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Meg Starr
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Meg Starr grew up in a Cape Cod home her dad had built by hand. The electricity came from solar panels, the water was drawn from a well in the backyard, and three compost bins supported the gardens and the chickens. Every Sunday, she split logs to fuel the fire.
“My parents make incredible choices at the most micro level,” Starr says. “I just grew up assuming that everyone made those decisions, because they were the rational decision to leave the world the same as, if not slightly better than, how we found it.” Only later did she realize that “it’s a privilege to live that way.”