Tiny house OFF THE GRID

A Snowboarder's Unbelievable Tiny House

Pro-snowboarder, Mike Basich, tours his self-built 225 square foot home in the middle of his 40 acre snow covered property near Truckee, CA - and shows how being close to nature drives his most creative decisions.

In Going Off Grid, Laura Ling examines how 180,000 Americans a year are choosing to live entirely disconnected from our modern internet-focused world in pursuit of a more sustainable, simple lifestyle.
 WATCH IT HERE. (Can't embed it)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sadOfmkTtpw

Cheaper, cleaner solar cells

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hgMEEexxBE

Learn more here and let's hope they can make it. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/rayton-solar-cheaper-than-fossil-fuels
and here http://www.raytonsolar.com/2014/12/19/rayton-solar

Aldar HQ - How it was built

You might have seen that reportage about the amazing building. On French TV yesterday.
Very interesting. I like the English version even better.
http://tune.pk/video/4052108/aldar-headquarters-the-world-first-circular-round-skyscraper-mega-construction-abu-dhabi

POWER

Renewable energies are definitely the future. I mean, the present...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ebola-cases-exceed-16-000-worldwide-who-says-1.2854642

Construction site videos

Improve your English with these videos. Train, listen and repeat.
1) Easy lesson  A construction site
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiTTras9pLE&list=PLozkjIPMgGf_U7k28tYghDrfxIOAHk7I2

2) Another easy lesson: This vocabulary lesson teaches students about jobs / professions in construction. Students learn the names of professions (e.g. plumber, electrician) and verbs to describe what construction professionals do.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhFIBuk3YYg

3) Now, more technical and more difficult: BEAM ONE
It is the technical description speaking of distributing forces, cross sections and so on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK7yYVH_uXM#t=28

Great thanks to the authors.

So the house of the future can become the house of today.

The great Stanford University (U.S. West coast)gets involved in Green Building "An enterprising team of Stanford students has designed a low-cost, solar-powered home that could lead the home-building industry to a more sustainable future and guide homeowners toward greener behavior." http://news.stanford.edu/features/2014/starthome/

Some houses!

I'd like one like that! Wouldn't you?