num_pages: 320
description: Spending money is the last thing anyone wants to do right now. We are in the midst of a massive cultural shift away from consumerism and toward a vibrant and very active counter-movement that has been thriving on the outskirts for quite some time  do-it-yourself-ers who make frugal homemade living hip are challenging the notion that true wealth has anything to do with money. In Making It Coyne and Knutzen who are at the forefront of this movement provide readers with all the tools they need for this radical shift in home economics.The projects range from simple to ambitious and include activities done in the home in the garden and out in the streets. With step-by-step instructions for a wide range of projectsfrom growing food in an apartment and building a ninety-nine-cent solar oven to creating safe effective laundry soap for pennies a gallon and fishing in urban waterways Making It will be the go-to source for post-consumer living activities that are fun inexpensive and eminently doable. Within hours of buying this book readers will be able to start transitioning into a creative sustainable mode of living that is not just a temporary fad but a cultural revolution.
language: English
title: Making It: Radical Home Ec for a Post-Consumer World
publisher: Rodale Books