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Apr 26

Published April 26, 2018

Author Owen Geiger

HomeBiogas – Turn Your Waste into Energy


Start producing cooking gas and natural fertilizer from your own waste. This HomeBiogas https://homebiogas.com/ digester will process up to 4 kg of food waste a day. But even one kilo would give you one hour of cooking! 1kg (2.2 lb) of waste provides 200 liters of gas as well as liquid fertilizer. They are on facebook and can be reached by email at lior@homebiogas.com

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Wow, the order page says the cost is only $545. So this system should pay for itself within a reasonable timeframe.

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Apr 25

Published April 25, 2018

Author Owen Geiger

Artist Creates The Most Unique Tiny House Ever Built


I have seen and toured many tiny homes over the years. However, this is honestly the most unique tiny house I have ever seen. My only regret is that I did not ask how many hours he has into building this tiny house.

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Check out the comments on the YouTube page to see all the rave reviews. It seems most readers agree that this is the most unique tiny house ever built.

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Apr 24

Published April 24, 2018

Author Kelly Hart

Woman Builds Breathtaking Earthbag Dome Home

Bonita Domes were built in Joshua Tree, California nearly a decade ago. Based on designs by Nader Khalili, these domes were fully permitted at that time. You can find out more about how they were built at earthbagbuilding.com.

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Apr 23

Published April 23, 2018

Author Owen Geiger

Earthbag Eco Education Hut, Cambodia

The Earthbag Ecohut is a community built library in NW Cambodia

The Earthbag Ecohut is a community built library in NW Cambodia

Our main construction goals for the project in the final week were to finish up the adobe on the walls, hang the doors and windows, finish the glass bottle wall, and grade the subfloor. With the help of some great volunteers and local workers, all of these tasks have been completed and the structure is looking beautiful!

The Earthbag Ecohut has earthbag walls, earth plaster, and post and beam frame.

The Earthbag Ecohut has earthbag walls, earth plaster, and post and beam frame.

There have been a whole lot of developments in the construction of the ecohut over the last month. This is mainly due to the fantastic volunteers we’ve had on site who’ve helped us cover an immense amount of ground; it’s really starting to look like a library (minus the books). Shortly before leaving on our trip to Laos, we reached a major milestone: the final earthbag was placed! After 2,000 bags, it felt incredible to be done.

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Apr 22

Published April 22, 2018

Author Owen Geiger

Amazing Off-The-Grid Tiny House Has Absolutely Everything!


This tiny house is ready for anything! Completely off the grid, this tiny home on wheels generates it’s own solar power, collects rain water, uses solar water heating and even generates it’s own biogas for cooking.

Paul and Annett had been living the city life, in an apartment in Sydney, Australia. A desire to lower their impact on the earth and live closer to nature lead them to designing and building their own eco-friendly tiny house powered by renewable energies and moving onto a remote property outside of Byron Bay.

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Apr 21

Published April 21, 2018

Author Owen Geiger

Engineering Mystery Solved: How Ed Leedskalnin Built Coral Castle


This video appears to have solved how Ed Leedskalnin’s ‘free energy device’ was built and operated. This is the machine Ed, a slight 5’ tall man, used to cut and shape giant blocks of coral stone to build the Coral Castle in Florida.

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Apr 20

Published April 20, 2018

Author Owen Geiger

The Aranya story: turning barren land into a forest garden using permaculture


Padma and Narsanna Koppula have turned a barren piece of land in Telangana’s Medak district in India into a food forest by engaging the community that lives around it. Here’s their story.

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Search our blog for many related stories on different ways to turn degraded, dead, run down land into productive farmland. This is one of the best ways to create an affordable homestead.

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Apr 19

Published April 19, 2018

Author Owen Geiger

How to Make a Free, Super Easy Twig Stove in 5 Minutes


In this video I show how to make and use my favorite soup can camp stove. The stove in this video is an excellent little wood stove that burns fuel cleanly, and unlike DIY alcohol stoves can burn for long periods of time without needing to be extinguished to refuel. I also prefer wood stoves over alcohol because you don’t need to carry fuel with you; sticks are a renewable resource you can find almost anywhere.

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Search our blog for related videos on twig stoves, camp stoves, rocket stoves, etc. If you’re not a camper just realize these stoves make great backup stoves if the power ever goes out. I love all of these simple low cost DIY stoves so there’s quite a bit of content here on this subject.

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Apr 18

Published April 18, 2018

Author Owen Geiger

Natural Building
Living With The Land


Natural buildings are an ancient tradition with a modern appeal. Creating healthy, beautiful homes from natural materials such as earth, straw and timber, building naturally is the ultimate expression of ecological design. Building isn’t ‘done’ to us – it can be done by us. The skills and techniques used in natural building are hands-on and accessible, enabling us all to design our own healthy living spaces bringing people and the elements together.

The UK has a rich tradition of natural building and natural architecture that is seeing a renewed interest. Building naturally is one such response to Living With The Land.

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