The Humane Home: Easy Steps for Sustainable and Green Living — by Sarah Lozanova

Create your own unique sustainable home and life with tools, tips, and inspiration from The Humane Home: Easy Steps for Sustainable and Green Living. Author Sarah Lozanova shows us how to evaluate all the ways our lifestyle and living choices can be more sustainable, from powering our homes to the food we consume and the air we breathe.

Small steps empower us to act immediately by starting an herb garden, reducing utility bills, and learning how to conduct a home energy audit. The fun, DIY activities and easy-to-follow, ecofriendly practices reshape how we think about our living spaces and help us create a blueprint for our own personal version of a humane home.

With chapters that cover topics like energy efficiency, water conservation, passive solar heat, building materials, air quality, choosing where to live, and even borrowing money from local credit unions to finance home purchases, The Humane Home: Easy Steps to Sustainable and Green Living will be your definitive go-to guide for your new home or DIY future.  

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR  

Sarah Lozanova has worked as a sustainability consultant, environmental journalist, and copywriter. Her writing appears in Mother Earth Living, Green Builder, Solar Today, Home Power, Windpower Engineering, and Green Business Quarterly. She teaches environmental business courses at Unity College and lives at Belfast Cohousing & Ecovillage in midcoast Maine.