Building a Chinese Greenhouseis a photo documentary of the construction of author Dan Chiras's greenhouse that illustrates the entire process, discussed dos and don’ts and offers a great deal of practical advice for those interested in growing warm-weather vegetables throughout the winter months using only solar energy.

A complete guide to building a wilderness retreat, from buying land and getting services, through developing plans and construction methods. All aspects of construction are clearly illustrated and various designs are explored.

Featuring more than 200 available floor plans for cabins, cottages, A-frames, vacation homes, sheds, and apartment garages, Cozy Cottage & Cabin Designs will allow you to browse, select, and order expertly prepared plans. You can order your plan fast and efficiently, either online or phone. Each ordered plan includes construction blueprints and CAD packages to bring your future home to life!

Earthbag construction (building with polypropylene bags that are usually filled with earthen materials) is a versatile, easy-to-master, low-impact, and highly durable form of building, suitable for structures from houses to root cellars.

Natural plasters made of clay, lime, and other materials mixed with sand are beautiful building finishes. Fun to work with, low-impact, and allowing infinite creativity, they are high performance and provide proven, centuries-long durability.

Yet until now there's been no resource that has pulled together the best North American plaster recipes and how-to into one place. Essential Natural Plasters covers everything you need to know!

Prefabricated straw bale wall panels combine the performance and low environmental impact of traditional straw bale with reduced labor and more consistent results. Going well beyond the scope of many natural building books, this indispensable manual includes a complete introduction to the use of prefabricated bale walls, packed with all the information you need to determine whether they are the right choice for your project.Written by the world's leading sustainable builders, designers, and engineers, these succinct, user-friendly handbooks are indispensable tools for any project where accurate and reliable information are key to success.

It examines how technological advances, design evolution and resourceful, out-of-the-box thinking about materials and efficiency can help us meet the challenge of building affordable, environmentally-friendly, beautiful and unique homes.

You can build an underground home or earth sheltered house with this guide and plans from underground building authority Malcom Wells.