Book description
Green Your Home All-in-One For Dummies empowers readers to make
ecologically-friendly improvements to each and every area of their home.
At . 99 and 696 pages, this package is a real value and a true source
book for readers looking for a substantial breadth of information and
solutions yet unwilling to invest in four, five, or six books on the
wide range of content that they seek.
Yvonne Jeffery,
coauthor of Green Living For Dummies,
is an author, editor, and award-winning feature writer with 15 years'
experience writing home and lifestyle stories, many of them focused on
sustainable living. Yvonne's work has appeared in newspapers, magazines,
and books around the world. Her credits include National Geographic
Traveler, American Profi le, The Sunday Telegraph
(UK), and CanWest newspapers.
Liz Barclay, coauthor of Green Living For Dummies, has
worked as an adviser, trainer, and manager with the Citizens Advice
Bureau, a nonprofi t organization in the United Kingdom that provides
free, impartial advice to help individuals resolve legal, fi nancial,
consumer, and other problems. Liz has worked on a wide range of
business and fi nance programs for the BBC and has written for News
Of The World, The Express, Moneywise, Family Circle, Save Money,
and the Mail On Sunday personal fi nance magazine. She also has
written UK Law and Your Rights For Dummies and Small
Business Employment Law For Dummies.
Michael Grosvenor, coauthor of Green Living For Dummies,
is a leading urban planning professional and freelance writer on
sustainability. Through his work and writing, Michael promotes the
benefi ts of making sustainable lifestyle choices. He is the director
of his own consulting fi rm and holds maters degrees in Urban Affairs
and Applied Social Research and a degree in Town Planning. He's also a
member of the Planning Institute of Australia and provides advice to
the Institute on integrated land use and transportation planning issues.
Elizabeth B. Goldsmith, PhD, author of Green Cleaning For
Dummies, is a Family Resource Management professor at Florida
State University who green cleans her own home. She is a nationally
known expert in how households are run, including the most documented
home in America - the White House. Liz is the author of several
college textbooks, including Consumer Economics: Issues and
Behavior (Prentice Hall; 2nd edition Pearson) and Resource
Management for Individuals and Families (Wadsworth Publishing),
now in its 4th edition (Pearson). She was a Fulbright Scholar in
Trinidad and Tobago, studying family and home-management practices.
Liz presents papers on households and consumers at conferences
worldwide and has been quoted in various publications.
Betsy Sheldon, contributor to Green Cleaning For
Dummies, has served as editor in chief for three travel
publications, and is the author or co-author of six books on topics
from job-hunting for women to Jewish travel. Betsy writes “Green
Watch,” a regular column for Indianapolis Monthly Home
magazine, and contributes articles about environmental issues and
sustainability to publications including Indiana Living Green
and Vacation Industry Review. She is involved in a number of
environmental initiatives, including the greening task force for the
American Resort Development Association and the Indiana Sustainability
Coalition, and also serves on the board of Earth Charter Indiana. She
facilitates “Low Carbon Diet” workshops, which help participants
discover the steps to lowering their own carbon footprint and reducing
greenhouse gas emissions.
Eric Corey Freed, author of Green Building and Remodeling
For Dummies, is an architect, lecturer, and writer based in San
Francisco. He has 15 years of experience in green building and is a
practitioner in the tradition of organic architecture fi rst developed
by Frank Lloyd Wright. Eric is founder and principal of
organicARCHITECT, part architecture fi rm, part think tank. Eric
teaches in the Sustainable Design program he co-developed at the
Academy of Art University and the University of California, Berkeley.
His monthly column, Ask the Green Architect, is published by
GreenerBuildings and syndicated to dozens of publications.
Rik DeGunther, author of both Solar Power Your Home For
Dummies and Energy Effi cient Home For Dummies, is CEO of
Effi cient Homes, an energy efficiency auditing firm in Northern
California. He is actively engaged in designing and developing new
solar equipment, including off-grid lighting systems and off-grid
swimming pool heaters. He attended the University of Illinois as an
undergraduate and Stanford University as a graduate student, studying
both applied physics and engineering economics. He holds several
United States patents and has designed a wide range of technical
equipment, including solar power systems, weather measurement
equipment, and explosive devices (strictly by accident).
Ann Whitman, coauthor of Organic Gardening For Dummies,
was fortunate enough to grow up around parents, grandparents, aunts,
and uncles who kept compost piles out back and had keen interest in
growing food and fl owers. She's been tending her own patches of soil
for more than 30 years. Ann earned a bachelor of science degree in
Plant and Soil Science at the University of Vermont. She also
completed a master of arts degree in Landscape Design from the Conway
School of Landscape Design in Massachusetts. Ann is the author of
Trees and Shrubs For Dummies, as well as How-To
Landscaping Basics and Water Gardens: Simple Steps to Adding
Beauty of Water to Your Garden, both published by Time Life.
The National Gardening Association (NGA), coauthor of
Organic Gardening For Dummies, is committed to sustaining and
renewing the fundamental links between people, plants, and the earth.
NGA is best known for its gardenbased curricula, educational journals,
international initiatives, and several youth garden grant programs.
Together, these reach more than 300,000 children nationwide each year.
To fi nd out more about the NGA, visit www. garden. org/home.
Owen Dell, author of Sustainable Living For Dummies, is
an internationally recognized expert in sustainable landscaping. He
has authored numerous publications for Sunset Magazine, National
Gardening Magazine, Southern California Gardener, Pacifi c
Horticulture, and many others. An international speaker, he is
also the cowriter and cohost of the California television series
Garden Wise Guys (www. citytv18. com), a sustainable
landscaping sitcom.
His book How to Start a Home-Based
Landscaping Business (Globe Pequot Press) has helped budding
professionals get a healthy start on their careers. Owen's work has
been featured on HGTV, Peak Moment Television, and NBC and in The
Wall Street Journal, Fortune Magazine, Landscape Architecture
magazine, the Los Angeles Times, and in many other publications.
