my Natural Building Philosophy ~ Finding a Balance Between Sustainability and Good Enough
How do you select the most ecological materials for building sustainably?
And what do you do when ecological materials aren't available?
This year I set a goal for myself to share more short form videos about the building of our tiny house. This one was meant to show what we got up to last week and ended up being a little bit of my "natural building philosophy".
This holiday season I came across some opposing attitudes about ecological living. Namely a friend who is strongly against interacting with the forest for fear of destroying it. On the other hand she buys bags & bags of soil for her work in a nursery. And those are plastic bags I might add. I adore her & truly appreciate the work she does but just can't get behind some of her philosophies about what is and isn't ecological.
It gets really complicated when the topic of natural building is broached. We want to live in harmony with nature and personally I don't think I can do that while living in an apartment in the city. For this build we have to buy wood that isn't cultivated in the most mindful way. But, whenever possible, we take the time to mindfully collect the materials abundant in our zone. And that is a compromise I can live with.
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