Friday, 8th February 2013
Mark Boyle takes us through some of the most cost effective and environmentally-sound options for housing
Theoretically, you could build any house for free, especially in a model such as the resource-based economy that participants in the Zeitgeist movement propose. Realistically, a dwelling could only be built for free to the degree that it was made from local materials. Therefore any design that involves imported materials will very likely have some level of financial (and ecological) cost attached to it in most instances, though as we will see throughout this chapter this is not necessarily so, as we can often use the detritus of industrialised society to produce the sustainable homes of the future.
Read more: http://www.permaculture.co.uk/articles/cheap-potentially-free-build-free-run-houses
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