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The house cost £3,000 (about $4,700) to build and is located on the edge of a wider sustainable eco-village. It’s about 6.5 meters (21 feet) wide. Tony and Jane try to get 70% of what they need from the land. They grow their own food, make wine from local berries, use a composting toilet, collect downed wood to make woodcrafts which they sell, and their water is piped from a mountain source and heated by a woodstove. Electricity comes from three photovoltaic panels on the roof and a small (200w) wind turbine situated about 70 yards away in a field. For cooking they use an old gas caravan cooker, the woodstove and a dutch oven. Guests sleep in another roundhouse called “the Den” nearby. They live on several hundred pounds a month and have no bills.
“We are not going to survive in these numbers for the next few hundred years – people will have to live a lot simpler.” -Tony Wrench
2 comments:
I didn't realise until recently that you can get hot water from a compost heap.
That's a great link, thanks!!
There's so much energy around us ... it's all around. This energy crisis is BS.
peace
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