Living The Good Life: How One Family Changed Their World From Their Own Backyard - Softcover

Cockburn, Linda

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9781740663120: Living The Good Life: How One Family Changed Their World From Their Own Backyard

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ISBN 10: 1740663128 ISBN 13: 9781740663120

Publisher: Hardie Grant, 2007

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Inspiring and challenging, this chronicle of a unique household experiment takes readers inside one family’s environmental test. Already mindful of the impact human activity has on the environment, the author and her family decided to take a further step towards thoughtful living by aiming for complete domestic sustainability. For six months, the Cockburns grew, bartered for, and made everything they ate; used exclusively solar power; collected rainwater for drinking, cleaning, and cooking; parked the cars and turned to bicycles; and aimed to not spend a single dollar. From just their average home on an average-sized lot, they experienced success, surprises, and challenges in their quest all while learning about themselves as a family. Whether readers are looking for lessons on adopting some or all of the Cockburns' practices or are just curious about what it might take to do it yourself” even more deeply, this story will bring them along for the ride.

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Linda Cockburn is a writer whose work has appeared in Organic Gardener. She quit her job to take on the challenge of domestic sustainability.

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