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The Year-Round Solar Greenhouse: How to Design and Build a Net-Zero Energy Greenhouse
By Lindsey Schiller and Marc Plinke
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- The Year-Round Solar Greenhouse is a practical guide to creating a lush, abundant year-round garden in any climate
- The Year-Round Solar Greenhouse focuses on the building of the greenhouse, not how to grow food
- A solar greenhouse is a greenhouse that gets 100% of its heat, year-round, by collecting the sun's energy in stored water and other thermal mass and releasing it back into the greenhouse at night
- The first section of the book reviews the basics of solar greenhouse design in a clear, engaging format
- The remaining sections of the book show readers how to build a durable, long-lasting greenhouse for a variety of situations
- Instead of relying on fruits and vegetables shipped from thousands of miles away, a year-round greenhouse makes it possible to grow fresh, nutrient dense food right in your own backyard
- Topics include building the greenhouse underground, tailoring the greenhouse for aquaponics, and integrating solar panels to grow off-grid year-round
- Schiller designed, toured or helped build hundreds of energy-efficient greenhouses from small residential structures to acre-sized commercial facilities
- Schiller and Plinke are founders of Ceres Greenhouse Solutions
- Plinke retrofitted his family's 1950's ranch home into a net-zero-energy home, ranking it as one of the most energy-efficient homes in the US
Author
Lindsey Schiller
Lindsey Schiller studied conventional greenhouse design and management at the University of Arizona's Controlled Environmental Agriculture Center before delving deeply into solar greenhouse design. With co-author Marc Plinke, she founded Ceres Greenhouse Solutions to research, design and build energy-efficient year-round greenhouses. Lindsey lives in Boulder, Colorado.
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