Posts by: Elke Cole
I made a comment on Facebook recently stating how much I love to work with cob more than any other earth building method. Here’s a selection of techniques and my impressions which help me decide which method to use in a specific location: Earthbags We’ve built Earthbag foundations in Canada (OUR Ecovillage ), Tanzania and […]
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The season of gift giving is coming around as Christmas time approaches. Who do you choose to support with your donations or efforts? Are you hosting a seasonal party that could be a fundraising event? Does the company you work for support charity? I am once again in Cameroon, working with Better World Cameroon toward […]
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It’s holiday season and while we are not in the Northern Hemisphere to follow our family’s traditions like enjoying Glühwein at a festive Christmas market in Germany or going into the woods to find a christmas tree, we have great occasions here in Cameroon. Thanks to Better World Cameroon we have a relationship with the […]
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What does it take to get a building project off the ground in Bafut, Cameroon? What will be our most successful ways to share knowledge and skills? How can we work with the local community and have different interest groups meet and move together? These and other questions are my focus at this time of […]
...continue reading →Today I want to share a campaign worth considering: Of course I’m biased, I used to live there. I spent more than 10 years designing, building and teaching at O.U.R.Ecovillage. While life at O.U.R. Ecovillage consumed a lot of my energy it has given back equally: I have become a communitarian learned to listen had […]
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