Steve Massey's Green Building Reading List

Here’s the reading list I never managed to get to on the slides: (says Steve)

• rmi.org – Amory Lovins – free books like ‘winning the oil endgame’. Watch Amory’s Stanford energy lectures.

• buildinggreen.com – best site for green building material reviews.

• chrismagwood.ca – Sustainable Building and Design teacher – VERY strawbale, alternative building systems.

• cagbc.ca – LEED in Canada

• growingpower.org – urban agriculture training centre.

• oasisdesign.net – greywater systems design

• passivhaus.org.uk/ - net zero housing standard and methodology

• TED.com – can watch McDonough and Kunstler on this site WARNING: Kunstler language not for all viewers.

• Natural Capitalism (available free online from rmi.org – general discussion of why environmentalism and capitalism work together)

• Cradle to Cradle (William McDonough – all about materials and the philosophy of green design)

• Geography of Nowhere (James Kunstler – discussion of American urban design – mostly a rant, but a good one.)

• A Pattern Language – general architectural theory on design

• Home Power magazine – do-it-yourself-renewables.

• Fine Homebuilding magazine –good discussion of methods and tools for general residential building.

• More Straw Bale Building (Chris Magwood – good general book.)

Steve Massey

416.992.0327

steve@restorationgardens.ca