ABSTRACT
Home is 'a state of being' and, despite the Enlightenment's privacy ideal, is 'not a static entity with clear boundaries but involves dynamic interconnections between inside and outside and private and public'. Modern homes are, complexly, financial assets or liabilities as well as physical and emotional space. For those who consider their homes as suitable sites to locate an environmental politics, moreover, the complexity is only compounded, as tradeoffs are made between pressures to be green, financially wise, comfortable, safe, relaxed and private. Global systems of provision, green or otherwise, are mostly characterized by capitalism, the economic system of production and exchange based on the production of goods and services for sale. However, the green economy is supported not just by 'consumers' but also by domestic environmental labour, which is central to new understandings of a somewhat internally contradictory politics of domestic resource use.
