Ecological living: Build house & construct your own eco village (VIDEO)

Give your ideas on building different types of ecological houses here and share thoughts in the comments.

You can find many good schematics and instructions in guides in the link [link to www.ecoplans.tk] if you want to start building your own.

Do share other useful resources on ecological lifestyle and related construction

Adobe houses is also very nice type of ecological house building check it out in youtube

A LOW IMPACT WOODLAND HOME

[link to simondale.net]

Writer quoted, "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."

Last Edited by machobird on 10/20/2012 04:53 PM

Cool that sounds great ! I am looking into these things since I am in the middle of building my own house by hand.

Interesting stuff!

LEt me know if you build anything

Nice way of living thanks for sharing

yeah it is!

Anyone got some good tips from own experience?

Anyone got more to share?

Live green and save the environment, its time

great information keep it coming! Ive seen a recent eco village being built in costa rica, beautiful concept and ideas

Bump to read later.

Yeah here in South America its a lot of them. Just here in my small town with 10 000 inhabitants we got several. And still new rising up around. They usually collaborate some with each other and help each other out with things like construction etc, which is nice

Any good ecological food tips?

Anyone here lived in an eco village before??

What is the best resource sites for ecological lifestyle?