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Popular in Europe for decades...starting to catch on in the rest of the world. The price of a natural swimming pool are comparable to an inground pool, yet maintenance costs are much less. Have you ever thought about how many pounds of chemicals go into a typical swimming pool? Let nature do the work for free.
Reconstructed, reuse, recycled, reclaimed kitchen ideas...
Dirt cheap....earthbag building is also known as superadobe, flexible-form rammed earth or sandbag construction. Whatever you call it, it is earthquake resistant, flood resistant, hurricane resistant, fire resistant and termite proof.
Flooding is a natural function of rivers. Sea levels are predicted to rise. There are two types of floating homes, permanently floating homes and homes that float only when flood waters swell, but sit on the ground during the dry season. Requiring the later on new construction within floodplains, and considering same for threatened shorelines, is one way to plan for the future. Although floating homes near the coast need protected waters, wave attenuation through wave walls and dykes (as used in Europe) are a future possibility. Inaction is costly. Some inspiration for those on waterways...
Cardboard reuse -- turn your cardboard into chairs, tables or bookshelves. With some used cardboard, tape, earth-friendly glue, scissors and a utility knife you could furnish your entire home...
Plastic Bottle Schools are being built around the world...
Aluminum can walls and homes. Can do aluminum inspiration...
Plastic Waste Lighting...
"Re-use as a design tool (and material) is still extremely under explored, and it holds so much potential – both as a source of raw material and as a beautiful limitation." Heath Nash
Cork Chair Inspiration...
Sustainable Chair Inspiration.... Reuse Chairs
Vertical Farm Inspiration from practical to futuristic... Will the public pay for these structures and let the farmlands return to the wild?
The Green Wall. Inside and out. Lots and lots of inspiration...
Glass bottle walls, houses, chairs and more...
There are numerous builders around the world filling up used plastic bottles with mud or sand and creating schools, stores, homes, greenhouses... The possibilities are endless. Lots of pictures to inspire...
From hockey sticks to leather cows. A photo list of bench ideas...
In the future; will we give back the land to native plants and animals and live up in the trees? Hovering aircraft are available, we just need to wait for the clean energy versions... If we compost our waste, give up plastics and petroleum, grow hydrophonically...what would our new footprint be? More photos...
Are wooden bathtubs environmentally positive? If you grew the bamboo or cedar in your backyard and then made it yourself- definitely! These examples might not be the greenest and they cost a pretty penny, but it must feel wonderful to bath in wood. In the past bathtubs were made of wood, marble or ceramic tile. Cast-iron starting in the 1880s, then enamel over steel...now mostly formed acrylic, fiberglass or porcelain on steel. Wood holds heat longer than other tub materials. Unfinished wood tubs must be used regularly or kept partially filled with a bit of water to prevent them from drying out and warping or shrinking.
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Outdoor Masonry Oven Inspiration
Masonry oven in Pittsburg, PA.
www.rumford.com
Outdoor bread oven in Vermont by Champlain Valley Landscaping.
www.champlainvalleylandscaping.com
Bread oven in California built by Alan Scott in the style of the great stone French ovens. ovencrafters.net
Wood-fired oven in Waters, Michigan.
Built from a Los Angeles Ovenworks refractory clay kit.*
*www.losangelesovenworks.com
Wood burning oven, Blue Mountain, Pennsylvania.
The owner used local stone. Built from a Los Angeles Ovenworks refractory clay kit.*
*www.losangelesovenworks.com
How to construct a bread oven. Fritz Bogott of Northfield, MN. gives step by step instructions: www.instructables.com
Wood-fired Oven
Built by Mark Mendel of:
www.montereymasonry.com
Wood burning oven in Oregon.
By paradiserestored.com
Wood-fired pizza oven.
www.mugnaini.com
Outdoor Kitchen
Del Mar, California
www.losangelesovenworks.com
Wood-fired pizza oven.
www.mugnaini.com
Wood-fired stone pizza oven.
www.mugnaini.com
Pizza oven and wisteria arch.
www.mugnaini.com
Outdoor kitchen in Camden, Maine.
Design by Deborah Chatfield.
Via: www.gardendesign.com
Outdoor stone pizza oven in Camden, Maine.
Design by Deborah Chatfield.
Via: www.gardendesign.com
Wood-fired oven.
kitchenbuilding.com
Wood-fired oven.
www.mugnaini.com
Wood fired oven in Marysville, Washington.
fornobravo.com
Wood fired oven in over-the-top outdoor kitchen.
chicagobrickoven.com
Wood fired oven
earthstoneovens.com
Benefits of Outdoor Ovens:
Shorter cooking times because you can cook at higher temps. These ovens can get to 1000F and the stone holds the heat evenly, cooking the food with retained, radiant heat from all sides and conduction from the hearth. When you burn wood fast and at a high temperature the wood burns efficiently. Burn wood slowly and it creates soot and particulate matter.
An outdoor oven in the summer keeps the heat outside. An indoor stone oven in the winter, especially in combination with a masonry heater, keeps the heat inside.
