by nevillenav | Apr 15, 2016 | Living It
Looking back on our efforts to be “off the grid”, I think that in general we have done a good job of working with the sun to heat, cool and provide electricity for our home but it was not without some very painful “missteps” and hard learned lessons along the way. ...
by nevillenav | Nov 15, 2015 | Living It
Setting out on this grand adventure we wanted to model how not to mess-up more of our natural world than was necessary. In sustainable development thinking, this is called leaving a minimal Ecological Footprint (EF). This is a measurement of how many acres of...
by nevillenav | Nov 8, 2015 | Living It
Well it appears that our “crazy ride” to build an off the grid home and live green is finally starting to slow down…a little! I woke up last week to realize that we had one more wall to throw mud (natural plaster) on, and our DIY home solar system to...
by nevillenav | Oct 25, 2014 | Living It
Is our world a mess? I think we all would answer a big yes That response then begs the question, Do you care? that sounds a little bit like the start of a SPCA commercial to rescue abused pets, but in this case the real question is, Do we care about the future of the...
by nevillenav | Sep 24, 2014 | Living It
It’s been a while since we last chatted and a lot has gone on here in the gorgeous Mojave Desert at the Sustainable Learning Center (SLC). We had a spectacular wild flower bloom this Spring- with the purples, yellows and reds flowing down into our back door. A...
by nevillenav | Feb 22, 2014 | Energy, Living It
Although I have always had a deep love of nature and strong awareness of fairness/equity for other people, embedded from growing up in the incredible natural beauty of the South African “Veldt” and experiencing Apartheid first hand- I would say that last year (2013)...
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