## Metadata - Author: [[Mireille Roddier]] - Full Title: Lessons on Energy Sobriety - Category: #articles - Summary: The author describes learning to live with less energy by experimenting with old habits and simple ways. She finds joy and comfort in reducing energy use and sharing warmth with others. This energy sobriety challenges modern lifestyles and suggests new paths for cities and architecture. - URL: https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/after-comfort/6783001/lessons-on-energy-sobriety ## Highlights - One way to effect change would be to introduce a second major into our universities and colleges. Right now there’s only one major: upward mobility. It’s the major which accommodates the original set of assumptions we settled the continent with, the mind-set that fuels the extractive economy. The new major would be “homecoming.” It would educate people to go back to a place and dig in.2 —Wes Jackson, *Becoming Native to this Place* (1993) ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kst6q4136j00p5df3wentyzg))