The Big Tiny

A Built-It-Myself Memoir

Dee Williams (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

304 Seiten

2015
Plume (Verlag)
978-0-14-218179-9 (ISBN)

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Part how-to, part personal memoir, The Big Tiny is an utterly seductive meditation on the benefits of slowing down, scaling back, and appreciating the truly important things in life.

More than ten years ago, a near-death experience abruptly reminded sustainability advocate and pioneer Dee Williams that life is short. So, she sold her sprawling home and built an eighty-four-square-foot house—on her own, from the ground up. Today, Williams can list everything she owns on one sheet of paper, her monthly housekeeping bills amount to about eight dollars, and it takes her about ten minutes to clean the entire house. Adapting a new lifestyle left her with the ultimate luxury—more time to spend with friends and family—and gave her the freedom to head out for adventure at a moment’s notice, or watch the clouds and sunset while drinking a beer on her (yes, tiny) front porch.

Dee Williams is a teacher and sustainability advocate. She is the co-owner of Portland Alternative Dwellings (www.padtinyhouses.com), where she leads workshops focused on tiny houses, green building, and community design. Her story has been featured on Good Morning America and NBC Nightly News, and on NPR, PBS, MSNBC, CNN, and CBC. She has also been profiled or featured in hundreds of online blogs and articles, and in print media including Time, The New York Times, and Der Spiegel. Williams lives in Olympia, Washington, with an overly ambitious Australian shepherd, in the shadow of the house of dear friends.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	24.6.2015
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	127 x 196 mm
Gewicht	227 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Immobilien / Grunderwerb
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Heimwerken / Do it yourself
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	0-14-218179-X / 014218179X
ISBN-13	978-0-14-218179-9 / 9780142181799
Zustand	Neuware