Title: The Year of Mud By: Brian Ziggy at Dancing Rabbit ecoVillage, 2011 'The Year of Mud' is a natural builder's story of his first cob house, a home constructed largely of natural, local materials, many literally straight f... |
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Natural homes built by inspirational women ... These nine homes have all been built by women. They are built using roundwood, straw bales, reed, clay, lime, adobe, cob, cobwood, earthbags, birch bark, trad... |
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Obos and Beehive homes are built using Nature's Arch... The Catenary. Obos in Pouss, Cameroon These are clay Obos (right) of the Musgum people in Pouss, Cameroon. They are designed in much the same... |
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THE WESTERN HIMALAYA Kul Kuls are water channels found in precipitous mountain areas. These channels carry water from glaciers to villages in the Spiti valley of Himachal Pradesh. Where the t... |
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WESTERN GHATS Surangam Kasaragod district in the northern Malabar region of Kerala is an area whose people cannot depend directly on surface water. The terrain is such that there is high disc... |
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TRANS-HIMALAYAN REGION Zings Zings are water harvesting structures found in Ladakh. They are small tanks, in which collects melted glacier water. Essential to the system is the network of ... |
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WESTERN COASTAL PLAINS Virdas Virdas are shallow wells dug in low depressions called jheels (tanks). They are found all over the Banni grasslands, a part of the Great Rann of Kutch in Gujarat... |
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TRANS-HIMALAYAN REGION Artificial Glaciers A great example of how decentralised approaches to water harvesting boost innovation comes from Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir. Chewang Norphel , reti... |
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Kul Kuls are water channels found in precipitous mountain areas. These channels carry water from glaciers to villages in the Spiti valley of Himachal Pradesh. Where the terrain is muddy, the kul is lined with rocks t... |
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Top view of a Kui Paar system: Paar is a common water harvesting practice in the western Rajasthan region. It is a common place where the rainwater flows from the agar (catchment) and in the proce... |
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