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When Brenda and Robert Vale wrote their groundbreaking book The Autonomous House back in 1975, they inspired and encouraged a whole generation to go off-grid. I remember one evening in college when the oil crisis was in full swing and gasoline had more than doubled in price. I was sitting in a candlelit common room, listening to a group of art students excitedly talking about how we could all become self-sufficient.

The part in the Vales’ book that really got me going was where they likened an autonomous house to a sort of land-based space pod designed to provide an environment that was free from the existing life-support structures of Earth. The impact of the book was such that the term autonomous house is now commonly used to describe a particular type of practical and proactive house and environmental setup. The Autonomous House is still in print, decades after it was first published, and is a perfect recommendation if ever there was one.