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Icon & Proverb
The horse icon represents both a renewable resource (it can be consumed) and a renewable service - pulling a cart, plough or log (a non consuming use). The proverb “let nature take it’s course” reminds us that control over nature through excessive resource use and high technology is not only expensive, but can have a negative effect on our environment.
Photo Story
Gustavo Ramírez, a co-founder of Ecovilla Gaia in Argentina, demonstrates a solar cooker which, when orientated towards the sun, concentrates the sun’s rays on the pot to heat water or cook. Although resources have gone into making the cooker, it consumes very little, just the energy to move and maintain it.
The building in the background is made from a cob mix of earth, straw, sand and water on a cement floor base with an earthen floor top coat. The roof is made on a framework of eucalypt poles and bamboo with a thatched straw roof. The overwhelming majority of materials used to build this house are renewable resources available locally.
See photolog for other illustrations of this principle |
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