Carol Venolia,Kelly Lerner
To have a home thatâ€™s more in touch with the earth, you donâ€™t have to start from the ground up! Itâ€™s possibleâ€”and more environmentally friendlyâ€”to go green by renovating an existing home. With the help of Carol Venolia, an award-winning architect and bestselling author, and Kelly Lerner, a world-famous innovator in the field of sustainable development, even the least mechanically inclined person can make a difference in his or her dwellingâ€¦and to the planet. The two have produced a remarkable bookâ€”packed with information and photos, and the first ever in full color to cover the subject. Itâ€™s lush and exquisite to look at, filled with motivational case studies and informative graphics, and completely user-friendly.Â  Â â€œSome of us would like to become more Earth-Friendly, but we donâ€™t have 10,00 acres in Montana or the passive solar ATM machine to get us the cash to buy the above. Breathe! Center! There is help. Groundbreaking architects, Kelly Lerner and Carol Venolia have just completed a book (to help you). There are plenty of checklists and resource guides to go with all the glossy photos.â€Â  -- Kevin Taylor, ,The Pacific Northwest Inlander,Â ,â€œYou don't have to build a new home to have a green home. The book builds on the construction wisdom our forebears used to design homes that capitalized on nature's light, warmth, coolness and other benefits. Venolia and Lerner cover everything from simple changes to complex systems that make a home more ecologically sensitive, comfortable and livable. The book is dense with ideas and information for homeowners consideringrenovations.â€ ,--Akron Beacon Journal, ,Â ,Kelly Lerner, is an innovative architect who spearheaded a project responsible for building more than 600 passive-solar-heated straw-bale houses in China. Her designs have been featured ,in Landscape Architecture Magazine,, ,Metropolis Magazine,, ,The Straw Bale House,, and ,Green by Design,. ,Carol Venolia, specializes in the field of eco-healthy building. Her first book, ,Healing Environments,, has enjoyed international success, and her home designs have been featured in ,The Natural House Catalog,, ,Earth to Spirit,, ,The Healthy House,, and ,Environ ,magazine. Carol currently writes the "Design for Life"Â column for ,Natural Home, & Garden magazine.,Â 
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Natural Remodeling for the Not-So-Green House: Bringing Your Home into Harmony with Nature