Posts Tagged ‘book’

Sustainable Energy: Opportunities and Limitations (Energy, Climate and the Environment)

June 7th, 2011

In this timely book, leading authors explore the technologies that might help us to develop a sustainable energy future, emphasising renewable energy and the political and economic context needed for them to prosper. This collection makes hard-headed assessments of what is possible and what is not.

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Mortgage-Free!: Radical Strategies for Home Ownership (Real Goods Solar Living Book)

June 5th, 2011

This is a banker’s worst nightmare—a book that tells you how to live without being enslaved to financial institutions.
Chelsea Green has produced a formidable series of books on innovative shelter. But every alternative building strategy, no matter how low-cost or environmentally benign, requires a complementary financial strategy. the accepted path is to go hat-in-hand to a big financial institution, such as a bank, to borrow a lump sum that is repaid over many years. By the time the loan is repaid, the homeowner will have paid several times the original amount in interest.
The literal meaning of “mortgage” is “death pledge.” Author Rob Roy is offering an escape route from a lifetime of indentured servitude. Mortgage-Free! Radical Strategies for Home Ownership is a complete guide to strategies that allow you to own your land and home, free and clear, without the bank. Included is detailed advice about:
  • Clarifying and simplifying your notions of what’s necessary
  • Finding land that you love and can afford
  • Taking control of the house-building process, for the sake of sanity and pleasure
  • Learning to take a long-term perspective on your family’s crucial economic decisions, avoiding debt and modern-day serfdom.The origins of the word “mortgage” are Old French and translate roughly to “death pledge.” Rob Roy takes a radical approach here to help the reader understand how mortgages work; explains clearly how, if you have a mortgage already, you can maximize your equity sooner and save tons of money; and how, if just starting the process of acquiring a home for yourself, there are clear alternatives to a standard bank mortgage that will save you massive amounts of money, time, and financial headaches.

    Roy covers the following subjects in detail: the grubstake–the essential financial asset that will stay with you for life; how to find land that you love and can afford; how to seize control of the house-building process; how to clarify and simplify your ideas of what you really need; and how to construct a low-cost home. Included in the book is Roy’s own personal story of mortgage-free living, as well as those of others. His wry humor makes for an entertaining read, and his ideas, examples, and advice are clear-headed, logical, and hopeful. His financial calculations and charts are clear and imminently sensible while being real eye-openers. Your banker may not want you to read this radical book, but it amounts to a guided, rational plan for home ownership and financial liberation, and will no doubt soon be considered a classic. –Mark A. Hetts

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    Renewables Are Ready–People Creating Renewable Energy Solutions: People Creating Renewable Engery Soultions Clean Energy Through Community Action (Real Goods Independent Living Book)

    June 1st, 2011

    Renewables Are Ready is not a book that explains how to hook up solar panels or build a windmill to generate power; instead, it is a blueprint for community participation in bringing renewable energy sources into full function. In Waverly, Iowa, for example, the Midwest’s first utility-scale wind generation projects and town streetlights are powered by hydro turbines on the Cedar River that are operated by the customer-owned local utility company. And Portland, Oregon, pioneered solar-access laws that govern new home siting and require home additions and remodelings not to block solar access to other dwellings. Authors Nancy Cole and P. J. Skerrett give strategies for organizing communities and creative ways to approach the politics and financing of renewable energy sources on a very small scale, or a relatively large one, in rural settings or in the heart of older, major cities. Renewables Are Ready is both inspiring and motivating. It presents a clear case of how savvy planning and good organizing can–and did in scores of example settings–bring about dramatic, positive changes in energy consumption, pollution, and reduced use of nonrenewable resources.

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    Solar Car Book (Klutz)

    May 31st, 2011

    A complete kit for making a cool solar race car. Everything is included: wheels, axles, motors, wires and a genuine one-volt solar cell. Build the car today, and it will run forever, thanks to that big battery in the sky.

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    21st Century Power Technologies Data Book, National Renewable Energy Laboratory Technical Profiles of Biomass, Geothermal, Hydrogen, Hydropower, Solar and Wind Energy, Superconductivity, Fuel Cells, Batteries, Advanced Storage, Electricity Restructuring, Electricity Demand Series on Renewable Energy, Biofuels, Bioenergy, and Biobased Products

    May 5th, 2011

    This is a reproduction of the U.S. Department of Energy National Renewable Energy Laboratory Report which includes up-to-date information on power technologies, including complete technology profiles. The data book also contains charts on electricity restructuring, power technology forecasts and comparisons, electricity supply, electricity generation and demand, prices, economic indicators, environmental indicators, and conversion factors.

    List Price: $ 39.95

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    The Book on Karuna Reiki: Advanced Healing Energy for Our Evolving World

    May 4th, 2011

    Book Description The Book On Karuna Reiki® Advanced Healing Energy for Our Evolving World By Laurelle Shanti Gaia

    Karuna Reiki® is a healing energy that assists us in awakening to Universal compassion and the wisdom of our soul.

