From: Patrick Salsbury (salsbury_at_bootstrap.sculptors.com)
Date: 04/13/97
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 09:41:49 -0700 Message-Id: <199704131641.JAA31880@bootstrap.sculptors.com> From: Patrick Salsbury <salsbury_at_bootstrap.sculptors.com> Subject: Re: Greetings...
-From: Michael Clark <mdc_at_ivc1.ivc.com>
-
-Glad to see this list. I got wind of it from a posting to the "technomads"
-list. I am interested in many of the same technologies as discussed in that
-list, but applied to non-nomadic lifestyles. I am interested in
-alternative power, self-sufficiency and related issues.
-
-I am currently rotting in the suburbs, but plan to bolt for the sticks
-within several years.
-
-So, who are ya'll?
-
-Best,
-Michael
-
I'm a designer/computer-guy living in the Santa Cruz Mountains just
west of Silicon Valley. I'm still tied to the grid for power, and our water
comes from a shared well (there are about 18 houses on the mountain I live
on). I'm trying to find ways of building a sustainable, autonomous housing
solution that will work almost anywhere on the land surfaces of this
planet. And eventually on the land surfaces of ANY planet.
I'd also like to do done for the sea-surfaces, but that's a
different project. :)
Currently working on an aquaponic system at my house, where the
nitrate-rich water from our 55 gal. aquarium gets run through a 55' long
gutter system which will nourish veggies, at the same time removing the
nitrates that would eventually poison the fish if left untended. The idea
is to eventually include such a subsystem into the autonomous houses that
go into production.
I eventually would like to start a housing company (in Bucky Fuller
terms: A "Global Dwelling Service") to address the gross inadequacies of
the current housing situations worldwide. Houses that work anywhere, that
aren't NEARLY as expensive at current custom-crafted, hand-built
ones. Houses that you can pick up and move around whenever you wish. Houses
that produce their own power, water, food, heat, light, have wireless connections
to the Net, and are not reliant on existing regional utility companies (or
lack thereof.)
Once I build one of these, I plan on 'bolting for the sticks'
myself. There's an awful lot of the world left to see, so I can't see much
point in tying into a 20 or 30 year lease and lots of property/house taxes
and being chained to one place.
That's it in a nutshell. I'm hoping this list will become a vehicle
to spread the meme of autonomous living, and provide others with the tools
& resources necessary to free themselves from the "ties that bind" in the
existing housing systems.
Anyone else?
--
Pat
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