Living Within Our Means: Beyond the Fossil
Fuel Credit Card
Kamyar Enshayan
54
pages, softcover: $12
Congdon Printing & Imaging,
2005.
Engineer and city councilman Kamyar Enshayan
considers the inevitable end of the fossil-fuel joyride. Short
essays ponder topics we’ll all need to grapple with —
like the truth about hydrogen and ethanol and what will make a
livable city in 2050. Enshayan quotes writer Gary Snyder, who
predicts that "all of us will come back again to hoe in the ground
… or hand-adze a beam, or skin a pole …"





