The next stage, accomplished looking backward.

I really appreciate this book for its bold forward-thinking approach. Just with the first few pages, one can see how the authors have committed to restructuring the economy to serve the interests of a more enlightened environmentally conscious consumer. Bill’s life story revolved around finding simple solutions to pressing environmental problems in the field of architecture. A well-traveled man, he has observed numerous time-tested ways of habitation in such distant nations as Japan and Jordan. His experience tells him that sometimes the most effective answers are much simpler that industry would have us believe. The ways of Bedouin tribes, for example, keep their members dry in the rain and cool in the heat of summer. Sometimes, the way forward can be reached with the means we have now. We need not develop endless amounts of useless and wasteful technology. We have to concentrate on using the resources we have no to find answers to the tough questions we have to ask now.