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Just Enough: Lessons in Living Green from Traditional Japan

Door Azby Brown

Categorie	Tuin & Tuinieren
Boeknummer	#337646-XB33
Titel	Just Enough: Lessons in Living Green from Traditional Japan
Auteur	Brown, Azby
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	London : Tuttle Publishing
Jaar van uitgave	2012
ISBN10	4805312548
ISBN13	9784805312544
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, numerous b/w illustrations, large 8vo.
Samenvatting	Just Enough is a book of stories, depictions of vanished ways of life told from the point of view of a contemporary observer. The stories tell how people lived in Japan some two hundred years ago, during the late Edo Period, when traditional technology and culture were at the peak of development and realization, just before the country opened itself to the West and joined the ranks of the industrialized nations. They tell of people overcoming many of the identical problems that confront us today - issues of energy, water, materials, food and population and forging a society that was conservation-minded, waste-free, well-housed, well-fed and economically robust. From these stories, readers will gain insight into what it is like to live in a sustainable society, not so much in terms of speci... (Lees verder)fic technical approaches, but rather, in terms of how larger concerns can guide daily decisions and how social and environmental contexts shape our courses of action. In a work of astonishing imagination and intelligence, Brown, a professor of design based in Japan, looks back to the Edo era (Tokyo, 1603-1868) and sees parallels between the ecological collapse then and environmental malaise now. The challenge: to link our sophisticated technical systems to the kind of mentality that those prescient forbears displayed. Library Journal
Pagina's	224
Conditie	Goed — Spine discoloured.
Prijs	€ 15,00

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