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« How we became 'consumers'; Free mp3s: U2 '87; New groceries review site | Main | Weekend gig: Ken Lyon & Tombstone unplugged Saturday » May 6, 2008$1,000 house for do-it-yourselfers: The Art of Natural Building
$1000 house. How to build yourself one. Lots more photos at that link, as well as the budget: $175 Home made tools (compass, stands, pounders, etc.) Background: In June 1997, more than one hundred natural building apostles and acolytes — professional builders, architects, academicians, and budding owner-builders — gathered at the Black Range Lodge in the tiny New Mexican hamlet of Kingston for the third annual "Natural Building Colloquium - Southwest." For one intense week, they traded ideas, learned new skills and fueled a nascent natural building movement. Links on the left include other projects -- this one is the Honey House. If this interests you, you might start under "The Art" with An Overview of Natural Building Techniques; This site feels like a part of the Whole Earth Catalog distributed to the Web -- that more informative subtitle was "Access to Tools. " The Honey House looks like a nice place in which to live simply. Although the story mentions options for a variety of climates, they might not include a New England winter in the range. You might have to move to someplace warm and beautiful. Posted by Sheila Lennon
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my passport photo blogging since 2002 garden blogs archived headlines  Sheila Lennon is features & interactive producer of projo.com, the Web site of The Providence (R.I.) Journal Rhode Island |
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