Dispatches from the Sweet Life: One Family, Five Acres, and a Community's Quest to Reinvent the World

A memoir of life in Suraqueta, a subtropical town in Bolivia where the Andes meets the Amazon — part of a grassroots network of “transition towns” that aim to increase self-sufficiency to reduce the potential effects of climate change and economic instability

A timely, personal exploration of what sustainable living looks like, from an experienced writer and expert on sustainable development

Author’s work has appeared in the Washington Post, New York Times, International Herald Tribune, the Atlantic and many other publications

Author is senior fellow at the World Policy Institute and an adjunct professor at New York University

The third book in William Powers’s “Beyond the American Dream” trilogy, which began with Twelve by Twelve and New Slow City

© 2018 New World Library (E-bog): 9781608685653

Release date

E-bog: 1. august 2018