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1 online resource : illustrations. |
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Our sustainable future |
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Our sustainable future.
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Print version record. |
Summary |
"An account of Boye's experiences building and occupying alternative, sustainable houses"-- Provided by publisher. |
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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 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
Contents |
What I Lived For -- Sustainable Compromises -- Where I Live -- Water -- Design -- Foundations -- El Sol -- Economics -- The Beautiful Tree and Other Disasters -- The Amoeba -- The Straw That Broke The -- Finances -- Collaboration -- Artifacts -- Solitude -- Visitors -- Thick Skin in a Winter of Discontent -- Spring -- Higher Laws -- Postscript: Mistakes Were Made. |
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Boye, Alan, 1950- -- Homes and haunts -- Vermont.
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Boye, Alan, 1950- (OCoLC)fst00425310
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Sustainable living -- Vermont.
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Ecological houses -- Vermont.
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Ecological houses -- Design and construction.
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Sustainability -- Philosophy.
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NATURE -- Environmental Conservation & Protection.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs.
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- General.
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HOUSE & HOME -- Reference.
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Ecological houses. (OCoLC)fst00901455
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Homes. (OCoLC)fst01353235
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Sustainable living. (OCoLC)fst01742265
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Vermont. (OCoLC)fst01204305
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Boye, Alan, 1950- Sustainable compromises 9780803264878 (DLC) 2013044111 (OCoLC)861955701 |
ISBN |
9780803265011 (electronic bk.) |
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0803265018 (electronic bk.) |
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9780803265028 (electronic bk.) |
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0803265026 (electronic bk.) |
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