Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology 9780061738999, 0061738999, 9780060570057

What is the least we need to achieve the most? With this question in mind, MIT graduate Eric Brende flipped the switch o

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9780061738999, 0061738999, 9780060570057

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Table of contents :
Content: Cast of neighbors. Prologue. Taking orders. Section I: Planting. Seeds of discontent --
Paring back --
Lightening up --
Artfully answering nature --
The ram --
The missing refrigerator --
The sounds of silence. Section II: Growing. Quickening --
A church meeting --
A barn raising --
The dating game --
Meet the neighbors --
Secrets and politics --
Heatstroke --
Weighing the work. Section III: Harvesting. As the pumpkins turn --
After the fall: even farmers get the blues --
Birth --
Husbandry --
Pulling in the reins --
Closing time --
Outside, and the box. Epilogue: Recipe for a leisurely, laborsaving life.

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