Our Little Thing - Creating A Sustainable Lifestyle In Patagonia
Creación de un estilo de vida sostenible en Patagonia パタゴニアでサステイナブルな暮らし作り
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Eco Dome construction by Super-Adobe technique - Construcción de una Eco Domo por técnica de Super-Adobe - アースバックの技術を使用したエコドーム建設
This explains Eco Dome construction using Super-Adobe technique, which is the similar system we used to build our house in La Junta.
Este explica construcción de una Eco Domo por técnica de Super-Adobe. Sistema similar que nuestra casa in La…
ContinueAdded by Konomi Kikuchi on September 12, 2012 at 8:00pm — 3 Comments
Birds Eye View Of Our Little Thing
Yesterday we visited our friend Cristiano Giordani's land, with our next door neighbours and their dogs. He…
ContinueAdded by Konomi Kikuchi on September 3, 2012 at 11:30pm — No Comments
Harvest Season in Patagonia - Abundance in Life 収穫の秋！人生がぐんと豊かに。
Last spring, I have planted more than 30 types of vegetables and herbs in our permaculture garden, and now we are harvesting plenty of vegetable, all organic. Our garden did very well and amazed all the visitors. (Here in Southern Hemisphere, it's autumn in March)
I learned how to make…
ContinueAdded by Konomi Kikuchi on March 28, 2012 at 1:30pm — 4 Comments
アースバックで作るビニールハウス－パタゴニアの厳しい環境に耐え、多種類の野菜を生産するユニークな仕組み
Added by Konomi Kikuchi on November 5, 2011 at 8:16pm — No Comments
THE HAWK IN FRONT OF THE WINDOW! 目の前に鷹が降りて来た！
One morning, I noticed a hawk flying very low around our house. Looking out t hrough the window, I could see him circling around, then next thing you know, he landed just in front of me, on the other side of the glass, 50cm away, looking curiously into the window. I picked up our…
ContinueAdded by Konomi Kikuchi on November 2, 2011 at 6:44pm — 4 Comments
Building a Compost Toilet - House of Rising Sun コンポストトイレ（朝日のあたる家）を作る
Choosing A Slope With A ViewAdded by Konomi Kikuchi on December 27, 2010 at 8:00pm — 2 Comments
Back in Patagonia with Friends 友達と一緒にパタゴニアに戻ってきました
Added by Konomi Kikuchi on December 27, 2010 at 7:00pm — 1 Comment
OUR NEW HOUSE AS ANCIENT GREEN APPEAL アースバックと芝草の家
Added by Konomi Kikuchi on September 27, 2010 at 2:30am — 1 Comment
Plant 20,000 trees in ONE MINUTE! - Planta de los 20.000 árboles en UN MINUTO !
Added by Konomi Kikuchi on September 14, 2010 at 7:30pm — No Comments
Updates - Outside Wall
This is the south side of our house. Now we are building north and west sides. In the meanwhile, we planted fruits trees and rasberry bush on our…
Added by Konomi Kikuchi on August 13, 2010 at 10:30pm — 4 Comments
Tale of The Fifth Valley in Patagonia パタゴニア 第五の谷の物語
On the third week of Mayumi's stay, we went to Valle El Quinto (The Fifth Valley) where we have our second land. We had been there three times in last three years but never had a chance to stay longer than one hour. This time we decided to stay overnight at Lucio's farm…
ContinueAdded by Konomi Kikuchi on July 15, 2010 at 5:30pm — 3 Comments
Do What We Can, Do It While We Can できることを見つけて、それをやろう
Mayumi has been a great help. She enjoys everything she does. She doesn'd mind cold or bad weather. She always find something positive in any situation. That's a wonderful talent. Inspired by her, we worked even harder. Paul made a frame for chimney and three of us installed a fire place. It was difficult and it took us all day until after dark. However, full moon helped us illuminating the roof and chimeny. Mayumi said, "the moon is shining on us saying you should get it…
ContinueAdded by Konomi Kikuchi on July 9, 2010 at 12:30pm — 1 Comment
Winter has come to Patagonia and We have a fire place!! パタゴニアは本格的に冬の到来
パタゴニアは本格的に冬の到来です。雪が山を降りてきて、水溜りに氷が張り、大きな霜柱が立つようになりました。
霜柱を踏みながら歩くのは、本当に久しぶり！楽しくてわくわくする。。。のですが、アースバックホームは壁の材料になっている土が凍ってしまわないようにしなければなりません！
Winter has come to Patagonia. Snow is getting closer, ice in the pond, and big frost on the ground. It is fun walking on the frost, but it is not good for the earthbag walls because they might…
ContinueAdded by Konomi Kikuchi on June 22, 2010 at 9:29pm — 5 Comments
パタゴニアの秘境 Secret Place in Patagonia
Added by Konomi Kikuchi on April 24, 2010 at 11:00pm — 1 Comment
Roof is Done! 屋根が出来上がりました
After we finished our roof structure and all the volunters had left in mid April, we had rain almost everyday. Paul did almost all the roofing work and it took us one month...and finally we did it!
