Obviously not everything is so simple, both on principles (how to install an alternative source of electricity in a Greenwich Village apartment) and on the practical application (his wife refuses to use cloth diapers and leaves him so care to deal '). The book is the story of these decisions, these reflections, changing his habits but also those of his relatives, and a good review of the areas covered.
The book is sometimes irritating its construction very "American": the idea that recount a personal experience is more valuable than a guide or a manual, very intimate relationship of family and personal problems which we do not necessarily see the Interest in the book, the layout of "good tips" or strong reflections of the genre "Should we therefore I eat cabbage soup morning, noon and night? "The systematic customization of themes (the mode to become interested in issues of respect for our environment, I went to see X, who conducted a similar project in Vancouver, etc.), and some naivety any discoveries or how to approach subjects, for example "instead of choosing a recipe and go buy the ingredients, you have to wander in the market, look at what he will, and return to home, find a way to accommodate the products you bring, "that is to say to the wholesale market '
The author has also a tendency to make a lot of personal introspection and recreate the way of thinking that led to this or that decision, again with a sometimes confusing innocence; we would have preferred some more details or more concrete rather than full pages on the personal action and conclusions like "we would do almost anything for a promise of love."
However the book is fun to read, and open lines of thought both agreed and sometimes unexpected. The party is agreed that on practical ways to implement these resolutions and especially what impact it can have on daily life, making your own bread, not buy that used products, to cycle in Manhattan. The experiences recounted require at one time or another to return on its own practices, to balance the opportunity to modify or even to discover some unknown subjects.
The unexpected part is that such social problems and famiales generated (less often visit his family to limit transport, derogatory remarks knowledge that find it absurd project and conversely the improvement of social life due to the elimination of television and organizing numerous evenings with friends).
Overall a book so sometimes irritating but very fresh and quite challenging, of course like to read a long article or report and without any literary quality.
