Chris
My blogs
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Engineering |
| Location | Warwick, New York, United States |
| Introduction | I'm a 21st century homesteader interested in permaculture gardening, home-based alternative energy and increasing true self-sufficiency through gaining a broad-based skill set who currently has to spend 55-60 hours a week as a construction engineer. |
| Interests | Gardening, permaculture, alternative energy, homesteading, small-scale livestock, appropriate technology |
| Favorite movies | The Shawshank Redemption, Swingers, The Terminator, The Outlaw Josie Wales, Young Frankenstein, History of the World Part I, The Magnificent Seven, Office Space |
| Favorite music | Thelonius Monk, early Miles Davis, Dexter Gordon, Dave Brubeck, Metallica, The Coup, Grateful Dead, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, The Doors, Diana Krall, A Tribe Called Quest, Rage Against the Machine, Elvis Costello, Neil Young, Bruce Hornsby |
| Favorite books | Wealth and Democracy - Kevin Phillips, Fast Food Nation - Eric Schlosser, The Impending Crisis - David M. Potter, Conflict and Consensus in Early American History - Davis and Woodman, The Affluent Society - John Kenneth Galbraith, A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn, Player Piano - Kurt Vonnegut, The Sorrows of Empire - Chalmers Johnson, Deep Economy - Bill McKibben, Guns Germs and Steel - Jared Diamond, Einstein's Cosmos - Michio Kaku, The Sacred Balance - David Suzuki, Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - William Shirer, White Fang - Jack London, The Lord of The Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien, The New American Militarism - Andrew Bacevich, The Story of American Freedom - Eric Foner, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere - Juergen Habermas |