Kill two birds with one stone and clean your underwear while you're at it! That dream could come a reality if student's at China's Dalian Nationalities University are successful in mass-producing their invention, a bicycle-powered washing machine that cleans...
Build your own home!
Doing it yourself is always the most rewarding way to do it! Especially when you can build your own home with a cost of less than $5,000! This cordwood house is a perfect example of how...
Far North Bushcraft And Survival YouTube channel has an interesting view on how to spend the New Years.
The couple drinks sparking cider in their hot tipi tent with a home made wood stove. The description states that they want...
I have seen tiny houses built by nine year olds, and I have seen tiny houses built by churches, but this guy takes tiny houses to a whole new level.
These bicycle houses can go anywhere. You can live debt...
An industrial design student at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna has developed a self filling water bottle that uses the movement of a bicycle to collect and condense moisture from the air and turn it in to water....
Adam Kokesh and his fiancé Macey Tomlin, have just had their offer on 11 acres in Ashfork Arizona accepted. They plan on building the first ever Sapioponic Earthship. This is a massive project, and could take up to 9...
Revolutionary Toilet Technology
This toilet can process human waste without the need for electricity and water! Not only is it an off the grid solution to human waste, but it actually outputs clean water that can be used in the...
In a world of skyrocketing housing costs, a tiny house village for the homeless is a revolutionary idea! The only thing better might be the 9 year old girl who is building tiny houses for individuals to own.
The Lutheran...
Kristen Dirksen makes some of the most amazing mini documentaries about alternative homes. She travels all over the world visiting people who live to create alternative homes. From Treehouses to Spaceship homes, she covers it all.
Recently she visited a...
This kind-hearted activist is inspired to help the homeless by building them safe and mobile housing units called tiny homes.
We’ve featured some incredible young activists on the site before, but this nine-year-old girl from Bremerton, Washington is positively impacting...
The Next Generation "Farm from a Box", brings individuals or communities a modified shipping container that allows them to prosper by creating their own sustainable agriculture. A shipping container solar powered farm would be wonderful to have in disaster struck...
If building the ultimate coffee table with shipping pallets was a little O.D. for you, we've found you a simpler (perhaps gorgeous-er) project to get you on the pallet bandwagon.
Here's what you'll need:
Pallet or Reclaimed Wood
Plywood (sized for your tabletop –...