Feb 22, 2010
When Fine bought his 41 acre ranch in New Mexico, he had four goals in mind. “1. Use a lot less oil 2. Power my life by renewable energy 3. Eat as locally as possible 4. Don’t starve, electrocute myself, get eaten by the local mountain lions, get shot by my UN-fearing neighbors, or otherwise die in a way that would cause embarrassment if the obituary writer did his or her research.”
Over the course of a year, as he worked toward accomplishing his goals, Fine found the task a little more difficult that he anticipated and discovered many environmental contradictions in “living green”. For