Tour of the Wilson Natural Home

Hi everyone,

I quickly wanted to leave an update. I've been really busy with all the work over at Ukoonto. So if you want to keep in touch about things that I do, please go to Ukoonto's webpage to follow all the work going on there.

I also quickly wanted to post about an awesome house just outside of Toronto. It's called the Wilson Natural Home. For more info and a video click here. The Wilson Home is going to host an open house on October 19th 2008 and you will definitely find me there. It's so interesting and this is exactly what I would like to do. Our little house has just been the beginning.

Alright, maybe I'll see you at the home

Cheers, Hans

Consider the Embedded Carbon Emissions

This message goes out to all radical environmentalists, please don't take this offensively, since I consider myself one of you as well, this also works as a reminder to me:

I understand that Reduce, Reuse, Recycle is one of our highest standards that we should follow and I'm sure that buying a super fancy clothes line does not fall under that moto.

I recently bought a clothes line from cordo clip, I could have bought the old school line with regular clothes pins (which by the way is almost as expensive), build some goal posts to hang the line up and done. My wife has loads of linen to dry and this one will really cut down on the time used to hang clothes and sheets up for drying.

Here's what I really want to point out though: Please support Canadian business'. The financial risk taken by a company in Canada is much higher than a Chinese business (because of much higher labour costs and taxation). Cordo Clip is made in Canada and such a product would usually come from China. This means, the carbon footprint to make this product is most likely smaller than something made in China. Also, we employ people locally and the product saves some serious energy when used (air drying your clothes saves almost as much energy as taking a car of the road).

So please consider the "embedded carbon emissions".