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RE: A Season of Steemit: Believe It Or Not, Steemfest Was Not The Most Epic Experience Of My Time In This Revolution
One of the most powerful posting I have read on STEEMIT.COM yet! Wow, what an amazing result for you and us all on the long-run. This is so inspiring. Maybe, now, you could give a bit of a description on how your crew can live on about $1.00/day? It might very well come quite a handy piece of knowledge for the ones among us wanting to live as sustainably as possible. ;) Congratulations and namaste from Haida Gwaii! :)
Thank you @eric-boucher, that is an epic statement! I believe that the GOE has lived the revolution for many years, and now Steemit has come to bless us all with a digital complement. It's so great to see this incredible platform support, encourage, and inspire real, meaningful change in this world! It really is inspiring to be part of it.
How we live on $1/day is a great idea for a post! Basically every single aspect of life is different, and we use way less of everything! We cook in our outdoor kitchen over rocket stoves built from dirt that burn scrap wood--we don't need electricity for it. We don't have heating or air conditioning. We have composting toilets that don't use water. We don't shop at stores. We repurpose materials for building projects. We don't eat at restaurants or go to the movies or bars or clubs or sporting events or wherever else consumers go. I'm happy to genuinely consider my needs and either trade, barter, or go without something. It's interesting to see how new people adjust to life here, because for the first time ever they are faced with their potentially mindless, habitual consumption and have to consider their true values.
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Thanks for your excellent and highly appreciated reply, it warms my heart to read this while providing for more glimmers of hope in our humanity's future. I guess you live in a fairly warm and dry moderate to hot climate then, from what I am assuming based on your reply? Namaste :)
We're in Arlington, Texas, and weather is fairly erratic here. Last year we got so much rain that we had to dig trenches throughout the garden to divert the floods from drowning our plants, but this year was relatively dry. Many summer days get over 100 degrees F, and many winter days drop below freezing. It's been cold this week. In a few days the weather is forecasted to drop a whole 50 degrees in one day! We learn to adapt.
As for heat in winter, we have an indoor wood burning stove to heat the main rooms of the house. We put rocks on the stove to heat up in the evening, then we wrap them in wool or towels and take them to bed. Hot rocks are one of my favorite treats of the year; it is absolute heaven to sleep outside in crispy cold air but to stay all warm and snuggly under the covers all night long!
Have you considered using a spiral of pipes either filled with water and propylene glycol, or oil and have it passover the heat of your stove? This way, the fluid moves with the pressure of the heat toward the cold, where the main spiral center is, and you have radiating heat rising to the surface heating the inside of your home. some people in yurts use a bed build over the actual stove which is casted in a mound of dirt hardened into some sort of concrete. I also have my own "hard-top" tent for the cold winters here, and greatly enjoy the cool night sleep. I simply LOVe fresh air! Thanks for your reply, stay warm, keep your smile, thrive on and namaste :)
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/223771102_Chinese_kang_as_a_domestic_heating_system_in_rural_northern_China-A_review
Cool, sounds like an effective solution! Do you have any pictures of these yurt stove beds?
Love this.......