Sustainability Tips for the New Year
Eat meat-free and 99% vegan plus buy organic produce/products Try to limit driving; drive a hybrid and plan to buy an EV next. I stopped flying but mostly due to getting away from it
How Long Does it Take to Build an Earthship?
A typical 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom earthship takes about 4 months to build with an experienced crew and materials organized and money flowing from a construction account. Building an Earthship yourself will take longer
Off Grid and Self-Sustaining Homes with Jonah Reynolds
Have you heard of Earth Ships? This episode is with Jonah Reynolds, Earthship Biotect - which is the number one eco-construction and self-sufficient living design. Off-grid, self-sustainable houses. Absolutely an alternative investment. We
Consider this when doing a Sustainable Retrofit
Sitting at home in the summer heat, your mind may start to wander to that fancy new air conditioner. But when it comes to making your house comfortable and sustainable,
Power to the People
Why the rise of green energy makes utility companies nervous. Mark and Sara Borkowski live with their two young daughters in a century-old, fifteen-hundred-square-foot house in Rutland, Vermont. Mark drives a school
How to pound tires and build tire walls
Tire walls are made by laying tires in staggered courses like bricks or concrete blocks. Each tire is filled with compacted earth, so that it becomes a rammed earth brick encased in steel belted
Harvesting Tires
The tire is indigenous all over the world as a "natural resource". Every city is a natural supplier of this item. It can be "harvested" with absolutely no technical devices or energy other than
The Diet of the Shaolin Monks
The Shaolin Temple diet is a balanced way of eating that can help you live a long, active and healthy life. It provides a simple and streamlined formula for preparing vegan macrobiotic meals with
Tire Retaining Walls
The same method for building structural walls in buildings can be applied when building retaining walls made with rammed earth encased in steel-belted rubber. Depending on the load the retaining wall is retaining, the batter
How to Make Bottle Bricks for Bottle Walls
A Quick and Easy, step by step on how to make bottle bricks. Bottle bricks allow light to shine through a wall, and color the light the color of the glass used in the