Dispatches from Butte Ranch: Doug Fine's Bold Experiment in Sustainable Living
by Jeremy Elton Jacquot, Los Angeles on 03.26.08
Nobody said living off the land would be easy - least of all environmental auteur and longtime NPR contributor Doug Fine. This brave soul, though no stranger to rough living (the adventure and investigative journalist has spent his freelance career trekking all over the world), vowed to consume as little gas as possible - hence, the title of his latest book, Farewell, My Subaru - grow most of his own food and only rely on solar energy to power his few gadgets.
All this, despite his self-professed near total lack of mechanical or agricultural abilities - and his deep attachment to his treasured Subaru. The good people at Boing Boing have a great webisode featuring Fine recounting his experiences in green living - the good, the bad and the (very) ugly. Well worth a look especially if you're considering reducing your material dependence; his blog also chronicles his day-to-day life on Butte Ranch, though not nearly as regularly as we'd like to see.
Via ::Boing Boing TV: Farewell, My Subaru (blog)
See also: ::Tired of Living on Earth? Build Your Own Island!, ::Off-Grid Assisted Living: Backing It Up Green
The best part about this is the irony of the massively loud, bright, consumerist ad in the middle of the webisode. Total moodkiller. *headdesk*
I'm so jealous of this guy!
He certainly putting himself through a shock treatment. It is very encouraging that he will to try this with the steep learning curve he has to endure.
Shouldn't the title be "Dispatches from THE FUNKY Butte Ranch"?