In every way, Missy and Jeff Conrad try to live in harmony with nature, following the three R’s to the letter: Reduce, reuse, recycle. They’re not on a mission to save money. Nor are they collecting material for a book. They’re not part of a community of like-minded people, or contestants on reality TV.
So why are they living this way? Why do they care?
In a world in dire need of more people like them, a world of warming oceans and dwindling resources, in which environmental problems too rarely translate into the behavior required to solve them, the question has taken on new urgency, the search for answers driving research among scientists of all stripes.