棟上げをしてから１ヶ月！４月の半ばから毎日ほとんど雨だったこと、ほとんどの作業をポールが一人でやったということもあり（私は材木を運んだり、足場を運んだり・・・）、思ったよりも時間がかかりました。
でも、やり遂げました。
The challenge we fased were...
1) The roof has to be strong enough to support green roof.
2) The roof has to have…
Added by Konomi Kikuchi on April 19, 2010 at 12:30pm — No Comments
Turf walls and cabins we did not expect to build 次はキャビンを作り、芝草で壁を覆う
Icelandic Turf Houses
House of Erik The Red, the King who settled Greenland. House was built about 1000 years ago.
Beautiful Wall Pattern &…
ContinueAdded by Konomi Kikuchi on February 21, 2010 at 11:00am — 4 Comments
Summer Festival in La Junta ラ・フンタの夏祭りと３人目のボランティア到着
It's been three months since we came to Chile, so in mid January we traveled to Argentina over on the other side of the Andes to get another three month tourist visa. We are going to apply for a permanent visa once we get our house built, but until then it is necessary to renew our visa every three months.
In Argentina we…
ContinueAdded by Konomi Kikuchi on February 9, 2010 at 4:30pm — 4 Comments
DIGGING FOR DOMES ドームを作る場所を掘り始める
アースバックに入れる土に有機物が混ざっていると、年月がたってそれがバックの中で芽を出したり成長したりして、固まった土がひび割れする原因になる可能性があるらしい。
そこで、有機物はアースバックに使わないのだ。
すっかり表土を取り除くのに、二人で６時間かかった。
We started to dig on December 10th. We removed turf from the surface and the top soil which was 50cm deep.
We don't use top soil for earthbags because organic matters might grow out… Continue
Added by Konomi Kikuchi on January 5, 2010 at 11:00pm — 1 Comment
Essay For 'Earthist' 「EARTHIST」の巻頭ページにパタゴニア紀行が掲載されました。
Paul is now a main columnist for the newly created 'Earthist' Magazine. The first essay is "Why Pagatonia?" and talks about our reason for choosing to build our home there.
This issue also features Dr. Noel Brown, former UN Environmental Program Director (UNEP). He was one of the key figures at the 1990 UN Earth Summit in Rio De Janeiro who coined the term 'Earthwalker' after he met… Continue
Added by Konomi Kikuchi on January 4, 2010 at 11:30am — 1 Comment
さて、どこに穴を掘る？ Where do we dig?
１１月２８日に新しいビニールハウスが完成して、次はドームハウスのデザインに移った。
もともと1年前に設計した家は、５メートルドームと３メートルドームを２つずつ作り、それを３メートルの壁で囲んでいくという計画で、２００平米の大きな家ができあがる予定だった。でも、実際にやり始めてみると、最初に小さな家を作って、そこに住みながら大きな家を作った方がいいという結論に達した。
After we completed our poly-tunnel on November 28th, we moved on to designing our dome house.
About a year ago, we came to this land and designed our two bedroom house with a conservatory. We were going to build four domes and… Continue
Added by Konomi Kikuchi on December 30, 2009 at 9:30pm — No Comments
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- Birds Eye View Of Our Little Thing
- Harvest Season in Patagonia - Abundance in Life 収穫の秋！人生がぐんと豊かに。
- アースバックで作るビニールハウス－パタゴニアの厳しい環境に耐え、多種類の野菜を生産するユニークな仕組み
- THE HAWK IN FRONT OF THE WINDOW! 目の前に鷹が降りて来た！
- Building a Compost Toilet - House of Rising Sun コンポストトイレ（朝日のあたる家）を作る
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