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With the roof on inside the house became the place for the 13-member crew and up to 35 volunteers to congregate after a long day of work.

Photo Duncan Kinney, Green Energy Futures

kitchen hearth includes a potager, or masonry stove, fitted w/ small chambers that hold charcoal for simmering pots.

 

Read more: www.motherearthliving.com/the-good-life/a-restored-creole...

This sequence shows the progression on the east wing of the house, from tires and plaster to covered over and finishing. The finish is very basic iron oxide solution. Photos David Dodge and Duncan Kinney Green Energy Futures www.greenenergyfutures.ca

Sometimes 1 giant is enough to hold back the clouds.

Sometimes I wish I could be such a giant.

Sometimes I feel I can be that giant.

Sometimes I know we can all be such giants.

 

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this is taken standing in the kitchen, looking down the main area of the house. the length of this area faces south to take advantage of passive solar. two bedrooms and a large bathroom sit on the other side of those shelves on the right. the wood stove was salvaged. cork floor with in-floor radiant heat.

 

you can read an article on marilyn pedretti's strawbale home from her local paper here.

 

seen on the 2007 MREA wisconsin solar tour.

Ashley Lubyk of Dirt Craft applies finishing plaster to the walls of the Kinney Earthship.

Photo Duncan Kinney, Green Energy Futures

Nikon D700

Nikkor 50mm AF f1.8D

All photos by Ana Lisa Alperovich for Inhabitat

Except for the second and the dog's one by Anders Robertsson

Battery Bank layout used in one of the Sabah Schools project. as designed and implemented by Optimal Power Solutions Malaysia.

 

OPS Project Information here

 

OPS Malaysia website

 

OPS Global website

 

Duncan Kinney in the greenhouse of the Kinney Earthship. The greenhouse serves several functions, it separates the living space from the cold outside air, it treats greywater in the planter and it helps evacuate hot air in the summer months with its ceiling vents. Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures www.greenenergyfutures.ca

We drove 3 oldtimer Landrovers from Belgium into the Catalan Pyrenees and back. Off-road, off-grid and with a minimal ecological footprint. Nobody would find traces of us sleeping next to a ravine or in a forest.

800 watt solar array, more to be added, 3.6 kw Outback inverter

The Creek Cabin project, pallet wood (oak), metal roof, cast iron stove and off the grid.

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