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10,000 strawbales & a five-star eco-lodge

10,000 strawbales & a five-star eco-lodge
If South Africa can build a five-star hotel out of straw bales, would you build your own home with natural materials?
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Recycling for the Apocalypse

Recycling for the Apocalypse
Dumpsters are full of the tools for a lifetime worth of mad scientist-esque building projects, but in order to become a mad scientist you have to go a little mad.
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Best of 2010 | Open Source Ecology

Best of 2010 | Open Source Ecology
Ever wonder what it would take to build your own resilient community? Open Source Ecology makes it possible for anyone with Internet access.
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Open Source Ecology

Open Source Ecology
Ever wanted to build a resilient community using the Internet? Open Source Ecology is realizing the dream.
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I have seen the future, and it’s on shrooms?

The old school mushroom shelter. Only sufficient for Brownies, Faries, Sprites or Gnomes. Photo by Pellaea www.flickr.com/photos/7147684@N03/
This one time, in Wired, I heard about Mycotecture and apparently it's not just for Smurfs anymore.
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