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  2. Earthship - Wikipedia

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    The successful application was for sixteen one, two, and three-bedroom earthship homes on this site, expected to have a sale price of 250 - 400,000 pounds. [22] The homes are all designed according to basic earthship principles developed in the United States and adapted to the UK. 15,000 tires will be reused to construct these homes (the UK ...

  3. Homesteading - Wikipedia

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    Homesteading is a lifestyle of self-sufficiency. It is characterized by subsistence agriculture, home preservation of food, and may also involve the small scale production of textiles, clothing, and craft work for household use or sale. Homesteading has been pursued in various ways around the world and throughout different historical eras.

  4. Autonomous building - Wikipedia

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    Reducing autonomy reduces the size and expense of cisterns. Many autonomous homes can reduce water use below 10 US gallons (38 L) per person per day, so that in a drought a month of water can be delivered inexpensively via truck. Self-delivery is often possible by installing fabric water tanks that fit the bed of a pick-up truck.

  5. Acres Homes, Houston - Wikipedia

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    Acres Homes Multi-Service Center. Acres Homes is a neighborhood located in northwest Houston, Texas. The 9-square-mile (23 km 2) mile area is loosely bounded by the city limits and West Gulf Bank Road to the north; Pinemont Drive to the south; North Shepherd Drive to the east; and Alabonson Drive to the west. Historically, it has been ...

  6. Tiny-house movement - Wikipedia

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    Tiny homes in Detroit Semi-mobile tiny house in New Zealand Tiny house with cottage style (10x24 ft). The tiny-house movement (also known as the small house movement) [1] is an architectural and social movement promoting the reduction and simplification of living spaces.

  7. Subsistence agriculture - Wikipedia

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    After two–three years the fertility of the soil begins to decline, the land is abandoned and the farmer moves to clear a fresh piece of land elsewhere in the forest as the process continues. [14] While the land is left fallow the forest regrows in the cleared area and soil fertility and biomass is restored. After a decade or more, the farmer ...

  8. Real estate economics - Wikipedia

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    Facilitators: This group includes banks, real estate brokers, lawyers, government regulators, and others that facilitate the purchase and sale of real estate. The choices of users, owners, and renters form the demand side of the market, while the choices of owners, developers and renovators form the supply side.

  9. 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] [29] [30] According to their website, these homes are designed to be unpacked and assembled in less than an hour.