Sustainable Compromises A Yurt, a Straw Bale House, and Ecological Living / Alan Boye.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boye, Alan, 1950-

Series:

Our sustainable future.

Our sustainable future

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainability--Philosophy.

Sustainability.

Ecological houses--Design and construction.

Ecological houses.

Ecological houses--Vermont.

Sustainable living--Vermont.

Sustainable living.

Boye, Alan, 1950---Homes and haunts--Vermont.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (316 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2014

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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.

"An account of Boye's experiences building and occupying alternative, sustainable houses"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780803265028

0803265026

9780803265011

0803265018

OCLC:

872624311