I'm an environmental scientist, Living Product developer, business creator, and lover of life. My partner and I have a modest house in the hillside surrounded by a nature preserve we manage with our close community. It's a one-mile gravel road down here, but any vehicle can easily make it except in heavy snow. Our home creates more electricity than we need and we only use fossil energy resources for cooking. Eventually we will take the place completely off-grid. It's something of a bird sanctuary with numerous owls, hawks, and numerous smaller birds. We're 25 minutes from downtown Bloomington.