Sep
19
2008
In the third part of the “How are we going to do it” series we talk about what it is we want to build.

For us it is clear that something needs to be done to sustain our way of living and one of the huge impacts on our environment is the way we put a roof over our heads.
In order to create a clean personal environment and to minimise our footprint we build “green”.
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Sep
11
2008
The second part of the “How are we going to do it” series covers the going-off-the-grid part.

As a people, our reliance on the utility companies for power, water and gas is complete.
If anything goes wrong in these vast networks you’re lights will not come on, the tab stays dry or your house stays cold. Any one of the above causes real problems for a lot of people. In the future the cost will go up while the reliability goes down…
We want to minimize our dependence on an overly expensive and unreliable system and use what can be free to everybody.
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