Welcome to silentstorm

A place for our collection of resources, articles & ideas about sustainable living.

A diary for a project to create a sustainable, self-sufficient, environmentally-sensitive living in a self-build strawbale house using solar thermal and photovoltaic power on a plot of land in Hungary.

Collect drinking water from the air - condensers and collectors

One of the main challenges we will face after our move to Hungary is that of water reclaimation & conservation. We wish to make as little impact on groundwater/domestic-supplied water as possible and to this end we realise that we'll need to reclaim rainwater, re-use domestic washing/showering (grey) water and basically find water any way we can. At the time of writing this I have read a couple of articles via Inhabitat which deal with dew collectors. These devices allow the (fairly simple & easy) condensation and collection of early morning/night moisture.

Updated: 21.02.2010. 10:39

Make Your Own Eco-Friendly Laundry Detergent

Make Your Own Eco-Friendly Laundry Detergent.

Updated: 17.02.2010. 15:55

How to build your own composter

Build your own composter.

Updated: 17.02.2010. 15:47