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Sustainable Compromises: A Yurt, a Straw Bale House, and Ecological Living
Paperback
Series: Our Sustainable Future
Biographies GeneralGeneral ArchitectureSustainable Living
Publisher Price: $21.95
ISBN13: 9780803264878
Publisher: Univ Of Nebraska Pr
Published: May 1 2014
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.01 Depth: 9.08
Language: English
Living simply isn't always simple. When Alan Boye first lived in sustainable housing, he was young, idealistic, and not much susceptible to compromise--until rattlesnakes, black widow spiders, and loneliness drove him out of the utilities-free yurt he'd built in New Mexico. Thirty-five years later, he decided to try again. This time, with an idealism tempered by experience and practical considerations, Boye and his wife constructed an off-the-grid, energy-efficient, straw bale house in Vermont.
Sustainable Compromises chronicles these two remarkable attempts to live simply in two disparate American eras. Writing with hard-won authority and humor, Boye takes up the how-to practicalities of building green, from finances to nuts and bolts to strains on friends and family. With Walden as a historical and philosophical touchstone and his own experience as a practical guide, he also explores the ethical and environmental concerns that have framed such undertakings from Thoreau's day to our own. A firsthand account of the pleasures and pitfalls of living simply, his book is a deeply informed and engaging reflection on what sustainability really means--in personal, communal, ethical, and environmental terms.
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