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carrj47
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GREEN LIVING
I am interested in buying property in Baja Mexico that is eco friendly. I came across El Dorado Ranch in San Felipe that offers solar lots. Does
anyone out there know of anything else availabe in Baja?
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Roberto
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Please define eco friendly
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BajaWarrior
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Roberto
Please define eco friendly |
The "solar community" is now dubbed as the "generator community" by it's own tenants. Solar takes some maintenence, it doesn't happen by itself, and
many systems have failed due to infrequent visits to one's home.
Sure is sweet when everything is working correctly though!
Haven't had a bad trip yet....
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Martyman
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Carrj;
Quite a few of the nomads have partial or complete solar at their casitas. Buy your own system and set it up. Then again some people are "El Dorado"
people.
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Don Alley
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Best first step for a Baja eco home:
Sell your other home and live in Baja full time.
Unless you think you can have the financial and energy-use luxury of flying/driving between two (or more) distant houses and think one is "eco
friendly." 
I go off whenever I see the word "eco."
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David K
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To cook food, is it eco friendly to burn propane or natural gas, use electricity (from coal, gas, nuclear or hydro-electric), stay off the grid (and
burn wood in a stove like granny did)... which means cutting trees (our renewable resource)... ???
None of the above: Since eating meat is bad for the enviroment (cows fart)... you sould eat raw vegetables and raw fish!
Wait... don't fish have feelings?
Hold on, don't we talk to plants... so they must have feelings to!??!
 
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bancoduo
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
To cook food, is it eco friendly to burn propane or natural gas, use electricity (from coal, gas, nuclear or hydro-electric), stay off the grid (and
burn wood in a stove like granny did)... which means cutting trees (our renewable resource)... ???
None of the above: Since eating meat is bad for the enviroment (cows fart)... you sould eat raw vegetables and raw fish!
Wait... don't fish have feelings?
Hold on, don't we talk to plants... so they must have feelings to!??!
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Ever consider cannibalism. 
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Don Alley
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Banco, you are in good form today.
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drzura
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These "eco-friendly" nutz are pretty funny. I agree with David K's post.
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Pescador
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Geez, I had a place at San Lucas Cove that would have been perfect. Solar powered (cause there was no electricity) with limited water usage (cause
we had to haul it in barrels) with very small use of fossil fuels in the summer (it was hot enough to fry eggs on the hood of your car), and we ate
off of the land (all the fish we caught were eaten). I could have let you have that place for a cool $250,000 and you could have been eco-friendly to
your hearts content.
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Ken Cooke
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
Since eating meat is bad for the enviroment (cows fart)... you sould eat raw vegetables and raw fish!
Wait... don't fish have feelings? |
I haven't eaten red meat in 18 yrs. I can't stand to pull fish out of the water, either. Call me wierd. But hey, I **do** listen to Trance music,
David! LOL 
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bonanza bucko
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ecco friendly
If you live in Baja you are happy to just live.....Solar panels now provide the juice to run the lights the fridge and the hair dryer that Herself
can't live without. But propane still cooks and runs the water heater for a hot shower. Gasoline generators, perish the thought, still back the sun
up when it goes behind a cloud.
We don't live "green" because we don't give a rat's gluteus about "green" and we only wanna live here another day in comfort under the sun...if you
wanna make a political statement please go to some place like New Jersey or San Francisco where you'll be met by friends. Down here you just might
get hung from a dry and nasty old ocotillo.
"Green"around here means spring time and it only lasts a week. We also think Algore should be buried under a pile of newsprint about "global warming"
which is complete BS and which plays well only where people who know nothing of nature spend their stupid lives going to Nordies for lunchypoo in
their Bemers.
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vandenberg
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Ken Cooke
Call me wierd. |
O.K. You're weird.
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Roberto
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Another example of someone asking a question and regulars going off the deep end.
Mine was a serious question, which I will rephrase -- please define your goals, without which it will be difficult to provide recommendations.
[Edited on 5-4-2008 by Roberto]
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Roberto
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| Quote: | Originally posted by grover
Welcome to Nomads, carrj47. |
This is turning into quite the center for information, isn't it?  And, oh yeah,
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Capt. George
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My goal is to have my Palm Trees talk back to me...they just stand there blowing in the breeze, very frustrating.
Perhaps the cactus of Abreojos will be more friendly on my return?
\"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men\" Plato
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Bob and Susan
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i have to agree with bonanza bucko...
it sure is easier to let "other people" be green for us...
we still have to do some "non green" stuff just to keep Disease away
yesterday was "trash day" but instead of taking the cans to the roadside curb and letting the sanitation department "take care of it"...
we have to transport it to the "new" dump and...
burn it
[Edited on 5-4-2008 by Bob and Susan]
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shari
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Welcome to Nomads and sorry about the ranting here....baja is a great place to live off the grid...just take your time finding your dream place and
make it eco friendly yourself. Wind power and solar combo works really well here...the point is YOU have to make it what you want. Hauling water is
good for ya amigos. Plant some agave so you can make your own tequila!
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CortezBlue
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I am not trying to be negative about your ECO approach, BUT, El Dorado calls them solar lots because the will probably never have electricity
available now or in the future, trust me , it is not a ECO term from El Dorado.
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Barry A.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by shari
Welcome to Nomads and sorry about the ranting here....baja is a great place to live off the grid...just take your time finding your dream place and
make it eco friendly yourself. Wind power and solar combo works really well here...the point is YOU have to make it what you want. Hauling water is
good for ya amigos. Plant some agave so you can make your own tequila! |
Shari-------RIGHT ON!!! You have hit the nail squarely on the head, IMO. Being "green" is a personal responsibility, hopefully facilitated by the
Gov., whichever Gov. that might be.
I too welcome new NOMADS to the board, and respect there ideas and views (to a point, anyway)
Barry
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