About this item
When picking out a home, there are a number of aspects to keep in mind: location, size, and layout. One issue that many people neglect is energy conservation, which is quickly becoming one of the most important aspects of modern life. How do make your home energy wise? Where do you start? What aspects of home living can affect, and be affected by, our energy choices? This task can be momentous and intimidating. The Energy Wise Home: Practical Ideas for Saving Energy, Money, and the Planet makes it easy. Jeff Dondero walks you through your home's walls, doors, windows, and roof, room by room and appliance by appliance, breaking them down into simple terms so that you can make the smartest energy and resource choices possible. He even covers gardens and garages, explaining what household items cost to run, how to conserve energy when using them, giving guidance on what's sustainable and what isn't.
About the Author
Jeff Dondero has a diverse background and experience in writing, ranging from web content, B2B, books, hard and soft news, and interviews to feature writing, to Internet content. He began his career as stringer and freelancer for the San Francisco Examiner, worked as a reporter and editor for several suburban newspapers, was the entertainment editor for The Marin Independent Journal, a writer and editor for various magazines, wrote for KTVU-TV in the San Francisco Bay Area, toiled in a trade magazine mill, and co-created a website dedicated to sustainable construction industries, Green Building Digest.He was invited as a writer-in-residence at the art colony in Rancho Vista, Arizona in 2014. He continues to expand his national readership with books, social media, various writers' blogs and websites, radio and television appearances.His books include: The Energy Wise Home, The Energy Wise Workplace, and to be released this year, Throwaway Nation all published by Rowman & Littlefield. Other books include: So Do You Want To Survive A Natural Disaster, Brutal Beauty, a collection of poems written as a writer in residence in Linda Vista art colony, and The Marin Companion, published by Boomer Publications.My newest release, (this month) is Throwaway Nation, the ugly truth about America's garbage. It's a fun and insightful piece about the ways in which we produce the most garbage in the world--and beyond. It covers everything from the history of trash and littering, to the waste of air, land, and water, the excesses of food, electronics, charity, to paper and plastics, and meds, and the sometimes bizarre and bodacious spending habits of our government and its elected officials--the spastic spending called the "pork barrel." It's a fun romp through our throwaways that will both amuse, edify, and annoy.Check out my fac ebook pages and my blog: https://v4.simplesite.com/#/pages/442071344? editmode=true#anchor442071344
