Zoobird2024-03-28T17:54:03ZTim Kinneyhttps://www.zoobird.com/profile/TimKinneyhttps://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2310080903?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1https://www.zoobird.com/group/offthegridzoo/forum/topic/listForContributor?user=1fxy1purjb8or&feed=yes&xn_auth=noGeodesic Domestag:www.zoobird.com,2012-12-16:2129360:Topic:515122012-12-16T03:25:39.697ZTim Kinneyhttps://www.zoobird.com/profile/TimKinney
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikelevin/3910934641/" title="Burning Man '09 by mlevin77, on Flickr"><img alt="Burning Man '09" height="500" src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3424/3910934641_dfac55e683.jpg" width="375"></img></a><br />
<p>A geodesic dome is easy to build with Star Plates. Mike Hauser and I put one together a while back. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikelevin/8275761013/" title="Star Plate by mlevin77, on Flickr"><img alt="Star Plate" height="219" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8501/8275761013_85b637b6e0_o.jpg" width="230"></img></a>
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Star Plates are metal plates that you attach boards to and hold them uniformly.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikelevin/3910934641/" title="Burning Man '09 by mlevin77, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3424/3910934641_dfac55e683.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="Burning Man '09"/></a><br />
<p>A geodesic dome is easy to build with Star Plates. Mike Hauser and I put one together a while back.
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikelevin/8275761013/" title="Star Plate by mlevin77, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8501/8275761013_85b637b6e0_o.jpg" width="230" height="219" alt="Star Plate"/></a><br />
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Star Plates are metal plates that you attach boards to and hold them uniformly.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikelevin/3910935981/" title="Burning Man '09 by mlevin77, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2441/3910935981_a0ce6f2b40.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Burning Man '09"/></a><br />
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Basically, all you need is the Star Plates, some nuts and bolts, boards and a couple of wrenches, preferably sturdy tools you like. It's an easy way to put up a sturdy structure. What ways have you tried to erect structures on your land or for temporary purposes like Burning Man?</p> Living Off-The-Gridtag:www.zoobird.com,2008-10-31:2129360:Topic:71812008-10-31T23:22:12.020ZTim Kinneyhttps://www.zoobird.com/profile/TimKinney
<img alt="Mycol giving a presentation at the Indigo Green Store workshop" height="500" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3208/2929759780_43b8378dc1.jpg?v=0" width="375"></img><br />
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<em style="font-style: italic;">"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination" ---Oscar Wilde</em><br />
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Living off-the-grid means living without public utilities like electricity. People who live off-the grid may not depend on municipal water, sewage, or natural gas. It also can mean you're self-sufficient in various ways. There are many third-world citizens who have lived off-the grid for generations. Some people choose this alternative lifestyle to save…
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3208/2929759780_43b8378dc1.jpg?v=0" alt="Mycol giving a presentation at the Indigo Green Store workshop" width="375" height="500"/><br />
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<em style="font-style: italic;">"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination" ---Oscar Wilde</em><br />
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Living off-the-grid means living without public utilities like electricity. People who live off-the grid may not depend on municipal water, sewage, or natural gas. It also can mean you're self-sufficient in various ways. There are many third-world citizens who have lived off-the grid for generations. Some people choose this alternative lifestyle to save money. It's also a way to lower your environmental footprint.<br />
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This story originally appeared on <a href="http://www.elephantjournal.com/2008/10/living-off-the-grid/">Elephant Journal.</a> Reprinted with permission. <a href="http://www.elephantjournal.com/2008/10/living-off-the-grid/">Read the rest...</a> Humanure and Compost Toiletstag:www.zoobird.com,2008-10-22:2129360:Topic:66702008-10-22T16:22:39.921ZTim Kinneyhttps://www.zoobird.com/profile/TimKinney
An interesting <a href="http://www.zoobird.com/forum/topic/show?id=2129360:Topic:1536">discussion</a> on Compost Toilets in the forum should probably be in this group, too.<br />
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Here's an excerpt, originally posted by Frost:<br />
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"We use a home-made composting toilet, based roughly on my reading of…
An interesting <a href="http://www.zoobird.com/forum/topic/show?id=2129360:Topic:1536">discussion</a> on Compost Toilets in the forum should probably be in this group, too.<br />
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Here's an excerpt, originally posted by Frost:<br />
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"We use a home-made composting toilet, based roughly on my reading of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=%2Fgp%2Fsearch%3Fy%3D0%26field-keywords%3DJoseph%20Jenkins%27%20%26%2334%3BHumanure%20Handbook%26%2334%3B%26url%3Dsearch-alias%3Daps%26ref%5F%3Dnb%5Fss%5Fgw%26x%3D0&tag=michaelevinsb-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957">Joseph Jenkins' "Humanure Handbook"</a><img src="https://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=michaelevinsb-20&l=ur2&o=1" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;"/>, at our farm.<br />
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It's simply a shed over a deep hole filled with straw, which we "flush" with straw / sawdust / strips of newspaper. We don't separate - everything goes into the same hole. The shed doesn't cover the entire hole, so part of ot is exposed to the air and rain.<br />
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This has been perfect for a year but recently has started to smell. I suspect it was because it was too wet and lacked carbon, so I added lots of shredded newspaper and spread it out a bit, but so far this hasn't improved matters. Would appreciate any other suggestions.<br />
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FYI, we are in Ireland so it's not particularly hot..."