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Grass, the regular, lawn and meadow type that cows and sheep eat, is an amazing organism... it bonds soil together, fixes nitrogen in the soil, reproduces at an amazing rate of growth and brings an unreasonably high level of joy to all but those acutely allergic to it.
The Sod-O-Miser is a home not
only covered in grass across the roof but down the walls, growing in louvred trays of soil that can be opened and closed for airflow and to present the greatest possible area to sunlight.
Air flowing across those grassy trays will be cooled by its contact with the grass, providing you with fresh, sweet, ozygen-enriched air that awakens you with the scent of new-mown grass most mornings.
Energy costs are reduced; your mood is improved, nature is brought closer; occasionally, grazing animals will drop by and do a little impromptu mowing for you...
Clippings are collected and pressed with a simple waterproof glue into insulative wall and ceiling panels and even glue-laminated into floorboards. The longer stems can be tied and pressed into tatami mats, for soft flooring.
Of course, if you build an attic, you shouldn't stow a heavy throne in it. It might fall through the ceiling and injure you.
Lawn-covered car
http://www.greenmuz...n-covered-cars.html
Not the same but related. Goes to show you can sod anything if you put your mind to it. [iron_horse, Oct 05 2009]
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genius, creative, original... oh wait, no it isn't. [-] |
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I wasn't aware that nitrogen could be broken in the first place,
let alone fixed. |
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lovelawn is a dreadful pun. |
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There are lawn tragics in every suburb, [po]. |
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[21Q], the "deliberately misunderstand" queue has formed on the other side of the room. |
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I have seen houses with lawn rooftops, but not with lawn walls, grass floors, grass wall and ceiling insulation and warnings against stowing thrones in grass houses. |
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Vaguely hobbitish houses, covered in turf, do exist. What was the point of difference, exactly? |
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certainly a roman feel to this. |
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Certainly an "I've got a pun... MUST... FIND... IDEA" feel to
this! |
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Butt NOBODY in your market area is going to pay for this service. |
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Did you know that modern grass is completely
different from natural grass prior to the gathered
civilisation of agricultural hunters? Many hundreds and
thousands of millennia ago it used to be purple, and
thin, and quite sparse and pathetic. It was only the
advent of the cow that required the demand for a
more fulfilling and robust crop, which was selectively
engineered to be thick, luscious and predictable. All
of today's grass is actually a clone of one particular
grass specimen called Mary, and it's green because the
R&D was done in Ireland during the potato century. |
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if you're actually referring to the "lack of potato" century, there were lawns, at the very least in England, a century'n'half before that. |
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The lack o' potato century came after. Much after. |
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I actually posted it because it's Spring here, and the grass is growing like crazy. I mow every second week and can't keep up with it. |
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As the temp heats up our power bill for airconditionng goes up, too. The bill for the three months of summer was $1640. |
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So, a house made entirely of sods of growing grass and recycled grass would be miserly in terms of cost, hence the name. I was going to call it The Grasshouse until the Sod Off Shotgun changed my mind. |
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I sorta like the idea of a house that (with a little help) grows itself: a stand of bamboo that over a period of months is converted into a house. Of course that's already baked with log cabins but bamboo grows that much quicker. |
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