Better: The Everyday Art of Sustainable Living by Nicole Caldwell

By Nicole Caldwell

Highbrow arguments by myself won't sway the dominant paradigm; to be encouraged to create switch, humans has to be moved. paintings has the ability to notify, impression, and encourage. The artistic impulse can, particularly actually, swap the world.

Better explores the intersection of sustainability and paintings, displaying how each one folks can reinvent our lives as our best creative success. provided within the context of the original tale of higher Farm, a blueprint for environmentally wakeful dwelling initially confirmed as an intentional neighborhood, this strange consultant blends thought with useful, hands-on, DIY principles to incite your individual inventive adventures, including:

Upcycling trash into treasure
Turning your fish tank right into a garden
Making your backyard or balcony a piece of art

Better is a concrete program of the higher idea, which perspectives each experience—good or bad—as a chance for exponential own development. choked with existence classes and tips for making any way of life extra sustainable, whereas drawing on everyone's inherent creativity, this special publication presents the muse to reside extra easily, take extra possibilities, and have interaction extra with the flora and fauna. A must-read for someone who questions the aim of the day-by-day grind or grapples with the necessity for extra that means in his or her life.

Nicole Caldwell is the co-founder of higher Farm, a sixty-five-acre sustainability campus, natural farm, and artists' colony serving as a blueprint for environmentally wakeful dwelling. Her writings were featured in mom Earth information, Reader's Digest, and outing big apple, between others.

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