February 2009 Archives - Simple Green Living

Simple Living Isn’t Simple

Back when the Voluntary Simplicity movement got started — that link takes you to the book of that name — I noticed that simple living was often complex. Here are some examples: It’s way more work to make your own [...]

Earthbag Building: Book Review

Earthbag building is a new member of the family of green building techniques. We built our house in Colorado that way when it was a little-known method, and now it’s very satisfying to see the method spreading all over the [...]

Home Work: Handbuilt Shelter – Great Idea Book for Green Building

Home Work: Handbuilt Shelter, by Lloyd Kahn, is a large paperback filled with two-page spreads of a wide variety of interesting homes from around the world. The earthbag-papercrete house that we built in Colorado is on pages 88 and 89, [...]

Transition Towns and Survivalists: Two Overlapping Responses to Climate Change, Peak Oil, and Other Crises

You may not have heard of the Transition Towns movement, but chances are you’ve heard of survivalists. What really are these two groups and how might it matter to your life? Transition Towns are spreading throughout the world… that link [...]

The Encyclopedia of Country Living, by Carla Emery: A Review

I first bought the massive Encyclopedia of Country Living, by Carla Emery, over ten years ago. I kept it by my bedside for late-night reading because there was no pesky plot to keep me awake. I found it written in [...]

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