All I hear is "more city jobs" and "free fruit for los angeles citizens"
SOUNDS LIKE SOCIALISM TO ME
but really, it would reduce allergens by a substantial number to switch to female trees right?
Considerably. Though I did read an article claiming there were issues with pollutant levels in roadside-grown fruit (which I would well believe) which may make them less than healthy to snack on.
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Part of my commute path goes by fruit trees and there are a non-zero number of community members who go around with special Free Fruit Picking Tools to solve the issue of too many fruits
It is awesome, although as Nic's article mentioned, sometimes when the trees are kinda by major roads I'm like dammmmn I hope you wash those REAL WELL before you eat them
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The World's Tallest Modular Hotel | The B1M https://youtu.be/J8m_XURNbKY 5:11 Marriott will construct its latest hotel in New York using modules that have been prefabricated in Poland.
Keep thinking of all those 19th century english-garden follies where people would rebuild, like, norman towers and tiny versions of the parthenon and whatnot.
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I'd live in a yurt! I've lived in a rotten old moldy RV with like three other dudes and three cats before so hey, a yurt is basically the Ritz after that.
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I think it's a great space and intriguing and promising variation on tiny houses, except for the goddamn wood stove.
"We are very aware of the power and sustainability, which is why we need a wood stove to help 'for winter' with the house sitting atop of a wood pile large enough to fuel the next 3 Burning Man festivals".
I have strong doubts about the thermal integrity of the house. The insulation and heating layout sounds like it's not doing the job when you're that grateful for the stove. Wood burners are romantic and cheap, but awful for the environment. So while I think there's probably some really good experiences and learnings that I'd love to see propogate through the tiny home community, I suspect that there's a fundamental inefficiency in this house design that may be making it less sustainable than a thermally efficient home.
Man Living Off-Grid in His Incredible Self-Built Cabin10:07 https://youtu.be/ZZmWfvLGjVw This man built a beautiful off-grid cabin with the help of friends for $65,000 CAD including the cost of the land. There was no road access to his lot so he had to bring in all of the building materials using a 4-wheeler with a small trailer, and then load them on a material elevator to bring them up a cliff to where he wanted to build his home.
The cabin can collect and store 3,000 litres of rainwater from the roof. One of the water tanks is inside the house to prevent the water from freezing during the winter, and the other two are in a shed that is attached to the cabin so that warm air can be circulated with fans to prevent the other two tanks from freezing as well.
For heat, he has a wood stove, and he brings the firewood up to the cabin using the material elevator.
For power, he has a solar power system and a backup generator for cloudy days.
This micro cabin has two lofts, one is a living room, and one is the bedroom. On the main floor is a kitchen with propane 2-burner cooktop and 110 volt fridge, a bathroom with a sink and a bath (but no toilet because he prefers to have the toilet outside), and a spacious living area with the wood stove and dining table.
He lives in the tiny house with his girlfriend and enjoys the simple lifestyle and the challenge of living sustainably.
is it really off-grid if you didn't harvest and mill the lumber yourself, forge the tools and nails and brackets, carry everything by hand, design and manufacture the propane stove, extract crude oil and refine it yourself to siphon off the propane...
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i think if i tried to live off the grid, my dead Okie ancestors would kick the dogshit out of me for having the option of living in a modern home and refusing to do so.
"YOU DUMB SUMBITCH WE HAD DIRT FLOORS AND SHIT IN A SHED OUTSIDE AND DIED IN LOGGING ACCIDENTS AND SHIT"
Most people who do the homestead or off the grid lifestyle still have internet (cellphone or satellite) and just use solar power, have a septic and well. Essentially how millions of people still live right now outside of the city, just with more solar panels.
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
Woman's Magical Cob House Built with Earth & Reclaimed Materials15:49 https://youtu.be/LlzpfkjjqOw This is a full tour of a cozy cob micro cabin built by Marie France Roy, a professional snowboarder from Canada. She wanted to build a home with natural and reclaimed materials so the main floor is built with cob – a mix of sand, clay, and straw – and the upper floor is built with reclaimed cedar siding. She also used secondhand windows and other materials that were used or on their way to the landfill to reduce the impact of her project.
For heat, she uses a sealed woodstove and has backup electric heat if she's leaving the house for an extended period of time. For water and waste, she's hooked up to a well and septic.
She is currently using propane for her stove and hot water heater but has bought and activated a system to produce and collect methane using food waste. She hopes to eventually transition to using homemade gas instead of propane.
The tiny cob house is plugged onto the grid but she also has a small solar panel array to feed renewable energy onto the grid.
wait is "the grid" specifically just referring to the electrical power grid? I might have misunderstood the term as having a broader meaning of being connected to the rest of society
It can sometimes mean the internet too, but yeah usually just off the power grid.
