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The footing has been poured and it’s starting to be framed. A couple of workers finish off the tire wall on the east wing wall. Photo Duncan Kinney, Green Energy Futures
Our 2006 T@b Clamshell (now up for sale) and the new Oliver Travel Trailer side by side. The Oliver is only technically 1 foot longer - but if offers so much more. Both have been customized with uber solar electrical systems, ideal for boondocking and offgrid camping/lliving.
Michael Reynolds is the creator of the Earthship concept. He’s been perfecting these buildings for the past 20 years with thousands of them built around the world. Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures www.greenenergyfutures.ca
Dawn Kinney shows off her newly transplanted tomato plants in the greenhouse that encompasses the entire front of the Earthship, a radically sustainable home that harvests rainwater, treats its own wastewater and grows food. Photo Duncan Kinney, Green Energy Futures See our video about how the Earthship works in the winter: www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/earthship-revisited
It cost about £400 then and they sell for around 750€ now.
Here's some more information on our experience with Rutlands.
I made a workbench for the almacen in Riocaliente, its based on a hybrid medieval/roman design with a few tweaks. The legs are made from cut down pick handles, with wedged tenons, the top laminated pine, and holes drilled for stops. Cheap, simple and so far useful for sawing, marking-out and planing.
A short blog post about the process
Wilbur Hot Springs Nature Preserve. Photo by Meg Solaegui
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Entry level shipping container home - interior perspective.
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First morning at the cabin. The dogs adjust to the Rocky Mountain Time Zone.
Rillway Cabin. A U.S. Forest Service rental in Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest, Montana
The Soil Food Web is explained, highlighting it's importance in soil and plant health--and it's destruction by tillage.
This avoids the need for an inverter. I've had this one for 19 years and I've a spare. You can find out more about DC and off grid living in our blog lafermedesourrou.blogspot.com/
Overview of permaculture design tools such as Zone & Sector Planning to integrate elements for an efficient and productive system.
Permaculture workshop involves other tools such as Needs & Yields Analysis, Design for Relative Location, incororating factors such as intensity of use, distance, site micro-climates, soils, solar and wind aspects.
passive solar: (south-facing windows & skylights) glazing, thermal mass (dark tile floor, concrete walls & concrete tub)
heat: sunlight, thermal mass, woodstoves, thermal reflection from natural swimming pool
natural light: deftly placed south-facing windows, skylights w/ clerestory windows, & (courtyard) sunwells
insulation: ivy covered exterior North wall
We went once more "Up the Pyrenees mountains and down again" in 3 dauntless Land Rovers..
A video from last year's relaxed Land Rover drive through the Pyrenees: www.youtu.be/ja9FGhrygv0
September morning. photo by Meg Solaegui
Wilbur Hot Springs, Volcanic Mineral Springs and Solar-Powered Eco-Hotel
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Wilbur Hot Springs in Williams, CA
Just north of San Francisco two and half hours.
In all the world... no waters like these.
A beautiful little building, inspired by the Earthships of Phoenix, a concept by the architect Mike Reynolds... I heard him speak at the University of Stirling, and subsequently at a Scottish Parliament committee... From those early meetings, this little baby Earthship was born - a demonstration model, shall we say, and one that I'd been meaning to visit for years!
The idea is that the building is completely off-grid, and self-sustaining. The roof catches water which is filtered for drinking. Waste from showers and taps is then used for toilets, and this waste is subsequently used to grow plants... The building is built into a south-ish-facing slope, with walls made of rammed-earth tires which act as an effective heat-sink. As an antithesis to high-insulation buildings with a high embodied-energy and thus carbon footprint, the Earthship minimises the footprint even further - the glazing is virtually the only material that need come in from off-site. The result is actually rather beautiful.
Find out more about Earthships at www.earthship.net/ and about this one in particular at www.sci-scotland.org.uk/index.shtml - I'd recommend visiting!
photo Meg Solaegui
Wilbur Hot Springs, Eco-Hotel surrounded by an 1800 acre Nature Preserve.
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