tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5361366843010914070.post6234825960664512341..comments2023-08-04T04:50:56.834-06:00Comments on Redheaded Wisdom: Two AmericasD.K. Raedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01451065603615752038noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5361366843010914070.post-77043452311254396722008-02-26T18:05:00.000-07:002008-02-26T18:05:00.000-07:00Ball of Light: thanks for all the good info! The ...Ball of Light: <BR/>thanks for all the good info! The home design I'd like to build next is passive solar & geothermal & cork flooring (renewable resource). I'm looking fwd to that Jamie Johnson new movie "One Percent". I saw the previous one he did about all his rich cohorts & thought I was gonna hurl. He gets it. His rich friends do not.<BR/><BR/>Cart:<BR/>Sounds fun, go for it! I can just visualize you sitting at your computer in the cockpit, controlling the world, heheheh. I've never seen an airplane home, but there's a beautiful old church around here that was built from a ship turned upside down. And, what about those undergrounders in Coober Peady? Seems to me they are onto something. I once threatened to send my brother there.D.K. Raedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01451065603615752038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5361366843010914070.post-80252594952239436072008-02-26T17:11:00.000-07:002008-02-26T17:11:00.000-07:00You know d.k., I've always had a hankering to turn...You know d.k., I've always had a hankering to turn and old airplane into a home. I've seen converted 707s and 727s in home configurations. <BR/>I sort of fancy an old freighter with its tail nicely buried in a hillside and my computer room in the cockpit.<BR/>Ahhh, the fancies of boys...Cartledgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11929350278316125588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5361366843010914070.post-12648419692656923792008-02-26T10:39:00.000-07:002008-02-26T10:39:00.000-07:00Thanks DK... glad to see you and your incisive wor...Thanks DK... glad to see you and your incisive words too. <BR/><BR/> My small (1450 sf), passive solar, semi-green <A HREF="http://www.pumicecrete.com/Pumice-Crete-Photos.htm" REL="nofollow">pumicecrete</A> house is about an hour from the Taos earthship community... it is quite a sight to see those organic looking shapes rising out of the mesa in which they are <A HREF="http://www.dreamgreenhomes.com/styles/earthsheltered/description.htm" REL="nofollow">embedded</A>. Maybe it's time to dust off those dormant <A HREF="http://www.dreamgreenhomes.com/materials/lwconcrete/pumicecrete.htm" REL="nofollow">plans</A> and get ready to live <A HREF="http://newscafe.ansci.usu.edu/archive/nov2001/1129_offgrid.html" REL="nofollow">off the grid.</A>... :)<BR/><BR/> After reading this post i went on a free-association google trip visiting several <A HREF="http://www.earth-auroville.com/" REL="nofollow">building with earth</A> and rammed earth sites and ended up actually finding out WHO lives in those houses and seeing what it would be like to have been <A HREF="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7457140802142500840" REL="nofollow">born rich</A> and be part of that <A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV34oF2EEvA" REL="nofollow">one percent</A>, but instead settled for reading about <A HREF="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120371859381786725.html?mod=fpa_mostpop" REL="nofollow">the rich man's Michael Moore</A> and wishing i had HBO so i could <A HREF="http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/theonepercent/index.html" REL="nofollow">schedule</A> my leisure time better... :P <BR/> <BR/> so many dreams, too little innate rapaciousness...a ball of Lighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13796870923487172937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5361366843010914070.post-9826329084612077382008-02-26T02:47:00.000-07:002008-02-26T02:47:00.000-07:00Fran: I really don't know WHO ends up with these ...Fran: I really don't know WHO ends up with these houses. The one I liked best this year was located next door to the one I liked best last year, which I heard was purchased by a Microsoft Executive. The homesite alone was $1mil. It is a gated development that "somehow" gained access to BLM land abutting a state preserve. Good old boy networking, I'm sure.<BR/><BR/>OMG, you are right! They missed a royal opportunity to put in an ice rink. Can you imagine THAT when we hit 115 in the summer?D.K. Raedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01451065603615752038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5361366843010914070.post-75852636387099108582008-02-26T02:39:00.000-07:002008-02-26T02:39:00.000-07:00D. Ched B.: Haven't seen you before ... Welcome! ...D. Ched B.: Haven't seen you before ... Welcome! Yes, one of the more irritating things about being wealthy must be having to put up with a serving staff, a cleaning staff, a landscaping crew, nannies & valets. How do they EVER find a personal moment to enjoy their outrageously sybaritic surroundings?D.K. Raedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01451065603615752038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5361366843010914070.post-14096608082422711802008-02-26T02:32:00.000-07:002008-02-26T02:32:00.000-07:00Cart: I wonder just how much a person needs. The...Cart: I wonder just how much a person needs. The previous inhabitants of this hostile desert, not having access to old tires or hay bales, made use of wattle and daub lean-to's built into earthen hillsides. They did not try to make an artificial tropical oasis on mars.D.K. Raedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01451065603615752038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5361366843010914070.post-34980510487461852292008-02-26T01:41:00.000-07:002008-02-26T01:41:00.000-07:00Ohh a chance to see how the other side lives. I'm...Ohh a chance to see how the other side lives. I'm always amazed--- Wow! One closet in this master bedroom is bigger than my bedroom & closet space combined! These must be the Doctor/Lawyer type places where money is no object. How many people actually use all that space though?<BR/><BR/>It would be fun to act like the design is inferior - sure 2 home theaters & a bowling alley, but no Olympic heigth diving board, and arena? The burning bush is amusing, but where is the conservatory and ice rink?Franhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14198689517878201943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5361366843010914070.post-53121046737500189182008-02-26T00:33:00.000-07:002008-02-26T00:33:00.000-07:00Great post. I have been living in series of small ...Great post. I have been living in series of small manageable homes (with great views) and dream of building simple green cabin to retire in someday. --while my friends sit in their 1 to 4 million dollar homes with a cleaning and landscaping staff...<BR/>dreaming of something bigger, better, more. <BR/>And they consider me "odd"Bobby D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02205693811392933385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5361366843010914070.post-43299214453861499492008-02-25T23:02:00.000-07:002008-02-25T23:02:00.000-07:00A timely commentary. I was drawn into a conversati...A timely commentary. I was drawn into a conversation today about mud brick dwellings. It moved on to hay bail and old tyre constructions.<BR/>Personally I like the concept of part underground construction, from an energy conservation view point.<BR/>Mind you, hard to do the burning bush underground.Cartledgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11929350278316125588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5361366843010914070.post-80133318505154996572008-02-25T21:50:00.000-07:002008-02-25T21:50:00.000-07:00Ball of Light: hey, nice to see ya. That "earths...Ball of Light: hey, nice to see ya. That "earthship" link is quite intriguing, kind of an expansion of the "earth homes" that barely started to come about in the 1970-80's. Earth homes were built into the ground on 3-sides & made extensive use of thermal mass to save energy. I made plans for a couple that were never built. Ahead of their time, I guess, although there was some concern over radon gas. Yes, it's about time for a come-back ... just need a better govt program of incentives. Or maybe just a better govt.D.K. Raedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01451065603615752038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5361366843010914070.post-48300652305908524652008-02-25T07:55:00.000-07:002008-02-25T07:55:00.000-07:00nice post DK... those views are fantastic, even th...nice post DK... those views are fantastic, even tho the conspicuous consumption those dwellings represent is rather obscene (to me)... <BR/>as for kicking tires, environmentally concerned building techniques and such, on the other end of the consumption scale may be http://www.earthship.net/a ball of Lighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13796870923487172937noreply@blogger.com