Selling Out

LAURIE PROTHRO

Living the alternative life used to be a simple business. You packed the essentials—toothbrush, soybean paste, brown rice, hoe—into the van and took off for the country, where societal cares were few and you could lively happily off the fat of the land. But returning to your natural roots is now a complicated and costly affair, as was demonstrated recently in San Francisco at the Third Annual New Earth Exposition.