On The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson
This short story made such an impression upon me in school when I read it. It spoke to that radical nugget that I seemed to have been born with? But as the decades have passed, I cannot help but note...
View ArticleHere's Your Mud Domes/ Off Grid Power
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/25/science/earth/25fossil.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=a2 posted inNon Traditional Housing - 2 replies
View Articlelittle tractor that could
http://people.tribe.net/bearsky/photos/d64cef25-d751-4d53-9026-ea0c9f8f258breally need chains right now the Truchas mud is a mess and later will be snow and ice but put about five hours on it yesterday...
View ArticleFIRST EARTH Uncompromising Ecological Architechure
"FIRST EARTH is a documentary about the movement towards a massive paradigm shift for shelter -- building healthy houses in the old ways, out of the very earth itself, and living together like in the...
View ArticleCorrugated steel pipe for walls
okay so not organic and in full residence with universal ombut our well room is underground in the form of a eight food diameter corregated steel pipe that is eight feet high with access via latter...
View Articlequestion about building material
saw soldiers in Afghanistan in movie "Restrepo" using these simple wire boxes looked like maybe four or six foot square and six feet high maybe with a lining that looked like canvas - very simply...
View ArticleDo you have your backyard bomb shelter ready?
http://people.tribe.net/bearsky/photos/26861feb-fb9f-41e5-a0a6-3a2c64ae7077common 2012http://people.tribe.net/bearsky/photos/26861feb-fb9f-41e5-a0a6-3a2c64ae7077 posted inNon Traditional Housing - 16...
View Articlea specialist on ferro cement
My name is Rob'O and I am a ferro cement instructor with over 40 years working with "mudd" I am very open to answer any Questions any might have on the subject respectfully yours Rob'O posted inNon...
View ArticleState of the art ferrocement -built biogas plants
To my knowledge, the intentional community of Auroville, in Tamil Nadu provence, India, has developed the most advanced world-class concrete technology... especially in the field of ferro-cement, where...
View ArticleNon Traditional Housing Fantasy
up on the hill to our NNE is a quarry used to provide material for the just finished work on rt76 where it rises 2,500 feet from the rio grande valley up to the Truchas tablelands at 8,000hopefully the...
View ArticleMIT Solution For Human Waist
Those damed scientists, here they go again!http://www.eons.com/groups/topic/2373109-Creating-sustainable-sanitation?page=1http://vimeo.com/16095397 posted inNon Traditional Housing - 30 replies
View Articleinspiring personality
http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_phillips_creative_houses_from_reclaimed_stuff.htmlI found this guy inspiring for many reasons, and loved what he's up to as well. Dan builds houses out of stuff that he...
View ArticleSaving the Planet, while making a profit
new green technology explained, just what our planet needs. How to build your own island and make it grow with sustainable agriculture. By John Hait, author of Passive Annual Heat Storage, improving...
View ArticleGetting TO the Non Traditonal Home ...
http://people.tribe.net/bearsky/blog/e09285a3-e1da-4f63-8db5-6851bc97d3c58 new golf cart batteries and the solar system kicks ass now - with this storm, I started worrying, O man might loose power -...
View ArticleAnyone live off the grid in a tent?
I was wondering if there is anyone who is living off the grid in a tent? posted inNon Traditional Housing - 26 replies
View Articlerecommendations for " do it yourself" natural home building courses in SF Bay...
I am interested in finding a class teaching hands on learning of various types of basic, sustainable, off-grid, natural home building methods in the san francisco bay area. Anyone have any experience...
View ArticleA Shift to Smaller Houses
Interesting article in a recent NY Times on small homes. Anyone else have any links or input re this(seeming) trend?http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/garden/11tiny.html?ei=5070&emc=eta1 posted...
View ArticleClose up traditiona adobe structure
http://people.tribe.net/bearsky/photos/dfc4375f-39bb-4025-afa5-e3635d4685faold adobe structure in ruins near Ojo Sarco, NM - posted inNon Traditional Housing - 2 replies
View ArticleAnyone Interesting in "Doin It"?
http://people.tribe.net/bearsky/photos/1f48b325-bd79-4169-b67d-2fc53880f5ce - - at the end of a 1/4 long driveway at 8,050 feet on the edge of the Pecos...
View ArticleGoat Head Ranch
http://directory.ic.org/23283/Goat_Head_Ranchand an interesting "directory" any disadvantages to having well room underground? Appears to be perfectly dry at least ten feet down to floor build within a...
View ArticleNew Mexico non traditional off grid housing
http://people.tribe.net/bearsky/photos/0bd35c77-e61b-40c8-a969-4d999c5d9dbbin a meadow around 8,300 feet somewhere on the western edge of the Pecos wilderness area - a community here all bought land...
View ArticleTaos, NM Earthships
http://www.taosearthships.com/86068/index.htmthis guy is agent but wanted to show this awesomre well made earthshiplooked at some earthships with this fellow - some in the "starship community" - talk...
