Building
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How Dry Composting Toilets Work
Dry composting toilets are an efficient, cyclical way of dealing with human waste without using and/or fouling fresh water, which…
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Killer Natural Plaster Recipe
In this article I’m going to share with you my killer recipe for a final plaster that I have used…
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Battery Technologies for Off-Grid Living
There are so many battery technologies out in the marketplace, and it is highly likely between me writing this and…
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Slip Straw, Earthen Floors, and Tadelakt: A Recipe for a Perfectly Natural Home
Slip straw is an easy and energy efficient way to build lightweight homes or walls. It uses materials that are…
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Heating (and Cooling) Passively When It’s Too Late to Design Your Home for It
One of the more difficult things about taking on a permaculture lifestyle when we already have an established residence is…
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Wattle and Daub: A Quick, Easy, and Seismic Resistant Natural Building Option
Many people dream about building their own earthen home, whether that be from cob, adobe, rammed earth, or any other…
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Health Benefits of Natural Earthen Construction
Somehow or another, the modern day, industrial world in which we live convinced us that dirt is unclean, impure, and…
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Earthships: A Sustainable and Alluring Housing Option
The homes that we live in are the epitome of industrial pillage of the earth. Massive amounts of cheaply built…
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Benefits of a Composting Toilet
When contemplating living off-grid, a tiny home, or reducing your use of natural resources in your home, one of the…
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Passive Solar Design with Earthen Homes
During a long and cold winter, many of us might wonder if it is possible to stay warm without the…
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3 Simple But Sustainable Ways to Build Tomato Cages
The fact of the matter is that tomatoes are, indeed, perennial plants when in their native tropics, but that is…
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Building Pallet Furniture – A New Passion from an Old Flame
I am not a carpenter, which is to be summed up by saying I have no official training and only…
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