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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-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 humour, 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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Book category Books in English Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning The environment Sustainability

• Full title: Sustainable Compromises
• Subtitle: A Yurt, a Straw Bale House, and Ecological Living
• Author: Alan Boye
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216
• EAN: 9780803264878
• ISBN: 0803264879
• ID: 04923874
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Weight: 330 g
• Dimensions: 155 × 229 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. May 2014

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