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    Straw Bale: The Ultra-Ecological House

    Written by Mea McNeil
    Narrated by Dinah Berkeley

    This podcast is a supplement to Straw Bale Construction: The Ultra-Ecological House

    As our environmental challenges mount — from devastating wildfires to hurricanes and floods — one solution, largely ignored thus far, may lie in using an unlikely-sounding material for home-building: straw. Has the lowly straw bale home’s time finally come?

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    Written by Mea McNeil

    Introduction by Summer Brown

    Narrated by Dinah Berkeley

    Produced by Larry Rosen

    Music by Mike Snowden

    Mea McNeil is a writer, organic farmer, and Master Beekeeper, whose work focuses on beekeeping, pollination, and sustainability.

    Dinah Berkeley is a contributor to the Craftsmanship Quarterly.

    © 2020 Mea McNeil. All rights reserved. Under exclusive license to Craftsmanship, LLC. Unauthorized copying or republication of any part of this article is prohibited by law.

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