Nov 21 2008
Living in Harmony with the Earth and with Ourselves
Upon my usual morning ‘web surfing’ routine today, I came across something that I wanted to share with you.
Simplifying our lives and living in harmony with the earth, and with ourselves is what our ancestors once did. It’s the way that life should be! With all of the technology in the world, and the hustle and bustle of our daily lives we are not only making us, as a people ill, but we are making the earth, our true home, sick as well.
These pictures show a home that is built from the earth, into the earth, and uses all of the resources provided by the earth, to power the home. It provides an opportunity to live a simple, self sustained way of life. Solar panels are used for electricity, all of the retaining walls and foundations are built from stone and mud, straw bales for insulation, wood scraps for the floor, right down to cooling the refrigerator from the air that comes from underground through the foundations.
Why is that we feel we need all these so called amenities in our life, with the notion that all these things are created to make our life easier, when they only create stress and illness?
Hats off to the folks that built this incredible home and gave back to the earth some of what we so greedily take during our daily lives.
Excellent content and pictures.
I feel that any house can be made a home as long as the people living there are up for it.
This house is so neat!
I agree with the both of you! In fact, I liked it so much, we started our own in the back yard just yesterday!
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I’ve always loved the idea of living in a house built into the side of a hill. I have a friend that has one that is about 1/2 inside of a hill and in this hot area of the country, it really helps with the insulation.