Green Options » earth sheltered house http://greenoptions.com/tag/earth-sheltered-house Posts tagged 'earth sheltered house' Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:05:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Hand-Build an Earth Sheltered House For $5,000 http://greenbuildingelements.com/2008/12/01/hand-build-an-earth-sheltered-house-for-5000/ http://greenbuildingelements.com/2008/12/01/hand-build-an-earth-sheltered-house-for-5000/#comments Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:05:03 +0000 Susan Kraemer http://greenbuildingelements.com/2008/12/01/hand-build-an-earth-sheltered-house-for-5000/

Cash, that most basic element of our economy, can be in abysmally short supply for new young families scraping by on marginal jobs.

Sustainable housebuilding may not be foremost in their minds.

But one young couple in Wales managing on an annual income of just $10,000 went ahead and built their own cheap home anyway, sustainably, mostly out of materials from “a rubbish pile somewhere.”

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