by Anna Bien | Alternative Housing/Building, Collective, Housing, Individual, Knowledge, Lifestyle & Philosophy, Locally Sourced, Low Tech, Material, Passive Resilient House/Building, Political, Resilience, Self-Build, Sustainability, Upcycle
Aardhuis Earthship – A self-build ecological house Imagine a house, that respects the environment, self-built and cheap, as well as based on abundant natural materials and upcycling recycled material. Too good to be true? No, and it has a name: Earthship! Our...
by Ro D. Economade | Collective, Energy, Individual, Innovations, Knowledge, Local, Locally Sourced, Low Tech, Material, Reduce, Save Energy, Sustainability
LowTech – Improve your life with the least you can use After the golden age of High-Tech, Low-Tech proposes another direction by promoting a sobriety of consumption and production thanks to simple technologies with low environmental impact. Today the electric...
by Louis Garnier | Collective, Drawdown, Food, Individual, Knowledge, Low Tech, Municipal, Political, Practices, Provincial, Regulate Climate, Save Water, Sustainability, Water
Zaï – An inspiring no-till farming In 2016, WWF published a online article, reporting a deforestation reaching 18,7 millions acres annually. A scaremongering statement, which must not impede us from seeing the many initiative taken those last year, supporting...
by Ro D. Economade | Food, Production Practices, Sustainability, Uncategorized, Water
Biochar – The dark Amazonian soil’s secret Did you know that burnt wood is an effective fertilizer? However, it also holds the carbon in the ground which is unfavourable for the environment. This Amazonian soil will surprise you! First of all, don’t...
by Ro D. Economade | Collective, Food, Individual, Knowledge, Local, Low Tech, Municipal, Practices, Production Practices, Provincial, Sustainability
Food Forest – Sustainable food production and low maintenance gardening Since 1950, the Green Revolution -that is green only in its name- has made most people believe that the most productive way of producing food would be only through the massive use of...
by Anna Bien | Food, Indoor Production, Local, Regional, Sustainability, Urban Production
PermaFungi – The coffee mushrooms It’s in this underground maze under Tours et Taxi, Brussels, Belgium, that you need to lose yourself to find Permafungi. It is a company dedicated to circular economy located in a wide underground of Brussels. It covers...
