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About the Author/Publisher
I'm an architect and engineer by training and practiced architecture in California during the early energy crisis days of the 1970's. In the early 1980's I made a career change and spent over two decades leading turnarounds and startups in the manufacturing sector. Burned-out and discouraged by the outsourcing and downsizing of corporate America, I returned to architecture and began writing a personal journal on sustainable home design. In the process of writing that “journal” and launching the Sustainable Home Blog I began to question the direction of the “green building movement” and determined that there was a vast difference between what we accepted as “green” and what was truly sustainable. I would eventually conclude that the imminent peaking and global decline in production of oil, natural gas, coal, and uranium would render much of what we do in “green building” as nothing more than rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
I like to think of myself as an accidental writer. As I continued to write in my journal and post to the blog, I realized I was writing a book. Actually several books. Some of them are available for free on the blog and on this site. A few others help to pay the bills, and are available for purchase as eBooks.
Chill in the Living Room is kind of the sum of all that I've written so far. It explores the historical forces, policies, economic theory, and technical advances that gave form to our residential built environment. It also describes the fragile, uncertain, and dependent systems that homeowners innocently rely on for electricity, natural gas, and water. In the end, it gives homeowners practical real world strategies for converting their homes into some semblance of energy efficiency in preparation for a painful post peak transition to a more sustainable and hopeful future.
I've also written and published a series of “How To” books aimed at improving the energy efficiency and sustainability of America's existing housing stock.
For Purchase as eBooks: Plugging the Energy Leaks in Your Home Avoiding an Energy Loss "Death of a Thousand Cuts" The Gift of Water Sustainable Water Strategies for Your Home A Window on Energy LossWindow and Door Energy Saving Strategies Free PDF eBooks:How to Buy a Solar Hot Water HeaterHelping American Play Catch-up with SolveniaIndoor Air PollutionA Toxic and Hidden Threat to the Safety of Our Homes
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