The Independent Home: Living Well with Power from the Sun, Wind, and Water

by Michael Potts

Book Overview

Looks at people who are self-sufficient in providing their own heat, electricity, and hot water, and examines how the home-made systems work. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0930031652
• ISBN13: 9780930031657
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Required reading for all homosapiens!

Because of my total infatuation with the first book (I'm assuming, first) I would get the next without question. Occasionally, this is a mistake, but I don't think it will be a disappointment. Please quote anything from me regarding how great I think this work is. I find the book an escape on the line of the old, big Sears catalogs that we called the "wish book" when I was a kid. An often somewhat dry subject spiced with real people living the "life." I have read and re-read it many times. I hope for for a sequel that dipicts the continuing state of the art and the folks he interviewd 5 years later. A style with the technical interspersed with the personalities is very refreshing. It's like learning while reading People Magazine. I felt myself wanting to read more about the people and their feelings. Where Potts injected his opinions, this made me want to read more of what he thought about the life styles and conditions he visited. His opinions about the building departments and reglatory agencies were right on! I wanted to go storm the local building Department with his book in hand as ammunition.