Some people go full homestead/farm with wood burning stoves, hand cranked wells, no electricity or creature comforts whatsoever, boil their bath water like they're doing little house on the prairie. The advent of solar power entering the residential space means you can now have lights, internet, tv, electric pump for well, etc.
But yeah it's just like buying a house 50 miles away from a major city, you'll probably have well water, a septic tank, propane. Shit rural places have cable internet now too, you could probably pay 75k to get cable tv spooled out several acres to your homestead if you were crazy.
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wait is "the grid" specifically just referring to the electrical power grid? I might have misunderstood the term as having a broader meaning of being connected to the rest of society
It can sometimes mean the internet too, but yeah usually just off the power grid.
Some people go full homestead/farm with wood burning stoves, hand cranked wells, no electricity or creature comforts whatsoever, boil their bath water like they're doing little house on the prairie. The advent of solar power entering the residential space means you can now have lights, internet, tv, electric pump for well, etc.
But yeah it's just like buying a house 50 miles away from a major city, you'll probably have well water, a septic tank, propane. Shit rural places have cable internet now too, you could probably pay 75k to get cable tv spooled out several acres to your homestead if you were crazy.
Dish network, bruh! Satellite tv! Where we're going, we don't need no stinking wires!
It can sometimes mean the internet too, but yeah usually just off the power grid.
Some people go full homestead/farm with wood burning stoves, hand cranked wells, no electricity or creature comforts whatsoever, boil their bath water like they're doing little house on the prairie. The advent of solar power entering the residential space means you can now have lights, internet, tv, electric pump for well, etc.
But yeah it's just like buying a house 50 miles away from a major city, you'll probably have well water, a septic tank, propane. Shit rural places have cable internet now too, you could probably pay 75k to get cable tv spooled out several acres to your homestead if you were crazy.
Dish network, bruh! Satellite tv! Where we're going, we don't need no stinking wires!
I meant for internet, satellite internet is fucking awful.
Hopefully you have a WISP and are within like 50km of their radios... or can bankroll that 75k of copper to be laid across your property.
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yeah I need fast internet too much to ever move out into the sticks
The people up the valley from me have internet over radio going up to the nearby radio transmitter on the mountain. It's ok. Way better than satellite though.
We've got radio fibre internet. One of the nearby rural schools and the surrounding community was given free fibre, so we got one of the neighbours to run an extra connection and we run a radio connection from that to our house. It's only 3 kilometres. I was expecting higher ping but I don't think I've ever noticed a difference between mine and my friends who live in the city.
the off the grid people piss me off because it's just yuppies paying a premium to live in the conditions large portions of disenfranchized and impoverished people are forced to live in.
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The people up the valley from me have internet over radio going up to the nearby radio transmitter on the mountain. It's ok. Way better than satellite though.
We've got radio fibre internet. One of the nearby rural schools and the surrounding community was given free fibre, so we got one of the neighbours to run an extra connection and we run a radio connection from that to our house. It's only 3 kilometres. I was expecting higher ping but I don't think I've ever noticed a difference between mine and my friends who live in the city.
were y'all not in the initial rollout plan?
Don't worry! Unbundling is coming next year! Absolutely nothing will change! Sorry!
Not a lot of fibre in rural areas. In fact, the UFB 2 thingy says we have the options of wireless or ADSL. But thankfully we're a business that specialises in radio communications, so we've got fibre speeds through radio.
the off the grid people piss me off because it's just yuppies paying a premium to live in the conditions large portions of disenfranchized and impoverished people are forced to live in.
As some of you may know, I used to do a lot of work for Renaissance faires, although the ones I worked at weren't ones with permanent infrastructure - generally speaking it was a town fairground rented out for several weekends before/after the town fair took place. Even with that though, I can see a lot of this style of design in those places, as you're mostly just working with open fields, so pathways are as simple as telling tents not to set up in a certain area and building stages in certain corners. More cynically, you can think of it as a design intended to get you a bit mixed up and lost - there are no straight lines, it can be difficult to see anything from a distance, and you're going to have to walk past a dozen people selling something in order to get to the one thing you want (which is also probably someone selling something, in the long run). And I think there is definitely some of that in the design that gets glossed over in favor of the New Town comparison, but it's still real cool.
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Considerably. Though I did read an article claiming there were issues with pollutant levels in roadside-grown fruit (which I would well believe) which may make them less than healthy to snack on.
It is awesome, although as Nic's article mentioned, sometimes when the trees are kinda by major roads I'm like dammmmn I hope you wash those REAL WELL before you eat them
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
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Marriott will construct its latest hotel in New York using modules that have been prefabricated in Poland.
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There is no question in my mind about that
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Those mini homes make me claustrophobic.
Dude: "I was living in a van before this"
Lady: "We went with a yurt to downsize our living space"
I'm worried about her. I hope she's not blinking in morse code or something.
edit: i want a ritz cracker now
a man yurt
"We are very aware of the power and sustainability, which is why we need a wood stove to help 'for winter' with the house sitting atop of a wood pile large enough to fuel the next 3 Burning Man festivals".
