tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75575719751840416512011-08-24T07:47:51.557-07:00Luhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04732355148693602492noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557571975184041651.post-19587271108239963212010-11-26T13:09:00.000-08:002010-11-26T13:12:14.944-08:00<h1 class="parseasinTitle" style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span id="btAsinTitle">Our next book for discussion is by William Powers.</span></span></h1><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why would a successful American physician choose to live in a twelve-foot-by-twelve-foot cabin without running water or electricity? To find out, writer and activist William Powers visited Dr. Jackie Benton in rural North Carolina. No Name Creek gurgled through Benton’s permaculture farm, and she stroked honeybees’ wings as she shared her wildcrafter philosophy of living on a planet in crisis. Powers, just back from a decade of international aid work, then accepted Benton’s offer to stay at the cabin for a season while she traveled. There, he befriended her eclectic neighbors — organic farmers, biofuel brewers, eco-developers — and discovered a sustainable but imperiled way of life.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In these pages, Powers not only explores this small patch of community but draws on his international experiences with other pockets of resistance. This engrossing tale of Powers’s struggle for a meaningful life with a smaller footprint proposes a paradigm shift to an elusive “Soft World” with clues to personal happiness and global healing.</span></div><h1 class="parseasinTitle" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span id="btAsinTitle"></span></span></h1><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7557571975184041651-1958727110823996321?l=allgenre.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Luhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04732355148693602492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557571975184041651.post-66360941814057086312010-11-06T14:14:00.000-07:002010-11-06T23:51:31.250-07:00<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></span><br /><div class="entry-content"><div class="entry-body">Our first book is <b><i>Three Cups of Tea </i></b>by <a href="http://www.gregmortenson.com/">Greg Mortenson</a> and David Oliver Relin. You can post your comments about this book here to share with other members. Post questions, comments, musings, reflections, etc...<br /><br />To get us started:&nbsp; What is the significance of 3 cups of tea in this book?&nbsp;Do you have a "3 cups of tea" moment to share? It can be little or big, momentous or barely noticed at first glance. But somehow your life was not quite the same afterward.</div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7557571975184041651-6636094181405708631?l=allgenre.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Luhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04732355148693602492noreply@blogger.com0