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Build a great house for under $10,000

Posted in Art, Community, Ecology, Homes, Liberty, Self-Sufficiency, Shelter, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on October 3, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Needing to build a guest house. Inexpensive, but strong, well insulated, attractive and off-grid ready.  There is a series of YouTube videos featuring Bob Vila building houses with Steel Shipping Containers, sometimes called CONEX boxes.  When finished, they make attractive houses, indistinguishable from others in the tract.  But the cost per square foot is about [...]

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I like liberals

Posted in Art, Community, Creativity, Culture & Education, Faith, Life, Love and Wisdom, Politics, Technology, Work on March 4, 2011 | 2 Comments »

despite the fact that I am not one.   I know I’m venturing into dangerous territory, the no-mans-land between opposing trenches. I am conservative, and cautious, sometimes fearful, repressed, yet sometimes driven.  People like me keep the world from spinning out of control or at least we like to think we do.  We live within our [...]

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Mechanical Art of Self-Sufficient living at the Village on Sewanee Creek

Posted in Art, Nature, Self-Sufficiency, Technology, tagged , , , on January 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I have a dream that some day the Village will be filled with artistic people with varied experience and talents, unafraid of getting their hands dirty and driven to create and share wonderful things that make our lives easier, more beautiful, more fun and more practically sustainable.

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