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New Tribalism By Royce Carlson
As people flock to the cities and life in the Western world becomes more crowded and alienating, some people are creating new social structures that resemble tribal structures. Why are people doing this? What does the tribal social structure offer that our modern world doesn’t? What are new tribes and how [...]

Advantages of solar energy
Solar energy is a renewable resource that is environmentally friendly. Unlike fossil fuels, solar energy is available just about everywhere on earth. And this source of energy is free, immune to rising energy prices. Solar energy can be used in many ways - to provide heat, lighting, mechanical power and electricity.
Passive solar [...]

Earthships Defined At its simplest and most powerful, the Earthship concept enables people to re-integrate with nature through their homes.
Conventional house building only encourages further dis-integration at all levels.Earthships are solar independent buildings that heat and cool themselves, are self powered, harvest their own water and deal with their own waste.

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