Showing posts with label Off grid living. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Off grid living. Show all posts

Saturday, February 1, 2014

The Beauty in Container Van Homes

While searching for new topics for this blog I came across with this neat idea, actually it’s not a new one but I don’t think a lot of people know about this. Shipping Container Houses!


So I saw this post on the internet particularly about this container houses it caught my attention on how clever the designs are and I think it’s cheaper than building a concrete foundations.
Shipping container homes, its main frame or foundation is the shipping container designed inside and out to be like a house, actually here in our country shipping containers are sometimes used as office and some are used as bunk house in construction sites but I never would have thought that it could be a nice house.


Why I think it’s neat? As I said earlier it’s quite cheap, you can use recycled shipping containers and its movable you could basically relocate your house anywhere you want too.  But the thing is it is difficult to set up you need cranes and trucks to move your house, but still movable right? It’s cheaper because you don’t have to buy cement, nails, wood, and roof! (Except for its interior design, of course)


It’s hot, it’s hot! So my mom saw these houses and said to me “you could get cooked inside”. Hmm, yeah maybe, I mean hello there are those things called air conditioners, and you could actually design the house to regulate its temperature, I think architects or engineers know how to do that.


So Container Homes, would I live on one of those? Hell yeah! First it’s cool, cheap, and movable! Actually I am planning to build my own. If I had the money of course, but for now I am making my own shipping container house plans and prepping if I’ll have a chance to make my own.

Saturday, January 25, 2014

How to go green?


Climate change is all over the TV and in the internet, yet a lot of people think that it’s not true.

So if you are one those people who don’t believe that our planet is changing its climate, so this article is not for you, but if you’re one of those who are concern of the well being of our planet this article is perfect for you.

Green living is gaining its fame today because of the people concern on our planets well being and some are just concern on their power bills.

People ask me, how to go green? Well it depends on what type of green living you want if you’re interested on green electricity then read more.

There quite lot stuff you should put in mind before going green.
•    What are alternative energy sources?
•    What alternative energy source should I use?
•    What is sustainability?

So this are the three most ask question when staring to go green.
So what are alternative energy sources, believe it or not there are a lot of alternative energy source used today such as:
•    Wind Energy
•    Solar Energy
•    Geothermal Energy
•    Bio fuel
•    Water energy
But if you’re planning to build your own alternative energy source the first two is definitely good for you, but in some cases the water energy is used when you’re near a river stream.

There are a lot of alternative energy source we have so pretending not to know or still sticking on a very pricey power bills we have today is a choice, it is actually up to you if you want to or not to.