Green Building Design and Construction Home Page Skip to: Content | Footer | Accessibility A-Z Index Green Building Home Page Program Highlights... Sustainable design or building "green" is an opportunity to use our resources efficiently while creating healthier buildings. Check This Out! Program Information and Activities Last updated: September 13, 2011 Back to Top | Help | Contact Us | Site Index | Conditions of Use | Privacy Policy ©1995, 2014 California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle). Bread from Spent Grain Recipe: 3 cups spent grain (wet) 1 cup flour 1 cup warm water 1 tsp yeast 1/4 cup sugar Use Spent Grain that still has a small amount of sugars still in the grain. Crystal, Munich, Maris Otter, Honey Malt are great malts to use. Add 1 tsp salt and knead in or mix flour, one cup at a time, until the dough will not stick to the fingers. Let dough rise (covered) in a warm place for at least an hour or till it doubles in volume. Bread Sticks: Roll the dough into bars about 2" in diameter and about 10" long. You can improve on the texture of the bread if you dry the spent grain and grind it up with the flour mill. Add Flaked Oats or Flaked Barley to the top of loafs before baking for extra flavor.
A Low Impact Woodland Home Take one baby, a toddler and a building site. Mix well with a generous helping of mud, combine with 6 weeks of solid welsh rain whilst living under canvas. Do this in candle light without a bathroom or electricity for three months. Chuck in living with your father for good measure. Top with an assortment of large slugs. Having children is a major motivation for buying a house. Some past experience, lots of reading and self-belief gave us the courage of our conviction that we wanted to build our own home in natural surroundings. Initially we had no capital and we had decided resolutely to be full time parents whilst our children were young. So here we are today. Many people ask how we managed to build a house whilst camping without mainstream facilities and as the mum rather than the full time building blokes (my husband and father) I can assure you of a few things. If that hasn’t put you off more serious issues do provide an impetus to eco-building.
Environmentally-Friendly Houses "QUANTUM SHOT" #233Link - article by Joshua S. Hill and Avi Abrams Most ecologically friendly house designs This article is co-written by our guest blogger Joshua S. "A Low Impact Woodland Home" by Simon Dale Now I had originally intended to take you on a tour through all the wonderful ecologically-clean houses that exist in our wonderful world, but it turns out that as a group, those who tend towards these houses apparently disdain the creation of a decent website, and even further hate actual content. Simon, with his wife, father in law and two young children spent 4 months building what they have termed a low impact woodland home, which is now their family home. Simon, who is more than willing to tote the fact that he is in no way an architect or certified builder, believes that a house of this scale is within the reach of any able-bodied person. The house, which was built with a maximum regard for the environment around it, is dug soundly into the hill around it. See more photos here
Stone Sculptures, carving marble, limestone, soapstone, alabaster That's the million dollar question. There are a number of ways. I took an art class in college and there was an art student that had finished a piece in stone. It was so beautiful that I had to try it. So you have a number of choices to make. 1) Take an art class in college. 2) Ask the local colleges if they are going to have a stone-carving workshop. 3) Go to the library and take out a book on stone carving and use the resources at the end of this page to get your supplies. Stone Availability of carving stone Depending on where you live, you can probably find SOME kind of stone to carve within driving distance. Kinds of stone to carve From the softest to the hardest; 1)Soapstone Available in many different colors and textures. Tools These are available from a number of resources and I have listed some (Check the Internet for more). Sandbags You MUST have sandbags before you start carving to support your stone on while carving. Personal protection The how and whys of carving. Sanding Polishing
Supplier of tools for masons and carvers, construction and mining, Toll Free in NA: 1 866 683-1285 How to carve stone | Architecturals.net How do you get started? That's the million dollar question. There are a number of ways. So you have a number of choices to make. 1) Take an art class in college. 2) Ask the local colleges if they are going to have a stone-carving workshop. 3) Go to the library and take out a book on stone carving and use the resources at the end of this page to get your supplies. Stone Availability of carving stone Depending on where you live, you can probably find SOME kind of stone to carve within driving distance. Kinds of stone to carve From the softest to the hardest; 1)Soapstone Available in many different colors and textures. Tools These are available from a number of resources and I have listed some (Check the internet for more). Sandbags You MUST have sandbags before you start carving to support your stone on while carving. Personal protection These are the most important sculpting supplies there are. The hows and whys of carving. The first step is roughing out the stone. Next comes the file. Sanding
How-To Read Runes If you do not believe in the paranormal or metaphysical please do not leave mean or rude comments on the Instructable, thank you. We're new to Instructables but not the world of the paranormal. Reading Runes is one of the most popular methods of Mancy (Divination). There are different kinds of Rune stones depending on which alphabet you choose to follow; Anglo-Saxon Futhorc, Cirth, Elder Futhark, Gothic Runes, Hungarian Runes, Turkic, Younger Futhork. Elder Futhark is the emerging Rune alphabet in popularity; it is also known as the alphabet with the "blank". What is the best way to use your runes? Method #1: With your runes in their pouch close your eyes, concentrate on what you want an answer for (past situation, present situation or future situation) and chose a rune from the bag as your answer. Method #3: Lay the runes out in grid and let your hand pass over the runes slowly while concentrating on what you want an answer for (past situation, present situation or future situation).