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Flip the switch to energy-efficient lighting

This do-it-yourself guide makes it easy to upgrade residential and commercial lighting to reduce costs and environmental impact while maintaining or even improving the quality of the lighting. Filled with step-by-step instructions, Green Lighting shows you how to save money and energy with light-emitting diodes (LEDs), compact fluorescent lighting (CFL), solar lights, windows, skylights, fixtures, controls, and other bright ideas. Methods for calculating return on investment, plus recommended sources for energy-efficient products, are included in this practical resource. Green Lighting covers:

• Color temperature measurements
• In-depth details on the differences between LEDs and CFLs
• How utilities bill for electricity usage
• Comparing wattage and determining energy savings
• ENERGY STAR® ratings
• Purchasing appropriate bulbs, fixtures, and sensors
• Developing a comprehensive green lighting plan for your entire home, office, or commercial environment
• Incandescent, halogen, and gas-discharge lighting
• Solar and next-generation lighting

Customer Reviews (8)

Living more Lightly
Wonderful resource for navigating exciting new options for lightening one's impact and illuminating the immediate environment at the same time. I travel a lot, and this book will help me choose smart little LEDs as gifts for the people who host me.

Perfect Blend of Form and Function
Brian Howard does a great job giving you the details and reasons "why" eco-friendly lighting is important, but also goes the extra mile beyond just providing data. This book helps dispel popular green lighting myths while also providing handy tips to help you save money, energy, and the environment....all through lighting.

Love the light
I'm a huge huge fan of DIY projects, and this book was close to my heart. Thanks for the info!

I See The Light!
I see the light!And thanks to the book Green Lighting, by Brian Clark Howard, Seth Leitman, and William Brinsky, it's costing me less and it's easier on Mother Earth than ever before.I'm a huge fan of do-it-yourself projects, but most DIY books devote, at most, a chapter to lighting and barely a word to eco-friendly lighting options.Green Lighting provides easy to follow instructions and contains a mega-wattage of supporting materials and additional resources.Well researched and organized, Green Lighting helps readers understand not just how to incorporate green lighting into their lives, but why it makes so much environmental and economic sense to do so.This book will pay for itself over and over again, every month when you get your incredible shrinking electrical bill.Unless you're Amish, you need to read this book today.

Jeff Yeager
Author, The Cheapskate Next Door and The Ultimate Cheapskate's Road Map to True Riches

Green Lighting
After a couple of hours, I feel like I am able to speak intelligently about lighting.Better yet I know what to do for my own home and business to get the best bang for my buck, without feeling like I'm being sold a line of goods from a counter salperson who is out to find the highest proit margin for the bottom line.This one is going out to all of my friends...thanks for something truly usefull. ... Read more

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A Step-by-Step Guide to Building a Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle from the Ground Up

Written by clean energy guru and electric vehicle expert Seth Leitman, this hands-on guide gives you the latest technical information and easy-to-follow instructions for building a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV).

"Written by Seth Leitman, longtime green vehicle/sustainability expert and author of "Build Your Own Electric Vehicle," this 275-page book provides an overview of the technology and the issues in doing a conversion, and it works well as a different way in to the open source material that can be found at http://www.eaa-phev.org or the easier-to-remember http://www.priusplus.org." -- CalCars.org

Build Your Own Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle puts you in the driver's seat when it comes to hitting the road in a reliable, economical, and environmentally friendly ride. Inside, you'll find complete details on the hybrid powertrain and all the required components, including the motor, battery, and chassis. The book covers the plug-in hybrids currently on the market as well as hybrid conversion companies, conversion kits, and related resources. Pictures, diagrams, charts, and graphs illustrate each step along the way. With this how-to guide on hand, you'll be behind the wheel of your own plug-in hybrid electric automobile in no time!

Build Your Own Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle covers:

• Energy savings and environmental benefits
• PHEV background
• Drivetrain components and design
• Chassis selection
• DC and AC motor types
• Batteries and chargers
• The conversion process
• Licensing and insurance
• Safety, maintenance, troubleshooting, and warranties
• Clubs and associations
• Additional resources

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Great content, written so everyone can understand and appreciate
I found it is a technical book with a light air, making it intense, without the intense feeling. The content is informative with great pictures and circuit boards that made it more appealing. If you are interested in hybrid, this is the book to get. It is easy to understand easy to read and very enjoyable.

Build Your Own Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle
A great read and a lot of good information.I enjoyed that the book covered all bases for the average person who may not know a lot about hybrids. The book explained the very basics so the average layman could understand it. As you read further, more information is supplied to actually build a hybrid vehicle. This is a great book for anyone interested in hybrids to learn about them or for the more advanced reader who wants to actually build one.

