Venetia Kotamraju, Author at Ecologise

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Earthbag Diaries 3: Building our brand new home, one bag at a time

22nd May 2017

Requiring no special equipment and no special expertise, and very economical to boot, earthbagging is famous as an ‘idiot-proof’ technique, popular with first-and-only-time owner-builders the world over. Venetia Kotamraju, who moved from busy Bangalore to a farm on the Western Ghats, writes on her experiment with earthbagging. The third installment in a series of four….

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Earthbag Diaries 2: Planning, material and equipment

14th May 2017

Requiring no special equipment and no special expertise, and very economical to boot, earthbagging is famous as an ‘idiot-proof’ technique, popular with first-and-only-time owner-builders the world over. Venetia Kotamraju, who moved from busy Bangalore to a farm on the Western Ghats, writes on her experiment with earthbagging. The second installment in a series of four….

Venetia Kotamraju

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Earthbag Diaries 1: Stomping mud in Sakleshpur

6th May 2017

Requiring no special equipment and no special expertise, and very economical to boot, earthbagging is famous as an ‘idiot-proof’ technique, popular with first-and-only-time owner-builders the world over. Venetia Kotamraju, who moved from busy Bangalore to a farm on the Western Ghats, writes on her experiment with earthbagging. The first installment in a series of four….

At the duck pond on the campsite – even better than YouTube!

Venetia Ansell

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Ideas, inspiration and ducks: Letter from an Ecologise Camp participant

3rd February 2016

The camp is a great opportunity to meet people who are trying to make the transition from urban to rural or at least high impact to low impact lifestyles, to find inspiration, role models, ideas and perhaps answers to those questions and challenges that well meaning conventional thinking relatives and friends keep hurling at you….