Thanks to the forty-three people who entered the William Powers Books Earth Day Book Giveaway by answering the question: What’s your 12×12? In other words, what is one thing you are YOU doing to live more lightly, creatively, and joyfully in 2011?
12x12 Home & Garden
It was an excruciatingly tough decision. All of the answers were exceptional and inspiring, but the winners are (drum roll, please):
Heather Wynkoop Beach who wrote: “Well, for us….to get “smaller” in what we consume…we had to get BIGGER….by expanding our garden and building a greenhouse. The plan is to eat our home grown fruits and veggies and buy significantly less at the store. It is also an exciting adventure for our two young daughters…one exclaiming recently “I LOVE the fertile earth!” (seriously)”
and
Robert Bryan Crockett who said, “In my second year living in a 1964 Airstream Bambi II travel trailer I restored, touring the US and Canada visiting friends and communities I love. Interior dimensions: 6’8″ X 13’8″. I am so grateful to have so little!”
Heather and Robert will each receive a signed copy of Twelve by Twelve: A One Room Cabin, Off the Grid & Beyond the American Dream. Congratulations! Heather and Robert: Please send your mailing addresses to wp@williampowersbooks.com and we’ll put those in the mail.
Runners up:
Jennifer Hoffmann: I have been working on lowering our water usage outdoors. This year will hopefully be the first year my flower beds, now completely perenial suited for our region, will not need to be watered. I am also replacing my traditional vegi garden at the back of the yard with a container garden nearer my back door so that it will be closer to the rain collection barrel.
Sarah Wolfgram: I quit my stressful VP job to teach yoga, work in my garden, ride my bike and devote my time to getting a nonprofit org I co founded a few years ago to connect volunteer yoga instructors to schools,prisons, shelters and community spaces off the ground in a meaningful way.
Glenn Curtis: moved from a 3,600 sq ft home to a 900 sq ft home and built 320 sq ft of raised bed gardens to grow our own produce
Louise Brookes: Planting Purple corn! 🙂 In a magic garden that is self perpetuating. Turned all my newspapers with pics of the Tsunami and Fukishima and terrible things in the world into mulch and now seeds are growing out of them – Blue/purple Hopi corn seeds – there’s a Hopi prophecy that when purple corn comes to the rest of the world great changes are going to happen!
See all the responses here.
Bill Powers
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