The Cube Project.
Hey, Hey,
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I hope that all is well with yourself today….and with your home and hearth.
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My thoughts have been turning to houses again lately, and to the changes required for a retirement move.
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I have also often wondered how much ‘stuff’ we actually need instead of the mountains of ‘neccessary’ posessions that we are all so industriously building up.
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Everything in life these days is an encouragement to buy, buy, buy.
I mean how many clothes do we really need, and how many posessions.
Most people I know have huge wardrobes of stuff, while only seeming to actually wear the same core things most of the time.
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Every new technological toy is siezed upon the moment that it arrives, even though there is nothing wrong with the older, discarded, and still working items.
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Fashion is all, and this applies in every level of our lives.
I am forever seeing people move into new homes, which have been recently and expensively re-modelled, and then immediately throwing out the new luxury kitchens and bathrooms etc. into big skips.
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There are whole industries making shedloads of money on the backs of our need to insure and protect all of our goods, and to transport them about the place.
The world is plundered and abused to fit our fancies, and not our actual needs.
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Everyone wants to outdo everyone else, while some people are subsisting on the streets.
Renwal of the land and the seas and the air seems to count for nothing against our wanting more, and wanting it now!
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Don’t get me wrong, I have not lived any differently from everyone else here in the UK, but I like to at least consider what can be done.
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There is a very interesting amount of thinking going on now with regard to deliberately living in a more carbon neutral and sustainable way…..and adapting….and Biotecture.
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The Cube Project is the result of such thinking.
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It is a 10′x10′x10′ cube house, which is triple glazed, and built of sustainable sweet chestnut wood cladding with LED lighting and television.
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The kitchen has an induction hob, a steel sink, and a fridge.
There is an air source heat pump too.
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There are also 8 solar panels on the roof and a blank wall outside for 8 more on the south wall of the cube.
The cube is carbon neutral and the solar panels provide £1,000 income over the year.
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Of course, the cube is small and would suit one very tidy person, who had very few posessions….or two such ‘very intimately connected’ people!
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However, the idea is a good beginning to get people to at least think about the green subject.
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The Cube Project.
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What do you think of it?
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J.
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