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LAES 3147 - Today’s Sustainable Homestead


Using an interdisciplinary approach, this course explores how traditional time-tested approaches can be combined with cutting-edge and emerging technologies to enable homeowners to live more self-reliantly and sustainably on limited acreage. Impacts of location, zoning, property size and type as well as other factors affecting sustainable living are explored. Practical approaches to plant and animal based food production and preservation, energy conservation and production, water and waste management, alternative energy and other topics will be discussed.

3 hours lecture
3 credits



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