http://unplugr.com Pulling the plug on a broken world Mon, 28 May 2007 21:20:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en link: http://www.greeninventor.org/strawjet.shtml http://unplugr.com/archives/17/alternative-building-material I'm loving this new blog that savages the vacuous marketing behind the condos that are springing up all around Vancouver like mushrooms in cow shit: condohype [via Rob Cottingham] First impressions are important and Origin’s is one of timeless elegance, thanks to West Coast-inspired architecture and enduring, natural-looking materials like timber, brick ... http://unplugr.com/archives/14/condohype http://www.onedayvancouver.ca/portal.php http://unplugr.com/archives/13/a-link-i-came-across-in-a-banner-ad-no-less Mike asked me to post a list of the books I have that are related to homesteading and homebuilding, so here it is. Note that the connection of some of these to homesteading is extremely tenuous. From Eco-Cities to Living Machines The Foxfire Book Creating Alternative Futures Guns, Germs and Steel The Death and ... http://unplugr.com/archives/10/books-tangentially-related-to-homesteading This is brilliant: Home prices from 1890 to the present, adjusted for inflation, and plotted to a roller coaster. What a wild ride, and a great way to visualize the raw data. Real Estate Roller Coaster - Google Video http://unplugr.com/archives/9/real-estate-roller-coaster-google-video Hello everyone, I've been meaning to collect these up and post them. So without further delay: Land: http://www.bchomesforsale.com/ http://www.okhomeseller.com/ http://www.landquest.com/ http://www.bc4sale.ca/ http://www.niho.com/ Offgrid Power: http://www.gaiam.com/realgoods/ http://www.backwoodssolar.com/ http://www.energyalternatives.ca/ http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/001011.php Listeroid (Bio)Diesels (Start here... but also see: http://www.utterpower.com/ and http://www.utterpower.com/jeffm.htm) Lodging/Housing: http://www.sustain.ca/ (Ontario) http://www.wildernesscabin.com/index1.htm (BC!) http://www.yurtco.com/ (BC!) http://www.yurts.com/ (Oregon (I think)) http://www.weekendwarriorcabins.com/ (and http:///www.robinsonplans.com/) (Saskatchewan) Cohousing/Ecovillages http://www.yarrowecovillage.ca/ http://www.cohousing.ca/ http://unplugr.com/archives/8/links-ive-been-harvesting-for-a-while Still on a roll after detonating a suspicious-looking Lite-Brite, today the Boston Bomb squad detonated what was apparently a suspicious-looking traffic counter. That will teach the terrorists over in the traffic control division. http://unplugr.com/archives/7/boston-continues-its-war-on-objects Well, if right-wing ideologues have anything to do with "life," that is. The funny thing is, while this: Fears of Canada-Mexico superhighway driving U.S. critics loco Are North American governments secretly conspiring to build a "NAFTA superhighway," four football fields wide, from Mexico to Canada, to bypass regulatory controls and whisk ... http://unplugr.com/archives/6/life-imitates-the-onion-again Back in December Jamais Cascio came up withan eschatological taxonomy to categorize the various kinds and severities of apocalypse scenarios. Below is the quick summary, but the full version includes examples, chances of survival (of civilization, humanity, or biological life itself), etc. Regional Catastrophe Human Die-Back Civilization Extinction a. Human Extinction-Engineered b. Human ... http://unplugr.com/archives/5/open-the-future-an-eschatological-taxonomy John Robb has very interesting analysis of the state of the world, but I especially enjoyed his short post on the importance of a resilient community during the coming times of tubulence: John Robb's Weblog: Coffee and communities &ellipsis;the center of gravity for resilience against the panoply of systemic threats we will ... http://unplugr.com/archives/4/coffee-and-communities