By Rory View original post on the Camps International Project Blog Following on from my last post about the Bio Gas collector (Human waste is where its at), I want to now run you through our progress to date. Before I do that below is a sketch drawing of whats involved in the construction. Basically [...]

Here is a selection of quirky architectural details found on a project site at Kampung Tinangol Sabah.

It’s true – human waste is where its at! Its the future you know – dont need any of this extracting gas and oil from the centre of the earth with all its associated detrimental environmental effects – just use what you flush away every day.

One month after my last visit, I arrived on Mantanani and was delighted to see the site strewn with impeccable driftwood logs. The success in the use of drifwood logs is not in their appearance, but in that we have managed to avoid using posts made out of wonderful and scarce belian wood

We can always come up with wonderful ideas for sustainable buildings but if the locals can’t build and maintain it then it’s not sustainable. Our main objective was to get a camp manager’s house built and the best way to get this done quickly was to let the villagers build it using their own technology.