What's New

We're very excited to announce the arrival of our new book, the stupendous "Building Green: A Complete How-to Guide to Alternative Building Methods". You have to see this thing to believe it. Over 600 pages long with close to 1500 full color photos, there is nothing else like it. We really think it's going to be helpful to a lot of people.

Clarke's first book, "The Good House Book", came out 1 1/2 years ago. The two books work well together. Though "Building Green" covers fundamental concepts before diving head first into how-to instruction, "Good House" is an in-depth look at those fundamentals from the "alternative" or "green" point of view. The book was designed as a primer for the beginner, but it has proven useful to architects and builders who want an introduction to alternatives to the resource munching machine that is modern conventional construction. Perhaps the best compliments have come from those readers who started out with little interest in building. These folks often tell Clarke that the book's voice and visual style "makes a boring topic interesting". For those of us who don't find building boring, it's an even more immenintly enjoyable, thought-provoking read.

There's an excerpt from "The Good House Book" in the Dec/Jan issue of Mother Earth News. Clarke also has an article on the basics of passive solar design coming out in the Feb/Mar issue of the same magazine.