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If you liked Ecomachine make sure you add Nancy Jack Todds Book to your sustainability book collection.


 

If you dont want to build your own worm bin, buy one here 

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Eco Design

ECO Design: What is green building?  Sustainable, off-the-grid, remodeled/recycled?  Some or all of the above?  A forum for exploring green building in all its facets, as well as the frontiers of renewable energy and those helping to pioneer it.
Categories: Green Building, Alternative Living



How To Make A Worm Bin E-mail
Green Building


 
Tiny house, tiny footprint E-mail
Green Building

 Tiny house, tiny footprint 3:04
The "small house movement" aims to reduce carbon footprints by reducing home size. CNN's Thelma Gutierrez reports

 
Change Begins At Home E-mail
Green Building

Great Video by MSNBC on an Australian  couple walking there talk


 
Dream House Part 2 E-mail
Innovative Design
Yes Small is Beautiful

 
Urban Aquaculture Examined E-mail
Innovative Design

Urban Aquaculture Examined


 
Innovate Or Die E-mail
Innovative Design

This bike design is pretty cool. Its not perfect, as we can see the body of it is plastic? But its a great revolutionary idea

 

 
Alternative Living E-mail
Green Building

Earth Current TV visits founder and CEO of Aboriginal Living Skills School. On part 1 we visit Cody and his alternative house.

 

 
Super Adobe Structures E-mail
Green Building

 

 
Sandbag Structures E-mail
Green Building

These sandbag designs are not only simple in concept, they could be used throughout the world for community restoration after a natural disaster.  

 

 
Earth Ships E-mail
Green Building

EarthShips - Once considered a good idea. EarthShips, being made of tires might not be a great idea, but if its all you got?

 

 
Living Sculpture - Cob E-mail
Green Building

 The House Is Living Sculpture

 

 
ECOMACHINE E-mail
Green Building
As we face a future in which clean water will become less and less accessible, we must re-evaluate our wastewater treatment systems and develop them into more earth-based processes that utilize human knowledge of the natural world. Watch as students from the Ecosa Institute's summer Permaculture/Water Design Intensive construct an ecological wastewater treatment system, or Ecomachine, in Prescott's Ecohood under the direction and guidance of the system's creator, Dr. John Todd, and workshop coordinator Andrew Millison.
 
dream house E-mail
Green Building

If you like this video clip make sure and check out this book

 
Sustainable Buildings E-mail
Green Building


 
Theo Jansen "Kinetic Sculptures" E-mail
Green Building

Not so hot on BMW-sponsoring such a project, but I cannot denie that this  promot movie they did is outtstanding  and thee vision of this man is whats most important.  

Five months after being awarded the prestigious BMW (South Africa) advertising account, fledgling creative hotshop Ireland/Davenport launched the agency's first new TV commercial for the brand. Shot in the Netherlands utilising the moving sculptures of world-renowned artist Theo Jansen, the commercial, entitled "Kinetic Sculptures" forms part of a broader campaign which serves to highlight BMW's market leadership in the fields of technology and innovation. [www.bmw.co.za 

 

 
Who Killed the Electric Car trailer E-mail
Green Building

OK THIS IS OUT ON DVD- TELL YOUR FRIENDS GO SEE IT -  You will be amazed at what you dont know! GM and Oil Companies should be in JAIL 

 Are we suprised that we had the power to create an  alternative long ago? We must wake up to corporations making money off  asleep beings.  

 

TAGS: alternative fuel energy electric car automobile

 
Design: E2 trailer E-mail
Green Building
A trailer for PBS's upcoming show, "Design: E2", a series that will explore "the most complex issues facing our environment: from green architecture to water culture to organic farming to recycled clothes - challenging us to live smarter, greener lives." TAGS: pbs environment design sustainability culture world civilization organic green life
 
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