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William Powers has worked for two decades in development aid and conservation in Latin America, Africa, and North America. From 2002 to 2004 he managed the community components of a project in the Bolivian Amazon that won a 2003 prize for environmental innovation from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. His essays and commentaries on global issues have appeared in the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune and on National Public Radio’s Fresh Air. Powers has worked at the World Bank and holds international relations degrees from Brown and Georgetown. A third-generation New Yorker, Powers has also spent two decades exploring the American culture of speed and its alternatives in some fifty countries around the world. ...more

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	Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid and Beyond the American Dream 3.69 avg rating — 1,282 ratings — published 2010 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	New Slow City: Living Simply in the World's Fastest City 3.46 avg rating — 464 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blue Clay People: Seasons on Africa's Fragile Edge 3.77 avg rating — 318 ratings — published 2005 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Whispering in the Giant's Ear: A Frontline Chronicle from Bolivia's War on Globalization 3.89 avg rating — 156 ratings — published 2006 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dispatches from the Sweet Life: One Family, Five Acres, and a Community's Quest to Reinvent the World 3.79 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2018 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Happiness-Carbon Link: Article in the Solutions Journal

This articleof mine came out in the new edition of theSolutions Journal put out by Amory Lovins’ Rocky Mountain Institute. It’s a peer-reviewed article that updates our research in Samaipata, Bolivia about the relationship between high happiness levels and a low-carbon footprint.

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“Think how nature makes things compared to how we humans make things." We talked about how animals don't just preserve the next generation; they typically preserve the environment for the ten-thousandth generation. While human industrial processes can produce Kevlar, it takes a temperature of thousands of degrees to do it, and the fiber is pulled through sulfuric acid. In contrast, a spider makes its silk - which per gram is several times stronger than steel - at room temperature in water.”
― William Powers, Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid and Beyond the American Dream

tags: animals, environment, humans, kevlar, preservation, silk, spider, steel

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“By being grateful, appreciating all we have instead of focusing on what is lacking, we allow more of the same to flow toward us.”
― William Powers, Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid and Beyond the American Dream

tags: appreciation, gratefulness

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“The difference between actually very serious and actually very funny is actually very thin.”
― William Powers

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