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Just Enough: Lessons from Japan for Sustainable Living, Architecture, and Design
How the mindset of traditional Japanese society can guide our own efforts to lead a green lifestyle today.
If we want to live sustainably, how should we feel about nature? About waste? About our forests and rivers? About food? Just Enough is a book of stories and sketches that give valuable insight into what it is like to live in a sustainable society by describing life in Japan some two hundred years ago, during the late Edo period, when cities and villages faced many of the same environmental challenges we do today and met them beautifully and inventively.
If we want to live sustainably, how should we feel about nature? About waste? About our forests and rivers? About food? Just Enough is a book of stories and sketches that give valuable insight into what it is like to live in a sustainable society by describing life in Japan some two hundred years ago, during the late Edo period, when cities and villages faced many of the same environmental challenges we do today and met them beautifully and inventively.
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234 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 28, 2022
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August 4, 2022
Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for the advanced electronic review copy of this book. This is an in-depth, immersive, heavily diagramed guide to life in ancient Japan and the lessons we can learn and adapt to present day life. The book is broken into 3 sections: field and forest, the sustainable city, and a life of restraint and is told through stories from a contemporary point of view. It is an interesting look into a Japanese way of life.
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