Handmade barrel stove provides 8 hours of heating and cooking with one load of sawdust — smokeless and unattended. All gases go up the chimney. He heats over 1000 ft2 of uninsulated building. The basic idea can be scaled up to industrial sized heaters and dryers or scaled down for cooking and camping. Other materials such as rice hulls can be used instead of sawdust.
Owen Geiger
The Alpha Strategy — Free E-book
Our blog post the other day discussed frugal living. Readers might be interested in Alpha Strategy: The Ultimate Plan for Financial Self-Defense for the Small Investor, a great free ebook that explains in detail how to prepare for uncertain economic times such as those we live in. Living frugally makes it more likely you’ll achieve your dreams.
Mini barrel Twig Stove
I’ve always been a big fan of twig stoves, because they work with whatever is available in nature or your backyard — twigs, plant stalks, grass, pine cones, pine needles, whatever. No need to buy or lug around expensive fuel and fuel containers.
House of Three Tents
Here’s another amazing Faircompanies video.
“When Glen and Gerry bought property in Northern California, they wanted first to live on the land to determine the best place to site their home. They found a company that makes tent cabins and erected three. They’re not of the camping variety, but more semi-permanent fabric shelters sold by Sweetwater Bungalows.
Natural Homes at Pinterest
Yesterday I posted a link to nonconventional homes at Pinterest. Afterwards I spent some time skimming the photos and found a few gems worthy of a new blog post.
A Cleverly Converted Barn
“Interior designer Glenda Martin worked on the offices of some of Silicon Valley’s largest tech companies and, later, on the luxurious homes of the people who founded them. But what she considered her best work was her smallest -a 650-square-foot barn-turned-house that she designed for herself in Sonoma County.