Remodelista - The Low Impact Home Book

There’s no reason to sacrifice beauty, because this hardworking visual guide reveals a personalized, future-minded approach to creating a sustainable—and stylish—home by emphasizing conscientious consumerism and climate-aware choices. Change begins in the home, and it’s inspiring to learn how such steps, no matter how small, contribute to the greater good. Includes the below:

• 12 house and garden tours, including an apartment remodel inspired by the Slow Food movement and farmhouse built from the very crop growing in its fields
• Room by room spotlights on how to shift household habits and reduce your environmental footprint
• Cheat sheets on what to look for when shopping for household basics, from lightbulbs to sofas and bedding
• The lowdown on energy-efficient appliances and composting
• The Vintage 75: a visual compendium of beloved and enduring secondhand household goods, all affordable and easy to source
• Doable DIYs that put to good use torn T-shirts, empty bottles, and other castoffs you have lying around.
• A nitty-gritty guide to energy efficiency: roofing, windows, HVAC systems, insulation, and flooring.
• A manual of how to responsibly get rid of unwanted household goods—and where to borrow for free all manner of useful things, such as ladders, ice cream makers, and wallpaper steamers
• 352 pages
• Harcover
• 7.81" x 1.13" x 10.5"