Eco-Building
Muddy Harmonies of Earthy Colours
Light and sound are the two ways we perceive the creative force of God. We recall the scene of a native forest such as Harmony expressing the vigour and harmony of natural greens and browns, with sprinkles of whites, yellows, reds, and blues in leaves, flowers, and berries. Across this landscape it is easy to [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )Building in the Trees with the Sun and Birds
Forest Gardening is to become really deep and personal for us. We are about to move out of town to dwell permanently in the forest. Our house in town has just been sold and ceases to be my second home away from home on June 20th.
The comforts of city life are about to be replaced [...]
Spiritual Ecology: Who is the architect when you build and design at same time?
Spiritual ecology can be the dynamic design of a building where I walk with Spirit, posing questions of trees, building materials, animals, and my intentions and needs; and letting the answers which come guide my interpretation of the needs of the neighbouring plants and animals, the building, and my use of that building. This creates [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Pure Wool Insulation and CD50 timber preservation
We are enjoying our Latitude (formerly “Woolbloc) brand pure wool insulation made locally in Nelson, New Zealand.
Before we lined Lorraine’s Sacred Space cabin with it there was an odour that didn’t feel quite right. Lorraine felt it is was the CCA preservatives used in the H3 eco-ply cladding the outside walls and I thought it [...]
Building Size Just Right
The Arrow River, after which Arrowtwon, New Zealand, is named, is rich in Gold, and in the 1860s a Chinese community sprung up with buildings made from the schist rock and native timbers abundant in the area. Many of the schist buildings have been preserved in an historic Chinese village near the centre of [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Cobbing Begins at Harmony
Fire-breathing Lion cooks biscuits
About 2003 I had a great deal of fun helping build my first cob-earth structure and oven at Convergence Gathering so when Rachel and Nick (pictured) came out from England to teach us cob earth building I was keen to see what they would do.
Well they did it in a week and [...]
Eco-Design from Inside Out
There is a major difficulty in spiritual ecology, human ecology, organic eco-building design, eco-living, and permaculture.
Human ego (vanity) determines that we like to think we always know the way to do something.
Though a necessity ego out of balance is also our greatest flaw. We must continually watch for not only the well [...]
