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Additional Physical Format: | Astyk, Sharon, author. Making home.: Gabriola Island, BC, Canada : New Society Publishers, [2012] ©2012 (CaOONL)20180004425 |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Sharon Astyk |
ISBN: | 9780865716711 0865716714 |
OCLC Number: | 794300982 |
Notes: | Includes index. |
Description: | xii, 315 p. : ill., port. ; 23 cm. |
Contents: | Making Yourself At Home: Coming to Terms with the Need to Adapt in Place; Should You Stay or Should You Go?; Rethinking Home; Everyday Life: The Case for Appropriate Technologies at Home; How Does Your House Work?; The Plain Home: Appropriate Technology for Daily Living; Alternate Energies, Alternate Choices; Getting From Theah to Heah; What is It Like to Live This Way; Better Family Life: Low Energy With Kids; The Extended Family & the Transmitted Home Economy; The Home Economy & the Permaculture of Domesticity; My Landscape, Myself: The Dirt Beneath Your Feet; In the Garden of Eden, Baby; Without Cash: Barter, Scavenging & Local Economies; Loving Your Neighbor -- Or at Least Working With Her; Safe & Sound: Simple Security in an Insecure World; The Restoration of the Commons: Public Resources as Lifeline; Graceful Institutions: Reviving the social & political institutions we'll depend on; Ready for Anything: Community Safety Nets; The Long View: What Home Looks Like. |
Responsibility: | Sharon Astyk. |
Abstract:
How settling for less can mean having more.
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