Lessons Learned From A Year Without Showering. As of today it has been one year since my last shower.
Yes, I know that sounds crazy and a year ago I would have agreed with you. I was a regular showering guy for the first 26 years of my life. Well, maybe not every single day, but just about. So how does a regular showering guy end up going 365 days and counting without taking a shower? It started with a long bike ride across America to promote sustainability and eco-friendly living. I made it through the 100-day bike ride without taking a shower and for me that was quite the task in itself.
So here I am now, one year later, to tell you story of my year without a shower. I might as well bring this up right away. Actually, nope. Man Builds His Dream Mini-Home In Only Six Weeks For $9,000. Have you ever wanted to live in a home where you still felt like you were connected to nature and things were simple and pretty well off-grid?
One man has done this in Thailand and it only cost him $9000 to do it. Steve Areen was offered some land on his friends mango farm to build his dream home. To Steve, it was a home that was simple, inviting, nature oriented and sustainable. As you can see in the images below, Steve adopted a dome like design that has a number of benefits. He was able to put up this home in only 6 weeks from start to finish using cement blocks and clay bricks. Steve isn’t the only one looking to build these sustainable and unique homes. Credits: Joe Martino of Collective Evolution, where this article was originally featured.
10 Reasons Why EarthShips Are F!#%ing Awesome. Earthships are 100% sustainable homes that are both cheap to build and awesome to live in.
They offer amenities like no other sustainable building style you have come across. For the reasons that follow, I believe Earthships can actually change the world. See for yourself! 1) Sustainable does not mean primitive When people hear about sustainable, off-the-grid living, they usually picture primitive homes divorced from the comforts of the 21st century. 2) Free Food Each Earthship is outfitted with one or two greenhouses that grow crops year-round, no matter the climate. A 31 Year Old Was Sick Of Expensive Rent And High Costs. What He Did Took Guts… But Look Inside.
Most grown children have heard this question from their parents at some point in their lives: “If all your friends jumped off a bridge, would you jump too?”
It’s a question that pushes us to think for ourselves. That question doesn’t inspire me, but this man in California does. Alek Lisefski is a web designer who decided to take everything we know about building a house and flip it on its head. Instead of going in debt for hundreds of thousands of dollars, he built his own home for the low, low price of $30,000. It’s only 8x20ft, but that’s what makes it awesome. Alek wanted to change his focus in life, so he built this small house. He, his girlfriend Anjali and their dog Anya moved into the tiny house that he built. The home was built on top of a trailer while he was still in Iowa. Upon completion, he towed the house all the way to California, where the small family now resides. Instead of focusing on paying off debt, they can instead spend their money on leisure and travel. Credits: Paul Stamets - Solutions From The Underground: How Mushrooms Can Help Save The World.
Nasa-funded study: industrial civilisation headed for 'irreversible collapse'? A new study partly-sponsored by Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center has highlighted the prospect that global industrial civilisation could collapse in coming decades due to unsustainable resource exploitation and increasingly unequal wealth distribution.
Noting that warnings of 'collapse' are often seen to be fringe or controversial, the study attempts to make sense of compelling historical data showing that "the process of rise-and-collapse is actually a recurrent cycle found throughout history. " Cases of severe civilisational disruption due to "precipitous collapse - often lasting centuries - have been quite common.
" The independent research project is based on a new cross-disciplinary 'Human And Nature DYnamical' (HANDY) model, led by applied mathematician Safa Motesharrei of the US National Science Foundation-supported National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, in association with a team of natural and social scientists. This glass sphere might revolutionize solar power on Earth.
Wave Energy technology produces both clean water and clean energy. Instead of generating electricity at sea and sending it to shore, a different kind of wave energy device is in the works in Australia, and it promises to deliver not only emissions-free electricity, but also emissions-free desalinated water.
The technology, called CETO after a Greek sea goddess, is being developed by Carnegie Wave Energy Limited, and their upcoming 2MW pilot project near the Perth Wave Energy demo site will be the first wave powered desalination plant in world. © Carnegie Wave Energy "The CETO system is different from other wave energy devices because it operates under water and is anchored to the ocean floor. Several fully submerged buoys are tethered to seabed pump units. The buoys move with the motion of the passing waves and drive pumps. The CETO system is said to be environmentally friendly, with minimal visual impact due to its submerged design, which will also keep it from being affected by storms or breaking waves.