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Better Off

Paperback • 2005 • English

Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology (P.S.)

By Eric Brende

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About the book

What is the least we need to achieve the most? With this question in mind, MIT graduate Eric Brende flipped the switch on technology. He and his wife, Mary, ditched their car, electric stove, refrigerator, running water, and everything else motorized or "hooked to the grid," and spent eighteen months living in a remote community so primitive in its technology that even the Amish consider it antiquated. Better Off is the story of their real-life experiment to see whether our cell phones, wide-scr...Show more

Narrative theme: Environmental issues / the natural world
Narrative theme: Social issues
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ISBN

9780060570057

Publisher

Harper Perennial

Published year

2005

Language

English

Original title

Better Off

Format

Paperback

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