Climate Change Solutions

A veritable cookbook of natural plaster recipes and techniques for beautiful, durable finishes Natural plasters made of clay, lime, and other materials mixed with sand are beautiful building finishes. Fun to work with, low-impact, and allowing infinite creativity, they are high performance and provide proven, centuries-long durability.

A comprehensive manual for designing, building, and maintaining water harvesting systems for the warm and cold climates of the world. This practical resource provides DIYers, trades, and rainwater practitioners with the essential tools, methods, and technical know-how to design, build, and maintain rainwater harvesting systems anywhere.

Everything you need to know to build with rammed earth in warm and cold climates.

Academic sustainability expert Robert Sroufe, and construction and building experts Craig Stevenson and Beth Eckenrode, explain how to realize the potential of existing buildings and make them perform like new. Move beyond incremental changes to holistic, results-oriented solutions.

Strategies for creative and collaborative approaches to coastal planning for climate change. In the face of sea level rise and an increased risk of flooding from storm surge, we must become less dependent on traditional approaches to flood control that have relied on levees, sea walls, and other forms of hard infrastructure.

Geoengineering is the deliberate and large-scale intervention in the Earth's climate system in an attempt to mitigate the adverse effects of global warming.

A revolutionary guide to designing humane, eco-conscious homes, buildings, and cities of the future.

An inside view of how one of the world's leading architecture and engineering practice does business. A unique text that will inform and inspire architects and engineers, as well as students of those disciplines, around the globe.

The indispensable guide to solar electricity systems for homeowners, business owners, builders, and students.