permaculture

["Redding, Trudie A" <tredding@mail.utexas.edu>]

Great thoughts and I also love to think of new ways to make my footprint 
smaller, and you are right, being creative helps keep you from getting 
discouraged, I'll try to read the link when I get a work break

Trudie Redding
Austin, TX
Not looking forward to 105 in the summer so I am trying to soak up the cool
512-471-8044

-----Original Message-----
From: permaculture-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org 
[mailto:permaculture-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of jenny Nazak
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 2:26 PM
To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [permaculture] Lifestyles of the Voluntarily Heatless

Hi All,

Here in Austin, Texas, where the weather typically defaults to warm, we have 
had unusually harsh cold this winter. And I know that other places have had 
it a lot tougher than we have.

Yesterday I saw a great article in the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com";>New 
York Times</a> about people who choose to do without heat in winter. Their 
reasons for making this choice fall into many categories. There are people 
who like living in low-rent marginal urban spaces ...