Several years ago, a couple from my birth-village won an absurdly large sum of money playing the lottery. We’re talking about the kind of money that would take me 100 years to earn at the salary I was making. I’ve never personally met them or spoken with them, but their turn of events (naturally) sprung the question: What would *I* accomplish with that kind of money? What would I accomplish with one 50th of that amount?
Because I’m the kind of person who, when I wake up from a nightmare, tends to treat the threat as a problem to be solved and planned for, I ended up treating the (clearly more fortuitous than nightmarish) scenario almost exactly the same: I wrote lists and drew layouts. In doing so, I ended up going down many resilience and sustainability rabbit holes, ranging from bricks, leather and furniture made out of mushrooms, to Earthships, to hempcrete, to passive-solar-geothermal goodness.
Now. In the years since, I’ve concluded that the only way we could make meaningful sustainable living progress in North-America was also the only way I could ever afford the house I was drawing in real life: by making it into a prefab and mass-producing it, removing much of the learning curve and scary budget-exploding for collective gain. So, I share it here, hoping the prefab-gods will smile on me some day and materialize my dream, even if it ends up being for someone else:
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