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 Anja Doksani | Collective, Education & Spreading Knowledge, Individual, Knowledge, Municipal, National, Parenting, Practices
Parenting Styles – What it takes to be a good parent? There is an ongoing debate in psychology about nature vs. nurture. What determines the personality and psycho – social adjustment, the genetic code or the parenting style and external events? The debate...
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 | 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...
