V-Houses

Posted by Miss Cellania in Architecture on August 29, 2009 at 12:12 am


These V-Houses were designed by Heinz Legler for use as eco-friendly shelters. They are in temporary use for workers is a forest near Yelapa, Mexico, but have proved so popular that more have been ordered to house resort guests. They feature solar panels, composting toilets, and a greywater system to reuse as much water as possible. No excavation needed to set these treehouses up, just stick them in the ground! Link -via Digg

 
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Tactical Bacon

Posted by Miss Cellania in Food & Drinks, Funny on August 29, 2009 at 12:09 am


Tactical Bacon is ready-to-eat bacon packed 54 slices to a can for $15.99. It has a ten-year shelf life, which makes it perfect for your underground apocalypse shelter. But when you open it, you’ll have to eat all 54 pieces or else refrigerate them. Link -via Gizmodo

 
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Caboodle Ranch

Posted by Miss Cellania in Animal, Video Clips on February 26, 2009 at 11:50 pm


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Craig Grant spent $100,000 to provide a good home on 30 acres for nearly 500 cats! Caboodle Ranch is 50 miles from Tallahassee, Florida, and features shelters fashioned after small town buildings, nature trails, and underground dens. Grant even retired from his job to devote his time to the cats. Link to story. Link to website. -via Metafilter

 
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Man didn't know he lived above a bomb shelter

Posted by Algonkin in Everything Else, Home & Garden, Weapons & War on March 6, 2008 at 8:27 am

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When Scot Simpson bought his circa 1953 house in Charlottte NC, little did he know that he would find an 8-by-12-foot bunker buried beneath his lawn mower shed.

“The bomb shelter was built about 1960 or 1961″, said Earle Heath, who still lives next door. Heath was 12 or 13 back then. “The owner of the house was in the construction business”, he said, “and sent workers over to dig the hole and pour the concrete”.

That would have been just before the Cuban missile crisis, when many Americans feared nuclear Armageddon.

Simpson would like to get rid of the poured concrete and steel bunker, but doesn’t know what’s involved in getting rid of it.

Source: Charlotte Observer

 
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