| There is a lot to be said for the new
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| | interested in solar panels and battery
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| crop of environmental-friendly, retiring
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| | banks. Conservation and personal
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| Baby Boomers that are refusing the canned
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| | independence rank high.
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| retirement solutions that are out there
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| | In addition, unique designs for homes
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| aplenty. Many have had to live in the
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| | that circumvent the need for central
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| cities that created their
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| | heating and air conditioning are coming
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| employment...complete with smog and
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| | to the fore. The strawbale house is a
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| crime. Years have gone by, the kids have
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| | wonder in temperature economy. Thick
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| been protected as much as possible in
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| | walls of dry bales of straw are covered
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| gated communities and the day has finally
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| | with a "skin". The one I recently viewed
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| dawned when it's time to take a look at
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| | was plastered with a mixture of adobe mud
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| "what's next."
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| | and cement. Contractors and architects
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| The idea of travel that so held the
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| | are getting on the bandwagon as this
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| attention of their elders has less appeal
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| | trend spreads. Books and seminars on
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| to our Baby Boomers. Cruise ship horror
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| | strawbale building are under heavy
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| stories and the risks that have become
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| | demand.
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| part of RVing have taken the shine off of
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| | And then there are the Earth Ships. These
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| what their parents were satisfied with.
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| | are energy-efficient homes dug into
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| Also, many have traveled extensively in
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| | hillsides and constructed with great care
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| their work and have added expensive
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| | to offer shelter without messing with the
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| vacations to far away places with strange
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| | environment. The one I visited looked
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| sounding names to the mix.
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| | amazingly cozy.
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| Freedom doesn't even have the draw that
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| | Our Baby Boomers want a new kind of
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| it had for earlier generations. Many Baby
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| | challenge and most of them are extending
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| Boomers have been connected with
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| | it into organic gardening, another
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| web-oriented businesses and have been
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| | science that offers them simplicity and
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| able to work at home some of the time,
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| | increased wellness. They want to grow
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| following their own pace. This usually
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| | what they eat to a great extent. There's
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| meant longer hours for most of them, but
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| | usually plenty of room to do this because
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| more personal freedom was involved.
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| | they buy acreage not a lot. This movement
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| As a result this new breed wants to get
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| | toward healthy living isn't carefree but
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| the heck out of Dodge and do some kind of
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| | that's not what most of them are about.
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| physical work. That's right, they don't
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| | They are willing to work long and hard.
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| want to be taken care of or sit around
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| | You will find, in their strange
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| the campfire, they want to address the
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| | residences, battery-run, lap top
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| challenges that correspond with their
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| | computers! After all, email, like life,
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| ideals.
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| | must go on! Boomers are making sure that
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| Peace and quiet rate high on many Baby
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| | the things that matter to them are
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| Boomers' lists of priorities. Living more
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| | included. It's never been about denial.
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| simply calls to them. "Off the grid" was
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| | For lack of a better description, I would
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| not a phrase most of us were familiar
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| | call their evolving ethic "creating a
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| with even ten years ago. If we had heard
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| | challenging simplicity."
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| it, it would have been with fear and
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| | If you get a chance to read up on this
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| loathing that we would have considered
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| | movement and/or have an opportunity to
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| living without being connected to a
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| | visit someone who is immersed in it,
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| reliable power source. However, these up
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| | don't pass it up. Rome is being rebuilt,
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| and coming retirees are often extremely
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| | yet again.
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