There’s something incredibly exciting about getting into an abandoned building — a huge, disused factory. It gets you right there, you’re scared and a bit disgusted because it’s dirty, but the size of it is just overwhelming. Never mind the dirt, the dust, the pigeon shit and the graffiti on the walls, we’ve just got into 4 storeys of free, empty, hundreds of square meters of space!…
You could make use of your swimming pool (or small lake) for much longer with a solar pool heating system.
Pool solar heaters are just a set of solar panels, or ‘collectors’, through which water pumped out of the swimming pool is circulated before being poured back into the pool.…
Self-build geodesic domes course on Dec 10th to 12th at the Low-Impact Living Initiative, Redfield Community, Winslow, Bucks, UK.
Build your own low-impact dwelling / storage / tent / spare room / retreat / kids hideaway ……
Green roofs are designed to support the growth of plants. They consist of a special waterproof and root repellant membrane, a drainage system, filter cloth, a lightweight growing medium and plants installed on top of human-built buildings.
Research into the advantages of planted roofs is being carried out in universities around the world, like Sussex university in the UK, and Penn State university in the US.…
UK planners James Woudhuysen and Ian Abley look forward optimistically to 2016 in Blueprint magazine :
Forget the 0.12 million new dwellings that deputy prime minister John Prescott conceded should be added to London Gateway’s 1.6 million inhabitants in 2004. In their best case scenario, after freeing up the planning process, a
whopping 1.2 million homes have been put in over a decade 10 times the initial intention.…
From Clare Morgan
Here is one self-build home that got around the planning laws! A CLASSIC BUS that had been converted into a UK home sold at auction for 132,500. The 1920s bus had been parked on clifftops at Porthtowan, Cornwall, by a miner in the 1930s. Over the years it was added to and turned into a one bedroom property with a balcony and sea views.
Only two people bid for the home at the auction, which was held at the Penventon Hotel, Redruth. The successful bidder was George Kinsella, originally from London, who had sold up and moved to Cornwall.…
Known as the Type 2, or “bay window” van (its predecessor had a beaky nose and split windscreen), it fell off the twig in Europe in 1979, but factories in South America kept churning them out. Two Gloucestershire-based brothers, Chris and Jason Jones, have been quietly importing the vehicles from Brazil since the late 1990s and have developed a lucrative sideline converting them into caravans, although minibuses and bog standard vans are also sold.…
How a couple lost everything they owned and still found happiness — off-grid…
The makers bill the Seascooter as a Personal underwater transporter, but that’s going a bit too far.
The Seascooter is just a small, safe hand-held propeller – driven by an electric motor, which gives you an hour’s water transport at the push of a button.…
Even if you are not into gambling or horses, consider using caravan sites at some of the top UK racecourses as a place to park your camper for a few nights.…
From Organic NZ –
Construction has started on a home in West Auckland that, when finished, will mark the start of a new company’s crusade to make New Zealand the benchmark for healthy, clean and sustainable living.
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Reading a book is so-o-o off-grid, especially if its a second-hand edition of Henry Thoreau‘s Walden, or Life in the Woods first published 150 years ago. This seminal text chronicling Thoreaus 2-year experiment in basic living is filled with transcendental observations which are even more timely now than they were then.…
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