“Earthen Building, Sustainable Home Hybrid: In this video, Quinn Eaker, Founder and Director of the most sustainable Community in the State www.intotheGardenofEden.com discusses the importance of true sustainability consciousness and how that may apply to building homes.
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Manual Straw Bale Press
“The “Bali Baler” is a manual press that creates bales measuring 50 cm wide x 50 cm high x 100 cm long (19″ x 19″ x 39″). The bales are a bit wider than the standard bales in the USA. Designing in metric made everything simple and with the 6:1 ratio we were able to build the walls 3 meters high – close to 10′ tall.
How to build an earthbag home for $11.50 per square foot
“Are you looking for a DIY construction technique for building an affordable earthquake-, flood-, and bullet-resistant home? Look no further.
Colorado: Off-Gridders Forced back on the Grid, Camping on own land Illegal
“It’s something we’ve reported on many times in the past – government agencies trying to regulate Off-Grid living out of existence. Throughout the country, local zoning officials have made it impossible for people to go off the grid, in many cases even threatening them with jail time for not hooking into local utilities.
Earthbag Earthship Indiegogo
“We are currently running an indiegogo campaign to raise funds for our next house which will be an earthbag house using earthship principles, hydronics, solar hot water and biogas, among other things.
Fruit Walls: Urban Farming in the 1600s
This is an amazing story recommended by Jim, one of our long time readers and supporters. So many things such as fruit walls are being forgotten due to the prevalence of relatively affordable energy.
“We are being told to eat local and seasonal food, either because other crops have been transported over long distances, or because they are grown in energy-intensive greenhouses. But it wasn’t always like that. From the sixteenth to the twentieth century, urban farmers grew Mediterranean fruits and vegetables as far north as England and the Netherlands, using only renewable energy.