The book is suffused with a sensitivity to environmental issues of all sorts, a useful perspective in these resource-limited times. A new book in the Independent Living Series from Chelsea Green Publishing Company and Real Goods Trading Corporation features innovative environmental building techniques that demonstrate the potential for heating and cooling a home through the application of solar design principles. Full of valuable, constructive, how-to advice, this book gives readers a comprehensive look at the ten key principles of solar design that can complement any style of architecture or method of building. Kachadorian's sensible approach is both appealing and reassuring for those who think innovation in solar design ended in the 1970s.
Good planning is worth much more than special technologies or equipment.
He is the founder of Green Mountain Homes, a company which gained national recognition as the first provider of innovative, manufactured solar homes. He has built more than 300 passive solar homes. Kachadorian resides in Woodstock, Vermont.