Listen to “Straw Bale: The Ultra-Ecological House”

Written by Mea McNeil
Narrated by Dinah Berkeley

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?

Written by Mea McNeil

Introduction by Summer Brown

Narrated by Dinah Berkeley

Produced by Larry Rosen

Music by Mike Snowden

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Mea McNeil is a writer, organic farmer, and Master Beekeeper, whose work focuses on beekeeping, pollination, and sustainability.
Dinah Berkeley, originally from Chicago, holds an MFA from A.C.T. and a BFA from Ohio University.