Sustainable shelters
138 videos • 91,407 views • by Kirsten Dirksen
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Family's self-built greenhouse home in farm country has indoor orchard 🌳
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Expandable home with loop-filtered water is indoor/outdoor game changer
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Couple encases brick farm inside greenhouse for indoor/outdoor all year
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Building budget homestead little by little in worthless, remote (is)land
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Life-Changing Homes for healing, personal growth & starting over 👉🌱
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He excavated earth-sheltered home of dry stone into rugged seacliff
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Young couple self-builds hempcrete home with innovative compost toilet
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Biokabin: our modular eco-home to snap & build in backyard, Nature
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Tranquil backyard homestudio is natural materials masterclass
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Restores abandoned Pyrenees home by hand with regenerative system
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Building dream home out of railroad bridge & 1905 craftsman bungalow
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How entire village runs fully off-grid on small hydropower & solar
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She built underground cabin in remote Arctic for $200 as cozy Stealth Home
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Arizona's autonomous home: entirely off-grid, no hookups needed
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Giant Earthship vs wildfire: Did good prepping save this ecovillage?
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No bank loaned them money. They built dream Hobbit Home themselves
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He built $2K remote dome cabin amid freezing Siberian wilderness (step-by-step)
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Veteran coder builds stone-covered Dome Home into Texas hill
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Couple builds dream natural Roundhouse with hempcrete, cob & lime 🐚
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Young family turns parking lot into stunning eco-home (DC alley)
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Couple builds off-grid ecovillage with friends & leftovers 🐎
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Turns drafty townhome into tranquil Cork Passive House
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25Verde apartment jungle is an ecosystem of 150 trees, 60+ apartments
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Cork-clad home uses Trombe Wall & circular vents as free A/C
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U-Build hands-on: a flat-pack modular home you can assemble
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Built Bill Gates’ home, then his own dream bunk-studio
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Spartan Alpine cabin conceals back-to-basics building tips
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Dome design toughens with size, regulates home/garden within
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Thrifty couple builds self-reliant, $60K homestead & workshop
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Towable, off-grid Ecocapsule gathers energy/water anywhere
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New Earthships capture more energy, water & food at lower cost
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Cantilevered containers become popup housing for NYC creators
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Valldaura Labs culls restored forest for tiny home & biomass
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Using solar, cob, hemp-crete in stunning off-grid compound
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How will we live? urban prepping & rural resilience’s momentum
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How we live now: tips from offgridders, tinyhousers, homesteaders
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The world from our window: seclusion as introspection opportunity?
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Water-only access lake cabin & vacuum-flush compost toilets
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Found a derelict Portuguese hamlet. Settled in to revive it
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Sunken greenhouse wraps home & feeds suburban antifragile co-op
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359 Rotating Home follows the sun like a sunflower
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Pittsburgh incremental house: a home that can grow with you
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Biodegradable home built by hand with cork LEGOs, no glue
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Underground dome house of the family who led geese to fly home
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$700 mechanical micro-A-frame blends with Montana wilderness
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Dymaxion: could homes be as affordable & precise as appliances?
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Mount Athos cabin light-pierced via olive-leave openings
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Modern home in Mexican plateau revives ancient water harvest
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Small island getaway seeks old Greek simplicity: “Meden agan"
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On building one's own dream home as an 8-year desert odyssey
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Boeing retiree finds meaning inventing micro homes & high speed trikes
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Modern prefab keeps Mediterranean character & sense of place
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Couple taps into Mexico City's creativity with frugal design
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Snowboarder's 1950s fire truck as a cozy place to call Home
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Dutch greenhouse home harvests energy, food & winter heat
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Experiments in whimsical tiny living at former Paris hospital
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Danish maker turns waste into art, furniture, vehicles & more
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MN couple turns grain bin into urban brewery, store & venue
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Bauhaus to tiny "haus": micro-home village in Modernist Berlin
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Transformer CNC cabin by a lake becomes father-son work dialogue
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Underground dome house stays warm in Omaha winters
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Designer builds efficient off-grid Passive House in Colorado
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Grid Beam modular system builds anything, furniture to bikes
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Baubotanik shapes living tree branches into building facades
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$150 bike camper: DIY micro mobile home (downloadable plans)
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Family wraps home in greenhouse to warm up Stockholm weather
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What can be learned from a 17th century American town
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Passive solar remodel of small Melbourne laneway home
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Passive solar glass home: feng shui in North Carolina
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Off-grid Sydney home reuses sewage via backyard pond's natural filter
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Versatile passive house to balance live/work, urban/country
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Permaculture in PISE walls, a solatube and low-VOC
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Maison garage: old parking as tiny home in Bordeaux, France
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Didn't want student loans, converted an old Airstream as dorm
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TrashKEA home design: trash + IKEA + design = eco-cheap chic
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Is Renzo Piano's Academy of Sciences the greenest museum?
