Green future is possible! The eco house of Simon Dale WWW.GOODNEWS.WS

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The house; It was built by myself and my father in law with help from passers by and visiting friends. 4 months after starting we were moved in and cosy. I estimate 1000-1500 man hours and £3000 put in to this point. Not really so much in house buying terms (roughly £60/sq m excluding labour).The house was built with maximum regard for the environment and by reciprocation gives us a unique opportunity to live close to nature. Being your own (have a go) architect is a lot of fun and allows you to create and enjoy something which is part of yourself and the land rather than, at worst, a mass produced box designed for maximum profit and convenience of the construction industry. Building from natural materials does away with producers profits and the cocktail of carcinogenic poisons that fill most modern buildings. Main tools used: chainsaw, hammer and 1 inch chisel, little else really. Oh and by the way I am not a builder or carpenter, my experience is only having a go at one similar house 2yrs before and a bit of mucking around inbetween. This kind of building is accessible to anyone. My main relevant skills were being able bodied, having self belief and perseverence and a mate or two to give a lift now and again.This building is one part of a low-impact or permaculture approach to life. This sort of life is about living in harmony with both the natural world and ourselves, doing things simply and using appropriate levels of technology. These sort of low cost, natural buildings have a place not only in their own sustainability, but also in their potential to provide affordable housing which allows people access to land and the opportunity to lead more simple, sustainable lives. For example this house was made to house our family whilst we worked in the woodland surrounding the house doing ecological woodland management and setting up a forest garden, things that would have been impossible had we had to pay a regular rent or mortgage. Why are we doing this? First answer: It's fun. Living your own life, in your own way is rewarding. Following our dreams keeps our souls alive. Second answer: Our society is almost entirely dependent on the availability of increasing amounts of fossil fuel energy. This has brought us to the point at which our supplies are dwindling and our planet is in ecological catastrophe. We have no viable alternative energy source and no choice but to reduce our energy consumption. The sooner this change can be begun, the more comfortable it will be.For our energy consumption to decrease we must reduce consumption and dramatically increase the productivity of our land. This will require developing infrastructure and skills to enable locally self-reliant living. The simplest, sustainable solutions involve small-scale permaculture type land management systems centred around individual or small groups of dwellings. There is significant and growing energy at the grass-roots to start implementing these low impact developments. This enthusiasm comes from a combination of intellectual concern and the innate appeal of living closer to nature...
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[naturalhomes]

Nice video, nice music BUT the pictures in used here are from two different homes although they are both homes built by Simon Dale. And... it's not called the 'eco house' it's called the 'Woodland House'

[TVGOODNEWSTV]

@naturalhomes Thanks, I'm aware of... This video is a free poetic interpretation ... I am a fan of Simon Dale!

[Ghandiis16]

I'm actually looking for land somewhere right now in the United States and I'm planning on building a Low Impact Woodland Home. Gonna have solar panels, a well, going to grow my own vegetables and have a small farm for Pigs and Chickens and hopefully Alpacas. I'm done with corporate America and want a place where I can actually relax and not worry about bills upon bills upon bills. Wish me luck lol. :D

[stap0510]

@Ghandiis16

I wish you luck.

[DoubleUpgrades]

This is pretty much the coolest thing I've seen, ever.

[flapdajaw]

But how would you get the land to do this? In the US the government owns everything and you cant just go building structures anywhere, and what about codes and stuff? Omg, I just realized how bad our government has us under their thumb!

[flapdajaw]

Oooo, a hobit hole....I WANT ONE DAMMIT!

[CommentsSurvey]

TV Good News wrote in the description:

"Why are we doing this? First answer: It's fun. Living your own life, in your own way is rewarding. Following our dreams keeps our souls alive."

Amen! The world needs to follow it's dreams. Together, we can do it!

[CommentsSurvey]

I am going to do more than "share" this; I am going to BUILD THIS! Thank you for the inspiration! Let me know if there is somewhere I can find more instructions, etc.

CatherineTodd2 at gmail

[Yamashitafreak]

beautiful house looks like it was ripped of a fantasy book! But this must habe been expensive as hell because of all the stuff that had to made specially like the windows etc. if its really isolated and proof like other modern houses this would really cost you. Houses like that are never a cheap alternative to regular houses otherwise we'd all live in a cool house like that ^^

[CoralRead]

@flyingcat99 ... Perfectly said.

[flyingcat99]

"Following our dreams keeps our souls alive"

Wonderful :)

[SunWoodMC]

my childhood dreams come true: Living in the forest doing what ever the hell i please with nothing but nature around me =)