Low Impact

The full title of this book is “Making your Home Sustainable - a guide to retrofitting”, by Derek Wrigley. And its that last bit of the title that really grabbed me - I’ve read a lot of inspiring stories about people who built their dream enviromentally-friendly house on a little block of land and been left with the feeling that I need to start from scratch to have a green house.

Derek Wrigley is an architect who transformed his stock-standard townhouse in Canberra to reduce its impact on the environment. The book takes you through it all in almost a “fact sheet” style -… Continue reading