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Underground housing is a concept whose time has come again. Its advantages over above-ground housing are spectacular. It stays warm in the winter and cool in the summer. It blends in with nature rather than rearing above it. It can double the yard space in a city. To the neighbors it looks like a park. It is the most environmentally sound. It uses half the building materials. It is the safest form of housing: it is fire resistant, radiation resistant and is impervious to tornado and hurricane strength winds. It even does better in earthquakes. Where are the traditional tornado shelters located? Where are the fallout shelters? Where does an army go to defend itself? In a world that is increasingly hostile, it’s really nice to know that Mother Earth herself is providing your safety.
The $15,000 Ridge House, now under construction on Mike Oehler's land Here is what Home & Garden Network (HGTV) had to say about Mike Oehler's underground house, on a special called "The Subterraneans", which has aired frequently. (Check your schedule for future airings): "This guy literally wrote the book on subterranean housing and sold more than 90,000 copies of The $50 & Up Underground House Book. He lives in his own creation. It's a little snug but it's custom built and has all the creature comforts. You can barely see it, a dream get away nestled deep in the mountains of scenic Northern Idaho on 40 acres of land. Imagine it, all yours for $500. That's what subterranean pioneer Mike Oehler created when he... built one of the nations first underground houses in 1971... Today his little house in a hillside is a rustic gem... It's like having an underground log cabin... and somehow eight feet underground there's still lots of light here. Mike has developed what he calls an Up Hill Patio, a cut behind the house and into the hill, where plants can grow and light and air flow through the house. MIKE: "I think I've got the only system in the country, maybe the world where you get light, air and views from two or three directions in each and every room in the underground house.' Please read Countryside Magazine's article on Mike Oehler's work. Click here. Learn about Mike Oehler's $50 & Up Underground House Book, or about the Underground Housing Video or DVD Set. Or use the menu at left for more information. Only $19.95 NOW AVAILABLE!
THE EARTH-SHELTERED The Earth-Sheltered Solar Greenhouse Book has 230 pages with nearly 200 illustrations, photos, diagrams, lists, charts and drawings. It contains all the information you need to struggle free from the pesticide, herbicide, fungicide, waxed, E-coli laden, genetically modified and irradiated supermarket produce. It promotes organic food grown in the closest local spot of all, your backyard. It does all this and saves you a bundle of money too! The Earth-Sheltered Solar Greenhouse Book details the benefits of both passive solar energy and earth sheltering in greenhouse design. This combination results in greenhouses which need no heating. The captured sun's energy and that which is stored in the earth is enough for successful year round harvest. Gone are costly heating bills. Gone is the squander of nonrenewable energy resources and the resultant atmospheric harm. This is because above-ground unheated greenhouses get natural heat at night from only one side, the floor. They lose heat from the other five sides. The properly designed earth-sheltered greenhouse is naturally warmed at night -- and in the winter -- from five sides and loses heat from only one, the carefully selected glazing. The ratio is exactly reversed. This book tells all. It takes you step by step through the construction of an inexpensive greenhouse which may be built with either newly purchased or salvaged building materials at great savings. It explains the author's unique Post/Shoring/Polyethylene construction methods which Countryside Magazine called “Revolutionary... innovative and ingenious... a totally different concept.” The book deals heavily with design so that the reader may custom-build a greenhouse perfect for the particular climate and needs. It tells : • How to use gravity to warm winter plants • How to effectively capture and store the sun's heat • How to make up for poor sunlight free of cost • How to automatically vent without power • How to choose the best glazing for your project • Where to find free building materials • When to use heat tubes and • How to use a root cellar in tandem with the greenhouse • Where to use insulation with wonderful effect (and where to absolutely avoid it) • How to deal with plant pests organically • What animals should be living in the greenhouse? • And hundreds of more tips. Seasoned gardeners will immediately understand the great benefits of growing in a greenhouse that needs little or no additional heat for year round harvest. Beginning gardeners will discover the deep joys and therapeutic value of gardening -- without the bitter disappointment of seeing their hard won plants freeze to death in the fall. All gardeners will appreciate the year round healthful, flavorful food, food that is almost free of cost. And all gardeners will greatly appreciate being able to work or lounge in the sun on the bitterest winter day. It's like being in Florida or on the Riviera without the expense and inconvenience of travel. With a little adaptation your greenhouse might serve as a storm shelter also, seeing as part of it is eight foot deep. It could conceivably keep a family alive over a winter when fuel was not available. And, of course, it could feed a family were food the food supply disrupted. A year round therapeutic hobby; basking in the sun on bitter winter days; gloriously healthy food; a corresponding decrease in medical bills, not to mention food bills; plus shelter from the storm and civilization's failure are compelling reasons for building an earth-sheltered solar greenhouse. Peter Andrews, founder of Eco-Logic Books in the United Kingdom calls The Earth-Sheltered Solar Greenhouse Book a, “Splendid, practical handbook -- essential reading for anyone looking to extend their growing season. Thoroughly recommended.” Only $24.95 NOW AVAILABLE!
The Hippy Survival Guide to Y2K |
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 Okay, Y2K didn't happen. It was a non event. But many people feel like something is going to happen, something big. It is the nature of all things on earth to change and the whiff of catastrophe is in the air. In a society where less than two percent of the population is providing food for the other 98% and where that two percent is totally dependent on oil and fallible technology to keep operating, and where close to 100% of the population will have little if any idea how to survive in the event that services are disrupted, and where there there are powerful enemies of that society vowing disruption not to mention natures impending revenge for the disregard for her rules – well when you add it all up it seems not only possible but probable that civilization as we know it is living on borrowed time.
The first part of The Hippy Survival Guide is charmingly dated. It is recent history, and history of the hippy generation, and should be read and treasured as such. But, as Trish Gannon of The River Journal writes: "As interesting as the first part of the book is it's in the second half where Oehler shines. 'The second thing I'm going to offer you is some simple survival strategies to get you through the trials,' he writes. In 1971 he built his first underground house where he still lives today. It has never had running water, nor (grid) electricity, and is heated solely by the wood that Oehler provides. A self-described back-to-the-lander, Oehler has personal experience in milking cows,butchering livestock, growing organic gardens and preserving what he raises. He's been sharing that knowledge for years as an author and lecturer. "In Hippy Y2K, Oehler takes the reader through the basics, beginning with shelter and heating and covering such topics as potable water, latrines, food supplies and storage. He also includes information on financial strategies. In true hippy fashion, Oehler finishes the book with a plea for changing the world. 'Most of the world's problems can be solved by a change in lifestyle and a shift in spirituality,' he writes, and after 288 pages, you think he just might have a point." Bill London in the Lewiston Tribune says the book has, "solid suggestions for emergency pit housing and other survival options ... he's done his research well," and calls it, "appealingly autobiographical ... an entertaining glimpse into the life of one of Idaho's backwoods hermits – try this book." The customers of Amazon.com give this book a five star rating. Only $14.95 NOW AVAILABLE!
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