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Building a Better World in Your Backyard: Instead of Being Angry at Bad Guys
- Narrated by: Michael Hatak
- Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins
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Summary
Luxuriant Environmentalism
Make a huge, positive, global difference from your own home! Prioritize comfort over sacrifice while saving thousands of dollars. Explore dozens of solutions and their impacts on carbon footprint, petroleum footprint, toxic footprint, and other environmental issues.
If 20 percent of the population implemented half the solutions in this book, it would solve the biggest global problems. All without writing to politicians, joining protests, signing petitions, or being angry at the people that are causing the problems.
Good solutions are often different from conventional environmental wisdom. The average American adult has a carbon footprint of 30 tons per year. Replacing a petroleum car with an electric car will cut 2 tons. But if you live in a cold climate and you switch from electric heat to a rocket mass heater, you will cut 27 tons!
Join Paul and Shawn on a journey featuring simple alternatives that you may have never heard of - alternatives that are about building a more symbiotic relationship with nature so we can all be even lazier.
Nurture nature and nature nurtures us all.
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- M Cox
- 15-01-20
A quick romp through practical steps for individuals to work towards a better future
This is a quick and light hearted romp through key steps that individuals can take to reduce their personal footprint on the world. It avoids big politics and focuses on the personal.
As someone very familiar with the world of permaculture and environmental thinking there was little that was new here, and most of the ideas were delivered as a superficial introduction, so there was little detail for me to take away. But the authors explicitly state that this book is written not with me as the target audience, but aimed at those new to environmental living to give them a taste of what is possible and practical. In this is definitely succeeds.
The covers the whole spectrum; compost toilets, vegetable growing, home building, energy consumption, quality of life, and more. All through the lens of experienced permaculture practitioners.
I would consider gifting this to relatives as a prompt towards change.
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