Sustainable Compromises: A Yurt, a Straw Bale House, and Ecological Living Sports_Gift_Guide his years of frustration

his years of frustration

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Melody faces another impossible choice -- stay with her friend

Sustainable Compromises: A Yurt, a Straw Bale House, and Ecological Living Sports_Gift_Guide his years of frustrationLiving simply isn't always simple. When Alan Boye first lived in sustainable housing, he was young, idealistic, and not much susceptible to compromise until rattlesnakes, black widow spiders, and loneliness drove him out of the utilities free yurt he'd built in New Mexico. Thirty five years later, he decided to try again. This time, with an idealism tempered by experience and practical considerations, Boye and his wife constructed an off the grid,