Miles off the paved highway and at the end of a long, bumpy driveway that cuts deep into the woods, Mick Womersley puts the finishing touches on his solar panel-topped home. It’s not your ordinary rural dwelling, even one designed to be ecologically sound. Womersley, a human ecology professor, and his wife Aimee Phillippi live comfortably in a house built of roughly 200 straw bales. Link.
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a linkMick’s website has more details, including photos.
Now all we need to do is get the MythBusters on the scene to see if you really CAN huff and puff and blow down a straw house.