The Zero-Carbon House

'Zero Carbon' is an abstract concept for most people, but we have lived energy-profiligate lifestyles for too long on finite fossil-fuel resources. We now face potential environmental catastrophe from climate change and global warming, with a continuing exponentially expanding global population that doubles every four decades.

About the author

Martin Godfrey Cook is a chartered architect and environmentalist with three decades of experience in the built environment, who specializes in the sustainable design, operation and refurbishment of buildings. He has advocated energy efficiency and sustainability in new and existing buildings since the last energy crisis in the 1970s. Martin is a founder member of the RIBA Sustainable Futures Committee and is working hard to reduce his carbon footprint to less than three tonnes of carbon equivalent a year, which he is offsetting by planting a forest.

Summary

'Zero Carbon' is an abstract concept for most people, but we have lived energy-profiligate lifestyles for too long on finite fossil-fuel resources. We now face potential environmental catastrophe from climate change and global warming, with a continuing exponentially expanding global population that doubles every four decades.

Product details

• Authors: Martin Godfrey Cook, Cook Martin Godfrey, Martin Godfrey Cook
• Publisher: Wiley
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.06.2011
• EAN: 9781847972620
• ISBN: 978-1-84797-262-0
• Dimensions: 189 mm x 246 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 636 g
• Illustrations: 160 colour photographs and 4 diagrams and line drawings and
• Subjects: Guides > Nature > Garden; Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; Architecture, SELF-HELP / Green Lifestyle, HOUSE & HOME / Remodeling & Renovation, Self-sufficiency and ‘green’ lifestyle, Home renovation and extension