We shape our buildings,
and our buildings shape us.
-- Winston churchill
Topics associated with ecological housing, taken from
a book on simple-living:
1. Small houses have large advantages.
2. Shared or Cohousing is efficient and builds community
3. Alternative building methods are not strange it is
often todays building practices that are strange.
4. Building can be recycling. Adobe, straw, etc. are part of
a cycle.
5. Harvesting local energy is ecologically wise today,
tomorrow it may be essential.
6. It often costs less to adapt an existing structure.
7. Housing and living costs can be very low by careful
selection of location and conservation. Low living
costs allow early retirement and save resources.
Finding your cottage is like
goldilocks finding the chair that is just right.
It wraps around ou in cozy fashion
and all seems right with the world.
-- Marianne Agnew
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Jeff Owens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Zone 7, http://www.teleport.com/~kowens
Underground house, solar energy, reduced consumption, no TV
