Green Wiki. Hello.
I give up. User Votaw is probably a bot and seems determined to import the whole of wikipedia into this wiki along with a load of incoherent irelevant nonsense categories. I deleted thousands of page he created, along with many tens of thousands of categories. I just cant be bothered to keep banning him, and so I leave him to wreck this wiki. If the aliens could see what we are doing with all this technology they would wipe us out before we spread. Notice to Votaw, do what you like, but as long as my name is down as the editor of this wiki this notice stays. How To Make Your Home More Energy Efficient by Craig L.
There are many ways to make your house more energy efficient and save money in the process. Other Science Wikis Associated Science-Yet Unproven Wikis That Indirectly Deal With Science or Nature Ad blocker interference detected! Wikia is a free-to-use site that makes money from advertising. Wikia is not accessible if you’ve made further modifications. Pictures of Green Homes - Awe-Inspiring Green Homes. Recyclebank. Eco-minded architects and designers are making treasure out of trash by recycling used PET bottles into beautiful, sustainable, buildings.
Eco-minded architects and designers are making treasure out of trash by recycling used PET bottles into beautiful, sustainable, buildings. One of the wonderful things about being recycle-minded is that every piece of trash is an opportunity to recreate something wonderful. At least, that’s the way I felt when I saw testaments to the miracle of recycling — houses, cisterns, furniture, bus stops and even entire schools — made from recycled PET plastic bottles. Eco-tec, an award-winning Honduran company, has used recycled PET plastic bottles for construction of houses, water tanks, and even schools. Using some 8,000 PET recycled bottles, Eco-Tec created the “casa ecológica” or ecological house, as a means of providing sustainable construction methods and employment in Honduras. "Domestic waste can be transformed into useful stuff. 2012Architecten Uses Google Maps to Build Villa Welpeloo. Using Google to find sufficient quantities of local excess unused industrial materials – and then designing a house so as to make use of this surplus available near by – has to be one of the more novel ways to construct a building!
But that’s just what the sustainably inspired Dutch architectural firm 2012Architecten did in designing Villa Welpeloo. During the design and engineering phase, they researched the availability of sufficient surplus materials in the vicinity of the site, using a GoogleEarth surplus materials mapping overlay. The material they found – such as these short cut-off pieces of wood – determined the construction techniques to build the house. Industrial surplus is often discarded in vast quantities of identical objects like these short, identical pieces of wood. Because enough of these were sufficient to build the entire job, the materials found actually determined the construction techniques and the visual aesthetics of the building. Via Doornob. Earthships - what are they? Earthships are cutting edge 'green' buildings, constructed using waste car tyres and other recycled materials.
They use the planets natural systems to provide all utilities - using the sun's energy and rain to provide heat, power and water. They are buildings that heat and cool themselves, harvest their own water and use plants to treat their sewage. Earthships enjoy the weather, regardless of season. If it's raining they catch free water, if it's windy they generate free power and if it's sunny they are capturing free heat and electricity.
Apart from using all the resources immediately around them they also employ extensive energy efficiency and water conservation measures, ensuring that the rainwater and renewable energy they harvest goes as far as possible. Earthships have evolved over the last thirty years from the pioneering work of Michael Reynolds, Earthship Biotecture and the residents of the 3 Earthship communities in Taos, New Mexico. Low-impact living - LILI. What is it?
It's living in a way that has a low impact on ecology – in harmony with nature, in other words. The world's ecologists and biologists are telling us that we are in a mass extinction event - the current extinction rate is thousands of times the natural rate, and if it continues, we are going to lose around 50% of all species of plants and animals this century. And of course it won't just stop there. When will it stop? 60%? 5 Steps To Building Your Microgrid Dream House. Containers Of Hope: A Sustainable Home. This is a community post, untouched by our editors.
Source: Benjamin Garcia Saxe The reusing of waste materials to build homes is one sustainable approach to conserving the world’s natural materials. Expat Daily News: Building Sustainably with Natural Materials. Many expats coming from very first world nations find that they deeply desire to live more simply, more slowly, and more connected to nature than they did in their technology-driven, frenzied, disconnected old life.
They have grown tired of subdivision life living in a perfectly manicured, gated vinyl village, or perhaps in an urban glass and metal highrise. Expats making the move abroad should definitely explore the possibility of building with natural local materials such as adobe, straw bale, or cordwood to name just a few. Living overseas, you may find that the building codes for using natural materials may be much more relaxed or even non-existent.