num_pages: 608
description: Concerns over dwindling resources and environmental degradation are driving many to seek alternatives to our wasteful, polluting lifestyle. Clean technologies such as solar power, wind power, and biodiesel fuel are soaring in popularity.  Real Goods Solar Living Source Book—Special 30th Anniversary Edition is the ultimate guide to renewable energy, sustainable living, green building, homesteading, off-the-grid living, and alternative transportation, written by experts with decades of experience and a passion for sharing their knowledge. This fully updated edition includes brand-new sections on Peak Oil, climate change, relocalization, natural burial, biodynamics, and permaculture. It also boasts the latest product listings and completely rewritten and expanded chapters on:    Land and shelter   Natural building   Passive solar   Biofuels   Sustainable transportation   Grid-tied photovoltaics   Solar hot water systems   Plus, over 150 pages of maps, wiring diagrams, formulae, charts, solar sizing worksheets, and much more    Whether you’re a layperson or a professional, novice or longtime aficionado, the new sourcebook puts the latest research and products at your fingertips—all the information you need to make sustainable living a reality.  John Schaeffer is the president and founder of Real Goods, the oldest and largest catalog company devoted to the sale and service of renewable-energy products. Now merged with Gaiam, Real Goods has converted over sixty thousand homes to solar energy since 1978, when it sold the very first photovoltaic module in America. Real Goods hosts the annual SolFest at its Solar Living Center headquarters in Hopland, California.
language: English
title: Real Goods Solar Living Source Book: Your Complete Guide to Renewable Energy Technologies and Sustainable Living
titlecomplete: Real Goods Solar Living Source Book: Your Complete Guide to Renewable Energy Technologies and Sustainable Living (Real Goods Solar Living Sourcebook)
genres: Technology, Environment, Nonfiction, Sustainability, Gardening
ratings_count: 89
series: Mother Earth News Wiser Living
publisher: Gaiam Real Goods