The Independent Home

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Home/Environment US $19.95/CAN $25.95
The Independent Home is an indispensable compendium of ideas and inspiration for anyone who dreams of living a self-reliant, sustainable lifestyle.
Across America modern homesteaders are harvesting their own power from the sun, wind, and water, without giving up twentieth-century conveniences. Author Michael Potts travelled from Hawaii to Vermont to interview the pioneers of this new, solar lifestyle—families who have learned how to live better by using less energy, many of them completely disconnected from the utility grid. The Independent Home takes you inside the dwellings and lives of the renewable energy pioneers. According to the author, "Independent homeowners give up nothing while they gain savings and independence. They also enjoy the deeper satisfaction of knowing they are directly and creatively involved in the goal of living lightly on... Tovább

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Home/Environment US $19.95/CAN $25.95
The Independent Home is an indispensable compendium of ideas and inspiration for anyone who dreams of living a self-reliant, sustainable lifestyle.
Across America modern homesteaders are harvesting their own power from the sun, wind, and water, without giving up twentieth-century conveniences. Author Michael Potts travelled from Hawaii to Vermont to interview the pioneers of this new, solar lifestyle—families who have learned how to live better by using less energy, many of them completely disconnected from the utility grid. The Independent Home takes you inside the dwellings and lives of the renewable energy pioneers. According to the author, "Independent homeowners give up nothing while they gain savings and independence. They also enjoy the deeper satisfaction of knowing they are directly and creatively involved in the goal of living lightly on the planet."
"A fascinating and profoundly practical assessment of how we can make ourselves at home on the earth."—Karen Christensen, author »/"Home Ecology
" written by a visionary with dirt under his fingernails. If you want to seriously pursue self-reliance, you must read this book." —Denis Hayes, author o/" Rays of Hope
"These are the people who actually do the things most of us only talk about, and we'll have far less fear of failure if we let their experiences show us the way."
—Malcolm Wells, architect and author of Wow to Build an Underground House
"An excellent tour through all the options . . . Acting locally with good information is the politics of transition to a healthy planet." —Hazel Henderson, author (^Politics of the Solar Age ?iW Paradigms in Progress: Life Beyond Economics
" here is a book of iraf stories about rf^z/people who have taken the environmental high road. Potts's pioneers strike a high, clear chord " —John Connell, founder of Yestermorrow School, architect and author o/Homing Instinct Vissza