Showing posts with label composting toilet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label composting toilet. Show all posts

Thursday, July 16, 2015

The Wohnwagon. A Very Different Tiny Living Space On Wheels...

The Austrian designed and manufactured Wohnwagon meaning Living Wagon, is a very attractive larch clad mobile home that can be towed almost anywhere.
There's more about this delightful looking home on wheels here.
The roof is evidently green, the insulation is sheep wool, the toilet composting and most materials used have been recycled.
It has solar power and an elaborate solar water heater with what looks like all the bells and whistles you can imagine, very Heath Robinson, to keep the interior warm.
Maybe it's really for making alcohol. But still...









Monday, April 27, 2015

Richart Sowa Lives On An Island He Made Himself From 150,000 Plastic Bottles...

No man is an island and very few of us
have one of their own but eco-architect Richart Sowa knowing full well he'd never have the money to buy one, decided to make his own.
Out of 150,000 air-filled recycled plastic bottles, lots of wooden pallets and sand.
He's build a three-storied house that has all the mod-cons he desires and a little ferry raft also made from plastic bottle to ferry himself and his supplies to and from the shore.
Power comes from a land based solar system, he has a composting toilet and the desire to grow his own vegetables and to be self sufficient
Named Joyxee, the island moored off Cancun in Mexico is Richart's third island, his story is here and the British born Robinson Crusoe didn't find his Girl Friday by her footprints in the sand but on a social media site.
How things change but nothing changes...


Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Jules And Matthew Dreamt Of The Good Life In An Eco Home In The Countryside Built From Scrap Materials. Their Dream's Now A Legal Reality...

Matthew and Jules' dream of the good life in their own eco home somewhere in the countryside made from scrap materials is now a legal reality.
It nearly wasn't though.
Because the process was going to use too much paperwork, time and bureaucratic expenditure they decided to try and build their dream house 'under the radar' and not apply for planning permission.
A risky business as neighbours are likely to dob people in for that sort of behaviour.
They used railway sleepers, truck tyres, scrap metal recycled this and that and wooden pallets to build their eco home away from it all in Beaworthy, a little village with a population of only a few hundred in East Devon.
And over a period of five years, while they lived in a tent on-site, they built their dream without using any power tools.
They have a composting toilet but no electricity and no running water. And they have an underground pantry instead of a fridge.
Sure enough, some neighbours complained as they do and for a while it looked like the Torridge District Council would force them to pull down their dream.
But some sort of rare sanity prevailed and a government planning inspector, impressed by the couple's dedication and passion for sustainable living, ruled the house could stay because of it's eco-credentials.
You see. If you can dream it, you can do it...