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Grass Hut

June 3, 2022July 17, 2016 by Owen Geiger


Maybe you’re looking for an inexpensive place to live while you build your sustainable home with natural materials. How about making a grass hut for temporary accommodation? The price is right.

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Categories Emergency Shelter Tags hut, low cost, low tech, natural building, primitive, shelter, survival shelter, temporary shelter Leave a comment

Boiling Point Cooking Stoves

June 3, 2022February 22, 2016 by Owen Geiger

Typical Indonesian mud/rice hull stove can last up to five years.
Typical Indonesian mud/rice hull stove can last up to five years.

The free online document linked below has several interesting low tech/low cost stove designs from around the world, including some commercial scale stoves for feeding lots of people.

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Categories General Tags cooking stove, DIY, earth, free, low cost stove, mud, natural building, primitive, rice hulls, simple stove Leave a comment

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