Real Title - 'Hybrid Vehicle Overview Mishmash'
This is _not_ a how to build your own hybrid vehicle book. As such it should not be put aside lightly, but rather hurled forcefully into the circular file forthwith, for its deceptive title alone.

Yes it is (mildly) interesting if a thin overview of hybrids is your goal. But it has little useful information on building any hybrid, let alone your own, and many many pages of useless 'filler'; there are lots of photographs of pcb circuit boards followed by photographs of alternate pcb circuit boards, all of no use to anyone. They serve to give the book a spurious 'this is a technical book' appearance, in typical TAB style. Wrong! It is in no way a technical book. More like a cross between a comic and a bunch of random -- and useless -- pictures of bits of hardware from some hybrid. Also in typical TAB style.

Unhappy? Moi? Don't call your book 'Build Your Own Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle', if it is nothing of the sort. Before you waste _your_ money, find a copy in a book store and make your own mind up. Dollars to doughnuts you'll agree.

By comparison, as an overview of hybrids, Hybrid Vehicles: and the Future of Personal Transportation by Allen Fuhs was endlessly fascinating. Extraordinarily broad in its coverage, it ranged from peak oil to the differences in suitable electric motors; it is filled with lots of practical nuts-and-bolts calculations that will appeal to the armchair-engineer who enjoys interpreting numbers and juggling costs, pay-offs, and alternatives in range, fuel consumption and weights. Because of Big Oil disinformation efforts -- see EV web sites and discussions hijacked by AI-generated posts of encyclopedic substance and length -- I don't accept the criticism of other reviewers as necessarily valid.

Big Oil disinformation? Surely you jest? Wally Rippel - WKTEC - "There is a $100T (T as in Trillion) worth of business still to be done (in oil in the ground). You bet there is disinformation. And a lot more besides. Got Peter Dale Scott?

A lot of good information, but some fluff too
If you have read Build Your Own Electric Vehicle by Seth Leitman and Bob Brant, this book will seem like an old friend.Written by Seth Leitman alone this time, Build Your Own Plug-In Hybrid not only has the same rather folksy style as the earlier book, but it borrows a lot of the same text.Quite a lot -- about 50%, by my rough estimation.

Even with the repetition, the 50% that is new offers a lot.Seth Leitman knows what he is talking about, and has gathered information from a variety of sources, including from his own experience making a plug-in hybrid with lead-acid batteries in a Prius.Much of this information is hard to find elsewhere.

I'm not a particular fan of Seth Leitman's style.He calls out a lot of people by name to call their work and contributions "great" (a word that is clearly a favorite of his).Many of the pictures in the book are snapshots, a little poorly printed, that have these people in them.Some of the wording seems a bit corny from time to time as well.

Finally, unlike Build Your Own Electric Vehicle, this book does not really tell you how to build your own plug-in hybrid.The actual building, the book suggests, should be left to experts.This book tells more about what kits are available, and how to plan and participate in the conversion.That's helpful, but the title of the book suggests it will deliver more, and may be a bit misleading.

Despite these flaws, I recommend the book.As with Build Your Own Electric Vehicle, this book could be a lot better.There is plenty of room for improvement.But there is no other book out there that competes with it.For now, at least, it stands alone.And if its parent book is any indication, this book too may well stand out for quite a long time. ... Read more

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Title: A statistical education.(FEEDBACK)(Letter to the editor)
Author: Sastry G. Pantula
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Date: May 8, 2010
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Title: Green fleet: at Maverick Transportation, environmentally sound practices extend from the road to the shop and include management programs.(Fleet Profile & Specs)(Cover Story)
Author: Seth Skydel
Publication: Fleet Equipment (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2005
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From the supplier: California has followed in the footsteps of New Hampshire in adopting and marketing the green power program with the opening of its retail-power market to competition on Mar 31, 1998 that allows its locals to choose their electricity supplier. To date, nine companies have expressed interest on offering green power or electricity product that is at least 50% sourced from renewable energy, which may be generated through wind, solar, geothermal, biomass and hydropower. However, only five of these nine companies have passed the 'Green-e' certification program.

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Title: Brown goes green: UPS is investing heavily in testing, developing and deploying alternative fuel-powered delivery vehicles-including the world's first hydraulic hybrid trucks.(Fleet Profile & Specs)(Cover story)
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Title: A green offensive for New England. (From The Clean Air And Climate Change Projects).
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Author: Seth Kaplan
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Title: "Green" eggs and ham: target mapping makes university food more sustainable and unites disparate groups: Western Washington University students, professors, administrators, and a key service provider used target mapping to implement sustainable practices in food purchasing and waste management while achieving financial expectations.(Statistical data)
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