Recommended reading

The Circumference of Home, One Man's Yearlong Quest
for a Radically Local Life
by Kurt Hoelting
Da Capo Press, 2010

"... climate change, arguably the biggest challenge ever to face the human family, will never be far from my thoughts and meditations throughout this coming year in circumference, even when the contexts of my adventures are deeply personal and local. If there is a hidden gift embedded in this crisis, it is this potent new motivation to reexamine our lives, to make changes in the direction of more balanced and sustainable living -- changes that we have resisted for too long. That our overall quality of life may actually benefit from this effort is a prospect often lost in the public rhetoric about anticipated hardship and self-sacrifice that we've long associated with such changes.

... the climate crisis may be our last, best chance for a broad-based realignment of values that can finally extend our ethical regard into the deepest heart of the living world."

review: "Kurt Hoelting--fisherman, carpenter, mountain climber, storyteller, and Zen adept--is well-equipped for this adventure. He emerges from his low-carbon year feeling more fit spiritually as well as physically, and more hopeful about the human future. Readers will also come away feeling hopeful about our capacity for living more deeply in place and more conservingly on the planet."

~ Scott Russell Sanders, author of A Conservationist Manifesto