Find Locally Grown Food. How to Move Yourself Off-The-Grid. Ergonomic Garden Tools. Sustainable city living at your fingertips. Urban Sustainable Living Magazine Archive. MODERN HOMESTEADING. A Plan for Food Self-Sufficiency Planning a garden in advance can help you enjoy local, homegrown food year-round!
Estimate how much to grow or buy and learn how to achieve food security with these guidelines. Backyard Chicken Facts - 5 Things No One Told Us A few facts that might help you decide whether or not to get chickens for your backyard. Best Guard Dog for Your Homestead Read guard dog training tips and advice on guard dog breeds best suited for your needs. Build This Predator-Proof, Portable Chicken Coop Our newest low-cost portable chicken coop plan makes raising backyard chickens easier for just about anyone. Deep Litter Chicken Manure Management Learn about the advantages and disadvantages of the deep litter system and how you can manage a small flock’s manure easily and efficiently.
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In an increasingly globalized world, it’s still sometimes shocking to see just how disparate our lives are compared with other human beings around the world. A book of photographs by Peter Menzel called "Hungry Planet: What the World Eats" ("©Peter Menzel www.menzelphoto.com. Ten Speed Press, published in 2005) makes a relevant point with great irony: at a time when hundreds of millions of people don't have enough to eat, hundreds of millions more are eating too much and are overweight or obese. In observing what six billion eat for dinner the authors note, "Today, more people are overweight than underweight.
" It is these cultural differences, emphasized and reinforced by the author, which exemplifies the lifestyles and dietary habits of people around the world. You can buy the book here. Meet the The Manzo family of Sicily. Germany: The Melander family of Bargteheide Food expenditure for one week: 375.39 Euros or $500.07. The importance of Trees. One Community Pod 1 Details. In accordance with our four-phase global change strategy, we are open source project-launch blueprinting the earthbag village (Pod 1) first as maximally affordable sustainable housing.
We will showcase this as an artistic, durable, easy to build, and completely ecologically friendly and sustainable home model that can be constructed for under $1000 per structure from materials that can be locally sourced or easily and affordably shipped anywhere in the world. Torus Plan. The Torus Design concept was inspired by the movie Thrive, which outlines ways of creating prosperity and equality in the world.
The design brings together three emerging trends: increasing self sufficiency — including renewable energy and food production, families moving back together to save money, and sustainability. These trends are evident in the growth of home gardens, organic food, green building, eco-conciousness, off-grid homes, do-it-yourself attitudes, and cost cutting strategies such as bartering and trading for goods and services. The current version could be used as a duplex (rent the other half to slash your bills). You could split costs with a friend or family member and share the courtyard. A lot of people can no longer afford their own home, so this design offers a potential solution for families to move in together. My main goal has been to reduce the cost of housing, while also making the designs sustainable, easy to build and livable. The Plans for Sale.
Oswego Center For Sustainable Living. Turtle Dreams B&B: In the Finger Lakes Region of Central New York. IC Web Site: Fellowship for Intentional Community. Warm Your Tiny House With Solar Heat. Solar heaters (or solar furnaces) make use of the sun to turn cold air into warm air.
That warm air is then pumped into your home to heat it. People with regular-sized homes or even larger homes have used solar heaters to help supplement their home’s heating system. This helps lower energy bills and pollution. However, with a tiny house or very small house, it’s possible that a solar heater could warm your home almost entirely during the day. Here’s a quick breakdown of how solar heaters work. Solar heaters are usually mounted on one of four places. Solar heaters come in many forms and all use different materials to heat the air. A solar heater made of aluminum cans Here is a video of a solar heater in action. If you enjoyed this post be sure to sign up to receive new tiny houses for sale and a weekly blog post digest via your email here.