View Article"Star Community" of off grid Earthships
http://people.tribe.net/bearsky/photos/8a596b1b-2d2e-438a-9f7b-48ea19ed69f0looked at this a while back as well as some of the earthships in the more accessible earthship communtiy that runs directly...
View ArticleDat's not Non Traditional housing
Dat's non traditional housing!http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3096434/#43312884 posted inNon Traditional Housing - 1 reply
View ArticleBlack Sheep House - stone & sod in Scotland
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/gallery/2011/may/16/black-sheep-house-grand-designs#/?picture=374649834&index=8look at the view from picture #9 - nice twenty year old single malt scotch and watch...
View ArticleExperienced Greenhouse Growers?
Came up with this idea from looking at some Earthships outside of Taos. They have soil growing areas under the long, south facing windows complete with built in plumbing using brown water from the...
View ArticleJimez Springs, New Mexico - Earthship
http://www.susandonovanrealty.com/Highway%20126%20Earthship.htmoutrageously beautiful location, Jimez Springs, this on the river and property on water anywhere in the southwest is a premium love the...
View ArticleInsta-House
http://www.wimp.com/concretetents/made me wonder what else could be done with sprayed concrete like shotcrete sprayed to make pools? posted inNon Traditional Housing - 4 replies
View ArticleDomes, Google Sketch Up and Tropical Dreamhouses?
My laptop now has far less ass than any modern cell phone, dug it up after all others crashed and can't afford another one but downloaded and tried Google Sketch Up and I think if I were a more...
View ArticleGoogle SketchUp - Tropical Home with inner pool and open roof design
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=8821a7839dcde4f1ec61730f27056e2ai think i'd have to buy the professional version to turn the lines into wooden beams and add kitchen and bathrooms and...
View ArticleInspiring 4k home
And only 1 kid is hers.http://youtu.be/DsVxgOjNLbA posted inNon Traditional Housing - 2 replies
View ArticleCost Effective
What is the Most Cost effective Non Traditional House that you have seen? posted inNon Traditional Housing - 22 replies
View ArticleDome Times Magazine Article Request
Requesting dome related articles to include in future Dome Times Magazine issues. Those of us that put this "actual and real" magazine out to the world (hundreds of subscribers worldwide and growing)...
View ArticleNano nano nano,...
Some thought provoking small designs,...http://www.fastcodesign.com/1665343/smaller-than-your-living-room-7-of-the-worlds-best-nano-houses#12 posted inNon Traditional Housing - 2 replies
View ArticleHEAT~!!
who is using a thermal mass rocket stove? posted inNon Traditional Housing - 5 replies
View ArticleContainer building,...example
This subject has been covered and i've seen a few examples here in tribe,however this one (article) is well presented and may be appreciated...
View ArticleDon't Panic: End of a World Age.
The first in a series of episodic Sci-Fi short stories. Don't Panic: End of a World Age. Available in both Paperback and Digital versions, with Kindle lending turned on, share with your friends. Free...
View ArticleFacebook Scary
Recently Face8ook made a 8unch of changes again. Amongst other distracting new features, the a8ility to post anything to a group has 8ecome virtually o8solete. I'd 8e interested to find out why...
View Articleconverting non-traditional homes into a source of income
Some good advice here for reducing or eliminating non-traditional housing cost. :) http://www.stretcher.com/stories/11/11jun13b.cfm#.UIrJ3sXMiPw posted inNon Traditional Housing - 0 replies
View ArticleCabin Porn
Not really sure if this is an appropriate topic seeing as the linked site *is* about traditional dwellings. Still, I encourage anyone here to have a look at a remarkable web site dedicated to cabins -...
View ArticleFreeganism survey for grad class
Calling all freegans or those considering it! Can you please complete either a multiple choice survey takes less than 7 minutes http://www.surveymethods.com/EndUser.aspx?87A3CFD684C2D0D08C OR an under...
View ArticleHome carved in sandstone. beautiful
http://liveclay.wordpress.com/2012/11/14/cave-dwelling-in-northern-new-mexico/ posted inNon Traditional Housing - 5 replies
View ArticleThe perfect (small) housing in any setting
I have researched a lot of housing styles for a SHTF scenario which would carry over into a non SHTF scenario. I finally have the funds and the time to build what I think I want. I am thinking...
View ArticleThe perfect (small) housing in any setting
I have researched a lot of housing styles for a SHTF scenario which would carry over into a non SHTF scenario. I finally have the funds and the time to build what I think I want. I am thinking geodome...
View Articleyounger women looking for older men
Best Younger Women Older Men Dating Site- www.youngerwomenwitholdermen.comThe Premier Online Community for serious singles who are looking for age gap relationships(older men younger women dating and...
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I am a new comer here.If you are a nudist senior gay and want to meet nude gays, I（under the name of doug there） highly recommend you to give free site www.seniornudist.net a try. It is the...
View Articlestraw bale igloo
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View ArticleHere in Arizona
I have seen A-frame homes, log cabins, dome homes, underground and mobile homes. The one thing I haven't seen are Yurts. Has anyone ever had any expierence with them? My younger brother in Idaho they...
View ArticlePain Killers, RCS Vendors
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