Doug Fine

**Rescheduled from April 24th.**FAREWELL, MY SUBARU: AN EPIC ADVENTURE IN LOCAL LIVING If you listen to NPR, chances are you've heard Doug Fine's humorous and inspirational talks on living "off the grid" on his New Mexico ranch—on trying to erase his carbon footprint for 12 months, for example. Fine ... (more)gives a multimedia presentation on how hard it is to go green while "living like an American." "The details of Doug Fine's experiment in green living are great fun—but more important is . . . the dawning understanding that living in connection to something more tangible than a computer mouse is what we were built for." ~ Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature.

Sure to be a good time! Doug Fine, a regular contributor to NPR and Public Radio International, decided to take the plunge and live truly Green on a ranch in New Mexico. His new memoir-- an epic adventure in living locally-- explores the joys and challenges of living ecologically responsibly. He chronicles ... (more)twelve months of eating locally, using solar power, and erasing his carbon footprint. He's funny, he's entertaining, he's educational, and he's environmentally safe! What a great inspiration to put that Earth Day spirit into action!

Join us for a presentation and signing with the author. In keeping with Doug's great goals, our neighbor and crusader for green living with great taste, Eat Local, is generously providing coupons for the whole audience and a great door prize for one lucky Queen Anne Books customer! Check out Eat Local's website at www.EatLocalOnline.

NPR's rural guy, Doug Fine, vows to give up modern conveniences to move to a ranch in New Mexico where he'll grown all his own food — never mind that he has no practical experience or mechanical skills.

Meet NPR correspondent Doug Fine when he discusses his latest book, Farewell, My Subaru: an Epic Adventure in Local Living, the story of how he decided to give up modern conveniences to move to a ranch in New Mexico where he'd grow all his own food--never mind that he has no practical experience or mechanical ... (more)skills. This is both a hilarious account and an inspiring call to action for anyone who wants to live greener.

Like many Americans, NPR correspondent Doug Fine enjoys his creature comforts, but he also knows full well they keep him addicted to oil. So he wonders: Is it possible to keep his Netflix and his car, his Wi-Fi and his subwoofers, and still reduce his carbon footprint?
In Farewell, My Subaru: An Epic Adventure in Local Living (A Villard Books Hardcover; On Sale: March 25, 2008), Fine attempts to find out, taking readers along for the ride as he moves to a remote ranch in New Mexico and brazenly vows to grow his own food, use sunlight to power his world, and drive on restaurant grease.
Whether installing Japanese solar panels, defending the goats he found on Craigslist against coyotes, or co-opting waste oil from the local Chinese restaurant to try and fill the new “veggie oil” tank in his R.O.A.T. (short for Ridiculously Over-sized American Truck), Fine’s extraordinary undertaking makes one thing clear: It ain’t easy being green. In fact, his journey uncovers a slew of surprising facts about alternative energy, organic and locally grown food, and climate change.
Funny and thoughtful, Farewell, My Subaru ultimately makes a profound statement about trading today’s instant gratifications for a deeper, more enduring kind of satisfaction.

Bio:
After college, Doug Fine strapped on a backpack and traveled to five continents, reporting from remote forests and war zones in Burma, Rwanda, Laos, Guatemala, and Tajikistan. He is a contributor to NPR and PRI and the author of Not Really an Alaskan Mountain Man. His print work has appeared in The Washington Post, Wired, Salon, U.S. News and World Report, The Christian Science Monitor, and Outside. Fine lives in an obscure valley in New Mexico among a few goats and many coyotes.