<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/522f7556-7826-4f99-8814-e37f2c6ad61a/14F04EB2-A4EC-45AB-B3A4-DCE1100B6BBA/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://greenbuildingelements.com/2008/12/01/hand-build-an-earth-sheltered-house-for-5000/" href="http://greenbuildingelements.com/2008/12/01/hand-build-an-earth-sheltered-house-for-5000/" style="font-size: 11px;">greenbuildingelements.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://greenbuildingelements.com/2008/12/01/hand-build-an-earth-sheltered-house-for-5000/"><H4>Cash, that most basic element of our economy, can be in abysmally short supply for new young families scraping by on marginal jobs.</H4></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://greenbuildingelements.com/2008/12/01/hand-build-an-earth-sheltered-house-for-5000/"><P>Sustainable housebuilding may not be foremost in their minds.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://greenbuildingelements.com/2008/12/01/hand-build-an-earth-sheltered-house-for-5000/"><P>But one young couple in Wales managing on an annual income of just $10,000 went ahead and built their own cheap <A class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="#" target="_blank" itxtdid="7485063">home</A> anyway, sustainably, mostly out of materials from “a rubbish pile somewhere.” <SPAN id="more-776"></SPAN></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://greenbuildingelements.com/2008/12/01/hand-build-an-earth-sheltered-house-for-5000/"><P>They had wanted to spend as much time as possible at home while their two children were young. Their nearby woodlands ecological management work would have been impractical if they were paying a mortgage.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://greenbuildingelements.com/2008/12/01/hand-build-an-earth-sheltered-house-for-5000/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/greenbuildingelements.com/img/3DA4E8AE-B264-44B9-8BEA-286C3EDBF187" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://greenbuildingelements.com/2008/12/01/hand-build-an-earth-sheltered-house-for-5000/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/greenbuildingelements.com/img/F0342B0D-327F-418B-8732-0EE1288F0AD0" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://greenbuildingelements.com/2008/12/01/hand-build-an-earth-sheltered-house-for-5000/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/greenbuildingelements.com/img/FC5C7919-6188-4856-89A0-D02B703C9E5D" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://greenbuildingelements.com/2008/12/01/hand-build-an-earth-sheltered-house-for-5000/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/greenbuildingelements.com/img/78D73188-6C2F-447B-841C-37FB7D0E191B" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://greenbuildingelements.com/2008/12/01/hand-build-an-earth-sheltered-house-for-5000/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/greenbuildingelements.com/img/48C1A85E-1C42-4982-9B2C-C83816024C12" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://greenbuildingelements.com/2008/12/01/hand-build-an-earth-sheltered-house-for-5000/"><P>Total expenditure? $5,000. Tools? A chisel, a chainsaw and a hammer. Building expertise? Simon Dale says:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://greenbuildingelements.com/2008/12/01/hand-build-an-earth-sheltered-house-for-5000/"><P>“My experience is only having a go at one similar <A class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="#" target="_blank" itxtdid="7485070">house</A> 2yrs before and a bit of mucking around in-between. This kind of building is accessible to anyone. 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