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The One Year Report: Life in a Cob House

On July 11, 2009, I moved into my newly completed cob house. It’s now been over a year since the move-in, and there have been many learning lessons along the way. I’d like to present a number of those lessons here in my one year report of living in a cob house.
Here we go…

Top Ten Reasons to Live Without Electricity

Here’s a post I wrote for sustainablog about top ten reasons to live without electricity in your home.
Of course, I don’t actually live completely without electricity (obviously I wouldn’t be writing this if I did), but my actual home does not include electricity. It’s been great and I adore candlelight. Anyway, read the post for [...]

Life in a cob house without electricity

I realized that something may not be obvious about the cob house I am currently living in. My home, GOBCOBATRON, is actually electricity-free. I have chosen to live without electricity in my home. There are a couple of reasons for this…