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Invitation to Participate in the Planning of a Solar Village

Dear friends, This goes in particular to some architects and planners, but also to the Global Villages list in general because I hope we do not leave anybody out who might be interested. In a nutshell, this is about the attempt to opensource a whole village...

Criss crossing Austria with Marcin part II

Marcin “paper brain” did supply some information on what happened on May 20th. You remember, after Marcin very successful talk at the University of Klagenfurt, Carinthia, we did not get to sleep till 1 a.m. again. Michaela & Erich had...

Solar Shower In!

Tired of marginal facilities that require power to operate? Jeremy and I stretched ~100′ of 2/3″ black hose on the roof of the CEB workshop. Pretend it’s your roof. Then we had one cold water ‘in’ which we split to ‘cold...

Air-Powered Water Pump

Found this video some time ago made by the Health Ranger from Naturalnews.com and after speaking with the fellows at Factor e Farm we see having one of these pumps as a top priority. The problem is they cost $600 and that’s out of this budget so...

Criss crossing Austria with Marcin

May 16th: at 7 p.m. Marcin was scheduled to meet with people at the Villa Kreativ in Neulengbach – I was not part of the official itinerary but a few phone calls by Franz Nahrada cleared the way and Marcin and I were off to the railway station in...

Inga’s House

What’s so special about „Inga’s House“ you ask? EVERYTHING, and when I say everything, that’s exactly what I mean – see here. Did I hear you say WOW, what a lucky girl? Yes, that’s precisely how I feel. I...

CEB Building Phase 2 – Site Analysis

We are doing preparatory work for our second phase of CEB construction – Inga’s House. Over the winter, we built the first CEB structure – our workshop addition. We’re moving on to building under optimal conditions – dry...