Under ground housing by Mike Oehler. Unique, affordable shelter you can provide for yourself Building underground with Mike Oehler’s PSP system By J.D.
Belanger, Countryside founder and editor The biggest investment most people have is their home. A mortgage, or rent, is a major item in most budgets. Many Americans who can’t scrape together a down payment on real estate, or get a mortgage loan, feel locked out of The Good Life, and the American Dream. And according to some sources, thousands of people, even in America, have no homes at all. Most people regard these as inevitable facts of life.
A few, however, are proactive. These housing pioneers have included Ken Kern, whose "Owner-Built Home" started many people on the road to mortgage-free housing in the 1970s. Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic dome enjoyed great popularity among owner-builders in the 1970s, and log construction has become so common most log homes are now built by commercial enterprises, not do-it-yourselfers. Mike Oehler has a different view. Cob Builders Handbook: Tapering your walls and how wide to make the top of the foundation. Tapering your walls and how wide to make the top of the foundation Make the bottom of the wall wider than the top.
I usually make the interior side of the wall pretty straight up and down. It's a matter of taste. If you want your walls to grow organically, use your common sense. You can angle the wall for the first foot or so and then make it straight up, imitating a tree trunk or the interior of a cave. The wall has less and less weight to support as it goes up, so it doesn't need to be as thick as it gets nearer to the top.
Get America Back To Work - The Sean Hannity Show. By Hannity Staff | Mar. 4, 2014 11:01am As a best-selling author, TV and national radio host, Sean has long been an advocate of the people.
With today’s troubling statistics of millions of Americans on government assistance and out of work, he felt he needed to do something. Now he has, with the Get America Back to Work campaign. Sean has been talking about America’s need for energy independence, and how that would bring about the following additional benefits: Jobs Opportunity Prosperity The Hannity Show is teaming up with companies, in oil rich states, to help promote and inform those in need of work of the openings available to them if they are ready, able and willing to work. These companies will be featured on Hannity.com, where people can find out more information about them, and what they have to offer. Listen above to callers who have already made the move to states like North Dakota and Texas and have found gainful employment. Here are the latest job postings:
How to build a cob stove. Cheap (potentially free) to build & free to run houses. Theoretically, you could build any house for free, especially in a model such as the resource-based economy that participants in the Zeitgeist movement propose.
Realistically, a dwelling could only be built for free to the degree that it was made from local materials. Therefore any design that involves imported materials will very likely have some level of financial (and ecological) cost attached to it in most instances, though as we will see throughout this chapter this is not necessarily so, as we can often use the detritus of industrialised society to produce the sustainable homes of the future. I will look at houses that could be built for free but are likely to cost something, even if it is a fraction of what you would spend on a modern bricks and mortar house.
To keep costs to the absolute minimum, use your imagination and try to use what you have at hand, as much as you possibly can, in the construction process. Passive solar designs Earthships Earth bag construction Circular houses. Cheap (potentially free) to build & free to run houses. Home Work: The Yurts of Bill Coperthwaite COP-02. Rocket Stove Mass Heater with Homemade Mortar & Cob. Www.theownerbuilder.com.au/articles/150 Cordwood cabin.pdf. Www.theownerbuilder.com.au/articles/168 Guthrie.pdf. Www.theownerbuilder.com.au/articles/159 Cob.pdf.