“The bottles stand as empty
as they were filled before
Time there was and plenty
but from that cup no more.
Though I could not caution all I yet may warn a few:
Don’t lend your hand to raise no flag
atop no ship of fools.”
Ship of Fools - Hunter/Garcia
I’m taking a break from following the imminent demise of the US [...]

This site documents how one family has created a small, sustainable living space for themselves within a ten minute bicycle commute of downtown Portland, OR. The 2/3 acre site hosts a bi-level cottage with a sleeping loft, passive solar construction and a gravity fed rain water harvesting setup, and was constructed for only $70,000 [...]

I’ve been thinking about what features I’d like to include in an sustainable home design, and I’ve been intrigued by the benefits of green roofs. While the idea dates back to the hanging gardens of babylon, the types of green roofs that are in use today are more numerous than ever before, from ‘grass’ [...]

If you own a home or are thinking of building or buying one, take a look at this database of state and federal incentives for using renewable energy.

This post is a quick plug for Appropedia, a wiki for sustainability and appropriate technology projects to address international development, poverty and bioregional philosophy.
Thanks to PeacePeddler for linking me up with Humboldt U.’s Center for Appropriate Technology, through which I found the site. So far I’ve taken a look at this page on building [...]

This link was in my delicious posts on the sidebar for a while, but it is just too cool to not mention more prominently. Eco-housing is becoming all the rage, but this family has literally built their home with on-site and found materials, and the result is astounding.
I’ve been researching organic structures for a [...]