New Book: Energy-Wise Landscape Design: A New Approach for Your Home and Garden Residential consumption represents nearly one quarter of North America’s total energyuse, and the average homeowner spends thousands of dollars a year on power bills. To help alleviate this problem, Energy-Wise Landscape Design presents hundreds of practical ways everyone can save money, time and effort while making their landscapes more environmentally healthy and energy efficient.

Combining general guidelines with tips, techniques and actions, this fully illustrated guide explains the many opportunities our landscapes provide for conserving energy. Readers will learn how to:

• lower a home’s heating and cooling costs
• minimize fuel used in landscape construction, maintenance and everyday use
• choose products and materials with lower embedded energy costs
• make a positive difference without a major investment or change in lifestyle.
  

This book is for homeowners, gardeners, landscape professionals and students...everyone who's involved in designing, planning building and caring for environments large and small. Written in non-scientific language with clear explanations and an easy conversational style, Energy-Wise Landscape Design is an essential resource for everyone who wants to shrink their energy footprint while enhancing their property and adding value to their home.

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About the Author

Sue Reed is a registered landscape architect who has helped hundreds of homeowners create comfortable, beautiful, energy-efficient landscapes. She has worked in the landscape design field for nearly 25 years, operating her own practice since 1991. Sue is also a writer and lecturer/workshop leader. Her recent article on sustainable landscape design appears in the Encyclopedia of Sustainability, Volume 2 (2010).

After working for eleven years as a furniture builder and harpsichord maker, Sue earned her Master of Arts degree at the Conway School of Landscape Design in 1987. She joined the faculty there in 1991 and served as an adjunct instructor until 2007. As both a teacher and a practitioner, she excels at conveying complex technical information and subtle design ideas to her students, clients and readers.

Sue lives in western Massachusetts. Growing beside her house is a dogwood tree that she planted when it was a tiny shoot, in the lot behind her first office. Like Sue herself, the tree has been transplanted a few times but now has taken root in its permanent home.