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, [...]
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 [...]
My husband Kelly has a massive website on all aspects of natural building, greenhomebuilding.com and a smaller one, earthbagbuilding.com. The other day I got curious what the most popular books on green home building were, so I downloaded the stats [...]
Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow, by Elizabeth Lesser, is a book about how “suffering and crisis transform us, humble us, and bring out what matters most in life.” The quote is from a man in the [...]
It is said that leaner people do better than heavy ones in conditions of physical stress. They point out that the people who fast the longest are very lean, and that the body can do very well on a long-term [...]
Ah, food! One of life’s pleasures, and sometimes one of its perplexities. It’s been a happy surprise for me to realize that the way of eating that naturally flows from simple food is not only a very economical way to [...]
