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Pam Dorr Builds Sustainable Homes for $20k : TreeHugger
we focus on some incredible work being done by Pam Dorr and her group - specifically, how they figured out how to build a sustainably crafted house for $20,000 - something anyone in architecture will say is impossible - and how they're helping people own homes on $600 a month.
Permaculture Research Institute of Australia » Bill Mollison Interview from 1991
Another thing I find extremely eerie is that when people build a house, they almost exactly get it wrong. They don’t just get it partly wrong, they get it dead wrong. For example, if you let people loose in a landscape and tell them to choose a house site, half of them will go sit on the ridges where they’ll die in the next fire, or where you can’t get water to them. Or they’ll sit in all the dam sites. Or they’ll sit in all the places that will perish in the next big wind.
Architecture From Another Planet - 25 Incredible (Real) Abodes | International Listings Blog
If you’re in the market for a home but nothing seems to satisfy your taste, then perhaps the homes listed below will fire your creative urges. Or, maybe you’ll just be satisfied with an office space inside a building built like a basket. From small buildings to constructions shaped like flying saucers, you’ll be amazed at what some architects and builders have created. Many of the homes listed below are for rent or for sale, so you may have a chance to wow your friends with these incredible abodes.
The homes listed below are in no particular order, but we’ve managed to dig up some dirt on each building so that you can learn more about the architects and the history behind these unusual pieces of architecture.
The Energy Challenge - No Furnaces but Heat Aplenty in Innovative ‘Passive Houses’ - Series - NYTimes.com
Using ultrathick insulation and complex doors and windows, the architect engineers a home encased in an airtight shell, so that barely any heat escapes and barely any cold seeps in. That means a passive house can be warmed not only by the sun, but also by the heat from appliances and even from occupants’ bodies.
And in Germany, passive houses cost only about 5 to 7 percent more to build than conventional houses.
Small Home Oregon - featuring homes with a smaller footprint
These houses are small and simple. They have everything you need and nothing you don’t. If you’re looking for a small home, guest house, vacation house, studio, or workshop, these houses are made for you. These small homes are infinitely adaptable. Join them together to add a couple of bedrooms, put the doors and windows wherever you want, off grid or on.
The right blames the credit crisis on poor minority homeowners. This is not merely offensive, but entirely wrong. - By Daniel Gross - Slate Magazine
The right blames the credit crisis on poor minority homeowners. This is not merely offensive, but entirely wrong.
oscar and lisa's earthship build
We have been building our big earthship for about four years now and living in a smaller hut module for five. This blog follows the process and explains a bit about our lives here in Valencia too.
Amazon.com: The Renewable Energy Handbook: A Guide to Rural Energy Independence, Off-Grid and Sustainable Living: William H. Kemp: Books
Author/engineer William H. Kemp, who is a leading expert in small- and mid-scale renewable energy technologies, designed and built his own off-grid home. The result is a house that has all the standard “middle-class” creature comforts while using less than five times the total fossil-fuel energy of the average North American house.
The Renewable Energy Handbook focuses on the unique requirements of off-grid living and contains chapters on energy conservation; heating and cooling; backup power; domestic water heating; wireless communications; photovoltaic, wind, and microhydro energy generation; battery selection; and inverters.
McClatchy Washington Bureau | 10/12/2008 | Private sector loans, not Fannie or Freddie, triggered crisis
Only one of the top 25 subprime lenders in 2006 was directly subject to the housing law that's being lambasted by conservative critics.
The "turmoil in financial markets clearly was triggered by a dramatic weakening of underwriting standards for U.S. sub
Simple Solar Homesteading |
The cabin is 14 x 14 and aproximately 400 square feet with a full loft. It includes a kitchen, dining area, bathroom and living area downstairs and a large bedroom and office upstairs.
I built this cabin by myself from new materials for under $2000 (not
eBook Review: Simple Solar Homesteading (or How to Build a Solar Home For $2000) : TreeHugger
LaMar Alexander, is one eco-friendly-building-machine and he's ready to share a few things he's learned along the way in his new ebook, Simple Solar Homesteading. This book is not for just anybody, as the house is small, the appliances are few and while y
Shipping Container House By Ross Stevens : TreeHugger
It is a wall of containers, built against a hill in Wellington, New Zealand, designed and built by Ross Stevens. It uses the spaces between the containers and the hill to expand its living space beyond that limiting interior dimensions of a standard ISO b
What Do Off Grid Homes Look Like? Here are 5 Examples : TreeHugger
So we know what it takes to live off grid and how you generate off grid power, but what does living off grid look like? It might be a surprise to some, but some off-grid homes are totally indistinguishable from other houses in the neighborhood (except for
Grand Designs Live House of the Year is Eco : TreeHugger
Grand Designs Live, the slightly addictive t.v. show about house renovations, has named its Voters' Choice Home of the Year, 2008. Winner of the Best Conversion category, Black Sheep House went on to beat off all the other contenders to win the overall pr
The medieval marvel: 14th century Hungarian stove cuts my monthly gas bill to just £5 | Mail Online
a tile stove works as a storage heater because there is a great mass of masonry inside which heats up and radiates heat through the tiles.
Sixtyminutes - People Power
There are no electricity or water bills, they grow their own food and recycle everything. They've simply unplugged. Once it was dismissed as just a hippy-trippy dream, now it's a great, practical idea that's spreading around the world. And the good ne
House HB Blends Into Slovenian Landscape : TreeHugger
By putting the living spaces upstairs in a "french farmhouse" plan, one gets to take advantage of the roof structure's architecture and the views are better. Trees provide shelter from the sun.
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