(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best sustainability & green design books

I love [ hobbit holes ] (http://www.amazon.com/Home-Sweet-Hole-Feasible-Fantasy/dp/148408554X)

Brother wrote a book on this:
http://www.amazon.com/Edible-Estates-Attack-Front-First/dp/1933045744
Most friends thought it wasn't such a radical idea, but perhaps it is.

Housing codes need to take sunlight into effect. The ancient Greeks knew it - why don't we?

https://www.amazon.com/Golden-Thread-Ken-Butti/dp/0714527300

https://www.buildingscience.com/document-search?term=&field_doc_topic_tid=All&type%5B%5D=8

https://positiveenergy.pro/building-science-podcast

https://www.energyvanguard.com/

http://www.healthyheating.com/

https://www.amazon.com/Building-Science-Climate-Handegord-Hutcheon/dp/0969436602/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1554986293&refinements=p_27%3A+G.+Hutcheon%5CcNeil+B.%3B+Handegord&s=books&sr=1-1&text=Neil+B.%3B+Handegord%2C+G.+Hutcheon

https://www.buildingscience.com/bookstore/books/high-performance-enclosures

https://www.amazon.com/Passivhaus-Handbook-Constructing-Retrofitting-Performance/dp/0857840193

Source: the book Rainwater Harvesting by Brad Lancaster. This part is in the foreword by Andy Lipkis.

I just bought Hacking the earthship and Earthships in Europe, but could not find the time to read them yet. For what I could find, it seems that there is not a large choice of books about earthships, but you can find some more about ecological building.

LEED Green Associate V4 Exam Complete Study Guide (Second Edition) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0994618018/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_fQeRDbVE15MR6

I looked up Kaki Hunter a few years ago. She and her husband ended up being big promoters of unusual homebuilding techniques. Here's one of her books

Upcycling is fascinating in that it redefines how we relate to our waste (not quite the same as recycling). The first book that turned me onto the concept was Cradle to Cradle. The same authors more recently published The Upcycle. I'd recommend the first.

Also, shameless plug for /r/circular_economy, which deals with much of the same philosophy on waste and mimicking nature.

Excluding activism: Stop flying. Cut down on red meat by 90%. After that, it depends more on how you in particular live (do you use heating or cooling? How do you commute, and what are the alternatives? What's your job? etc)

Here's a book about it, I haven't read it myself (yet).