Sustainable Compromises : A Yurt, a Straw Bale House, and Ecological Living /

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"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-fi...

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Autor principal: Boye, Alan, 1950-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Boye, Alan, > 1950-
Boye, Alan, > 1950- > Homes and haunts > Vermont.
Sustainable living.
Homes.
Ecological houses.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Personal Memoirs.
NATURE > Environmental Conservation & Protection.
Durabilite de l'environnement > Philosophie.
Maisons ecologiques > Vermont.
Style de vie durable > Vermont.
Sustainability > Philosophy.
Ecological houses > Design and construction.
Ecological houses > Vermont.
Sustainable living > Vermont.
Vermont.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"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"--
"An account of Boye's experiences building and occupying alternative, sustainable houses"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (208 pages): illustrations ;
ISBN:9780803265011

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