I have strong doubts about the thermal integrity of the house. The insulation and heating layout sounds like it's not doing the job when you're that grateful for the stove. Wood burners are romantic and cheap, but awful for the environment. So while I think there's probably some really good experiences and learnings that I'd love to see propogate through the tiny home community, I suspect that there's a fundamental inefficiency in this house design that may be making it less sustainable than a thermally efficient home.
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This man built a beautiful off-grid cabin with the help of friends for $65,000 CAD including the cost of the land. There was no road access to his lot so he had to bring in all of the building materials using a 4-wheeler with a small trailer, and then load them on a material elevator to bring them up a cliff to where he wanted to build his home.
You can find out more about this cabin on Instagram here:
https://www.instagram.com/canadiancas...
The cabin can collect and store 3,000 litres of rainwater from the roof. One of the water tanks is inside the house to prevent the water from freezing during the winter, and the other two are in a shed that is attached to the cabin so that warm air can be circulated with fans to prevent the other two tanks from freezing as well.
For heat, he has a wood stove, and he brings the firewood up to the cabin using the material elevator.
For power, he has a solar power system and a backup generator for cloudy days.
This micro cabin has two lofts, one is a living room, and one is the bedroom. On the main floor is a kitchen with propane 2-burner cooktop and 110 volt fridge, a bathroom with a sink and a bath (but no toilet because he prefers to have the toilet outside), and a spacious living area with the wood stove and dining table.
He lives in the tiny house with his girlfriend and enjoys the simple lifestyle and the challenge of living sustainably.
Thanks for watching!
Mat & Danielle
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"YOU DUMB SUMBITCH WE HAD DIRT FLOORS AND SHIT IN A SHED OUTSIDE AND DIED IN LOGGING ACCIDENTS AND SHIT"
This is a full tour of a cozy cob micro cabin built by Marie France Roy, a professional snowboarder from Canada. She wanted to build a home with natural and reclaimed materials so the main floor is built with cob – a mix of sand, clay, and straw – and the upper floor is built with reclaimed cedar siding. She also used secondhand windows and other materials that were used or on their way to the landfill to reduce the impact of her project.
For heat, she uses a sealed woodstove and has backup electric heat if she's leaving the house for an extended period of time. For water and waste, she's hooked up to a well and septic.
She is currently using propane for her stove and hot water heater but has bought and activated a system to produce and collect methane using food waste. She hopes to eventually transition to using homemade gas instead of propane.
The tiny cob house is plugged onto the grid but she also has a small solar panel array to feed renewable energy onto the grid.
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
Some people go full homestead/farm with wood burning stoves, hand cranked wells, no electricity or creature comforts whatsoever, boil their bath water like they're doing little house on the prairie. The advent of solar power entering the residential space means you can now have lights, internet, tv, electric pump for well, etc.
But yeah it's just like buying a house 50 miles away from a major city, you'll probably have well water, a septic tank, propane. Shit rural places have cable internet now too, you could probably pay 75k to get cable tv spooled out several acres to your homestead if you were crazy.
The Grid.
A digital frontier.
Dish network, bruh! Satellite tv! Where we're going, we don't need no stinking wires!
I meant for internet, satellite internet is fucking awful.
Hopefully you have a WISP and are within like 50km of their radios... or can bankroll that 75k of copper to be laid across your property.
I'm too old and have too much stuff for that now, but I really hope I can convince my youngest son to go that route. It's right up his ally.
We've got radio fibre internet. One of the nearby rural schools and the surrounding community was given free fibre, so we got one of the neighbours to run an extra connection and we run a radio connection from that to our house. It's only 3 kilometres. I was expecting higher ping but I don't think I've ever noticed a difference between mine and my friends who live in the city.
were y'all not in the initial rollout plan?
Don't worry! Unbundling is coming next year! Absolutely nothing will change! Sorry!
But hopefully you'll be on the UFB 2 maps?
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Not all the time
Hell, I'd do it and I'm broke as a joke
As some of you may know, I used to do a lot of work for Renaissance faires, although the ones I worked at weren't ones with permanent infrastructure - generally speaking it was a town fairground rented out for several weekends before/after the town fair took place. Even with that though, I can see a lot of this style of design in those places, as you're mostly just working with open fields, so pathways are as simple as telling tents not to set up in a certain area and building stages in certain corners. More cynically, you can think of it as a design intended to get you a bit mixed up and lost - there are no straight lines, it can be difficult to see anything from a distance, and you're going to have to walk past a dozen people selling something in order to get to the one thing you want (which is also probably someone selling something, in the long run). And I think there is definitely some of that in the design that gets glossed over in favor of the New Town comparison, but it's still real cool.