Renewable Energy Archives - Earthaven Ecovillage

My Firewood Stack

Written by NikiAnne Feinberg on June 1, 2021. Posted in Earthaven Education, Heat, Off-Grid Living, Online Events, Village Life, Visitors. No Comments on My Firewood Stack

At Earthaven Ecovillage, we do a lot more “chop wood, carry water” than the average American. In some ways it makes life harder and in some ways it makes life better. Taking care of the physical world so that it can take care of me helps me stay embodied, humble, and connected to this great...

Touring Earthaven during Ecovillage Experience Week

Spend A Week At My Place

Written by NikiAnne Feinberg on May 29, 2021. Posted in Culture Restoration, Earthaven Education, Ecological Design, In-Person Events, Regenerative Agriculture, Renewable Energy, Village Life, Visitors. No Comments on Spend A Week At My Place

We will play, we will tour, we will work, we will talk, we will learn, we will connect, we will grow. If you’ve been thinking of visiting or moving or emulating or experiencing Earthaven Ecovillage, now is your chance. You will experience many aspects of our imperfect but valiant attempts...

Solar Hot Water at Earthaven Ecovillage

Written by Courtney Brooke on May 17, 2021. Posted in Hut Hamlet, Off-Grid Living, Renewable Energy, Solar Power, Water. No Comments on Solar Hot Water at Earthaven Ecovillage

(Transcript from video): Courtney Brooke: Good morning Zev. Zev: Good morning. Courtney Brooke: What are you doing? Zev: I just took the cover off our solar hot water panel. It was covered for the winter and now the sun is hitting it. I let water in and that’s going to be heating water up...

ClubCar: Our golf cart with a solar panel on top at Earthaven Ecovillage

Written by Courtney Brooke on May 2, 2021. Posted in Renewable Energy, Solar Power, Village Life. No Comments on ClubCar: Our golf cart with a solar panel on top at Earthaven Ecovillage

Transcript from video: Courtney Brooke: Here’s our new ride, the club car. It’s a golf cart for cruising around Earthaven, but the news about it is that it’s got a solar panel on top so you can charge it with electricity. But that’s pretty challenging to do when...

NikiAnne and the Firewood Stack at Earthaven Ecovillage

Written by Lee Warren on March 25, 2021. Posted in Heat, Village Life. No Comments on NikiAnne and the Firewood Stack at Earthaven Ecovillage

Transcription from video: NikiAnne: Oh my gosh, I love my firewood. Thanks to my partner Chris Farmer who built this! This is under a plastic like greenhouse roofing corrugated that allows a lot of sun to get through. Keeps it dry and we have cut it to really short lengths so that it fits in our...

Dr. Monique Mazza’s Vermiculture Mini-Workshop. Part 2. At Earthaven Ecovillage

Written by Courtney Brooke on March 21, 2021. Posted in Gardens, Regenerative Agriculture, Video, Waste. No Comments on Dr. Monique Mazza’s Vermiculture Mini-Workshop. Part 2. At Earthaven Ecovillage

Dr. Monique Mazza: Hey y’all! This is Dr. Monique Mazza from Earthaven Ecovillage with part two of our vermiculture video. In the first part we already went over how to feed our worms and set them up so they’re going to be happy critters and producing worm castings for you in the first...

Dr. Monique Mazza’s Vermiculture Mini-Workshop. Part 1. At Earthaven Ecovillage

Written by Courtney Brooke on March 20, 2021. Posted in Gardens, Video, Waste. No Comments on Dr. Monique Mazza’s Vermiculture Mini-Workshop. Part 1. At Earthaven Ecovillage

(transcript from video) Hi! This is Monique Mazza. I’m a Naturopathic physician and I live at Earthaven Ecovillage. I’m going to show y’all today working with my friends the worms to help us make really nutritious fertilizer for the soil which helps us have more medicinal foods....

Making Bamboo Bio Char in a Kon-Tiki Kiln

Written by Courtney Brooke on March 15, 2021. Posted in Regenerative Agriculture, Renewable Energy. 1 Comment on Making Bamboo Bio Char in a Kon-Tiki Kiln

Transcript of Making Bamboo Charcoal in a Kon-Tiki Kiln Courtney Brooke: So I was coming to park in my driveway at my house and then it’s like well there’s a fire in my driveway. So now we’re going to see what’s happening with a driveway fire. Something...

Earthaven Tiny Housing Boom

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on August 3, 2018. Posted in Bellavia Gardens, Ecological Design, Hawk Hollar, Off-Grid Living, Persimmon Grove. No Comments on Earthaven Tiny Housing Boom

Simultaneously this year, three new members in three different neighborhoods are working on setting up their own unique versions of the tiny house. Near the front of the property, in the Forest Garden neighborhood, Liz Diaz and Joseph Rasband have just moved into their creation. Joseph built the...

Stepping into 2018!

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on January 25, 2018. Posted in Articles, Ecological Design, Membership, Off-Grid Living, Visitors. No Comments on Stepping into 2018!

While it’s hard to be encouraged by the way humans are utilizing planetary resources and influences, to some extent it just makes us hunker down even more, to mine those inner resources that will help us go the distance—get another project done, another plan designed, even explore another...