Living in the Future- Eco-villages

About this original series

How people have come together to build their own homes, grow their own food, and create lively and sustainable EcoVillages and communities. During this series you will meet unique communities in Australia, Spain, Ireland, Wales,England and Scotland.More info on http://www.livinginthefuture.org

Category
Learning News & Politics
# Episodes
47 episodes
Rating
TV-G

Episodes of Living in the Future- Eco-villages

- Play
  
  Living in the Future 40 : Hobbit House
  
  Simon Dale and Jasmine Saville have inspired worlwide media interest in their self-built homes. People like to call them Hobbit Houses.
  - Release date
    
    Dec 24, 2011
  - Runtime
    
    04:40
- Play
  
  Living in the Future 39: Life Goes On
  
  The residents at Lammas ecovillage in West Wales have a commitment as part of their planning permission to get 75% of their basic needs from the land. All the residents are collecting wood for fuel, growing vegetables and raising some animals for eggs or meat. For this, they have greenhouses and barns to build, as well as their own homes.
  - Release date
    
    Oct 7, 2011
  - Runtime
    
    06:39
- Play
  
  Living in the Future 38: Hutters
  
  In Wales, land is one of the biggest obstacles to natural living. In Scotland, it's even more difficult, as patterns of land ownership put the land in the hands of the wealthy few. However, land buy-outs are helping to give ordinary people access to land.
  - Release date
    
    Jul 19, 2011
  - Runtime
    
    07:29
- Play
  
  Living in the Future 37: Community Hub
  
  Timber frame, strawbale insulation, turf roof, renewable power...the Community Hub building at Lammas is a meeting place for residents and an education space for visitors.
  - Release date
    
    Jul 6, 2011
  - Runtime
    
    05:43
- Play
  
  Living in the Future 36: An Inspector Came to Call
  
  Low impact building meets building regulation- what are the issues? Having thought they did not need to comply with building regulations whilst they live in their barns temporarily, the Lammas residents have run into some problems...
  - Release date
    
    Apr 27, 2011
  - Runtime
    
    07:44
- Play
  
  Living in the Future 35: Park Guell
  
  At Lammas Ecovillage in Wales, residents are experimenting with natural building techniques like straw bale, cob and roundhouses. At Park Guell in Barcelona, Gaudi was exploring similar ideas over a hundred years ago.
  - Release date
    
    Mar 14, 2011
  - Runtime
    
    03:29
- Play
  
  Living in the Future 34- A Roof over our Heads
  
  Just in time for Christmas, Paul and Hoppi move into their first building. After 9 months in caravans, it's bliss. The timber frame building with sheep's wool insulation will eventually be a workshop space, but for now, it's a warm home.
  - Release date
    
    Jan 7, 2011
  - Runtime
    
    04:03
- Play
  
  Living in the Future 33- Many Hands
  
  Katie and Leander's Lammas Roundhouse has a problem with the reciprocal frame roof. Luckily, Roundhouse King Tony Wrench is there to advise, along with many other helping hands.
  - Release date
    
    Dec 3, 2010
  - Runtime
    
    07:25
- Play
  
  Living in the Future 32- Cae Mabon
  
  Eric Maddern is host at this "Welsh Shangri La" near Llanberis in Snowdonia.
  - Release date
    
    Oct 27, 2010
  - Runtime
    
    07:31
- Play
  
  Living in the Future 31- Married to the Land
  
  Five years to the day since the idea for Lammas ecovillage was conceived, Kit and Saara bless their marriage on Lammas land.
  - Release date
    
    Sep 17, 2010
  - Runtime
    
    08:08