Time To Think How We Build ,Owe And What Owen  

Posted by Rick His Hippieness

I will probably never own my home out right and if I do I will have the lending institutions over twice of the actual sale price of the house. There should be a better way it will take rethinking of our on how we organize our communities.
There is eco-friendly ways we can build our homes but quite often it is hard to get building permits to build out of natural materials like "cob" ( a mixture of clay,sand and straw, stacked and dried to form walls then covered with lime plaster and painted; to be sealed from weather. ) I once helped a young family to build a cob home. It was build in rural Illinois were building codes aren't as stringent as in urban and suburban areas. The building of their house cost them less then four thousand dollars. Cob houses have been known to stand over five hundred years. We are told building codes are to insure safe building, but some times I feel they benefits the building and lending institutions and not the home owner or the planet.



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