Burning wood can actually be very eco-friendly if you know how to do it right :) With proper wood and proper burning, of course! Dishwasher, no way to go witho

Burning wood can actually be very eco-friendly if you know how to do it right :) With proper wood and proper burning, of course! Dishwasher, no way to go without it with 2 kids! Unless you enjoy doing lots of chores :) And actually, a dishwasher is more efficient (water-wise) than washing manually. I dont buy the "romantic" idea that offgrid = cave-age living. My whole point is to be off-grid, in nature, but with some useful modern technologies :) I've been looking into many passive heat/cooling solutions. We just moved in, so lots of experiments going on :) We do have extreme winters and summers, so a dark color would grill us during summer ;)