My Natural Building Journey
Mar 19, 2021
4 minutes
Story and photos by Joe Silins
uilding my own straw bale guest house was the culmination of one journey and the beginning of another. After graduating from college in 2005 with a fine arts degree, I decided to pursue a career in environmental conservation. I worked at different nonprofits for a couple of years before going back to graduate school for urban planning. My grad program provided a lot of flexibility, so I explored the fields of affordable housing, community development, and international development in addition to environmental planning. I began to see that you can’t separate people from the environment, and that a lot of the destruction of our planet stems from our desire to see ourselves apart from
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