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The Sun Inspired House

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Title: The Sun Inspired House
Author: Debra Rucker Coleman
ISBN: 0976731800

The Sun-Inspired House illustrates numerous house design concepts related to the sun. It also addresses the related subjects of passive solar, passive cooling, energy- efficient construction, green building, and sustainability. Over 50 house plans show examples of integrated concepts. (Blueprints for construction are available.) Numerous examples, photos, and testimonials from homeowners describe the livability of these sunny and comfortable houses built in North America.

A Sun Inspired House is:

• Sunny, open, and creative
• Warm in winter and cool in summer
• Integral to green & sustainable design principles
• Complementary to active solar & zero-energy
• Fuel-efficient and practical, yet elegant
• Healthy and environmentally-friendly
• A comfortable place to call home

 About the author Debra Rucker Coleman, Architect and founder of Sun Plans Inc. has been designing passive solar homes since 1985. She received her Bachelor of Architecture Degree from the University of Arizona and became a licensed architect in 1984 after an internship in architecture and construction. In 2002 she received the “Best Practice” Sustainability Award for Residential Buildings from the Sustainable Building Industries Council.

Her houses have been on the National Tour of Solar Homes. Fine Homebuilding, Solar Today, Mother Earth News, Home Power, Home Energy, numerous other publications, radio shows, and web sites have reviewed or published her work. Debra has lived in many climate zones including the Southwestern and Eastern U.S., Switzerland, the Mediterranean, and the Caribbean. She has researched energy requirements for other climates in the United States and Canada. She currently lives in Alabama in a sun-tempered home that she constructed with her family.