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Book Review: The Carbon Free Home
treehugger.com - 4/22/2009
Book Review: The Carbon Free Home
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It is the first time I have ever been excited by a Table of Contents. Most books just list the chapters and the page number; in Stephen and Rebeka Hren's The Carbon Free Home they list their thirty-six projects, but also on that one page list the time it will take, the cost, the energy saved ...

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Chelsea Green:  Eco-Love from Treehugger for The Carbon-Free Home

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Eco-Love from Treehugger for The Carbon-Free Home
Chelsea Green — Yay! Treehugger just gave high marks to Stephen and Rebekah Hren ’s The Carbon-Free Home: 36 Remodeling Projects to Help Kick the Fossil-Fuel Habit . Nice to get a little love from an organization we deeply respect. The Hrens have learned the hard way, and pass on their experiences, from their first attempt in a cob house they built thirty miles out of town, from their realization that driving that distance negated all the carbon savings and that they were not competent farmers, and then the move back into town. They then take us through what they did ...

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