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Some of these cabins are abandoned in the winter and revisited during the breakup, summer and fall. I'm not sure if this is truly abandoned, or if it is a summer away-from-it-all home.
No roads, no electricity, no sewer system and literally miles and miles from any town. Only reached by snowmobile, ATV or by flagging down the Alaska Railroad train.
Image - Copyright 2015 Alan Vernon
Previously this space was a large dinette.
New trailer desk is installed. It's nice having windows on three sides for panoramic views when I'm camping. Ikea LINMON table top, 2 OLOV adjustable legs, and then two angle braces to attach it to the wall on one side.
Also, I added a corner cabinet to store things in. For this cabinet, I reused the old door fronts from the cabinets that were part of the dinette. I then built the rest of the cabinet.
Finally, I got a small folding table and folding chair for when I have guests or need more workspace.
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Joseph and Neema, a local manager and sales agent for Mobisol, a solar energy company that's receiving support to grow their business from UK aid - in return for helping provide solar electricity to some of Tanzania's poorest people.
Picture: Russell Watkins/Department for International Development
Please don't use this photo on websites, blogs or other media without my written permission. (c) Yago Veith www.yago1.com - Flickr Interesting
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
On McClintock River, southeast of Whitehorse, Yukon. It was July, probably not long before midnight.
Savings cooperatives like this one in Bariadi, Tanzania are helping many people to access solar technology who might not otherwise be able to afford it.
The cooperative is working in partnership with solar company Ensol. Ensol provides solar lighting kits to the co-op at a discounted price. The co-op then sells the kits to its members and earns a commission on each one it sells - which is reinvested in the co-op for them to buy more solar kits.
For a small deposit, local people can join the cooperative, and then save whatever they can. Being a member means that they can borrow credit against the cooperative at microloan rates. If they can afford it, members can buy a solar lighting kit outright. But if they can't afford to pay the whole cost up-front, they can pay a percentage and then pay off the balance in small monthly instalments.
The scheme is one of a number of ways that the UK-supported EnDev (Energising Development) programme in Tanzania is helping to encourage and provide solar energy to many of the >35 million people in the country who aren't connected to the electricity grid. The EnDev programme is an international partnership in Tanzania which is being implemented by the Dutch NGO SNV.
Picture: Russell Watkins/Department for International Development
Guide to buying the right land and doing your due diligence. Check out these website to start your search journey for a farm or homestead property. There are a lot of educational materials that will be beneficial to you.
Roker Beach, Sunderland. The pods are a sustainable technologies project based in Roker. The shape of the pods was inspired by the cannonball limestone formations found in the Roker cliffs
I made some stools, one tall Bambi-like for the shower and the other short, more sturdy and general purpose. Actually its very useful for weeding in the raised beds in the garden but also for sitting at a low work bench I made.
The tops are cut from leftovers from the temporary stairs, the legs from cut-down hoe handles fixed with glued wedged tenons.
After camping for a couple months in what I later found out to be one of the east coast's temperate rain forest. A dry place to sleep is truely welcomed.
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Tiny Bamboo House. Build with Guadua angustifolia
This sequence shows the progression on the east wing of the Earthship, from tires and earth to the beautiful finished natural look of cob. The finish is determined by a very basic iron oxide solution. Photos David Dodge and Duncan Kinney Green Energy Futures www.greenenergyfutures.ca
Made great progress for a weekend warrior. Will spend weekends in the winter building front two windows and misc. framing details on inside.
Elias, aged 70, has been a tailor all his life, since he turned 18. He's had his business working from his home in the hills outside Arusha, Tanzania since 1979.
But in the last 2 years, he's been able to dramatically grow his income and business, after buying into a Mobisol solar power kit. This means he now has enough solar electricity to power an electric overlocker sewing machine, as well as light several rooms in his home, run a TV and provide a mobile-phone charging service in his village.
"As soon as I saw the Mobisol system, I knew it would make a big difference to my life - so I saved up some more money until I could afford it", he says.
"I bought the 200 Watt system as I wanted to have as much power as possible - not just for lighting but so that I could improve my business as well.
"The electric overlocker makes sewing much easier on my 70 year old legs - as it means I don't have to operate a foot pedal anymore!"
"But to be honest, I now make more money from charging people a small amount each time they need to charge their mobile phone than I do from tailoring.
"We also used to have to pay for kerosene to provide light in the evening, but now the solar electricity is much cheaper and it means we can work later into the evening".
"The money I've saved on kerosene, and the extra income from charging mobile phones, has helped me improve my house and build an extra room which I plan to rent out now as well".
The solar power system Elias has installed is designed more for small businesses and costs the equivalent of about £80 from Mobisol to fit. They also provide 80 Watt and 120 Watt kits which are proportionally cheaper. Customers then pay a monthly fee of between £14 and £23 over a period of 3 years, after which the equipment becomes theirs to keep.
"I make around £36 a month from the mobile phone charging", says Elias
"The market rate for making a pair of trousers is about 1000 schillings (£0.30), and I can only make a few pairs per day. But I can charge up around 20 mobile phones a day, and make about the same amount of money (approximately £1), so it's doubled my income."
Mobisol is one of 10 solar energy companies that are receiving 'results-based finance', as part of a scheme supported by UK aid, being implemented in Tanzania by the German development agency GIZ and the Dutch NGO SNV.
The companies receive financial incentives depending on meeting set targets for increasing the numbers of people who have access to solar energy. Less than 14% of Tanzania's 41 million people have access to the electricity grid - and of the three quarters of the population living in rural areas, only 2-3% have access to electricity - making Tanzania one of the most 'energy poor' countries in the world.
Picture: Russell Watkins/Department for International Development
Overhead building drawing of the Kinney family Earthship. You can see the tires, cisterns and interior layout.
With up to 30 friends volunteering to help we prepared a plan of action, cleaned and sharpened every available tool and awaited their arrival.
Towards the end of the day the girls team gratefully let the boys hijack the soil moving project - safe in the knowledge that they'd achieved so much already the boys wouldn't be able to hijack the glory too.
D-Day minus 21 Nick and I have to resort to cutting the thick granite kitchen threshold tiles with an angle grinder.
There was no stopping these girls. They took on the challenge of moving topsoil to create additional tent pitches.
looking towards the kitchen in the main area of the house. cork floor with in-floor radiant heat. salvaged wood stove. the ceiling fans and the majority of the lighting in the house came from the Habitat ReStore.
you can read an article on marilyn pedretti's strawbale home from her local paper here.
seen on the 2007 MREA wisconsin solar tour.