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Default Tim Pullen's sustainable building books

Fred wrote

Some years ago I went to a show about building your own house.
I wasn't in a position to build my own but went out of curiosity. A
chap called Tim Pullen was there talking about sustainable building.
Don't worry, it's not as bad as it sounds - it's not all about windmills


Some of the things he was talking about were insulating with celotex
ground source heat pumps and under floor heating, etc. which don't
seem that daft.


At the time he was pushing his book, "Simply Sustainable Homes"
but I never got round to buying it. Looking at Amazon it was
published in 2008, so I think that a lot of it could be out of date now.


I doubt it, not a lot has changed in that area in that time.

Amazon shows another book called "The Sustainable Building Bible"
that he wrote in 2011. Has anyone read either of these? Is the 2011
book a reworking of the first, is it the second edition under a different
name, or is it very different? I suppose what I am asking is has anyone
read both and is it work reading both or just the latest one?
There are no reviews for the second title on Amazon.