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Is a truly sustainable lifestyle possible?
Mountain Culture and Environment Speakers’ Series
Doug Fine: Farewell, My Subaru
Tuesday, January 27, 7:30 p.m.
Max Bell Auditorium
$9 in advance at The Banff Centre Box Office and at the door
Free to Mountain Culture Members
In
his recent book Farewell, My Subaru,
Doug Fine shows how anyone can become (nearly) petroleum free in
one year. Fine’s
message is, “If this guy can do it, anyone can.”
In
2005 at age 35, Fine moved to a little-known valley in southern New
Mexico to see if it was possible to have a truly sustainable lifestyle.
When he began his new way of life, coyotes attacked his chickens
and he was nearly electrocuted by his solar panels. A year later,
Fine says that over 90 per cent of fossil fuels were out of his life,
without him having to part with any Digital Age comforts. “I’ve
given up none of my appliances, including washing machine, laptop,
and, possibly most important of all, booming stereo sub-woofers.”
Fine
has since traveled around the world, speaking to audiences about
how the transition to sustainable living for individuals and corporations
can be achieved through solar power, vegetable oil-powered vehicles,
and a sustainable diet — without giving up a western
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