Eco Homes 101

Permaculture bella asked:


A lot of the skills that used to be used are very eco friendly. Do you have any of these eco friendly skills? Do you still use them?

I am thinking about the old skills which used things they had to hand, because they grew locally or used recycled materials such as:
bottling, jam making and preserving
willow items, baskets, lampshades
coppicing, drystone walling
curing meats and skins
making home prepartions for toiletries, medicines
making carts, buggies, trailers,
making own gardening implements/tools
bee keeping, making beeswax products
rag rug making, darning - who can darn now?

Any other old fashioned eco friendly skills you have?

NIABI

kevin w asked:


I am a undecided freshman UCSD considering major options. An interest I have is eco friendly archtecture and alternative building materials. In high school I designed an earth sheltered home and a strawbale home for an Environmental Science class and I found it a lot of fun. What would I major in i were to pursue a career in this field? and what careers are available? I know it is a growing trend as the environment is degrading and i would like to do everything I can to help.

POLO

brancomicguy asked:


Such as Installing solar power, wind power, Geothermal power for your Bussineness or home that belongs to you. If you have’nt you really should consider doing it because only fool would pass up free Electricity or Heating/Cooling for life just because it is expensive to Install. Besides most of that Stuff pays itself off within savings in at least ten Years.

LIAM

teach_learn_create asked:


Websites would be especially helpful since I live in a rural area! Thanks!

MARCELLA

rogereco1 asked:

Beautiful Brand New Craftsman Style Eco/Green Home. Greenpoint rated, Energystar home will save you $. Solar Electric, Solar water, On Demand Hot Water. Granite counters, Bamboo floors, Formaldehyde free Doug Fir Cabinets and Doors, CRI Green carpets. Downstairs master and living, upstairs large familyroom/office/bonus room. 2nd Home of 7 new Eco homes walk to Blue Ball Park and Soquel Village.

LE

Permaculture bella asked:


Imagine, your Aunt dies and leaves you money in her will equivalent to 30,000 British Pounds. The only clause is that you have to spend it on an environmentally friendly product/service/item or issue. And you MUST SPEND it or it is given to the local cat’s home. What would you buy?

KELLAN

brancomicguy asked:


Tell me your answers of what you have done or would do have a more Eco-friendly home and how would you decorate it? Please use as much detail as possible and try to use ideas you know are Eco-friendly. Like no Excessive lighting and hundreds of windows.

ZECHURIAH

vanessaraevideo asked:

Imagine yourself in a modern green riverside community with sleek, energy efficient buildings, lush, pesticide-free parks, excellent schools, clean streets, cooperative composting programs, and sustainable systems everywhere you turn. No, you’re not in Norway. Look again. You’re in Manhattan. Yes, overcrowded, cutthroat, dirty, impersonal New York City. Battery Park City, in fact, a landfill neighborhood that juts out into the Hudson on the southern- most tip of the island. Over the past decade, starting long before sustainable communities were being planned or even thought about, this plot of property has developed into a model of urban sustainability. It’s all thanks to the Battery Park City Authority, a partnership between New York City and State, which has indeed put its authority to good use by forging relationships with commercial and residential developers under one condition: that every new structure implement the highest level of sustainable technology. Now, Battery Park City boasts the highest concentration of green buildings of any neighborhood in the country. In this video, Vanessa Rae introduces Battery Park City’s activist leaders and learns about the neighborhood’s famous buildings, including the Solaire, the nation’s first sustainable high-rise residential structure, as well as its beautiful parks (maintained with neighborhood compost, chemical-free), green schools, and program that gives surplus revenue back to the city to fund affordable housing. We also learn how something called a heliostat can make it sunny even when you’re in the shade. Next to a skyscraper. In New York City. To coin the Authority’s catchphrase, Who Knew?

RENEE

Martin B asked:


I want to purchase a foreclosed home, and then turn the home eco friendly by adding solar panels and what not? Do you think people would be interested in paying a bit more for that type of house?

STARR

rain_no_mercy asked:


I want to be eco-friendly in every aspect of my life that I can… I’m just 13 but I think it’s important to try to put things back the way they were before we helped ruin things and I was wondering what I could do to help, can someone please tell me?

LETOYA