“Josef “Sepp” Holzer is a farmer, author, and an international consultant for natural agriculture.
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Jean Pain’s Compost-based Bioenergy System
“Jean Pain (1930–1981) was a French innovator who developed a compost-based bioenergy system that produced 100% of his energy needs. He heated water to 60 degrees celsius at a rate of 4 litres a minute which he used for washing and heating. He also distilled enough methane to run an electricity generator, cooking elements, and power his truck. This method of creating usable energy from composting materials has come to be known as Jean Pain Composting, or the Jean Pain Method.
Earthbag Swimming Pool
From the Permies Forum:
“i am now in process of building it need help filling sand bags and placing them then plastering them, i am also doing walls and out buildings I have sucessfuly built a sand bag green house and am growing citrus trees in it. I have a little expereience in building with sand bags and a lot of ideas.
Resilient Communities
A resilient community has the ability to survive an extended disconnection from the global grid in areas including:
– Energy
– Food
– Security (both active and passive)
– Communications
– Transportation
Free House Plans and Desert Shelter Plans Now Available
My free plans are now available and just a click away on our Free House Plans page. This is an exciting moment for me. The four PDFs published so far represent weeks of work and dozens of files (three houses and six shelters). I’ve been sending them out by email to those who requested the plans, but now they’re available right here on our blog as free PDFs.
Top 10 Natural Building Materials
“New home construction comes at a tremendous expense to the planet. Building 1.7 million homes with traditional wood, steel and concrete frames consumes the same amount of energy as heating and cooling 10 million houses each year, according to the Consortium for Research on Renewable Industrial Materials. The environmental costs stem largely from the manufacture of the materials. Cement production, for example, requires an astounding amount of energy and results in water and air pollution and industrial waste that is usually not recycled. Using natural materials that require minimal processing or refining reduces these environmental impacts.