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Lädt ... Choosing Eden : The Real Dirt on the Coming Energy Crisisvon Adrienne Langman
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. The real life story of a 50s+ couple who left their cushy Sydney lifestyle for a 12 acres block they called Eden in Nana Glen, Northern NSW to establish a fully self sustaining food farm. An inspiring first hand account of their efforts to learn how to get back to basics and live off the land. A good, easy paced read about lifestyle ans sustainability and living. Very suited to the Quaker Earthcare testimony. ( ) Choosing Eden bills itself as a lifestyle change book cataloging a couples change from inner city suburbia to rural farm owners and the trials and tribulations they face along said journey. What it really is, is a touch of that, with a liberal dosing of personal manifesto on preparing for doomsday when oil runs out/is unaffordable and society collapses. I understand some people move to the country for this reason, no problem with that, however this book just piles on the we-are-right-everyone-else-is-ignorant diatribes making it hard to enjoy the other parts. You can get your point across without ramming your agenda down people's throats; chapter after chapter. I also struggled to get through the selfish isolation in her suburban life before the move. It was genuinely baffling as to how someone could be so out of touch with the environment around them, and made the future potential value of the book seem resoundingly average. I wasn't wrong, it pretty much is - a few interesting tales, but overall nothing you won't find elsewhere. Props to the ability to write well, but the content of the writing puts it at a solid resoundingly average 2.5 Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
"Our friends thought we had taken leave of our senses. Larry and I had traded Florsheim wingtips and Manolo Blahnik sandals for muddy steel-capped work boots. We had given up brioches and cappuccinos in favour of homemade bread and jam. In our fifties, we took on the heavy manual labour of farming that would have better suited us in our twenties, and our plan was to become as self-sufficient as possible." When global oil reserves run dry, the price of food, fuel and other everyday necessities will skyrocket out of the reach of ordinary people. An energy crisis is coming, and it will change the world we know forever. Adrienne and Larry are an average middle-aged couple who have left their children and grandchildren, their friends, their jobs and a comfortable home in Sydney and set themselves up on a twelve-acre block in Nana Glen in northern New South Wales. They aren't chasing a whimsical dream or planning an idyllic retirement. Their goal is to establish a fully self-sustaining food farm, as quickly as possible, that will provide for them and their family in the uncertain years ahead. CHOOSING EDEN is Adrienne's inspiring first-hand account of their efforts to learn how to get back to basics and live off the land. It's a fascinating story told with warmth and humour, but it has an urgent message- we need to make changes in our lives, and the sooner we act the better. As seen on the Seven Network's The Real Seachange. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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