About this item
This is the inspirational story of how one couple ditched their careers and high-pressure life in New York City to move to Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, where they made, built, invented, foraged, and grew all they needed to live self-sufficiently, discovering a new sense of value and abundance in the process. Alongside their personal story are tips and tutorials to guide readers in the discovery of a fulfilling new lifestyle that relies less on money. Tremayne wholeheartedly believes that everyone has the skill, imagination and creativity to make it work. Tremaynenot only teaches the art of making biofuel, appliances, structures, gardens, food, and medicine but also presents reasons for makers to share their innovations and ideas through open source and creative commons licenses.
About the Author
I wrote The Good Life Lab to share what I had learned after setting out to create a decommodified life. I followed a pledge that I made around the time that I quit my job in NYC and headed to New Mexico to build an off grid homestead. I pledged to learn to make the goods that I had once bought (rather than buy them) , and to seek abundance rather than wealth. The lessons that I learned since, have showed me that having a job can be expensive and that the most valuable thing, responsibility, cannot be bought. Today I know that when the whole world is for sale the maker of things is the revolutionary of the age. Cheers to adventures and revolutions!
