Renewable and Hybrids

Your home and your car are two of the biggest energy consumers you own. Unless you own a large factory.

Anyway, if you are interested in building an energy efficient home or retrofitting your current home to utilize renewable energy sources, the library has a book for you. Dan Chiras's The Homeowner's Guide to Renewable Energy gives you real life examples, suggestions and information you need to help your home green.

And while you are at it, check-out Sherry Boschert's Plug-in Hybrids: the Cars that will recharge America. This book details the history and outlines some possible futures for hybrid and electric vehicles.

Eating and Preserving for yourself

We have two new books that are sure to help you gain independence over your food choices. They are Eat Here: Reclaiming Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket and The Complete Book of Small-Batch Preserving.

Eat Here is a book about the problems of our global food processors and soem creative and workable solutions. Reasons to change and paths to use.

Small-batch Preserving brings canning and bottling into the modern age, complete with recipes for many kinds of salsa, dressings, and jams.