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Think about it, you can train your environment to be your home, you eliminate carbon footprint and you don’t have to worry about the ‘awful’ engineers, architects and contractors. It may take awhile to have your home constructed, but think of the economic savings and the ability to be self sufficient as you live, work and feed off of your home. It’s essentially the elements of life wrapped into one.

I found this very interesting as presented in one of my classes and thought it may be interesting to share. ENJOY!

It is intrinsic that I discuss an area of particular concern to me as this unorthodox atypical idea of educator brings up an aspect of my very own niche that I haven’t considered. The discussion of the apperceptive mass, in which all of our experiences in life is our method of understanding a new percept or idea, is what stood out to me in listening to Mr. Phillips. It redefines how we can model out lifestyle around our atmosphere, however we have modeled our lives into a model that is insufficient and non-sustainable.

 If you’ve looked at the gas prices recently and all you could see is:

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or all you can say is:

(note: we provide onsite home refinancing to help out with gas purchase)

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enough so it makes you want to:

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Then it becomes clairvoyant to understand the plight of the energy efficient conservationist in reuse of materials we claim as trash or otherwise. No, I am not an uber environmentalist, or a peace sign slinging hippie. I am simply considerably more conscience of limited resources and how the technological advancements, or on the opposite spectrum, reclamation of natural technology has shaped our generation’s minds from industrialization.

But to the nitty gritty, why is Mr. Phillip’s contribution to the aspects of built environments so essential? Simply because we have been trained by the concept of “out with the old, in with the new” not out with the old, re-process it so it appears new. Dan Phillips has been designing and building homes in Huntsville, Tx since 1998, utilizing his skill as a builder to:

1) Create an apprenticeship program to build homes while teaching sustainable building practices.

2) Divert landfill waste by utilizing various materials in the construction.

3) Provide, LOW COST, energy efficient sustainable homes to low income families that are amazingly beautiful.

4) Encourages out of the box methods for construction of habitation.

Here is his TED speech on the homes he has built from reclaimed material along-with a few photos of his work.

http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_phillips_creative_houses_from_reclaimed_stuff.html <–click it