A
great book covering passive solar basics,
passive solar design, and building of passive
solar heating and cooling projects such as solar
rooms, solar windows, solar walls, and solar
thermosyphon collectors.
A
good overview of passive solar heating and
cooling techniques. Not very quantitative, but
gives a good overview of the techniques used for
passive heating and cooling, and how they work.
Good place to start. Other interesting
materials on this site.
This
is a very easy reading and well written 1982
book on passive solar home design. It starts
out at a very fundamental level, and works its
way up to detailed design procedures.
If
you are going to do a solar project, you need to
do a Solar Site Survey to make sure that your
site gets enough sun during the right times of
year to make the project work.
A
checklist of things to look for or include in an
energy efficient home. Covers everything from
passive solar layout to energy efficient
appliances. 
Good
book on passive home design. Goes through the
same sort of design guidelines as the refs
above, but in more detail. Covers a number of
alternative strategies for passive design, and
gives a good feel for the pros and cons of
living in a passive solar design house. He
stops a bit short of providing a full
quantitative passive home design procedure, but
the book is much more useful than the general
design guidelines in the references above.
Published in 2002.
Another
very good book by Chiras that emphasizes not
only energy efficiency, but also sustainable
construction and living. Covers Rammed Earth,
Straw Bale, Earthships, Cordwood, Log Homes
construction methods. Also covers using
sustainable materials in construction, and
sustainable systems for water and waste. This
book has what I would call a mid level of detail
-- its not enough to go out a build a home
without more work, but its a good deal more than
is provided in the common "overview" books. 470
pages. Published in 2000.
A
good and up-to-date construction oriented book
on building energy efficient and green homes.
Solar
Today Magazine article, Sep/Oct 2005. Richard
describes the process they went through in
designing an energy efficient home that
incorporates solar passive heating and cooling,
solar water heating, and many energy
conservation features. It is the best article
of its type I have seen -- highly recommended!
Very
good article from Fine Homebuilding that details
how to design a house for hot climates that
minimizes the need for mechanical air
conditioning.
The
UK is going to require that new homes be carbon
emissions neutral by 2016.
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This
is (I think) a really interesting and useful
collection of passive solar home plans. 
Very
interesting description of a north Florida
house. A passive solar
home design philosophy that works well in this
difficult climate is described. The
house includes solar electric and waste water
treatment and reuse systems, which are also
detailed.
Mother
Earth News Article, Issue 193
Water
walls offer cost effective, efficient, and
aesthetically pleasing thermal storage for
passive solar heating systems. This design
manual covers many types of water walls, and
shows how they can be used in solar designs to
provide thermal mass.
This
is a really fine book on all aspects of "tiny
homes". It covers tiny home plans, lifestyles,
Do-It-Yourself, clutter control, tiny home
communities, and provides many stories from
people who built a tiny home and live in it.
Good
article from the Energy Source Builder
Newsletter with many practical and specific
guidelines on building smaller homes that work
well and seem spacious.
This
48 page guide for green building in Alameda
County, CA offers a lot of good advice and ideas
for green building. It should serve as a good
checklist to see if you have covered all your
bases.
A
38 page guide to passive solar home design and
concept level plans for nine solar homes.
Written for North Carolina, the homes emphasize
a careful balance between solar space heating in
winter and overheat protection in the summer --
should be applicable to other parts of the SE.
Very
good and very detailed guide on building energy
efficient homes in the south. 158 pages of
great stuff.
book on passive solar home design. It goes a
step beyond the high level design guides to
provide some manageable methods to estimate how
well your design will perform. Published in
1997.
SketchUp
is a free 3D drawing tool from Google. In
addition to being exceptionally easy to use as a
general purpose drawing tool, it offers a built
in sun. You can easily draw a wall with a
window and overhang, and play the sun over it
for various times of day and times of year.
A
very good article that provides a simple method
to allow you to determine which passive cooling
techniques are best for your climate.
170
page mil handbook on solar heating -- starts
with general descriptions, but goes on to cover
solar space heating and water heating in some
depth. Covers both active and passive schemes.
Its a bit dry in the style of MIL-HNDBKs, but it
has a lot of good information, and the price is
right!
Information
on landscaping for energy efficiency.
"Carefully positioned trees can save up to 25%
of household's energy consumption".
This
is very easy to use, yet very capable simulation
software for estimating the energy/thermal
performance of a passive solar or conventional
home. Weather files for over 500 worldwide
locations. While it initially appears almost
too simple, by using the "advanced tab" it can
handle a wide variety of situations. It uses a
one hour simulation time step, and weather files
that cover a full year of typical weather. It
has been carefully validated. It is limited to
1 zone, and does not handle sunspaces. It is a
free download.
A
156 page set of guidelines for builders who want
to build green homes. Starts with high level
guiding principles, such as site design, energy
efficiency, and resource efficiency. It then
provides very concrete advice on how to achieve
these principles. 
This
is a good and up-to-date series of guides from
DOE-EERE site for building an outer shell on
your home that minimizes heat transfer.
These
up-to-date and detailed manuals provide "best
practices" for each climate.
These
mortgages offered through the FHA and others
allow you to add energy efficiency features to
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