Edible Gardens
An edible garden is a garden that contains flowers, herbs, seeds, berries and plants that you can eat. It does not have to be large. You can create an interesting & pleasant space that can be used as an edible garden.
Bamboo Construction
Bamboo as a building material has high compressive strength and low weight has been one of the most used building materials as support for concrete, especially in those locations where it is found in abundance.
Building with COB
Cob is a mixture of natural ingredients such as Sand, Clay, straw, and water. They are mixed in some suitable proportion and then placed such that the whole unit act as a single unit.
Tiny Houses
The typical home is around 2,600 square feet, whereas the typical small or tiny house definition is a home with square footage is between 100 and 400 square feet.
Minimalism
Minimalism is all about living with less. This includes less financial burdens such as debt and unnecessary expenses – mainly refers to a lifestyle that is all about living with less.
Solar Cooking
Solar cooking is a lifesaver in developing regions. Solar cooking is a concept not limited to cooking food by solar concentrated radiations but also involves sterilization and pasteurization.
Rainwater Harvesting
The utilization of rainwater is an economic, environmental, public, and environmentally friendly technology. Collected rainwater can be used in the building for laundry washing, house cleaning & irrigation.
Adobe Construction
The largest adobe building in the world, and probably the most famous adobe structure standing, is The Great Mosque at Djenné in central Mali, near the edge of the Sahara Desert.
Straw Bales Construction
Straw Bales construction is a building method that uses bales of straw as structural elements and/or building insulation. The structural capability of straw bales is surprisingly good.
Earthen Flooring
Earthen floors add a great earthy touch to your sustainable home; whether that’s in your cob house or conventional stick frame home. These floors are durable and last a long time.
Biomass Fuel Cooking
The measurable organic matter include trees & shrubs, crops and grasses, algae aquatic plant agricultural and forest residues plus all form of human animal plant waste”
Blackwater Treatment
The sewerage from our houses can be divided into two types, Greywater and Blackwater. The blackwater consists of waste products from toilets mainly consisting of urine and feces.
Earthbag Construction
Earthbag construction is one of the ancient techniques to provide shelter to refugees in times of war. Since then, it’s been used to build an inexpensive, simple, and sustainable method for building structures.
Solar Power System
Solar energy is captured in a variety of ways, the most common of which is with photovoltaic solar panels that convert the sun’s rays into usable electricity.
Responsible Consumerism
When customers make intentional purchases of products, opting for those that have minimal to no negative impact on humans, animals, and the environment.
Earth–Air Heat Exchanger System
It is one of the passive technologies which is viable to save a substantial amount of energy in heating and cooling a space with no negative environmental impacts.
Fish Ponds & Duck Farming
A facility that releases juvenile fish into the wild for recreational fishing or to supplement a species’ natural numbers is generally referred to as a fish hatchery.
Co-Housing Community
The physical layout of co-housing comprise several independent homes in combination with shared spaces and facilities, which support living together, balancing privacy and communality.
Greywater Filtration
The sewerage from our houses can be divided into two types, Greywater and Blackwater. Greywater consists of wastewater from Kitchen, washing basins, laundry, sinks, and showers.
Compressed Earth Blocks
Compressed Earth Blocks (CEB) are like adobe bricks made from a mixture of sand clay and water. CEB is made from an earthen mixture and then compacted in a machine to form a block or brick.
Rammed Earth Construction
The soil mixture is placed in formwork or temporary frame for the durable and well-braced wall and then compacted, usually to about half its original height. Complex structures may require frames etc.