{"id":43,"date":"2018-12-08T15:06:04","date_gmt":"2018-12-08T20:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jaywarmke.com\/?page_id=43"},"modified":"2021-11-24T11:38:21","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T16:38:21","slug":"sustainability-center","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bluerockstation.com\/sustainability-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Our 40-acre Sustainability Center"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Start vSlider options -->\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\nvar $jq = jQuery.noConflict(); $jq(document).ready(function() { \n    $jq('#BRSsustainability').coinslider({ width: 630,     height: 280, spw: 7, sph: 5, delay: 5000, sDelay: 30, opacity: 0.7, titleSpeed: 1000, effect: 'fade', navigation: true, links : true, stickynav: false, hoverPause: true }); }); \n    <\/script>\n<!-- Begin vSlider options -->\n<style type=\"text\/css\" media=\"screen\">\n#BRSsustainabilitycontainer {\n    margin: 10px 10px 10px 10px;\n    float:none;\n    }\n#BRSsustainability { \n    width: 630px; 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Space is limited to 25 people.<\/span>\n                <\/a>\n           <a href=\"\/events\/\" style=\"background:#fff;\" target=\"\">\n              <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bluerockstation.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/vslider\/timthumb.php?src=%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2018%2F12%2FCheesemaking-Slider-1-1.jpg&amp;w=630&amp;h=280&amp;zc=1&amp;q=80\" style=\"width:630px;height:280px;\" alt=\"Sign up for one of our classes\" \/>\n                    <span><h4>Sign up for one of our classes<\/h4>We offer classes on cheesemaking, raising goats, green living, building a solar generator, installing and designing solar PV systems, and more.<\/span>\n                <\/a>\n           <a href=\"\/green-living-books\/\" style=\"background:#fff;\" target=\"\">\n              <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bluerockstation.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/vslider\/timthumb.php?src=%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2018%2F12%2FBooks-Slider.jpg&amp;w=630&amp;h=280&amp;zc=1&amp;q=80\" style=\"width:630px;height:280px;\" alt=\"Shop in our Green Living bookstore\" \/>\n                    <span><h4>Shop in our Green Living bookstore<\/h4>We have published quite a number of books over the years on topics from designing and installing solar electric systems, to raising goats, to our energy past and future.<\/span>\n                <\/a>\n    <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Visit Blue Rock Station to get ideas on how to create a sustainable living way of life, or just to marvel at the various construction techniques.&nbsp; Tour the 2,200 square foot Earthship, currently under construction (always under construction&#8230; sigh!) that utilizes tires, cans, old barn wood, bottles and mud to form a home heated by the sun, earth and wood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our goal is to not just demonstrate green living &#8211; but to live it as well.&nbsp; We think of Blue Rock Station as a living, breathing sustainability laboratory &#8211; finding out what works, what doesn&#8217;t work &#8211; at a scale we can all relate to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The center now has (among other things):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>a 2,200 square foot Earthship (built by obvious amateurs)<\/li><li>the $5,000 tiny house project<\/li><li>several small straw bale sleeping cabins (complete with art work)<\/li><li>a number of composting toilets<\/li><li>plastic bottle greenhouse<\/li><li>vaulted straw bale wall structures<\/li><li>rocket stove with mud oven<\/li><li>solar thermal hot water<\/li><li>solar array for electricity<\/li><li>bio gas project<\/li><li>a herd of dairy goats<\/li><li>a flock of chickens<\/li><li>the occasional pig or two<\/li><li>too many cats and dogs<\/li><li>raised bed gardens<\/li><li>a wind turbine<\/li><li>a forest garden<\/li><li>and on and on and on<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Visit Our YouTube Channel for Hundreds of Videos<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/bluerockstation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"558\" src=\"https:\/\/bluerockstation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/BRS-YouTube-Channel-1024x558.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1701\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bluerockstation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/BRS-YouTube-Channel-1024x558.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bluerockstation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/BRS-YouTube-Channel-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bluerockstation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/BRS-YouTube-Channel-768x419.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bluerockstation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/BRS-YouTube-Channel-1536x837.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bluerockstation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/BRS-YouTube-Channel-600x327.jpg 600w, https:\/\/bluerockstation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/BRS-YouTube-Channel.jpg 1605w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visit Blue Rock Station to get ideas on how to create a sustainable living way of life, or just to marvel at the various construction techniques.&nbsp; Tour the 2,200 square foot Earthship, currently under construction (always under construction&#8230; sigh!) that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Our 40-acre Sustainability Center - Blue Rock Station<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Blue Rock Station is a living laboratory of sustainable living practices. 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