Smart Natural Living Homes
. One of the most outdated practices we have is the way we build our homes. Stick framed homes built now with subpar genetically engined trees that cost a premium for a warped board and completed with materials that release VOC(volatile organic compounds). Buildings generate nearly 40% of annual global CO2 emissions. 28% of those total emissions come from building operations, 11% comes from the embodies carbon of the materials and construction process. The EPA estimates that 230-530 tons of construction and demolition waste are produced each year. Recycling 530 million tons of C & D waste would save 4300 acres of land fill space. The volume of c and d waste generated worldwide every year will nearly double to 2.2 billion tonnes by 2025. About one in four homes in the US are impacted by natural disasters in 2021. That's over 14.5 million homes, totaling nearly $57 billion in property damage. As many as one in four people worldwide live in conditions that harm their health and safety. Stories disease lead poisoning cancer from toxic materials neurobiological disorders stress psychological and behavioral dysfunction are a variety of the illness housing contributes to.
Building smart natural healthy homes , with as much reclaimed/recycled materials and natural earth(earthbag, rammed earth, cob/Adobe, hempcrete, strawbale) material as possible. That in combination with creating greenhouses as a part of the homes systems. Using GAHT(Ground to Air Hear Trasfer) systems, plate heat exchangers and thermal mass, we can create homes that do not need fossil fuels to keep comfortable and provide nutritionally dense food or medicinal herbs as an added benefit. Hempcrete and straw production carbon sequester while growing and once its converted to a building material it continues to carpture carbon. Hemp has the Ability to revitalize soil putting nutrients back into the ground and safely removing toxins like heavy metals and radiation. These methods of construction are extremely fire resistant, can absorb the force of earth quakes as well as hurricanes and tornadoes. Homes can conserve water by creating closed loop gray water recycling and aquaponics systems which aslo increase thermalmass. We can build afford homes with minimal to zero energy bill and have a smart powered natural materials it's a living system that can provides resources and revitalize the earth while reducing demands in many areas.
This is intended to help every single person in the world by providing safe resilient shelter and high quality food. Using the proper materials to their greatest purpose will benefit us all and will help restabilize our earth's systems.
I'm just combining many different proven systems in a way that no else has. This is a direct and scalable way to address almost all of the problems presented in the world today. It's not the only solution but it is pivotal one. I know so many people personally that stuggle with being homeless. We to can provide homes to people that have gone with out one for any period of time, a resilient basic and safe home that isn't toxic.
- Enable mass production of inexpensive and low-carbon housing, including changes to design, materials, and construction methods.
- Prototype
I came across solve last year as I had been laid off from my project manager in material recovery and pushed to purse this crazy passion I had for learing natural building systems. From getting a summer of cob building as a teenager with my wild world traveling great uncle in door county to starting out as a grunt at 17 to getting an education that paved the way for me to have a deep understanding of building systems from the most technical details and having a magnitude of experience across commercial and residential building to the deconstruction of old buildings saving high quality materials we simply don't possess these days. I know the benefits this will bring and the facts are undeniable.
- Business model (e.g. product-market fit, strategy & development)
Combining many proven smart home technologies, the best and most efficient systems, practices and techniques. Resulting in a more durable, cleaner healthier home which is easier to make, reduces harm to the planet and cheaper/longer lasting home.
Until more people can see potential and the benefits it carries its hard to grasp. The next step after creating will be educating the workforce on these traditional building techniques with lots of room for new innovations combing methods together
With the tracking of deforestation and its uses as hemp product hopefully replacing paper and lumber as well as being used a textile and medicine. Also soil conditions as heavy metals will be removed and the increase of the rotation crops its grown with. The amount of embodied energy in the materials used in our homes.
When my town had a plan to be 25% renewable energy by 2025 but got on board with net zero by 2050 I new then simply adding more renewable was not enough. First we need to massively reduce our demand for energy. Secondly how to maximize what we do use and I've spent many chapters of my life to educating myself I'm higher learning institutes, other educatally platforms seeking a deeper understanding and having been in almost every field of construction that there is I see the changes that we need to make. Our homes can be the change to solidify our future.
Combining smart technology with natural building materials, connecting and incorporating a green house that uses GAHT systems also knows as an earth battery and plate heat exchangers we can charge up thermal mass in the home as well as passive solar should cover most but cold regions there can be rocket mass oven as a back up heating source
- A new application of an existing technology
- Ancestral Technology & Practices
- Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning
- Biomimicry
- Biotechnology / Bioengineering
- Imaging and Sensor Technology
- Manufacturing Technology
- Materials Science
- 1. No Poverty
- 2. Zero Hunger
- 3. Good Health and Well-being
- 6. Clean Water and Sanitation
- 7. Affordable and Clean Energy
- 8. Decent Work and Economic Growth
- 9. Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
- 10. Reduced Inequalities
- 11. Sustainable Cities and Communities
- 12. Responsible Consumption and Production
- 13. Climate Action
- 14. Life Below Water
- 15. Life on Land
- United States