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OUTDOOR LIGHTING AND ELECTRICITYMoyers, Janet Lennox. The Landscape Lighting Book. New York: Wiley, 1992. Completetreatment of design, equipment, installation, and maintenance of outdoor lighting.Post, Hal, and Vernon Risser. Stand-Alone Photovoltaic Systems: A Handbook ofRecommended Design Practices, Albuquerque: Sandia National Laboratories, 1988.Complete manual for planning and installing solar-electric power for any purpose.Schaeffer, John, ed. Alternative Energy Sourcebook: A Comprehensible Guide to Energy SensibleT e c h n o l o g i e s. Ukiah, Calif.: Real Goods Trading Corporation, updated annually.Catalog with detailed technical explanations; items can be purchased through RealGoods.Sorvig, Kim. “Low-Voltage Lighting,” “New Light on the Landscape,” “Transformationsof Light,” Landscape Architecture, January 1994; August 1993; and February 1994.Washington, D.C.: American Society of Landscape Architects. Reviews of current lightingfor landscape use, including fiber optics and other unusual equipment..N OT E SI1 Nyle C. Brady, The Nature and Properties of Soils, 8th ed. (New York: Macmillan, 1974), 309.2 Ibid., 9–10.3 Hugo Schiechtl, BioEngineering for Land Reclamation and Conservation (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press,1980), 37–139. This comprehensive source should be read thoroughly by anyone interested in bioengineering.4 Lloyd W. Bookout, Value by Design: Landscape, Site Planning, and Amenities (Washington, D.C.: Urban LandInstitute, 1994), 1–125. Detailed study of the value-added aspects of site design.5 Daniel Chiras, Environmental Science (Redwood City, Calif.: Benjamin/Cummings, 1994).6 Connie Ellefson, Tom Stephens, and Doug Welsh, Xeriscape Gardening: Water Conservation for the AmericanLandscape (New York: Macmillan, 1992), esp. 3–130.7 See Architectural Graphic Standards or similar reference works for national standards, and use minimum sizingpossible, unless barred by local code. For information on ISTEA (Federal Law PL 102–240 enacted 1991) callyour state Department of Transportation or the American Society of Landscape Architects Government AffairsOffice, (202) 686–8351.8 Kim Sorvig, “Porous Paving,” Landscape Architecture, February 1993.9 US Department of Energy. Lawrence Livermore Labs, “Cooling Our Communities,” US Government PrintingOffice Document #055–000–00371–8 (Washington, D.C.: GPO, n.d.).10 For discussion and examples, see Janet Lennox Moyer, The Landscape Lighting Book (New York: Wiley, 1992).Chapter 7 concerns corrosion of materials in contact with soil and weather; Moyer notes that several manufacturersexperienced serious losses by merely adapting indoor fixtures for outdoor use (interview with the author,Albuquerque, 1994).11 See Post and Risser, Stand Alone Photovoltaic Systems (listed in Resources) for clear examples of life-cycle costing,with worksheets.12 Ellefson, Stephens, and Welsh, 3.13 Ibid., 9. Principles of design and irrigation, and regional plant lists, are included.14 Bill Mollison, Permaculture: A Designer’s Manual (Tyalgum, Australia: Tagari, 1988), 155–170, 336–358.15 Kim Sorvig, “Sun on the Water,” Landscape Architecture, September 1994.16 Jot. D. Carpenter, ed., Handbook of Landscape Construction (Washington, D.C.: Landscape ArchitectureFoundation, 1976), 191–200. Includes table of desirable illumination levels for various functions.17 Kim Sorvig, “Low-Voltage Lighting,” Landscape Architecture, January 1994.18 Hal Post, and Vernon Risser, Stand-Alone Photovoltaic Systems: A Handbook of Recommended Design Practices(Albuquerque: Sandia National Laboratories, 1988), 2, 7–86. Excellent detailed discussion, in clear language, ofall aspects of photovoltaic use.19 For information, consulting services, and supply of these and other alternative-power systems, see JohnSchaeffer, ed., Alternative Energy Sourcebook: A Comprehensible Guide to Energy Sensible Technologies (Ukiah, Calif.:Real Goods Trading Corporation, updated annually).