Archive for June, 2009
Monday, June 8th, 2009
Invitation to Participate in the Planning of a Solar Village
Dear friends,
This goes in particular to some architects and planners, but also to the Global Villages list in general because I hope we do not leave anybody out who might be interested.
In a nutshell, this is about the attempt to opensource a whole village design process and constitute a learning example for communities around …
5 Comments » - Posted in Open Source Ecology by Franz
Sunday, June 7th, 2009
Criss crossing Austria with Marcin part II
Marcin “paper brain” did supply some information on what happened on May 20th. You remember, after Marcin very successful talk at the University of Klagenfurt, Carinthia, we did not get to sleep till 1 a.m. again. Michaela & Erich had told that they would pick us up at 10 a.m. next morning. Wonderful, we …
3 Comments » - Posted in Open Source Ecology by Inga
Saturday, June 6th, 2009
Solar Shower In!
Tired of marginal facilities that require power to operate?
Jeremy and I stretched ~100′ of 2/3″ black hose on the roof of the CEB workshop. Pretend it’s your roof. Then we had one cold water ‘in’ which we split to ‘cold out’ and ‘solar collector in’. We then attached this to a standard shower T …
2 Comments » - Posted in Quality of Life by Guest Article
Friday, June 5th, 2009
Air-Powered Water Pump
Found this video some time ago made by the Health Ranger from Naturalnews.com and after speaking with the fellows at Factor e Farm we see having one of these pumps as a top priority. The problem is they cost $600 and that’s out of this budget so my question is do any of …
31 Comments » - Posted in Air Powered Well Pump by Guest Article
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Criss crossing Austria with Marcin
May 16th: at 7 p.m. Marcin was scheduled to meet with people at the Villa Kreativ in Neulengbach – I was not part of the official itinerary but a few phone calls by Franz Nahrada cleared the way and Marcin and I were off to the railway station in Linz.
On the train Marcin made …
7 Comments » - Posted in Collaborators,Documentation,Factor e Team,Inga's House,People,Permaculture by Inga
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Inga’s House
What’s so special about „Inga’s House“ you ask? EVERYTHING, and when I say everything, that’s exactly what I mean – see here.
Did I hear you say WOW, what a lucky girl? Yes, that’s precisely how I feel. I met ‘by accident’ of course, a man who had studied at Princeton University, pursued fusion energy, …
2 Comments » - Posted in Collaborators,Factor e Team,Inga's House,People by Inga
Monday, June 1st, 2009
CEB Building Phase 2 – Site Analysis
We are doing preparatory work for our second phase of CEB construction – Inga’s House. Over the winter, we built the first CEB structure – our workshop addition. We’re moving on to building under optimal conditions – dry summertime and improved CEB press Prototype 2.
Here we begin with initial site analysis and soil samples:
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