Author Archives: Daniel

There’s now a map showing some of the easier public transportation options from Madrid to the OEL site: View How to get to Open E Land in a larger map And a message board for arranging ride shares / travel … Continue reading →

Posted a couple visualisations based on the 3d map to the Site Info page.

Well, that’s it. Base camp established, minimum infrastructure built, site inhabitable. Me and Chris have now left the site. We didn’t get a hexayurt or greenhouse built, but that was more for not being able to easily source materials (mostly … Continue reading →

Developments, catastrophic system collapse, and changes of design. The last week we’ve been going with the plan to clad the dome with strawbales, thereby making a nice comfortable strucutre that’s warm in winter and cool in summer. The downside, killer … Continue reading →

Short version: don’t go to Salamanca to buy scrap. Version where I more fully vent my spleen: So the first time I went to this place, this truly massive scrap yard where they have row upon row of everything you … Continue reading →

The last two days have been quieter. Chris planted three fuit trees by the creek (an apple, a pear, and an apple-pear) and I wandered up to Santibanez to get some supplies (mostly chocolate) and hunt down the library, as … Continue reading →

We now have a Couchsurfing profile: http://www.couchsurfing.org/people/open-e-land/ And HelpX: http://www.helpx.net/host.asp?hostid=14128

So the big developments of the last two days are that the dome is fully assembled and covered with tarps, and that we now have electricity on site in the form of a one kiloWatt petrol generator. Though we’re only … Continue reading →

If yesterday’s word was ‘minor technical error’, today’s has been ‘the old ways’, or being less generous; ‘primitive’. No handle for the shovel? Just bash some stick in there. No worries. Didn’t bring a ladder? Reinvent the bugger. She’ll be … Continue reading →