Archive for December, 2007
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
Assessment
How much is a twenty-foot diameter building worth…made of earthbags? Does it increase the property value or decrease it?
When we first built our earthbag structure (locally known as the “mud hut”), the very small neighbouring town was buzzing with these questions. The local tax assessor had visited us and apparently, struck dumb …
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Monday, December 3rd, 2007
The Wall
The walls of my addition are finally finished. We assigned all our mighty man power (consisting of three people plus one visitor) to built them in one day. You can see the beautiful outcome in the video below:
We are stealing marcin for a week from any further CEB development because we have some …
1 Comment » - Posted in Construction,Guests by Ronny
Sunday, December 2nd, 2007
Jeff’s Experience and Other Visits
Jeff Budderer of One Village Foundation and Andrius Kulikauskas of Minciu Sodas Laboratory visited us at Factor E Farm a few days ago. Here is Jeff’s writing on his experience: http://blog.onevillage.tv/wp/?p=491
Jeff’s comments prior to the trip are found here.
Now here is an urban version of what we are pursuing, pointed out by Vinay. …
1 Comment » - Posted in Collaborators,Construction,Guests,Open Source Economic Development by Marcin
Saturday, December 1st, 2007
Ups and Downs and the Plan
For all of you who are interested in building global villages in the future – here are some lessons from our experience. This applies to the case where you start with raw, undeveloped land.
To begin with, the upshot is that we have just succeeded in producing our first compressed earth brick – on November …