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Non-toxic, no-VOC paint for any wall (+ finishing plasters)
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Urban composting toilet: poo from loo to garden in 1 year
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A no-VOC earth plaster for a breathable, bioclimatic home
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Natural building: water-resistant earthen floors don't off-gas
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Natural building myths: tiny homes and green roofs
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Earth-built passive solar home: cob (south), strawbale (north)
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Natural buildings don’t melt, no matter how rainy it gets
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A downtown live/work dream house (roof deck for naps included)
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Choosing a natural building material: cob, straw, a blend...
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Natural building codes: some for straw bale and adobe, little for cob
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How to build a straw bale wall: natural building expert tips
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Building your own bioclimatic home from earth and straw
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Natural building vindication: climate, comfort, health, budget
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128-sq-foot tiny house on wheels made from salvage
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DIY vintage tiny home for less than $3500: meet Jenine Alexander
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Mountain man's salvaged home walkthru: Black Kettle's Idaho life
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DIY solar shower
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The human scale of tiny homes & McMansions as fad
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Green builder on the problem with eco-design and green skyscrapers
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Energy-efficient, affordable tiny cob home for modern hobbits
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A tiny home tour: Jay Shafer's 89-square-foot home on wheels
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Searching for density in a San Francisco exurb
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Vertical New Urbanism: a small town green high-rise
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Traditional slate rock construction in Extremadura, Spain
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Country lanes in urban Vancouver
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EcoDensity Vancouver: stacked homes and "Fonzie Suites"
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Waterless urinals and building integrated photovoltaics in an ecobuilding
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A Smart house that handles lighting and water
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Building a greenhouse with reused doors, windows & concrete
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Recycled Construction: building with straw bale, recycled bottles & urbanite
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Permaculture: a home that supplies water
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Permaculture: a home that creates energy
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Permaculture: ecodesign and a return of the bees
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Permaculture house: passive solar as AC
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A mudbrick home built with help from family and friends
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Seattle's New Urbanism community with pocket parks & shared backyards
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A green realtor on becoming an ecobroker and his own eco-home
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How to build a green bakery
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Geoexchange: AC and heat from earth under conventional home
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Why to use cork for your floor
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An urban composting toilet & humanure for the garden
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Living small: when home is a 150-square-foot RV
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A brewery that uses wind, solar, heat exchange and compression
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Air Trees: energy-producing metal trees in Madrid
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Tiny, portable, prefab cube shelters in medieval French town
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Tiny Origami apartment in Manhattan unfolds into 4 rooms
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Micro-tiny homes as freedom from codes & loans
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16 year old builds tiny home to guarantee mortgage-free future
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Cave home in Loire is charming bioclimatic troglodyte house
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$1,800 used shipping container as architects' backyard office
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Berkeley car-clad modern home: small outside, spacious inside
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DIY treehouse inventor creates Ewok world in rural Oregon
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How 7 trees support treehouse pioneer's own 1,800 sq-ft home
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Abandoned stable becomes off-grid, luxurious family dream home
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Jay Nelson's travel micro-campers: from bike home to tiny boat
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Good old city-fence redwood becomes tiny cottage studio
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Airstream-inspired apartments as affordable tiny homes
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Salvaged pallet tiny home has IKEA-style assembly guide
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Vernacular treehouse built on holm oak, leaves it intact
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NorCal veteran coder customizes off-grid home with sensors
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Containertopia: cargo container tiny home town on Oakland lot
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Architect's simple dream home in AZ's saguaro cactus forest
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