Hobbit Homes and Low Impact Living

A Thank you to Starr of THE LOVERS Band here in Austin for locating this beautiful site. A home built by hand by a family. Its rustic, yes, but ohhh so organic. I just want to squeeze its little house cheeks its so cute. Read up on some articles the family wrote about their experience: www.simondale.net/house

Local Austin Program offering Carbon Credits

I believe this is the FIRST Austin program being offered to offset carbon emmissions.
CONGRATS TO TREEFOLKS!

The carbon calculator is pretty easy to use, and you can see how many trees you'd need to plant yearly to offset it, or how much moola you can send them to plant trees in public spaces to offset your emmissions.

http://www.treefolks.org/prog_calculator.asp

Treefolks calculates your carbon emmissions and then commits to planting the appropriate # of trees to offset your impact!

Pretty cool stuff, hope can check it out- Europe has been carbon offsetting for years, looks like we're finally catching up.

http://www.treefolks.org/prog_calculator.asp