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Natural Permaculture Gardening: Hugelkultur

Sustainable agriculture is a relatively new (and also very old) concept that is sweeping the world these days. Beautiful gardens are cropping up all over the country, and not just your basic flower ga...

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Lessons Learned In The Garden

I love to spend time working the living earth. There is joy to be found in coaxing life from seeds and nourishing that life to bring beauty to our home and food to our table.

When I was young my pare...

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Bill Gates And 500,000 Shares of Monsanto

Bill Gates is primarily known as the multi-billionaire who created Microsoft, the company behind the most popular computer operating system known as Windows. With this massive wealth, he has retired f...

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Onward and Upward to Higher Ground

Dog Poet Transmitting.......
May your noses always be cold and wet.
Planetary rainbows are shining through the gray rain of these dark hours. Rainbows are signs of promise, signs of an ancient covenant ...

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Big Bad Corn (Infographic)

If you've ever creeped your way through a corn maze at Halloween, you know how it can grab ahold of your imagination, turning benign stalks into monsters and discarded cobs into severed limbs. It's ju...

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What’s the Real Cause of the World’s Housing Problem?

An example of urban poverty in this slum in Jakarta, Indonesia Over a billion people in the world lack decent housing even though there are dozens of low cost housing methods that could eliminate this problem. Possibilities include building with earthbags, adobe, cob, pallets, bamboo and other locally available materials. These...

Half Earth Shelter

“This is part 1 of an instructional video of how to build a Half Earth Shelter. This video is brough to you by Ways Of The Wild Institute and White Wolf.” YouTube Half Earth Shelter- part 2 Note: While very primitive, this shelter demonstrates the effectiveness of building into the earth for...

“Jim Meaney, owner of Cansolair Inc. displays how he converts pop cans into a powerful solar heating panel.” CanSolAir Solar Max 240 mounted on side of home. YouTube Cansolair Brilliant Newfoundlander Invents the Solution! is a post from: Natural Building Blog

Vanuatu Earthbag Project Report

In an effort to prove that a simple earthbag roundhouse could be built entirely with unskilled and inexperienced labor we made a leap of faith. We bought a block of land on the island of Efate in Vanuatu. We intended to build a women’s centre and hoped to inspire pacific islanders...

Economizer House Plan with Log Siding

Free Economizer house design shown with optional log siding. Our Children’s House Design Contest is over and I’m sad to say we didn’t receive any entries. The contest idea was sparked by Jay, a frequent commenter here on our blog, who pointed out how housing styles can be dramatically altered with...