    Compassion is a state of consciousness, which when combined with energy, has great transformational power.

    In this book you will learn about:

    * The historical and spiritual origins of Karuna Reiki.
    * Uses for the Karuna symbols.
    * Discerning spiritual guidance.
    * Using Karuna energy with crystals and gemstones.
    * Working with Archangel realms, spiritual masters, and Divine temples.
    * Visualization and prayer in healing; including sample prayers.
    * The evolving human subtle energy system.
    * Cellular and soul level healing.

    Karuna techniques assist in healing or facilitating:
    Addictive Behavior, Allergies, Anxiety, Bleeding. Cellular Memory Release, Chakra Balancing, Chemotherapy, Delusion and Denial, Developing Healthy Habits, Ancestors, Future, Karmic Issues, Mental Focus and Grounding, Physical Injuries-Emergencies, Resistance to Healing, and Spiritual Growth

    How to give a Karuna session including, preparing sacred space, the healing altar, preparing the client

    Personal, physical preparations for spiritual work

    This book is written for anyone interested in Karuna Reiki®. It is a GREAT supplemental training manual for Karuna Reiki® Master Teachers to use in their classes.

    List Price: $ 22.95

    Price: $ 14.59

    The Book of Ki: A Practical Guide to the Healing Principles of Life Energy

    May 2nd, 2011

    Illustrated exercises for strengthening your life energy to heal yourself and others

    • Presents a thorough understanding of ki and teaches how to access ki through breathing

    • Includes a series of exercises, accompanied by photographs, for strengthening, smoothing, balancing, and transmitting ki

    One morning in 1979 Mallory Fromm awoke in his Tokyo apartment with agonizing pain shooting through half of his body. A series of specialists were unable to cure the pain, which grew worse until Fromm could no longer walk. Just when he had given up all hope, a friend introduced him to an aged Japanese woman who cured him using her healing art based on ki, the life energy that animates the entire universe, and that flows through each and every one of us.

    The Book of Ki presents you with a thorough understanding of what ki is, then teaches you how to access your ki. A series of exercises teaches you how to strengthen, smooth, and balance your ki, and shows you how to transmit your ki to heal yourself and others. Photographs accompanying each exercise clearly show you where to position your hands to maximize the flow of ki in the body.

    The Book of Ki also tells the story of Kayoko Matsuura, the brilliant healer who saved Mallory Fromm and countless others. It is an in-depth and moving account of a woman whose simple but revolutionary healing art the West is only now ready to understand.

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    Solar Energy Owner’s Guide, No. 1 (Energy and Ecology “Do It” Book)

    April 30th, 2011

    Solar Energy is God’s message that we were created equal: we all get the same amount. The sun radiates 500 BTU’s toward every square foot of this planet, every day, every hour on the part facing the sun. Half of that is dissipated in the atmosphere, but that’s still plenty of heat. Solar water heating is a single application of free energy, and this book explains how to use it. To use it, we need a collector to gather the sun’s energy and transform it to a useable form, in this case, water heating. It’s all in the book: how to build it, where to place it, and how to make it work. At the time of this writing, California had laws requiring the use of solar energy. I collected the specifications and placed them in the book. Even though the laws have vanished, the prepared material will aid anyone’s use of solar energy for water heating. It will happen again. Laws will be enacted to require the use of solar energy for all manner of heating as common sense again rules and the people universally collect the energy from the sun’s rays. This book is the only one I know of that has this information all together.

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    Alternative Energy (True Books)

    April 29th, 2011

    Ideal for today’s young investigative reader, each A True Book includes lively sidebars, a glossary and index, plus a comprehensive “To Find Out More” section listing books, organizations, and Internet sites. A staple of library collections since the 1950s, the new A True Book series is the definitive nonfiction series for elementary school readers.

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    Price: $ 6.95

    The Passive Solar House: Using Solar Design to Heat and Cool Your Home (Real Goods Independent Living Book)

    April 29th, 2011

    This book offers a technique for building homes that heat and cool themselves in a wide range of different climates, using ordinary building materials available anywhere and with methods familiar to all building contractors and many do-it-yourselfers. A formerly patented design for author James Kachadorian’s Solar Slab heat exchanger is now available for the use of anyone motivated by the desire to build a house that needs a backup furnace or air conditioner rarely if ever. This is a building book for the next century. Applicable to a diversity of regions, climates, budgets, and styles of architecture, Kachadorian’s techniques translate the essentials of timeless solar design (siting a home in harmony with nature, using windows as solar collectors, achieving year-round comfort by balancing good insulation with healthy supplies of fresh air) into practical wisdom for today’s new generation of solar builders.

    List Price: $ 24.95

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