The Greening of Everyday Life: Challenging Practices, Imagining Possibilities
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Expand 16 Everyday Household Practice in Alternative Residential Dwellings: The Non-Environmental Motivations for Environmental Behavior
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16.1 Alternative Technology and Alternative Living: The Case Studies 16.1 Alternative Technology and Alternative Living: The Case Studies
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16.2 Solar Electric Technology Adoption 16.2 Solar Electric Technology Adoption
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16.3 Earthships and Earthship Biotecture 16.3 Earthships and Earthship Biotecture
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16.4 Life in Intentional Community 16.4 Life in Intentional Community
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16.5 Environmental Behaviors as Cultural Practice 16.5 Environmental Behaviors as Cultural Practice
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16.6 Cultures of Resistance 16.6 Cultures of Resistance
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16 Everyday Household Practice in Alternative Residential Dwellings: The Non-Environmental Motivations for Environmental Behavior
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Published:August 2016
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Abstract
There are many forms of residential dwelling that minimize the negative environmental consequences of life in a home. Case studies on adoption of alternative dwelling technologies that are often understood as the result of environmentally motivated behavior suggest, however, that the choice to adopt less environmentally degrading technologies and practices in the home is not necessarily motivated by environmental concerns. This chapter examines homeowners who have adopted residential solar electric technology, people living in off-grid homes called Earthships, and people living in two intentional communities in the US. These case studies demonstrate how household practices can be reorganized through alternative technological systems to affect understandings of private property, the role of centralized utilities in more sustainable societies, the organization of work and home life, a potential reorientation of public policy, and—above all—the reasons to pursue environmentally beneficial materials, technologies, and practices in residential life.
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