Living Sol - Consultation, Design and Building
Creating Healthy, Energy Efficient, Environmental Homes And Cottages
Living Sol - Consultation, Design and Building
Photos Of A Strawbale Home Built In 2004
Strawbale Home 2004
Photos Of A Strawbale Home Built In 2003
Strawbale Home 2003
Building A Sustainable Home
Building A Sustainable Home
Living Sol designs and builds healthy homes, cottages, and additions using ecological and sustainable methods, materials, and technologies.
We include building methods such as post and beam, straw bale, earth sheltering, conventional frame and passive solar heating. Our technology designs offer wind and solar electrical applications, alternative domestic hot water systems and radiant floor heat.
Creating a healthy atmosphere and energy efficiency are our priorities, adding integrated alternative energy systems when appropriate.
We are interested in all the ways that your home environment influences your health, comfort and your very well-being!
Our Consultation, Design and Building Services can range from a simple evening’s consultation ... to a thorough design and building experience.
We are a Qualified Designer under the Ontario Building Code.
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Living Sol provides complete home and cottage construction as well as creative renovations and additions. We incorporate sustainable building materials and techniques, minimal waste and recycling of materials.
As well as being well versed in alternative building methods such as straw bale building, we also offer conventional frame construction and insulated concrete form construction, all built to building code standards.
Our Building Sites Are Solar Powered!
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Our House
by Frank Tettemer and Cheryl Keetch
Frank Tettemer and Cheryl Keetch's off-grid home (see link below for photos)
Our house, (Frank Tettemer and Cheryl Keetch), is about 1700 sq. ft., two story, with the lower story earth sheltered on three sides with the south side exposed as a walk out. Roof and first floor overhang designs allow for shade in the summer and passive solar gain in the winter. The primary heat source, for space heating and domestic hot water, is an airtight wood stove, also used for most cooking and baking tasks for half the year. Back-up heat is radiant floor in the downstairs, fired by propane.
During the summer, domestic hot water is obtained through the use of flat plate solar collectors. This solar supply is useful only when the sunny days outnumber the grey days, as storage is only forty gallons. Thus, some propane is used to supplement during extended cloudy periods. Propane is also used for summer time cooking.
The remainder of the home operates on an average of 2 kWh per day, for lighting, water pumping, refrigeration, kitchen appliances, laundry, and entertainment. This electricity is supplied by 26 photovoltaic panels and a small Whisper 1000 wind generator. During extended cloudy periods, (such as this winter!), a gasoline fired generator is run occasionally to charge the bank.
I would like to compare propane use to gas and convert it to kWh, but I'm not sure of the comparison. Perhaps someone would be able to convert liquid propane to cubic meters of gas.
Skye Faris's Off Grid Straw Bale Home (see link below)
Our house used a total of 700 litres of liquid propane, for supplemental heating in winter, cooking and back-up domestic hot water in summer. The total electrical use for the year was 802 kWh for the previously above mentioned electrical appliances. This electrical energy came from solar and wind sources, plus the use of approximately 100 litres of gasoline for back-up generation. Generally speaking though, this house is not completely 100 percent sustainable, as it does consume some fossil fuels.
Our client's home, (Skye Faris), is much closer to being fully sustainable. It is a two story, 1050sq.ft. straw bale home, with much passive solar gain, adequate thermal mass storage, and a solar off-grid electrical system. It was built with a Sunmar composting toilet, and a class II greywater system. Domestic hot water is fully supplied by wood heat in three seasons, and solar water heat in the summer. Cooking is on a wood stove three seasons, and propane during summer. Skye has created her own thermal curtains which she uses to conserve heat loss, when ever there is no solar gain. Thus, she uses less than six face cords of fire wood per year. She also has stated that she goes for two years on a single tank of propane, (equal to 90 litres of liquid propane).
Her entire supplemental energy consumption amounts to six cords of wood and half a one-hundred-pound-cylinder (45 litres) of propane for the year! I would like to offer this home as a prime example of sustainability; something to use as a goal.
For Photos & Original Article See The May 2008 Edition of The Earth Magazine here: http://www.ringingcedarsofrussia.org/theearth/2008_may.html
Note: Updated Wednesday 17th June 2009 8.00pm Sydney Time. Love For Life does not support harm doing in any shape or form. However, we are supporters of free speech and post articles, documentaries, etc, that represent a wide cross section of ideas. See the Love For Life extensive research library where over 6000 documents, articles and videos are posted: http://loveforlife.com.au/issues. We clearly see the evidence of the destruction to MAN and the earth that has been caused by ALL religions over the centuries and are therefore not supporters of religions, cults, sects or any group that demands conformity of thought, speech or action, or has rules, regulations or rituals that must be followed. Religions, nationalities and cultural "identities" are formed as a result of the brainwashing we receive from childhood. They are part of the tactics the Establishment uses to keep us all divided from one another and fighting one another.
All religions promote discrimination and division, leading to hatred and even violence and murder. None of them have yet to produce a remedy to all the suffering, poverty, unhappiness and discrimination in the world. If any religion truly had the remedy to all the suffering on earth, there would no longer be any suffering. What have Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, atheism and the New Age done to end the suffering in the world?
The Love For Life website has information from all sides on many subjects, whether about Islam, Judaism, Christianity, Law, health, psychology, mind control, vaccination, aspartame, MSG, Chemtrails etc. There are over 6000 articles, documentaries etc on the website and they are so diverse that we are sure that everyone would be able to find something they loved and something they hated, if they took the time to search. If we removed all the articles hated by everyone, there would probably be nothing left! We are not anti anyone but freedom of speech is freedom of speech and no one should condemn the work of another without taking the time to research the subject themselves. Yes, there are articles by those who have a less-than-rosy-viewpoint of Judaism, but there are also articles on the dark side of Tibetan Buddhism (and it is very dark) for those who are interested in the truth: Tibet - Buddhism - Dalai Lama: http://loveforlife.com.au/node/6271 Should the authors of these articles be abused and imprisoned for daring to challenge the widely conceived reputation of Buddhism as being the religion of peace and love and that of the Dalai Lama as a saint, or should those interested be allowed to study the work and come to their own conclusions? The same applies to all the articles, documentaries, etc, about Christianity, Islam, Freemasonry, New World Order, etc.
