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If money wasn't a problem - what green stuff would you have?

32 replies

Katymac · 23/05/2006 21:46

I'd have
Wood fired central heating
Grey water recycling
Rain water harvesting
An electric people carrier
PV Solar panels
Passive solar panels for hot water

I'm sure I could think of some more I'd like

How about you?

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notasheep · 23/05/2006 21:49

A house built by The Centre for Alternative Technology

Pruni · 23/05/2006 21:49

I'd have sheep's wool insulation on every surface
Triple glazing
Solar-powered underfloor heating (is that even possible? lol)
My own hot spring system for all hot water needs (I actually know someone who has this, not in the uk obv, but have yet to build the house next to it)
Oh god I'd have the lot

JoolsToo · 23/05/2006 21:50

a grass skirt

moondog · 23/05/2006 21:50

Oxen powered water wheel
Grape press
Solar operated helicopter

Katymac · 23/05/2006 21:50

Nice

I'd like more (& better insulation) & argon filled triple glazed windows (like they fit in Sweden as standard)

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moondog · 23/05/2006 21:51

Where is hot spring Pruni?
We have hot springs in UK.
Think of Bath!
I would bloody love to take the waters.

Katymac · 23/05/2006 21:51

Pruni - you'd be better with a ground pump thingie for your underfloor heating (very efficient - might be worth costing it)

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Frizbe · 23/05/2006 21:51

Solar Pannels, Wind Turbine, Reed/willow beds, water harvesting/re cycling too! I'd probably re design the house to incorporate a decent central chimney/fire that would heat the rest of the place too....It'd be lovely ......

LotosEater · 23/05/2006 21:52

notasheep - would your house have some of those non-water toilets as well?

Katymac · 23/05/2006 21:52

I have a central chimney (lovely it is tooWink)

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FillyjonktheSnibbet · 23/05/2006 21:53

i'd have a rammed earth, passively solar heated burrow house with (obviously) a turf roof, on my biodynamic smallholding.

lunavix · 23/05/2006 21:55

gosh it'd be lovely wouldn't it. I'd have the works too, plus enough money to comfortably eat entirely organic food (while having my own huge organic veggie patch a la It's not easy being green) and all ethical clothing for the whole family... I can dream!

whowoulddoit · 23/05/2006 21:56

ahh, this is easy..

solar panels
turf roof
wooden a frame stilt house built by ben law
reclaimed inetrior
straw bale walls...
i have to stop soon, this is starting to make me feel very sad about not having any money!

i would settle for one of those folding whellbarrows and a water butt...
or ben law...

Katymac · 23/05/2006 21:56

With a rainwater irrigation system powered by a solar cell so that the plants get watered automatically in the hot weather

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Pruni · 23/05/2006 21:57

Vancouver Island, md.
They have a system of hot springs that gets cooler as it nears the ocean.
Sounds effin amazing.
Is Bath our one and only hot spring?

lunavix · 23/05/2006 21:57

I'd be happy with a water butt, eglu (I'm not entirely sure about the eco-friendliness of the plastic housing, but I'd like my own pair of organic chickens) and like I said to comfortably afford solely organic food.

notasheep · 23/05/2006 21:58

lotoseater-dp likes to pee in the garden,normally on the compost mound.
Not good on links,but CAT is where its at.
Turf roofs have reached here and some of the locals live in tippees

Katymac · 23/05/2006 21:58

Isn't bath kinda luke warm? or is it really hot

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LotosEater · 23/05/2006 21:58

so who's up for \link{http://www.cat.org.uk/information/catinfo.tmpl?subdir=search&command=search&db=../information/catinfo.db&eqSKUdatarq=InfoSheet_CompostingToilets&start=1\composting toilets} ?

FillyjonktheSnibbet · 23/05/2006 22:01

actually, might employ someone to grow and raise livestock on my biodynamic farm, thus ensuring local jobs. Grin

would it be green to buy a whole island for myself?

LotosEater · 23/05/2006 22:04

actually notsheep I agree with you - CAT is great place

OK the rest of you, loads of green ideas \link{http://www.cat.org.uk/index.tmpl?refer=index&init=1\here}

notasheep · 23/05/2006 22:08

On a more serious but still environment friendly way last year my girlfriend had a cardboard coffin

beetle73 · 23/05/2006 22:12

Rubbish-sorting chutes leading from the kitchen to the relevant bins.

Katymac · 23/05/2006 22:14

Well I have a recycling cupboad and a husband....does that count?

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beetle73 · 23/05/2006 22:20

Well, a recycling cupboard would do for me if I could also have your husband instead of my own environmentally negligent one.

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