Stone ovens do not hold moisture, so breads become crusty on the outside. If you start with a wet dough, the crust will seal in the bread's moisture, within the loaf.
An electric oven might draw 3500 watts per hour to maintain a 550F temp. Three pieces of hardwood, depending on oven dimensions and insulation, might give you a hot oven for a few hours.
Two types of ovens:
A black or Roman oven is one in which the fire (source of heat) is in the same oven chamber where the food is to be cooked. The food can enter the chamber after the fire has been pushed to the side (such as when cooking pizza), or the fire is taken out after the interior of the oven has been heated to a sufficient temperature, and then foodstuffs such as bread are placed inside and cooked by the radiant heat retained by the masonry. Ovens used for bread should have more mass than ovens used for pizza alone.
A white oven has a separate firebox directly below the baking chamber.
Ceramic Oven Kit
Kits and Plans:
There are numerous types of kits available for the central oven itself:
Multiple prefabricated ceramic parts.
Multiple prefabricated concrete parts.
A single cast piece of concrete.
A single prefabricated oven unit.
DIY center oven can be made from::
Hearth slab and mortared fire brick.
Hearth slab and cob. (See cob oven page.)
Stacked bricks or dry-laid stone.
DIY:
www.traditionaloven.com
Ceramic Kits:
Forno Bravo
Le Panyol
Mugnaini
Superior Clay
Vesuvio: woodfireovens.net
Valoriani kit via Jaimie Oliver
Los Angeles Ovenworks
Concrete:
Artesianovens.com
firerock.us
OmniPro Pittsburg
Chicago Brick Oven, Mario Batali
EarthStone
Rumford.com
Rocky Mountain Stove.com
Great downloadable plans to build around a kit here: www.losangelesovenworks.com
Books:
The Bread Builders: Hearth Loaves and Masonry Ovens by
Daniel Wing and Alan Scott, www.amazon.com
Cooking:
www.woodfiredkitchen.com
Mobile and Countertop Units:
fornobravo.com
theoutdoorpizzaoven.com
earthstoneovens.com
losangelesovenworks.com
firepitsite.com/chiminea-pizza-oven
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Popular in Europe for decades...starting to catch on in the rest of the world. The price of a natural swimming pool are comparable to an inground pool, yet maintenance costs are much less. Have you ever thought about how many pounds of chemicals go into a typical swimming pool? Let nature do the work for free.
Reconstructed, reuse, recycled, reclaimed kitchen ideas...
Dirt cheap....earthbag building is also known as superadobe, flexible-form rammed earth or sandbag construction. Whatever you call it, it is earthquake resistant, flood resistant, hurricane resistant, fire resistant and termite proof.
Flooding is a natural function of rivers. Sea levels are predicted to rise. There are two types of floating homes, permanently floating homes and homes that float only when flood waters swell, but sit on the ground during the dry season. Requiring the later on new construction within floodplains, and considering same for threatened shorelines, is one way to plan for the future. Although floating homes near the coast need protected waters, wave attenuation through wave walls and dykes (as used in Europe) are a future possibility. Inaction is costly. Some inspiration for those on waterways...
Cardboard reuse -- turn your cardboard into chairs, tables or bookshelves. With some used cardboard, tape, earth-friendly glue, scissors and a utility knife you could furnish your entire home...
Plastic Bottle Schools are being built around the world...
Aluminum can walls and homes. Can do aluminum inspiration...
Plastic Waste Lighting...
"Re-use as a design tool (and material) is still extremely under explored, and it holds so much potential – both as a source of raw material and as a beautiful limitation." Heath Nash
Cork Chair Inspiration...
Sustainable Chair Inspiration.... Reuse Chairs
Vertical Farm Inspiration from practical to futuristic... Will the public pay for these structures and let the farmlands return to the wild?
The Green Wall. Inside and out. Lots and lots of inspiration...
Glass bottle walls, houses, chairs and more...
There are numerous builders around the world filling up used plastic bottles with mud or sand and creating schools, stores, homes, greenhouses... The possibilities are endless. Lots of pictures to inspire...
From hockey sticks to leather cows. A photo list of bench ideas...
In the future; will we give back the land to native plants and animals and live up in the trees? Hovering aircraft are available, we just need to wait for the clean energy versions... If we compost our waste, give up plastics and petroleum, grow hydrophonically...what would our new footprint be? More photos...
Are wooden bathtubs environmentally positive? If you grew the bamboo or cedar in your backyard and then made it yourself- definitely! These examples might not be the greenest and they cost a pretty penny, but it must feel wonderful to bath in wood. In the past bathtubs were made of wood, marble or ceramic tile. Cast-iron starting in the 1880s, then enamel over steel...now mostly formed acrylic, fiberglass or porcelain on steel. Wood holds heat longer than other tub materials. Unfinished wood tubs must be used regularly or kept partially filled with a bit of water to prevent them from drying out and warping or shrinking.
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