January 15, 2008

Winter Yurt Musings...

03yurtportrait3 Snow is falling, and falling… and falling... here in the mountains of north Idaho. It’s a great time to think, to write, to reflect on what has transpired this past year.

It’s been over a year since my first blog entry.  A year of traveling the country and sharing my slideshow, "YURTS: Big Life, small footprint," with readers, builders and yurt enthusiasts from Portland, Oregon to Portland, Maine.

In these next blogs I’ll look back at some of the questions you asked me while I was out on the road, and some that have come through on my yurt website and forum.

I’d also like to share some of the new yurt resources I’ve found while updating the website. Like, for example, this YouTube yurt video of a multiplex yurt in the UK all decked out Krygyz-style for a party! And these fun scenes from Simply Yurts, an event rental company in Devon, UK.

Thank you for joining me on my yurt blog, and please do continue to leave your comments and questions. I’ll do my best to answer what I can and find other experts to contribute as well…

Yurt's - Living In The Round

I heartily recommend this book to anyone interested in simple, sustainable living, enduring vernacular architecture, or the possibilities inherent in living in the round.
Kelly Hart, GreenHomeBuilding.com

Becky Kemery has always been a pioneer and this book is an answer to a question that will be asked more and more over the next years--how to live simply, affordably, in tune with ourselves, each other, and the earth.
Leslie Shankman
Bellingham, WA

Yurts: Living in the Round is full of practical information that's written in a clear and concise prose. It's packed with beautiful photographs and is graced by delightful stories of people who have made their next home a yurt. I highly recommend this book to anyone who's pondering ways to live more sustainably on this precious Earth.
Dan Chiras, author of The New Ecological Home, and The Natural House.

A beautiful, inspiring and educational book!
Chris McKee, director of documentary Mujaan