Twelve by Twelve, William Powers
Twelve by Twelve, William Powers
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Twelve by Twelve
A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid and Beyond the American Dream

Author: William Powers

Narrator: Andrew Eiden

Unabridged: 8 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/16/2019

Synopsis

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.Here, 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.

About William Powers

An author, speaker, and expert on sustainable development, William Powers is a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute and an adjunct faculty member at New York University.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Silvia

Don't get confused. This book is not about how to live in a small house, or about the small house movement. It is a personal book that happens to touch many social things from our values and how we have chosen to live, to the impact we have in this world. For me, it was almost magical: almost at ever......more

Goodreads review by Ancient

Should be titled Couscous for the Enviro-Conscious, Culturally Enlightened Liberal's Soul. Meh. I wanted a book about what real twelve-by-twelve living is all about. This was not that book. I don't want to cast unfair aspersions on the writing, but it reads like something that could have been manufa......more

Goodreads review by Cornelia

Here's a book I'd recommend to about 95% of people who love to read. It's thought-provoking without being threatening. The prose is often beautiful and poetic. I also loved the — mostly Eastern — philosophical and spiritual undertones. It reminded me of the things I fell in love with over a decade a......more

Goodreads review by David

William Powers took a break from his career as a globetrotting do-gooder to crash for a while in a 12′×12′ cabin in North Carolina. The cabin’s owner, a doctor and activist who is pseudonomized for the sake of her privacy in the book as “Dr. Jackie Benton,” is a war tax resister who chose the small-......more

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