Where we live, the South is starting that slow slide into winter.
In fact, it’s leaped into winter, with temperatures in the low 40’s daily, falling into the low 30’s at night.
Now, that doesn’t seem like much, until you factor in that the rest of the year it’s hot and humid, so our...
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Tags: Alternative Power, Back-Up Generators, Emergency Heat, Emergency Power, Generators, Stand-by Generators
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... the hardest part about helping a family BUILD their own HOME... is teaching them how to PLAN their own HOME BUILD.
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Tags: Building Plans, DIY Home Building, DIY Planning for Success, ISBU Buildings, Shipping Container Buildings
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It’s becoming clear that the American economy is on a spiral down and Congress is playing media games instead of addressing the crisis at hand.
Unemployment is claiming more and more victims of a marketplace that “fails or flees”…
How many jobs have fled to places like Malaysia or Mumbai lately?
And inflation is driving...
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Tags: Container Homes, DIY Homebuilding, Earthbags, ISBU, Owen Geiger, Shipping Container Homes
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Hi Campers,
As we try to regroup after some recent Tropical Storm Lee cleanup/mitigation/work…
Here’s what’s in store for you in the next exciting episodes of “I want an ISBU and I want it NOW!”
While we begin building our own ISBU prototype…
Our Corganix Hybrid ISBU-Earthbag Home (developed in cooperation with Dr. Owen Geiger, Director of the...
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Tags: ISBU Housing
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If you’re reading this blog, you know that:
I’m the “King of Corten”.
Wait, that’s not it…
I’m “a voice in the wilderness”, “a pariah in the re-purposed palace”, “a monk from the mountains”, “a soothsayer of Steel”, “that #%$@! being chased out of town by an unruly mob with burning brands and ...
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Tags: Container Homes, ISBU Homes, Shipping Container Homes, Shipping Containers
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Innovation and "forward thinking" aren't impossible. They just take good planning and solid execution.
There are solutions out there, just waiting to find their way onto your dining room table. We're gonna go find them.
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Tags: Affordable Housing, Alternative Construction, Emergency Housing, ISBU, Shipping Container, Shipping Container Homes
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By really thinking thru HOW you interact with each other, you can not only plan and build sustainable communities, you can actually enhance your everyday “face to face” lives. Efficient, affordable, sustainable improvements will lead to the achievement and fulfillment of a higher standard to measure your existing “quality of life” against.
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Tags: Alternative Construction, ISBU Enclaves, Shipping Container Homes, Shipping Containers
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You see them virtually cutting the country in half, pulled in trains stretching from horizon to horizon.
You see them in traffic… riding tractor trailers like remoras, large metal prehistoric bugs prowling thru traffic.
You see them stacked… on the outskirts of town, looking like grafittied metal carcasses piled in mountains blocking out the sun.
And…
You’re...
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Tags: Epic Software Group, Vic Cherubini
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Homes are about relationships. They are too! Just stop that!
A properly designed home will work WITH the environment and the elements, 24/7. So, our ISBU homes are designed to maintain an intimate relationship with the most powerful natural resource on the planet... the sun.
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I was all set to end 2010 by showing you a really cool little Youtube timelapse of the Epic Software Creative Co-Op Multimedia Studio (I’m consulting into it) that is being built just outside Houston Texas by Vic Cherubini… as I type this.
But I thought it might be more fun to use it to...
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Tags: Epic Creative Co-op, Epic Software Group, ISBU Buildings, Shipping Container Buildings, Vic Cherubini
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