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ADVANCE PRAISE FOR
Extreme Weather Hits Home
Banta’s timely advice could help us learn to live with nature with respect and foresight. Too often
we trust our city planners, administrators, builders, and other service entities instead of taking
personal responsibility for our own health and welfare. Banta provides us with the needed
information (tools) to prepare ourselves to face the challenges that global climate change can
bring. If knowledge is power, then John Banta has empowered us to live more responsibly and safely.
— Walt Anderson, Professor and Chair of Environmental Studies,
Prescott College. Prescott, Arizona
Banta's book is the Noah's Ark of the twenty-first century. Climb aboard for practical advice,
great illustrations and information that will help you preserve and protect your bit of dry earth.
— Jeffrey C. May,
Author of My House is Killing Me! The Home Guide for Families with Allergies and Asthma
John Banta takes plex — and scary — subject and breaks it down into
understandable chunks that we can act on. Extreme Weather Hits Home empowers us
to be less at the mercy of climate change and better able to ride out the storms,
even as we work to restore balance to our earth’s atmosphere.
— Carol Venolia, architect, coauthor of Natural Remodeling for the Not-So-Green House ,
and Director of EcoDwelling at New College of California
Banta has done a superb job of addressing the range of potentially devastating impacts
upon the residential ecosystem that can result from the spectrum of climate change effects
that are anticipated to increase in frequency and severity for some time e.
Blending building and earth sciences in an engrossing narrative style, this book presents
the practical and applied knowledge of home protection practices that every current and
future homeowner needs to maximize to preserve the building’s structure and the health
and safety of its occupants, in the face of eart