By Wendy Jehanara Tremayne
This can be the inspirational tale of ways one couple ditched their careers and high-pressure existence in manhattan urban to move to fact or effects, New Mexico, the place they made, equipped, invented, foraged, and grew all they had to stay self-sufficiently, learning a brand new feel of price and abundance within the strategy. along their own tale are assistance and tutorials to steer readers within the discovery of a satisfying new way of life that is based much less on funds. Tremayne wholeheartedly believes that everybody has the ability, mind's eye and creativity to make it work.
Tremaynenot in simple terms teaches the paintings of creating biofuel, home equipment, buildings, gardens, nutrition, and drugs but in addition offers purposes for makers to percentage their suggestions and ideas via open resource and artistic commons licenses. She stocks the thrill of making out of waste, domestic manufacture, and reconnecting with nature, and she or he teaches readers how one can reside off the grid. useful, contemplative, and action-oriented, The solid existence Lab is the guide for all times in a post-consumer age.
In addition, the nice existence Lab is stuffed with illustrations contributed through a neighborhood of artists -- Alethea Morrison, Allegra Lockstadt, Andrew Saeger, Bert van Wijk, Christopher Silas Neal, Gina Triplett, Grady McFerrin, Joel Holland, Josh Cochran, Julia Rothman, Kate Bingaman Burt, Katie Scott, Kristian Olson, Mattias Adolfsson, Meg Hunt, Melinda Beck, Miyuki Sakai, Rachel Salomon, and Sasha Prood -- making the booklet itself a piece of art.
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With Mikey, I added a promise. We will search for an uncommodified life. To Live a Decommodified Life 49 Everything Is a Tool to Change the World Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than one’s fear. — Ambrose Redmoon As I scraped by teaching yoga and doing freelance PR, my savings dwindled. Was it sane to think I could live an uncommodified life in a commodified world? Then I realized that my job had armed me with useful skills. I knew how to engage the media and produce events.
The results of our labor hardly contributed to making the life of the earth any better. Deep down, we felt this. To Live a Decommodified Life 48 With newly opened eyes we watched the same food supply trucks pull up behind all sorts of restaurants. “It’s all the same,” we said to each other while watching the same truck deliver to a run-down deli and then a fancy health food café across the street. Documentaries about genetically modified organisms (GMOs), pesticides, and factory farming practices encouraged us to become food aware.
We looked at these things anew and from odd angles, and then made unusual decisions. When I learned to reclaim my creativity and use it to make a world of my own envisioning, things got really exciting and everything seemed possible. Even a quirky, junk-made, off-grid homestead in New Mexico and an abundant life without a standard job. In the spring of 2001, I quit my job right after I had courted a cigarette company. I caught a glimpse of how dangerous the skills of my 32 profession could be when I crafted a crop circle media campaign for the company.