Just to let you know, my hubby and I have lived 100% off grid since Dec 07, we have done it very much on the cheap using a lot of recycled materials, while we didn’t use straw bale construction (it wasn’t readily available to us here), we used wood and concrete, you can read about it by clicking on my name. We are the real deal, living the life, not just spouting theory, I have written about our successes as well as our failures, a lot of what we do is DIY and experimental, it’s been great fun along with a few tears, bumps and bruises, and I wouldn’t change a thing.

As far as advertisements go, yeah, we advertise, it’s a fact of life, we provide this content free of charge, it’s the readers choice to click (or not) on the ads, we try to keep the ads on topic, blocking the ones that are known to be scams. I don’t know why people have a problem with someone earning a little money at what they do, everyone needs to earn some money to survive. I can appreciate being disgusted with a site that has little content and tons of ads, but this site has lots of content, good content, the ads are very balanced, why would you begrudge us a small supplement to our income? I work hard to post interesting and educational articles here.

You have 2 choices, either stay and read what is available here, or leave, it’s your choice, no one is forcing you to do anything. I sincerely wish you well in either decision you choose to make. :)