Alternative Construction methods. Alternative lifestyles and behavior can be influenced by one’s willingness to give back to the earth via environmentalism, or just to save a buck and fight the idealism of a capitalist society.
Such lifestyle decisions fuel the green movement and the market of everything from hybrid cars to self composting toilets. One way to save thousands of dollars and to live without the guilt of Gaia is to construct a house using alternative materials besides precious wood, polluting vinyls and foam insulation.
Some of these alternative housing methods are extremely useful to the earth, as everyday trash can be used to build an entire house, or a natural material can be used, and then recycled when the house is ready to be torn down….
| povphile Mystical FUG SageReged: 01/14/03 Posts: 7138 Loc: Just a little to the left |
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| I have seen houses built out of old tires, milk crates, straw, mund, and even dug right into the side of a hill. The Hobbits were not far from haveing perfect homes when it came to eco-friendly.——————– Breathe In, Breathe Out, Move On.
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I think I should start a blog about Hobit construction, like it is a real form of construction and middle earth is in peril of global warming.
This is an interesting site on sustainable building. Something I have found very fun to study and learn more about. $10.00 per square foot budget…http://www.hollowtop.com/cls_html/cls.html
http://www.qualifiedremodeler.com. This entry started out as new web page presented to me in class the other night. There was a great article at www.qualifiedremodeler.com about energy efficiency: The Green Catalyst by John D. Wagner. It was a great article. After checking out the web page I found an article on RenoWorks, a leading supplier of visualization software and solutions for contractors and home improvement experts, to steal the opening line. I promptly set a web site for the firm I consult for. www.revisionpro.com/ecs you can also check the company web page at www.revisionpro.com.
This came out a couple of years ago but I have not much about it since. Smart Concrete.This http://futurefeeder.com/index.php/archives/2005/09/26/smart-concrete-for-levees/
The winning entry to the Cradle to Cradle C2C Home Competition is an incredible single family dwelling by Matthew Coates and Tim Meldrum that goes right to the core fundamentals of the Cradle to Cradle principles. Not only does the building run a photosynthetic and phototropic skin made with spinach protein, but it also produces more energy than a single family’s needs, allowing the excess to be distributed to neighbors. This radical shift, from centralized energy systems today, fosters community interdependence as neighbors benefit from the resources of others.
http://futurefeeder.com/index.php/archives/category/building-tech/
Ruairi Glynn’s Reciprocal Space is composed latex surfaces controlled by a matrix of pistons that react to the occupant’s position. [building process] [video]
http://futurefeeder.com/index.php/archives/category/building-tech/
Michael Van Valkenburgh’s Teardrop Park North in Battery Park City (NYC), when completed, will employ computerized heliostats (8 feet in diameter) to reflect sunlight into what would have been a park in the shadows of its surrounding high-rises.via Tribeca Tribhttp://futurefeeder.com/index.php/archives/category/building-tech/
Lucio Blandini calls it “a soap bubble just floating over the ground�. The frameless glass structure, designed at the University of Stuttgart’s Institute of Lightweight Structures, consists of laminated glass panels elevated off the ground with titanium supports, which expand at the same rate as glass.
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