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| Foreword: Making Up Your Mind to Be Energy Efficient--Why It's Right for You | |
| What You Need to Know about Carbon Footprints | |
| Some Common Misconceptions | |
| Where the Energy Goes (includes charts and tables)YourCarbon Footprint | |
| How Much Energy Is Too Much? | |
| Reducing Your Carbon Footprint | |
| Introduction: Making Your House an Efficient Home | |
| Types of Renewable EnergyWhat Is an Efficient Home? | |
| All the Shades of Green | |
| LEED Certification and Other Confusing Terms | |
| Assessing Your Needs | |
| Doing an Energy Audit | |
| Better Ways to Heat and Cool Your Space | |
| Realistic Uses for Renewable Energy/ Sidebar: Pay a Small "Green Fee"--for Renewable Energy | |
| Offsetting Your Travel | |
| Detoxing Your Home/Sidebar: Peace Plants: A Breath of Fresh Air | |
| Choosing the Right Materials | |
| Walls & Ceilings: Low VOC (volatile organic compounds) & nonwoods | |
| Floors: Recycled, renewable, & organic materials (w/ flooring chart)/ Sidebar: Why Bamboo Is for You | |
| Appliances: Properly fitting your space with energy-efficient appliances | |
| How Much Electricity Do Appliances Use? | |
| How to Read the EnergyGuide Label | |
| Your Home Office | |
| Save $$$ with the Flick of a Switch: Compact fluorescents and Powerstrips | |
| Stuff It: Plugging the holes and gaps around windows and doors (with map of sources of air leaks in your home) | |
| Feature: Insulating with Sheep's Wool and Other Natural Options | |
| Stopping the Flow: Eliminating junk and other unwanted mail and paper; buying less and getting rid of more | |
| Heating Clean and GreenLow-Impact Cooling | |
| Feature: "Paper" Houses and Other Renewable Building Materials | |
| Make Your Clean Green: Low-impact Cleaning Products | |
| Getting Clean with Less Effort and Energy | |
| Laundry (Box: Mite-free Living with Organic Linens)Housecleaning | |
| Feature: Cleaning Where You Can't See: Make Your Refrigerator, AC, Furnace, or Chimney Run Better by Cleaning ItDishwashingBath & ShowerPets | |
| Vacuuming versus Other Options (w/ chart)Trash & Recycling | |
| The Great OutdoorsnAround Your Home | |
| Native Vegetation: Low-upkeep Is Earth-friendly | |
| Birds, Bees, and Butterflies | |
| Vegetables and Fruits | |
| Flowers and Plants/Box: Worm Castings: Natural Fertilizer | |
| Nontoxic Pesticides (including insects)Composting | |
| Energy-efficient Landscaping | |
| Shading | |
| Windbreaking | |
| Xeriscaping (Water usage)Outdoor Lighting | |
| Feature: Eco-pools: Chemical-free Fun (featuring comparison chart) | |
| Buying Local | |
| The Cost of Moving Food on the Environment | |
| Green Tips: Bagging It/Sizing Up: If you're going to use it up anyway, get more product for less packaging/Buying local also reduces packaging | |
| Feature: DIY: From-scratch baking | |
| How Green Is Your Ride? | |
| Car Maintenance Tips for a Greener and Cheaper Ride | |
| Feature: Low-Carbon Cars: Hybrids & SMART Cars | |
| Ride-sharing & Public Transportation/Box: Green-transit Cities: Curitiba, Brazil & Portland, Oregon | |
| Human Power: Walking, Biking, Skating, Scootering | |
| Telecommuting: Focusing on Work Instead of How to Get There/Box: Your Home Office | |
| Carbon Checklist: What You Do and How You Do ItAt Home | |
| On the Road | |
| At Work or School | |
| On Vacation: Putting Your House on Hiatus | |
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