Lots of builders such as Ben Law use coppiced wood for building.
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Turn $20 Into $3,500 With a Do it Yourself, Solar Water Distiller!
I found some very good ideas for a DIY solar water distiller on the video linked below. The problem is the bulk of the video turned into a long political rant and so I’m not posting the video here. Instead, I’ll summarize the key ideas: 1. You can get glass topped patio coffee tables for free or very cheap on Craig’s List (and at yard sales). The glass is used on top of the distiller, and the table serves as a base.
Fog Nets: Creating Water in the Atacama Desert
“Capturing water from the fog and producing food on the driest place on earth, the Atacama Desert, Peru. This water has two purposes: clean drinking water and to grow food. Here we are able to catch an average of 200 liters per day per fog net!
CoRe Solutions Ferro-cement rain tank construction in Indonesia
“Indonesia has some of the most contaminated rivers and groundwater sources in the world. Yet much of the country receives more than 200cm of annual rainfall that goes virtually unused. CoRe Solutions has perfected a locally appropriate method for constructing high quality Ferro-cement rainwater harvesting tanks that are empowering Indonesia’s people to tap into this sustainable clean water source.”
Terra Cotta Twig Stove and Pot
This blog post is related to a previous blog post called Low Cost Cooking Options in Nepal. There’s a fuel shortage there right now and people are having to seek other cooking methods. Today’s blog post features terra cotta twig stoves and cooking pots — another low cost way to cook. The price is right. The stove is $2.80 and the pot is $4.20, so the whole thing costs $7 from the local market. Of course you could use your own pot and just buy the stove.
Natural Building Blog 8th Year Anniversary
It’s that time of year again. We happy to announced our 8th year anniversary and now ranked #2 on Google. (Wiki is number one, ha ha.) We missed our anniversary last year, probably because I was traveling.