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Commenced:
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01/05/2014 |
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Submitted:
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06/05/2015 |
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Last updated:
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07/10/2015 |
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Location:
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Chez Bois, Lurcy Levis, Avergne, FR |
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Phone:
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0443000242 |
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Website:
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http://mermiesmusings.blogspot.fr/ |
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Climate zone:
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Cold Temperate |
A project which is first and foremost EMF Free and which is aiming at achieving self-sustainability within 5 years!
After returning to Europe in 2012 after living in India for 7 years I very quickly began to develop EMF sensitivity to the point where I can no longer support being in an environment where there are mobile phones, wifi, dect phones...and the like. As you can imagine it means there aren't many places left other than home. Home in Ile de France, Paris for almost a year was the in-laws 3rd floor apartment 50 metres over which loomed 3 mobile phone masts. There were 2 'smart water meters' in the toilet...and that was just our apartment. The minimum RF(microwave frequency) measurement, all day long, was 0.25vm2 (Bioinitiative safe level being 0.02vm2!) Needless to say I was tired all the time and didn't go out much. Hubby is also a sufferer and his lymph nodes had swelled to a worrying size and neither of us are able to work outside home because most places (offices, trains, planes and even the local doctors surgery) now have wifi and nearly everyone has a smartphone/tablet...all of which causes me to get an instant headache, nausea and worst of all heart palpitations which can be very frightening. It takes a day to recover from a short supermarket trip. It's a debilitating and very real malady, and it causes us to be severly disconnected from the world. So, we finally managed, by the grace of the divine, to find an old farmhouse in the remote Auvergne countryside, 4km from the nearest mobile tower and with a calm 0.01vm2 reading. However, using all our funds to purchase means our financial resources for structural repairs are slim. We had thought to create a self-sustaining, profit generating homestead where other EMF sufferers can take long or short term refuge away from the waves (nearly all hotels now have wifi too!). Here's the deal....There's just the two of us; we survive on around 500 Euros a month - which is ok and we're very grateful; I've managed to grow enough food to partially sustain us in the 5 months since we came and completed my online PCD Course, thanks to Larry Korns inspiration. I'm constantly studying all things permaculture and medicinal/wild edibles plants; and we've repaired as much as we can - if fact roof repairs have begun and it's in the process of becoming a roof again, waterproof and all ;). We're recycling all the materials possible and have found free sources for certain things like wood/pallets and tyres for future building. Project Gratitude is a project being built on thanks and with love and sincerity. We desperately need funds/materials/manual help to: - fix the rest of the roof - get the bathroom plumbed and a shower installed (presently taking bucket baths and flushing toilet with waste kitchen water) - create an income generating food forest and aquaponics system (a la permaculture) And then, if we are blessed to do so and because we are so thankful that we have a safe environment, we would love to be able to offer others a microwave free place to stay which would consist of solar powered cabins with individual shower/toilet.
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