
Today my friend Paul sent me a link to a beautiful website with a picture what has since become my ideal vision of a home. It was built in 4 months with a lot of man-hours and surprisingly little money. It was built with locally-sourced materials and "green" architectural design.
I love what the home-owner says about this project on his website: "These sort of low cost, natural buildings have a place not only in their own sustainability, but also in their potential to provide affordable housing which allows people access to land and the opportunity to lead more simple, sustainable lives."
That's a worthy vision: beautiful, low-cost, low-impact housing for humanity.
On a side note, I also have signed up to volunteer for Habitat for Humanity. I went to their volunteer orientation session -- now I just have to actually go one of these days to help with a project. Habitat for Humanity is based on the idea that decent, affordable housing is a human right. I agree. But wouldn't it be wonderful if the affordable housing could be sustainably-built?
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