2 posts tagged global neighbourhood

Want to learn how to build your own house with human-power!? Want to build with cheap, reusable, natural materials that are earthquake proof, fire proof, pest proof, and proven to last for centuries? Cob is the term for an earthen building technique that mixes sand, clay and straw and is sculpted on a wall.

Yesterday, I wandered through the fine Norfolk countryside on a lengthy winter walk. What, you might ask, can walking through rural East Anglia possibly have to do with the European Union? At first glance, the answer can only be very little. Norfolk is today a backwater, with little industry, poor communications, and considerable rural poverty.