Dispatches from the Sweet Life Dispatches from the Sweet Life

Dispatches from the Sweet Life

One Family, Five Acres, and a Community's Quest to Reinvent the World

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Publisher Description

Many fantasize about dramatically changing their lives — living in accordance with their ideals rather than the exigencies of job, bills, and possessions. William Powers actually does it. In his book Twelve by Twelve, Powers lived in an off-grid tiny house in rural North Carolina. In New Slow City, he and his wife, Melissa, inhabited a Manhattan micro-apartment in search of slow in the fastest city in the world. Here, the couple, with baby in tow, search for balance, community, and happiness in a small town in Bolivia. They build an adobe house, plant a prolific orchard and organic garden, and weave their life into a community of permaculturists, bio-builders, artists, and creative businesspeople. Can this Transition Town succeed in the face of encroaching North American capitalism, and can Powers and the other settlers find the balance they’re seeking? Dispatches from the Sweet Life is compelling, sobering, thought-provoking, and, no matter the outcome, inspiring.

GENRE
Science & Nature
RELEASED
2018
August 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
304
Pages
PUBLISHER
New World Library
SELLER
Whatever Publishing Inc. DBA New World Library
SIZE
3.8
MB

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