We officially exposed ourselves on Galileo, now seen on TV in far away places, in languages few Americans speak.
Kuala Lumpur | Shanghai | Munich | Bangalore | Moscow: My Pure Salvage Living Renaissance has reached places few imagined, planting seeds future to assist a World Union of Beings.
Okay, it is officially true, Tiny Texas Houses, Salvage, Texas, and our vision for a Pure Salvage Living Renaissance has now been aired on Galileo, a TV cable channel that is in Kuala Lumpur | Shanghai | Munich | Bangalore | Moscow. So... 10 minutes on the global stage with a tiny spotlight on the work we have done over the last decades to save the best of the past showing how to create a stunning option for a sustainable future in tiny housing. Salvage building is a path that no global corporations seem to support as it does not create a way for them to profit from new housing being created. They do not want us to build without going to the lumber and supplies stores to buy all new stuff such that building with 95% salvaged materials boxes them out of the picture for the most part. Thus the banking systems have not encouraged or helped this cause either. The trend is now here, the demand for healthy housing, the value of the salvage, all coming together as the need forces people to change their views on building with salvage.
It will be 70 F degrees today so this is just a sympathy shot for those in colder places. Actually, I still have large areas of green grass and Bloodweed sprouts, Dandelions, and more growing still but now they say the cold is coming to bite this week. Brrrr. Under freezing night after night then back into the 40-60 range for the days. Not so nice north of Texas I hear.
Screws, nails, insulation, caulk, house wrap, roof underlayment, and a bit of fresh wiring though it is not needed as salvaged wire for most tiny house electrical systems is fine. Why use all new and super expensive materials, the cost to the environment for imports and new materials when there is a surplus of salvage awaiting no more than human energy to unleash all of its benefits. We use a huge amount of the power to create the glass, hardware, or wood so why not save it by using the past for past houses?
I believe this methodology and the incentives necessary to convince the public to consider this alternative as many are financially forced to downsize and change the style of living from what they were accustomed to, having lots of room and unused spaces in your house. I mean used by people, not the vast collections of Beanie Babies, boxes full of baseball cards, or whatever obsession our luxury has enabled us to indulge ourselves in and stash in extra rooms Americans are accustomed to in their houses.
Nothing like a dozen boxes of porcelain dolls, mice, or other critters to buy some bread and meat with at the market when times are hard. The Babe Ruth baseball card, the toys in their original boxes, and so much more, like my thousand doorknobs in a collection that few will want when times are hard and no one can carry in less than a truck for which fuel can hardly be found. What of those possible times in the future? Few want to consider such a time. Many are being forced to and the value of antiques and other things goes down as the supply goes up and people have less space for saving those things with memories attached, thus emotional. Check out the storage units that people end up losing for lack of paying the fees to keep more stuff there, besides in the homes or apartments.
I love to visualize what the future could be and then set about making it that.
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