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When Industry Goes Permaculture
Do you want to see a peek into the future? Imagine a 50,000 square foot industrial building that is hyper-insulated with running costs of only $300 per year.
Sounds incredible doesn’t it? Well then take a look at this Industrial Permaculture place built by the Hunt Utilities Group in Minnesota. They are making appropriate technologies at an industrial scale that can also be applied to an everyday domestic house. Geoff Lawton explains how they did it and how this employer grows all their own food – for the workers. See how this degraded saw mill has transformed into the sustainable answer to future housing.