Abrahams-Legacies

I was searching one day for a sustainable building system, when I discovered a hint of the perfect community. I don’t remember exactly what I was searching for, but it has been on my mind to develop communities amongst the world’s poorest, that are truly sustainable in every sense. My experiences to date, are of communities that receive donations from the richer nations and so they gradually appear richer but they have not done anything to earn the wealth. And so they feel no responsibility to change what they are doing. ...

During my recent trip to Uganda I was able to visit some of the villages away from the towns. The state of the housing is as you see in the image above. They are built with bricks but they are very small and not very durable. I’ve known for a while about the possibility of building houses from earth and from discarded materials. I even had the desire to build such a house for myself. I started to wonder if such a house could be constructed in these villages. ...

This is on my mind as I consider what is wrong with the world’s economic systems. This has concerned me for some time as I see house prices increase beyond affordability all around the world. Affordable housing is my primary concern because I’ve lived in a cheaper part of England, albeit one that experienced rapid house price increases before 2008. And now I’m living near Stuttgart, Germany, which had historically stable house prices until 2008. ...