Awards

• Winner of Independent Publisher Book Awards (Home/Garden) 2004

Overview

Natural Home Heating is the first comprehensive guide to heating your home with renewable energy sources. Greg Pahl offers a well-organized, easy-to-understand tour of all available renewable home-heating options, including wood, pellet, corn and grain-fired stoves, fireplaces, furnaces and boilers as well as masonry heaters, active and passive solar systems, and heat pumps. Learn how to burn environmentally friendly biodiesel fuels, not just in your car, but in your furnace or boiler. Included is everything you need to know about the fuels, systems, technologies, costs, and advantages and disadvantages of each option. Pahl teaches homeowners how to retrofit existing heating systems and choose renewable replacements, or design an entirely new house that can be heated comfortably with minimal environmental and financial impact.

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9781931498227

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Here is the comprehensive guide to heating your home without heating up the planet. For warm feet and a clear conscience, this is the book you need. --Bill McKibben, author of Enough! Staying Human in an Engineered World

Here is the comprehensive guide to heating your home without heating up the planet. For warm feet and a clear conscience, this is the book you need. --Bill McKibben, author of Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age

""Here is the comprehensive guide to heating your home without heating up the planet. For warm feet and a clear conscience, this is the book you need.""--Bill McKibben, author of ""Enough! Staying Human in an Engineered World"" ""Here is the comprehensive guide to heating your home without heating up the planet. For warm feet and a clear conscience, this is the book you need"" - Bill McKibben ""Here is the comprehensive guide to heating your home without heating up the planet. For warm feet and a clear conscience, this is the book you need.""--Bill McKibben, author of Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age

Here is the comprehensive guide to heating your home without heating up the planet. For warm feet and a clear conscience, this is the book you need. --Bill McKibben, author of Enough! Staying Human in an Engineered World Here is the comprehensive guide to heating your home without heating up the planet. For warm feet and a clear conscience, this is the book you need - Bill McKibben Here is the comprehensive guide to heating your home without heating up the planet. For warm feet and a clear conscience, this is the book you need. --Bill McKibben, author of Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age

Author Information

Greg Pahl has been involved with renewable energy issues for more than 25 years. He is a founding member of the Vermont Biofuels Association. He is also the author of Natural Home Heating: The Complete Guide to Renewable Energy Options (Chelsea Green, 2003), The Citizen-Powered Energy Handbook: Community Solutions to a Global Crisis (Chelsea Green, 2007), and has written about wind power, solar energy, electric cars, sustainable forestry management, and biodiesel home heating. He lives in Weybridge, Vermont. Visit Greg's Web site at www.gregpahl.com

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