TY - BOOK ID - 80833468 TI - Sustainable compromises PY - 2014 SN - 9780803265011 0803265018 9780803265028 0803265026 9780803264878 0803264879 9780803265035 PB - Lincoln DB - UniCat KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs. KW - NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection. KW - Sustainability KW - Ecological houses KW - Sustainable living KW - Sustainability science KW - Human ecology KW - Social ecology KW - Alternative homes KW - Ecohomes KW - Environmental homes KW - Green homes (Green technology) KW - Low impact houses KW - Sustainable houses KW - Dwellings KW - Sustainable buildings KW - Ecological living KW - Green living KW - Living, Sustainable KW - Alternative lifestyles KW - Environmentalism KW - Green movement KW - Philosophy. KW - Design and construction. KW - Boye, Alan, KW - Homes and haunts UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80833468 AB - "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"-- "An account of Boye's experiences building and occupying alternative, sustainable houses"-- ER -