BOOKSTORE
Most of the books in our bookstore,
plus many others not listed, including how-to manuals, can be ordered directly
from Montana renewable energy dealers.
Saving Energy
Consumer
Guide to Home Energy Savings
(8th Ed)
By Alex Wilson, Jennifer Thorne and John Morrill
Paperback - 225 pages (January 2000)
American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy; ISBN: 0918249384
Alex Wilson,
Jennifer Thorne and John Morrill have assembled a comprehensive guide to energy-saving
techniques and devices. They offer consumers the latest
techniques for making their homes more efficient, comfortable, and cheaper to
live in, and they supply energy ratings for appliances, light bulbs, water heaters,
windows, heating systems, and more.
Residential
Energy: Cost Savings and Comfort for Existing Buildings
Training manual for energy-auditor and home-inspector used in courses
across the United States. Homeowners use the book as a reference and a primer
on home energy conservation.
This book introduces readers to a home's parts, its functions, and its flaws before
explaining all the important possibilities for energy conservation. Readers will
learn that effective energy conservation requires an integrated approach that
identifies the biggest sources of energy waste.
Small
Is Profitable
By Amory B. Lovins, Kyle Datta, Thomas Feiler, Karl R. Rábago, Joel N.
Swisher P.E., André Lehmann, and Ken Wicker.
Rocky Mountain Institute, 2002.
Softcover, 399 pages, ISBN# 1881071073.
Small Is Profitable: The Hidden Economic Benefits of Making Electrical Resources
the Right Size (www.smallisprofitable.org) describes 207 ways in which the size
of "electrical resources" - devices that make, save, or store
electricity - affects their economic value. It finds that properly considering
the economic benefits of "distributed" (decentralized) electrical
resources typically raises their value by a large factor, often approximately
tenfold, by improving system planning, utility construction and operation, and
service quality, and by avoiding societal costs.
Your
Mobile Home: Energy and Repair Guide for Manufactured Housing
By John Krigger
Paperback – 224 pages, 300 illustrations (1998)
ISBN 1-880120-10-0
A guidebook to answer all your questions about mobile and manufactured homes,
this comprehensive 210-page reference book contains the collective experience
of many experts in construction, weatherization, and repair. More than 200 drawings,
photos, charts, and graphs complement the text of Your Mobile Home: Energy and
Repair Guide for Manufactured Housing. The graphics combine with easy-to-understand
writing to make technical information readily available to repair persons, energy
technicians, building inspectors, and mobile home owners.
Your
Home Cooling Energy Guide
Air
conditioning costs Americans about 10 billion dollars each year and is a leading
source of air pollution. This 80-page, illustrated manual explores all the options
for shading, ventilation, and air-conditioning maintenance. It explains how to
use awnings, sun screens, window films, radiant barriers, insulation, reflective
coatings, and shade trees. The book also explains how to use fans for low-cost
cooling.
Saturn
Resource Management also publishes fact sheets that cover specific topic
areas in detail:
- Landscaping for Energy Efficiency
- Blocking Solar Heat for Summer
Comfort
- Your Air Conditioner
- Buying a New Air Conditioner.
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