Moonrise at Moonhole: A Stone Structure In A Tropical Paradise
Moonrise at Moonhole is at first glance an ominous building that is located on the Southern tip of Bequai, an island belonging to St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Overall, St. Vincent and the Grenadines fit most people’s paradigms of Caribbean paradise. They boast white sand beaches, palm trees, friendly locals, and periodic tropical squalls. Most [...]
Meet Klara Marosszeky. She has been working for 10 years to create viable building material out of…hemp. That wall she’s leaning against? Yep. Made out of hemp. Hemp and lime, pressed into a form. The substance hardens and ta da! You’ve got hempcrete. The advantages of this method are numerous. The building material is resistant [...]
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What are the things that you can’t do in a city? You can’t raise livestock (at least, not very easily), you can’t live on an acre or more of land (unless you’re way loaded), and you can’t really grow food. At least not a lot of it – enough to feed an entire population. What [...]
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The Swedish are so cool. Seriously. I think Sweden is an awesome place. Now they’ve created a hotel that is unlike any other – the rooms are mirrored cubes that sit high up in the trees. The mirrors make the cubes practically invisible from the outside, so that the natural setting is not disturbed by [...]
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Yet another post inspired by the fact that someone in my household is addicted to educational television! A recent episode of a show on the Discovery Channel showed a crew put together a Huf Haus in only 5 days. That’s start to finish (framing, windows, caulking, etc) not including wiring or plumbing. That is pretty [...]
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