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Tim Bishop left a comment for Mark Fielding"You've really done it - Entering your project on your page is Entering the Challenge. You may want to add a bit more information - How much, how to do it [or buy one from you], and some possible uses. I like centering the…"
Mark Fielding posted a status"Thanks Tim, so what now? how do I 'enter' this challenge with the Pozie project? or please advise what I should do, thanks. We started on th"
Tim Bishop left a comment for Mark Fielding"This looks really nice, Mark! Thanks for posting these photos. -TIm"
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- How I might like to participate in SHAC for 2011:
- As a Designer (Product, Building, As an Architect, To Retrofit
- About Me:
- eco home designer since 1982; Companies: Ecotect Ltd and Solabode Ltd
- My Vision for Sustainable Living
- Promoting tribalhood community cooperative self sufficient building, food production and support 'industries' demonstrating how it is possible to live healthy, happy and comfortable using local resources, discarded/salvaged materials and natural systems without dependance on the consumer/materialistic/world trade destruction of our planet.
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Project #2
Posted on August 26, 2011 at 12:33 0 Comments 0 Likes
The other project just started, is a retrofit affordable eco habitat (RAEH project) - we are building a 60m2 apartment under my pole house using all recycled and natural materials (like pallets, rammed earth tyres, carpet as lath for earth plaster, adobe internal walls, earth floors on recycled polystyrene packaging sheets. Etc. The Raeh will be off grid with lighting via a solar panel/12v battery, cooking via biogas from a biodigester, heating via passive solar design, greywater recycling…
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Posted on August 26, 2011 at 11:30 7 Comments 0 Likes
Best I get cracking with our entry... PLEASE READ ALL COMMENTS FOR THE FULL STORY, THANKS.
we have an eco cabin just completed which is built from 90% recycled waste materials (IE Garbage) that meets all the performance requirements of the NZ building code (I maintain - as an LBP). The timber frame is all wooden pallets, the lining is old wool carpet facing hessian side out and painted with discarded paint. All roofing and cladding is second hand corrugated iron from a 1920's bungalow…
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- At 12:54 on April 4, 2011, Tim Bishop said…
- Welcome Mark.
- At 21:22 on August 29, 2011, Tim Bishop said…
- This looks really nice, Mark! Thanks for posting these photos. -TIm
- At 14:14 on September 2, 2011, Tim Bishop said…
You've really done it - Entering your project on your page is Entering the Challenge. You may want to add a bit more information - How much, how to do it [or buy one from you], and some possible uses. I like centering the sustainable arguments around how it helps us all live with purpose and less reliance on resources, but I'm not the Judge, so feel free to write what you think! You could add this detail on your blog page.
Thanks Mark!
-Tim
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