"Sustainable Architecture" is a term that groups together a number of approaches to architecture that choose materials and techniques that can be maintained for the long-term without exhausting non-renewable resources.Mainstreaming Sustainable Architecture illustrates a systems approach to design and construction in which the various components--such as passive solar techniques, earth air conditioning, vapor-permeable ceilings, and cellulose insulation--operate synergistically to achieve environmental goals. This case study of Casa de Paja (House of Straw) demonstrates that many elements of sustainable architecture can be incorporated without sacrificing sophisticated design and without added expense.While no technical background is needed to understand the principles behind sustainable design, architects and engineers will find enough detail in the drawings and appendices to adapt these techniques to their own construction.

Mainstreaming Sustainable Architecture: Casa de Paja: A Demonstration

Science & Math

Zimmerman, Jan

Paschich, Ed

Biological Sciences

High Desert Press

<p>In this groundbreaking book Dr. Peters captures the distinct flavor of her times and place: America in the early 20th Century. This is not just a diet and health book. It is a historic artifact as well. It is a glimpse of American life when cars and phones were just becoming a part of daily life, there were no televisions and the 1920s were just beginning to Roar. Men, and even women, like Dr. Peters, were going off to war in Europe. 'Diet &amp;amp; Health with Keys to the Calories ' is where it all started. It is the first modern day simple and basic guide to eating right and losing weight. What was sound advise in 1918 is still sound today. It may also have been the friendly, perky, yet direct way that Dr. Peters addresses the issue of weight that earned her such a large following in the 1920s. We've taken a simple book and improved it and made it more accessible. To make it easier on the eyes we've enlarged the type (12 pt.) and used a new character font (Georgia). We didn't just scan an old book and put a new cover on it. We enlarged the book size to 6"x 9". And, we've given you additional dietary ideas in a new final chapter. We've left nothing out, nor edited Dr. Peters. She speaks for her self as she did almost a century ago.</p>

Diet & Health: with Key to the Calories

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Peters, A.B., Lulu Hunt

Tighe, Lori Ann

Diets & Weight Loss

<p>This book contains firsthand stories told by over 40 different authors from among the Mennonites and Amish of their unique experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. The stories cover the spectrum from tears to laughter as the reader joins families, hospital patients, school teachers and missionaries navigating the uncharted waters of the COVID-19 pandemic. This book provides both a chronicle that preserves the stories experienced in the Mennonite and Amish communities during the pandemic and also provides encouragement for the reader as they encounter pandemic challenges from a variety of vantage points.</p>

The Living Of These Days

Erica Sauder

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