General Information

• Lac Ste. Anne County-- www.gov.lacsteanne.ab.ca
• Village of Ryley-- www.ryley.ca

• Alberta Agriculture, Food and Rural Development -- http://www.agric.gov.ab.ca/
• Alberta, Canada Map & Placename Index -- http://www.multimap.com/index/CA1.htm
• Rural Dialogue Site -- http://www.rural.gc.ca
• Yellowhead East Business Development Corporation -- http://www.yebdc.ab.ca/
• Alberta Township Survey - http://www.gov.ab.ca/env/info/airphoto/ats.html
• What is the Land Stewardship Resource Centre - http://www.landstewardship.org/ls_whatis.html
• Alberta Agriculture, Food and Rural Development - Free Publications - http://www.agric.gov.ab.ca/navigation/publications/freepublications/index.html

• Alberta Environment - Air Photo Services - www3.gov.ab.ca/srd/land/airphoto/
• Rural Renaissance Network-- www.innserendipity.com/ruralren/rrhome.html

• Diagram and regulations for Garages on sites with lanes - http://www.gov.edmonton.ab.ca/planning_dev/dev_compliance_branch/brochures/garages_with_lanes.html
• Information Brochures - http://www.gov.edmonton.ab.ca/planning_dev/dev_compliance_branch/brochures.html
• Planning and Development Main Web Page - http://www.gov.edmonton.ab.ca/planning_dev/index.html

Modular Buildings
• First Choice Steel Buildings -- http://www.firstchoicesteel.com/
• Cover-All Building Systems - http://www.coverall.ca/

  Cabins

• Build this Cabin in three weeks for under $2,000! - http://www.jshow.com/y2k/
• Building a Cabin - Bagelhole.org - http://www.bagelhole.org/article.php/Housing/236/
• Caboose Style Cottage plans - www.caboosestylehomes.com

  Underground and earth bermed

• Underground (Earth berm and sheltered) Homes - http://www.liquefaction.com/berm/

  General Reference

• Federal Emergency Management Agency - http://www.fema.gov/
• DeaTech Research, Inc. Local Natural Building Links - http://www.deatech.com/natural/
• FEMA Taking Shelter From the Storm Building a Safe Room Inside Your House - http://www.fema.gov/mit/tsfs01.htm
• Safe Rooms - The Concrete Network - http://www.concretenetwork.com/concrete/safe_rooms/
• CMHC (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation ) - http://www.cmhc.ca/
• Shelter Publications Online - http://www.shelterpub.com/

  Tents and Portable Shelters

• Shelter Systems - http://www.shelter-systems.com/
• Mother Earth News - Yurts - http://www.motherearthnews.com/195/tipis_2.html

• PolyDome - Mini Dome Calf Nursery - http://www.polydome.com/mini-dome_calf_nursery.html

• Coleman Spas -- http://www.colemanspas.com/home.htm
• Softub Canada - Canada's Truly Portable Hot Tub -- http://www.softubcanada.com/

  Re: Homemade Hot Tubs
  Michael C (None)
  Sat Jul 15, 2000 - 0:16 AM 
  There is several plans for building your own Hot Tub on the Internet: 
  
  1) http://www.geocities.com/PicketFence/Garden/6607/ 
  
  2) http://www.mountain-software.com/hot_tub.htm 
  
  3) http://www.nethawk.com/~jmtubbs/ 
  
  Excellent Resource for Fiberglass Molding How To's & Materials at: 
  http://www.fibreglast.com/ 
  

• The Internet Glossary of Pumps -- http://www.animatedsoftware.com/pumpglos/pumpglos.htm
• Lift Pump (from Internet Glossary of Pumps) -- http://www.animatedsoftware.com/pumpglos/liftpump.htm
• Bilge Pump, Hand Operated (from Internet Glossary of Pumps) -- http://www.animatedsoftware.com/pumpglos/bilgepum.htm
• Force Pump, Double Acting (from Internet Glossary of Pumps) -- http://www.animatedsoftware.com/pumpglos/forcepum.htm
• ALL ABOUT PUMPS educational software program -- http://www.animatedsoftware.com/ascodesc/pumpdesc.htm
• Pumps and Systems magazine -- http://www.pump-zone.com/
• ZEEBEST PLASTICS OF CANADA -- http://www.zeebest.com/

• COMPOSTING TOILET WORLD - http://www.compostingtoilet.org/
• BioLet Composting Toilets - The Most Advanced Self-Contained composting Toilet! - http://www.biolet.com/
• Clivus Multrum Composting Toilets and greywater purification for public facilities and residential use by Clivus Multrum Inc. - http://www.clivus.com/
• Composting (Compost) Toilet & Greywater (Graywater) Recycling Systems Manual. - http://www.powerup.com.au/~edesign/
• Ecological Engineering Group Sustainable Strategies - http://www.ecological-engineering.com/
• ECOS, Inc. Water Conservation and Wastewater Utilization - http://www.ecological-engineering.com/ecos.html
• Envirolet Composting Toilets by Sancor - http://www.envirolet.com/
• Global Ecovillage Network - http://www.gaia.org/
• IGC Internet's Progressive Gateway - http://www.igc.org/igc/gateway/index.html
• Jenkins Publishing Homepage - http://www.jenkinspublishing.com/
• NCAT - National Center for Appropriate Technology - http://www.ncat.org/
• PHOENIX COMPOSTING TOILET - http://www.compostingtoilet.com/
• rotaloo composting toilet, the Australian solution to a global problem - http://www.rotaloo.com/
• Sun-Mar Composting Toilets - http://www.sun-mar.com/
• Virtus Energy Research Associates - http://www.vera.com/
• OnSite Sewage Treatment Program - http://septic.coafes.umn.edu/

> On Tue Mar 28, 2000 - 6:07 AM Rick Morten wrote: 
> 
> Somewhere in my back issues is an article about micro/mini-shelters, with plans, 
suggestions,, etc. However, I have not been able to come up with it. Shelter was 
approx.12'16' as best as I can recall, with folding bunks, small kitchen, open-beam 
construction for storing & hanging things, wood heat (of course), etc. Anyone know 
what I'm talking about?? 

check out a web site called www.radixinc.com the have a great selection of items that can 
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