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How Crowdfunding Helped Me Make a Documentary on Creating Better Homes

19th May 2015 By Ben Adam-Smith Leave a Comment

Does your business have a message about green building that’s worth sharing?

Is there a project you’d like to pursue but you don’t know how to fund it?

In this post I’m going to share my experience of crowdfunding a documentary on building better houses, how I realised it and why I know I will be repeating the process in the future.

While people rant and rave about climate change, and curl up into a ball because nothing can be done I always try to keep positive. In my mind there is a world of opportunity before us and it is increasingly weighted in favour of those willing to invest in what a sustainable future might look like.

Over the last couple of years blogging at House Planning Help I have met people who have come up with elements of this sustainable future, whether it be by creating an energy-efficient house, forming a cohousing group, being careful where their money gets spent or making other significant lifestyle changes such as refusing to fly! That’s why I feel – if we’re not afraid of action – we each have a role to play here. We need to strive for that vision of a sustainable future, in whatever context that means for us, and then share our experiences online.
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Filed Under: Crowdfunding Tagged With: building, construction, crowdfunding, documentary, eco homes, energy efficiency, home, homes, house, houses, Kickstarter, video

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