Building School, 336 Murtagh Hill Road, West Chazy, New York 12992. (518) 493-7744
    also available from Rob Roy, The Sauna, and The Solar Powered Home by Rob Roy
  
  
• Complete Book of Underground Houses: How to Build a Low-Cost Home by Rob Roy, softcover, 148pp.. Earthwood Building School, 336 Murtagh Hill Road, West Chazey, New York 12992. (518) 493-7744
  
  
• Cordwood Masonry Construction: An Annotated Bibliography by Gregory M Kortman, Julene Butler. Vance Bibliographies, 1987.
  
  
• Cordwood Masonry Houses by Rob Roy. Sterling Publishing, 1980.
  
  
• The Rammed Earth Experience by David Easton. Blue Mountain Printing Co., 1982.
  
  
• The Rammed Earth House by David Easton, Chelsea Green Publishing Co., White River Junction, Vermont, 1996. Softcover. 272pp.
  
  
• Solar and Underground Houses. Jay Haughey, 1982. Softcover.
  
  
• The Straw Bale House by Steen, Steen, and Bainbridge, Chelsea Green Publishing Co., White River Junction, Vermont, 1994. softcover, 297pp.
  
  

• Energy from the Wind and Water by Donna Bailey. Steck-Vaughn Library Division, 1991.
  
  
• The Evolution of an Independent home: The Story of a Solar Pioneer by Paul Jeffrey Fowler. Chelsea Green Publishing Co., 1995. Softcover, 254pp.
  
  
• Harnessing Solar Power: The Photovoltaics Challenge by Keneth Zweibel. Plenum Printing, 1990. Hardcover, 319pp.
  
  
• The Independent Home: Living Well With Power from the Sun, Wind, and Water by Michael Potts. Chelsea Green Publishing Co., 1993. Softcover, 224pp.
  
  
• The Solar Electric House: Energy for the Environmentally-Responsive, Energy-Independent Home by Steven J. Strong. Chelsea Green Publishing Co., 1994. Softcover, 288pp.
  
  
• Solar Electricity by Tomas Markvart. John Wiley & Sons Publishing Co., 1994. Softcover, 228pp.
  
  
• Wind Power for Home & Business: Renewable Energy for the 1990’s and Beyond by Paul Gipe. Chelsea Green Publishing Co., 1993. Softcover, 432pp.
  
  

• The Garbage Primer: The League of Women Voters Education Fund by Pamela Murphy. Lyons & Burford, 1993. Softcover, 192pp.
  
  
• Reclaim Recycle Reuse: And natural Products to Help Save the Earth by Alan B. Hayes. Sally Milner Publishing, 1992. Softcover.
  
  
• Recycle: A Handbook for Kids by Gail Gibbons. Little, Brown & Co., 1996. Softcover, 32pp.
  
  
• Recycling ( creating a healthy world ) by Susan Hassol, Beth Richman. Windstar Foundation, 1989. Softcover.
  
  
• Reducing, Reusing, and Recycling by Bobbie Kalman. Crabtree Publishing, 1991. Softcover, 32pp.
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• Green Building Resource Guide by John Hermannsson, AIA, Architect. The Taunton Press, Newtown, CT., 1997. Softcover, 152pp.
  
  
• The Natural House Catalog: Everything You Need to Create an Environmentally Friendly Home by David Pearson, Simon & Schuster Inc., New York, N.Y., 1996. Softcover, 287pp.
  
  

• The Green Kitchen Handbook: Practical Advice, References, and Sources for Transforming the Center of Your Home into a Healthy, Livable Place by Annie Berthold-bond. Harper Collins, 1997. Softcover, 288pp.
  
  
• The Healthy Home: An attic-to-basement guide to toxin-free living by Linda Mason Hunter, Pocket Books, Simon & Schuster Inc., New York, N.Y., 1990. Softcover, 314pp.
  
  
• The Healthy House: Creating a Safe, Healthy and Environmentally Friendly Home by Sydney Baggs, Joan C. Baggs. Harpercollins Publishing Ltd., 1997. Softcover.
  
  
• Thinking Green: In My Home by Ann Bogart. Smithmark Publishing, 1993. Hardcover.
  
  

         

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