vaguely considering the idea of moving to the woods sometime in the next 10 years.  not off-grid, I plan to be still involved in the technology business as a source of income, but capable of sustaining itself with as little of the grid as possible.  somewhere with mild winters, long growing seasons, livestock and wild game friendly, and good water supply.  Pacific Northwest has seemed to be where my thoughts have been roaming.

So anyway, as I keep circling around the idea, housing has always come up.  I am hoping to be able to have a few other people involved, not as a commune but as a corporation that runs the land.  Maybe convince my niece and her husband & baby to come (my ulterior motive there is so I have someone to take care of me when I am old).  In order to accomodate a couple of families, we need some flexible housing and there seemed to be some good stuff in the realm of shipping container building.

http://green.yahoo.com/blog/daily_green_news/8/twelve-amazing-shipping-container-houses.html

http://inhabitat.com/stacked-shipping-containers-create-smart-green-homes-in-malaysia/

http://www.jetsongreen.com/2010/02/green-shipping-container-housing-haiti.html

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