"The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing." - Michael E. Gerber
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Moving On

It’s funny how time flies. Even to a positronic brain of an android time can be relative. I can imagine that if someone is waiting for the next post on this blog, and doing nothing else, it can seem ages ago since my last post. In fact it’s been just ...

May 16th 2010
Tags: Alternative, How we do it One Comment

A Temporary Home

We all know that building a house takes time. At least, building a proper house takes time. When you realize that most homes build nowadays have a life expectancy of 20 years (which is shorter that most mortgages) it makes sense to put a bit more effort into building your home ...
May 7th 2010
Tags: Life 2 Comments

Talking French

Building a house is an enormous undertaking but building a house in a country with a different language and culture almost sounds ludicrous. At this point it is safe to say that is brings its challenges. Of course we knew that it would be hard, we have prepared ourselves for extra ...
April 15th 2010
Tags: volunteer No Comments

WANTED! Volunteers

April 2011 we are starting with our project of building an ecological sustainable house in the south of Belgium. Rammed Earth We will build the house with rammed earth, straw bale and local wood. We started thinking of building a sustainable house a few years ago and came across the earthships. It blew ...
March 23rd 2010
Tags: Chenogne, How we do it No Comments

Getting a Green Light

Last Thursday we visited the established ruling order of Vaux-sur-Sûre. Or rather.., we visited the local "urbanism" office to see if our design would pass the scrutiny of said government. We also visited our small piece of the Earth, chatted with our neighbours and visited a gathering of Dutch Wallons. Oh.., and ...
February 25th 2010
Tags: Money, wind No Comments

RidgeBlade

After posting the previous post I received an email from Dean Gregory over at The Power Collective. My worry about RidgeBlade is that it might be expensive. I let Dean explain otherwise in his own words: whilst we cannot know the exact cost of the RidgeBlade units until we have finalised our ...

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