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2. Integral Urban House - Wikipedia

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   The Integral Urban House was a pioneering 1970s experiment in self-reliant urban homesteading. The house was located at 1516 5th St. in Berkeley, California between 1974 and 1984. The Sierra Club published a book about the experiment in 1979. Elements of the home included a vegetable garden, chickens, rabbits, a fish pond, beehives, a ...

3. Autonomous building - Wikipedia

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   An autonomous building is a building designed to be operated independently from infrastructural support services such as the electric power grid, gas grid, municipal water systems, sewage treatment systems, storm drains, communication services, and in some cases, public roads. Advocates of autonomous building describe advantages that include ...

4. Boxabl - Wikipedia

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   Boxabl provides pre-fabricated homes with walls, a floor, and a roof that fold into each other to form a self-contained transportable unit. [2] The company's main model, the Casita, is a 361 square foot base unit. [14] [28] [29] According to their website, these homes are designed to be unpacked and assembled in less than an hour.

5. Is Off-the-Grid Living the Future of Housing? - AOL

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   During the construction of her first self-sufficient treehouse, she and her husband, Mateo, were forced to live in a tent in the mud. The initial process of going off-grid, she said, was "chaotic ...

6. Interest soars in self-sustaining homes called Earthships - AOL

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7. Off-the-grid - Wikipedia

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   The term "off-the-grid" traditionally refers to not being connected to the electrical grid, but can also include other utilities like water, gas, and sewer systems, and can scale from residential homes to small communities. Off-the-grid living allows for buildings and people to be self-sufficient, which is advantageous in isolated locations ...

8. Self-sustainability - Wikipedia

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   Description. Self-sustainability is a type of sustainable living in which nothing is consumed other than what is produced by the self-sufficient individuals. Examples of attempts at self-sufficiency in North America include simple living, food storage, homesteading, off-the-grid, survivalism, DIY ethic, and the back-to-the-land movement.

9. Ecocapsule - Wikipedia

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   Ecocapsule. The Ecocapsule is an egg -shaped, mobile dwelling home that utilises solar and wind energy. It was developed by Nice Architects, a firm based in Bratislava, Slovakia. [1][2] Shaped like an egg to minimize its surface-area-to-volume ratio, its walls are made of two layers of fiberglass with polyurethane foam sandwiched in between. [1]