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Help with eco-building in Les Contamines Montjoie, France

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  2024 

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  • Descrição

    Descrição

    Bonjour!

    We are a Dutch-American family who have been living in this spectacular part of the French Alps for 13 years now: Marita (Dutch) and Chuck (American), and Olve (31) and Nick (32), who are both in the US at the moment. We are in the final stages of building our home which we have tried to make as eco as we can, with natural materials and as fossil fuel-free as possible, we are learning about permaculture, so we can tread more lightly on this beautiful land.

    We're looking for practical people who like working with their hands and are interested in learning about 'alternative' building methods, gardening and other skills in living lightly. If you have any experience with eco-building or any kinds of building work, especially carpentry, that would be amazing, but it's not essential. Specifically, we've now completed building an Alpine chalet style house, with hemp and lime walls around a timber frame structure and are currently evaluating how close to close to zero carbon we have achieved ... our solar panels and battery are installed, rainwater collection and composting toilets are now the main focus along with permaculture gardens, and any other good ideas we come across along the way.

    Les Contamines Montjoie is a mountain village and resort, about 30kms from Chamonix, with beautiful hiking, climbing and biking and other activities so if you like the mountains and being active, there is lots to do.

    We look forward to meeting you.
    A bientôt!

  • Tipos de ajuda e oportunidades de aprendizado

    Tipos de ajuda e oportunidades de aprendizado

    Ajuda em projetos ambientais
    Construção/faça você mesmo
  • Objetivos de sustentabilidade da ONU que este anfitrião quer atingir

    Objetivos de sustentabilidade da ONU que este anfitrião quer atingir

    Objetivos da ONU
    Erradicar a pobreza
    Erradicar a fome
    Saúde de qualidade
    Educação de qualidade
    Igualdade de género
    Água potável e saneamento
    Energias renováveis e acessíveis
    Trabalho digno e crescimento económico
    Indústria, inovação e infraestruturas
    Reduzir as desigualdades
    Cidades e comunidades sustentáveis
    Produção e consumo sustentáveis
    Ação climática
    Proteger a vida marinha
    Proteger a vida terrestre
    Paz, justiça et instituições eficazes
    Parcerias para a implementação dos objetivos
  • Oportunidades de intercâmbio cultural e aprendizado

    Oportunidades de intercâmbio cultural e aprendizado

    Between us in our family we have two nationalities, we've lived in lots of different countries and travelled in many more. Now we're living in this mountain village in the Alps and trying to tread more lightly on this beautiful land. We're learning a lot and we've got a lot to learn, and would love to share our experiences and learn from yours.

  • Ajuda

    Ajuda

    The house is essentially built, so there's a lot of finishing work now, and any carpentry, plastering, tiling and general building skills could be hugely helpful. But they're not essential, as long as you're practical, responsible and enthusiastic. We are very happy, of course, to share information about the natural building techniques we used and what we have learned along the way.

    We all share in the household chores - preparing meals, cleaning and tidying, and snow clearing - outside of the workaway hours.

  • Idiomas

    Idiomas
    Inglês: Fluente
    Francês: Fluente
    Holandês: Fluente
    Italiano: Intermediário

    Este anfitrião oferece intercâmbio de idiomas
    Este anfitrião indicou que tem interesse em compartilhar seu idioma ou em aprender um novo.
    Entre em contato com ele para obter mais informações.

  • Acomodação

    Acomodação

    Accommodation is in the new home, with a shared bathroom. It's spacious and comfortable but unfinished in places.

    We're looking forward to sharing communal evening meals together (plant-based), sharing experiences, talking in whatever languages. Breakfast and lunch also provided.

  • Algo mais...

    Algo mais...

    Nearest train station is Le Fayet-St Gervais Les Bains and there's a bus between the station and Les Contamines. There's also regular long-distance bus services and Bla Bla Car. We encourage you to travel by train or bus instead of flying, if you can! Annecy and Chamonix are also reachable by train or bus.

    You can get around Les Contamines on foot or we can lend you a bike. We are right at the foot of Mt Blanc and on the famous Tour du Mt Blanc route. There are lots and lots of hiking trails, an excellent climbing wall, mountainbiking, two swimming lakes, and tennis courts and, in the winter, skiing and snowshoeing, ice climbing and more.

    We have a slackline, gymnastics rings, guitars, and plenty of books we can lend you.

    Plus there's just endless beautiful scenery where you can just chill, read a book, take photos, walk, run, hike, bike, have a drink, parapente.... The possibilities are pretty much endless.

    Just a note if you're coming outside the high season of July and August: it can be quite quiet, so don't expect lots of nightlife and buzz. Chamonix has that though, if you want.

  • Mais alguns detalhes

    Mais alguns detalhes

    • Acesso à internet

    • Acesso à internet limitado

      Acesso à internet limitado

    • Temos mascotes

    • Somos fumantes

    • Pode hospedar famílias

  • Pode hospedar nômades digitais

    Pode hospedar nômades digitais

    We have a decent wifi connection but it's not super fast.

  • Quantos Workawayers pode acomodar?

    Quantos Workawayers pode acomodar?

    2

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    Horas previstas

    Maximum 5 hours, 5 days a week

Nº de ref. de anfitrião: 776983418269

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