In spring 2006 I realized that stress from suing the credit bureaus and sitting at the computer literally 12 – 14 hours EVERY day was making me sick. I got strep throat around Xmas 05, didn’t know what it was and in March finally figured it out when I got rheumatic fever [...]
Green Home Building
Very cool stuff.
I’ll be downloading for a few more hours, 3 about 700 mb files. I hope it’s worth the $200 and it is a bit irritating to have to pay another $6.99 for the user manual AND $10.95 for shipping.
The Amazon reviews definitely indicate that it’s NOT a program professionals want to [...]
The Monastery of Christ in the Desert has some interesting pages on construction with straw bales at the off the grid monastery in the Chama Canyon wilderness in northwestern New Mexico.
http://christdesert.org/strawbilt/index.htm
They have a guest house and two dependent monasteries in Mexico: La Soledad, near San Miguel de Allende, and St. Mary and [...]
Have yet to figure out how you keep them in place, but here’s a nice page with pics:
The Utility Building
“This page describes the process of constructing our utility building. It will house the batteries for our solar / wind power system. It is also serving as the prototype for the processes, [...]
Update 9/13/08:
Somehow, what I built isn’t at all what I planned and I find that smaller and simpler is definitely better.
