Woodstoves do pump crap into the air, but they're romantic and if you're on a plot the size we're considering the wood would be our own whereas other options would mean further contributing via the trucking & infrastructure needed to deliver the fuel esp in the sticks where we're probably going.
The step-father-in-law has solar panels & some strange solar water heating panels on the side of their place out in the same area, and the other hippies with money in the area have considered a windmill, a big one, that would do the dozen homes or so in their area and then some, putting back into the grid, then you get a check every month instead of writing a check, but it's a huge undertaking, so not yet. My wife is actually considering taking on that project if we move out there, subsequent generational contribution to the area, for the right to live there and protect the area sort of thing. Who knows though, if the area around there gets too developed before we're ready we may go elsewhere, I'll need unpaved roads once I quit the city.