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2. Autonomous building - Wikipedia

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   They published the plans for all of these, with detailed design calculations and blueprints. The Ark used wind-based water pumping and electricity and was self-contained in food production. It had living quarters for people, fish tanks raising tilapia for protein , a greenhouse watered with fish water, and a closed-loop sewage reclamation ...

3. Integral Urban House - Wikipedia

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   In 1972 Sim Van der Ryn, Bill & Helga Olkowski, and other architects, engineers, and biologists in the San Francisco Bay Area held a series of meetings at restaurants ("usually Chinese") [2] to form the Farallones Institute, [1] which was founded as a non-profit research and educational organization focused on studying self-reliant living and developing sustainable environmental practices at ...

4. Double envelope house - Wikipedia

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   While the design can perform better than a conventional home, formal performance monitoring suggested there were some problems with the original design. . Commentators have criticised the design on various grounds: [citation needed] The rock bed under the house interfered with the geothermal night time effect and slowed warming in the morning.

5. Lebanese architect builds a 'self-sufficient' home - AOL

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   STORY: A Lebanese architect built himself a 'self-sufficient' hometo raise awareness about the pollution associated with constructionLocation: Baskinta, Lebanon(Nizar Haddad, Architect)“Today ...

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

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

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   According to Sheri Koones, author of "Prefabulous + Almost Off the Grid," the most optimal solution for wide-scale sustainable modern housing is not the independent, self-sufficient household ...