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8%OFFAlan Boye - Sustainable Compromises: A Yurt, a Straw Bale House, and Ecological Living - 9780803264878 - V9780803264878
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Sustainable Compromises: A Yurt, a Straw Bale House, and Ecological Living

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Description for Sustainable Compromises: A Yurt, a Straw Bale House, and Ecological Living Paperback. When the author 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. This book chronicles these two remarkable attempts to live simply in two disparate American eras. Series: Our Sustainable Future. Num Pages: 216 pages, 16 photographs. BIC Classification: RNU; VSZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Condition
New
Series
Our Sustainable Future
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803264878
SKU
V9780803264878
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Alan Boye
Alan Boye is a professor of English at Lyndon State College in Vermont. His most recent book is Tales from the Journey of the Dead: Ten Thousand Years on an American Desert (Nebraska, 2006).  

Reviews for Sustainable Compromises: A Yurt, a Straw Bale House, and Ecological Living
"Boye's book brings a human voice and specificity to sustainability."—Richard K. Sutton, Great Plains Research “Not only is this book beautifully written, with wisdom and humor, it also offers a practical guide for ‘sustainable’ home builders of any age. Boye writes with an impressive intelligence, immediately drawing readers in not only to the story but to the mind and heart ... Read more

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