Local Government Going After USMC Veteran for Living Off-Grid [+video]
In January, the 27-year-old Marine Corps veteran [Tyler Truitt] planted a row of gleaming solar panels in his front yard, hauled in a 550-gallon plastic tank to catch rainwater and installed a composting toilet in the single-wide trailer that he shares with girlfriend Soraya Hamar.
It’s as close to an off-the-grid lifestyle as you can come while still living in the middle of Huntsville (the trailer sits on two wooded acres at the end of Hood Road, not far from Brahan Spring Park Natatorium).
Truitt said he and Hamar should be applauded for treading lightly on the environment, and attempting to live frugally. A Redstone Arsenal employee, he is considering returning to the University of Alabama in Huntsville to complete a physics degree that he started working on before joining the Marines in 2008.
“We’re not bothering anyone,” Truitt told AL.com. “I just wanted to have something that would be debt-free, so that if I chose to go to school full-time I wouldn’t have to worry about any bills.”
Instead of being celebrated as a clean-energy trailblazer, Truitt is being taken to court by the city. (“Local Government Going After USMC Veteran for Living Off-Grid”, originally posted HERE)
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