The Love for Life website also shows how the Rule of Law, the Bar, the Government, the Monarchy, the system of commerce, the local, national and multi/trans-national private corporations, all the courses and careers on offer from our universities, all the educators, scientists, academics and experts, the aristocrats and the Establishment bloodlines have also done NOTHING to end the suffering in the world. The website maps the insanity of a world where there is no help for those in need, just as there was no help available for us when we were victims of terrible bank fraud: http://loveforlife.com.au/court_case (orchestrated, condoned and protected by an international crime syndicate/terrorist organisation of judges, barristers, registrars, lawyers, politicians, banksters, big business representatives, media moguls and other lackeys who, all together, put up a wall of silence despite our trying many, many avenues. After the family home was stolen and business destroyed we were left close to poverty and destitution caring for 4 young daughters. Three years later not much has changed regardless of all our efforts. Where were all the followers of all the religions to help us? Or do we have to be members of those religions to receive help from others involved in them?
We have been accused of being anti - Jewish because we had posted an excerpt from James von Brun's book: Kill the Best Gentiles! http://loveforlife.com.au/node/6054 in which he blames Jews for the problems of the world. Obviously this is not our view because of what we have stated above. We do not hate anyone, whatever religion they follow. We are always open to talk to any religious leader or politician and meet with any judge, member of the Bar, experts, academics, educators etc to share the remedy we offer that heals all the divisions between MAN and MAN, and MAN and the EARTH.
Today, a representative of the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies is threatening to close the website down, because they have decided it is anti - Jewish and that we promote racism. What has the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies done to end the suffering in the world? Can they show that they are concerned with the suffering of ALL men, women and children AND ARE SEEN TO BE DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT or are they only concerned with Jewish affairs? If so, they, along with all the other religions that only care for their own, are part of the problem, not part of the solution. The man who rang Arthur today was only concerned with Jewish affairs; he was not interested in our intentions or in anybody else, just as most Christians, Muslims, Sikhs, Catholics, etc, are only interested in their own. While we separate ourselves into groups, dividing ourselves from others with rules, regulations, rituals, procedures and conditions, we will never solve our problems.
No matter what we in the Western World Civilisation of Commerce have been promised by our politicians, religious leaders, scientists, educators, philosophers, etc, for the past two hundred years, all we have seen is ever-increasing destruction of men, women and children and the earth. None of the so-called experts and leaders we have been taught to rely on are coming up with a solution and none of them are taking full-responsibility for the fact that they can't handle the problem. All religious books talk about end times full of destruction and suffering but why do we have to follow this program when there is an alternative to hatred, mayhem and death? Why are our leaders following the program of destruction and death rather than exploring the alternatives? It seems that any mainstream politician, priest or academic are only interested in supporting the RULES OF THE DIVIDE, that maintain the haves and the have nots. For 200+ years, 99% of the world population have been so trained to pass on their responsibility for themselves, others and the earth, that the 1% of the population that make up the leaders of the rest of us are making all the decisions leading to the destruction of all of us and the earth. Let's not forget the education system that brainwashes the 99% of the population that we are free and have equal rights while, in fact, we are feathering the nests of those at the top.
At the root of all our problems is self-centredness, an unwillingness nurtured by the Establishment that keeps us concerned only with our own needs rather than the needs of others around us and the Earth. Instead of creating and releasing acts of love for those around us as gifts to benefit them and the earth, we take, take and take, until there is nothing left. The whole point of the Love for Life website is to show people the root of all our problems and to share the remedy. The extensive research library is there to attract browsers and to provide access to information not available through mainstream channels. If the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies can, after careful examination of our work, prove that anything we are saying is wrong, we will be happy to accept their proof. If they cannot, and they are still insistent on closing the website down, they will be showing themselves to be traitors to MAN because they are not interested in pursuing any avenue that can end the suffering in the world.
All religions, corporations and organisations that support and maintain the Western World Civilisation of Commerce are part of the problem because our civilisation is a world of haves and have nots, racism, violence, hatred, poverty, sickness, discrimination, abuse, starvation, homelessness, corruption, collusion, vindictiveness, social unrest, arrogance, ignorance, fear, war and chaos. While we support civilisation, we support death and destruction because ALL civilisations that have ever existed are apocalyptic by design.
If we truly want peace on earth and freedom for all, we have to let go of all that which keeps us divided, and come together as MAN, conscious living co-creators of creation. The Love For Life website offers a remedy to the problems we all face in the form of DO NO HARM COMMUNITIES: http://loveforlife.com.au/node/3641 For more details see here: http://loveforlife.com.au/node/6511 and here: http://loveforlife.com.au/node/3385 - We also highly recommend that everyone read the brilliant Russian books called The Ringing Cedars: http://loveforlife.com.au/node/1125 - The Love For Life homepage/front-page also provides lots of inspiring remedy based information: http://loveforlife.com.au - If you want to be kept up to date with our work please register to the Love For Life mailing list here: http://loveforlife.com.au/campaign_list We usually send two postings per month. Presently there are over 5000 registrations reaching over 200,000 readers globally. The website now receives over 2 million strikes per month with June 2009 heading close to (or over) 3 million strikes.
Conscious Love Always
Arthur and Fiona Cristian
Love For Life
17th June 2009