{"id":16338,"date":"2017-01-09T00:26:09","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T07:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=16338"},"modified":"2017-01-06T17:53:38","modified_gmt":"2017-01-07T00:53:38","slug":"eco-living-japan-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2017\/01\/eco-living-japan-review\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Eco Living Japan&#8221; review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/710kh9uymtL.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/710kh9uymtL-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/710kh9uymtL-800x800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/710kh9uymtL-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/710kh9uymtL-768x767.jpg 768w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/710kh9uymtL.jpg 1097w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>@TuttleBooks<\/p>\n<p>I <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2016\/03\/eco-living-japan\/>mentioned a while ago that I began reading this book<\/a>. Although I finished reading <a href=http:\/\/amzn.to\/1RzPuXX target=_new><I>Eco Living Japan: Sustainable Ideas for Living Green<\/I> by Deanna MacDonald<\/a> months ago, I never got around to writing a review&#8211;until now.<\/p>\n<p>Once upon a time I was going to be an architect so design, buildings, etc. have always interested me since. In addition, I&#8217;ve always appreciated the clean look of some <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2016\/11\/shofukuji-%E8%81%96%E7%A6%8F%E5%AF%BA\/>Japanese<\/a> and <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2016\/07\/picnic-in-the-courtyard\/>Danish architecture<\/a> and design. Someone not interested in Japan and\/or these items probably won&#8217;t be very interested in this book.<\/p>\n<p>The text wasn&#8217;t usually riveting for me, and the prose was fairly repetitive and unenlightening, but I still enjoyed the book&#8211;mostly because of the photos. The good news is the book is mostly photos.<\/p>\n<p>Another critique I had with the book is the subtitle of &#8220;sustainable ideas for living green&#8221; should have the words &#8220;if you are extremely rich&#8221; added. Most of the projects examined are for relatively large, custom properties in Japan using materials that would cost several times the amount of more common construction. A very minor segment of the Japan&#8217;s population could afford these &#8220;sustainable ideas for living green&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>That said, the properties explored are fun to consider if you, like me, enjoy dreaming big.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@TuttleBooks I mentioned a while ago that I began reading this book. Although I finished reading Eco Living Japan: Sustainable Ideas for Living Green by Deanna MacDonald months ago, I never got around to writing a review&#8211;until now. Once upon a time I was going to be an architect so design, buildings, etc. have always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[44,175,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16338"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16343,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16338\/revisions\/16343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}