Your home is a symbol of your thoughts towards the world.
Your home is a part of you. It reflects how you feel about your environment. Your home should give you protection and comfort. You spend most probabaly most of your time at home and it can be influenced by many factors: noise, light, ambiance, vibes, air quality, temperature and by some other factors. Building your home with natural materials gives you beyond healty conditions also some aesthetic view. Natural materials such as stone, glass, lime or mud plasters, adobe or rammed earth, bricks, tiles, untreated wood, cork, paper, reeds, bamboo, canes and grasses, all natural fibers are always easy to find and not so expensive.
You will get some more information on how to build and also to choose an environmentally friendly home by reading some books written for that purpose.
The Eco-house Manual: How to Carry Out Environmentally Friendly Improvements to Your Home
by Nigel Griffiths
This manual covers every aspect of domestic renovation from heating and electrical systems through to building materials and outdoor space. Whether you want to work out the payback period on a wind turbine or find out about the most eco-friendly floor covering, all information is presented in a clear and practical format with colour photography throughout. With up-do-date information about emerging renewable sources of power, along with step-by-step projects for the home and garden, this will be an invaluable resource for all home owners.
Eco: An Essential Sourcebook for Environmentally Friendly Design and Decoration
Threats to the environment are constantly in the news but daunted by the scale of the problem, we often feel powerless. Eco shows that we can make a difference by designing or adapting the homes we live in along more eco-friendly lines. While environmentally friendly architecture was once seen as a minority interest, it is now viewed simply as best practice. Eco proves that it can be beautiful too. It is the book both for those who want to build a home that respects the environment and for people who wish to make changes to the home they already have. Focusing on design, finish, decoration and even housekeeping, Eco promises you lower fuel bills, fewer allergy-related illnesses, less waste and a healthy world for your children to inherit.
Building Green: A Complete How-to Guide to Alternative Building Methods
This manual doesn't just talk about eco-friendly building techniques, but actually shows every step. More than 1,200 close-up photographs, along with in-depth descriptions, follow the real construction of an alternative house from site selection to the final-touch interior details. The authors provide: discussions of the fundamental concepts of construction; earth-friendly alternatives to conventional approaches and materials; plans for a home that is comfortable, beautiful, and environmentally responsible; and a practical demonstration of a house in construction using alternative methods. The images show every move: how the site is cleared, the basic structure put together, the cob wall sculpted, the bales and cordwood stacked, a living roof created. Most important, the manual conveys the real-world challenges and processes, and offers dozens of sidebars with invaluable advice.
And some other green books:
Natural Remodelling for the Not-so-green House: Bringing Your Home into Harmony with Nature
by Carol VenoliaGreen Building & Remodeling For Dummies
by Eric Corey FreedThe Passive Solar House: Using Solar Design to Heat and Cool Your Home
by James Kachadorian
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