Our GreenHabitat and ALTERNATIVE BUILDING

If you're like me, you'd rather pull building materials from a dumpster to build your house than be a wage slave and be in debt to the bank for 30 years in order to protect yourself from the elements.

Besides, why fight traffic on your way to HomeDepot or Menards when you can easily find a dumpster nearby filled with lot's of good materials?

I get my best exercise bicycling around town looking for construction dumpsters filled with perfectly useable building materials and I rarely get embarrassed when someone catches me climbing in.

Sure there's probably not enough construction dumpsters around for everyone to get enough materials to build a house but there's at least enough for me to build a castle.

Not that I want a castle or even a mansion... at this point in my life, I'll never have enough stuff to fill a two-thousand square foot house.

I'll probably settle for around 1200 square feet or less.

Care to join me?

You could help me scout out materials in and around your neighborhood. Perhaps your neighbor has some boards in back of his house that he no longer wants?

You could tell him that you found this whacked out "Green" website put up by some whacked out "green" guy named Green Dean who wants to build a house from all found materials. That's right!

Give him a way to feel good about getting rid of those unwanted boards without tossing them into our overcrowded landfills.

Hell you could even tell him to load them up into his truck and bring em my way and I'd probably thow and extra tofu dog on the grill and open him a beer before he steps out of his truck.

I'm not picky either...

I'll take just about anything that could be used to build a house. Perhaps it's a box of nails or a length of PVC pipe - black or white... I don't care. Maybe it's a half used roll of insulation or some left-over maple flooring.

I'll take just about anything within reason.