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Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid and Beyond the American Dream

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Why would a successful American physician make a choice to live in a twelve-foot-by-twelve-foot cabin without running water or electricity? To determine, author 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 stick on the cabin for a season whilst she traveled. There, he befriended her eclectic neighbors — organic farmers, biofuel brewers, eco-developers — and found out a sustainable but imperiled way of living.

In these pages, Powers no longer 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 private happiness and global healing.

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