Almost Green: How I Saved 1/6th of a Billionth of the Planet

James Glave, a self-professed “child of suburbia” and SUV driver, has an ecological awakening and decides he wants to live a carbon-reduced lifestyle without dropping out of society, alienating his friends and family, or breaking the bank. Lacking the budget to build an environmentally friendly house, he does the next best thing by constructing a new model home in miniature: a “green” writing studio.
Along the way, he employs local gurus and energy-savvy builders, tries—and sometimes fails—t...