The Earthbag Home Show
Earthbag
building has seen a resurgence of interest since the
late Nader
Khalili 
began
experimenting with bags of adobe soil as building blocks
for creating domes, vaults and arches. Now the whole
field has expanded considerably with further experimentation
by his students like Paulina
Wojciechowska
and
others like Doni Kiffmeyer and Kaki Hunter of OKOKOK.org
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Here is a slide show you can include in your blog that
presents a collection of earthbag
homes. |
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Earthship Workshops, Japan
Join
Saturday and Sunday, on the 3rd weekend of every Summer
month to build a semi underground earthship, earth sheltered,
passive solar greenhouse at Earth
Embassy, Mt Fuji . |
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Straw Bale House Building
Red
Feather are building a new straw bale house for a family
on Third Mesa on the Hopi Reservation during the month
of September. They are looking for volunteers
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Tiny Housing Top 10
Some
beautiful cob houses included in this collection of
10 tiny homes that you can include in your blog. Read
the natural tiny house top 10
here. |
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Searching for a Cob House?
This is a custom search using a database
of over 400 web sites that contain good quality and trustworthy
information about natural and tiny houses. It also includes
real experiences shared in self-builder blogs. The database
is developed in cooperation with the European
Straw Bale Building Association |
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Straw Bale Internship, USA
Interested
in straw bale house construction? Want some hands-on experience
with natural building? Visit Red
Earth Farms |
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Dreaming
about a cob house?
It's
good
to know you're not the only one that dreams of living
in an ecohouse. Here's a collection of EcoHouse
dreams on Twitter. |
Straw Bale Earthquake Results
After
earlier test on a cob structure by the University of
British
Columbia, Darcey Donovan,
the founder of PAKSBAB, talks about the earthquake tests
performed at the University of Nevada, Reno on the 27th
of March 2009. Read the article
here. |
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Support The Sun School
An off-grid school in the Indian Himalayas are looking
for volunteers. You can see the location on the natural
homes map or go to the project's web site at suryaschool.org
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Straw
Bale House Vote
"You want
to build your own straw bale house but you are concerned
about potential problems. The one problem that concerns
you the most is:"
Vote here and help
our research by adding the vote to your blog to collect
votes from your readers. |
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 How
to Harvest Timber
The Healing Harvest Forest
Foundation shows how to harvest
trees the environmentally correct way. |
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Why
a truth window?
"Many
straw bale homes have a truth window. It's a section of
wall that displays the straw bale structure, but what
is a truth window for?"
Vote
here and help our research by adding the vote to your
blog to collect votes from your readers. |
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 Earthbag
Building in Mali
A multilingual event (French, English,
Polish and Dogon). Participants will learn everything
they need to build structurally sound domes. Book early
for January 9th - 25th, 2010. More details at earthhandsandhouses.org
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The
Lammas ecoVillage Story
Lammas
is applying for planning permission to build an ecovillage
in Wales which combines the traditional smallholding
model with the latest innovations in environmental
design, green technology and permaculture. More about
Lammas
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Straw
Bale Congressional
The
Environmental and Energy Study Institute, Washington,
USA ran a briefing on "Straw-Bale Construction:
Harvesting Its Potential As an Affordable and Energy-Efficient
Building Strategy" with presentations from
Laura
Bartels ,
Sandy Wiggins, Bob Gough and David
Eisenberg .
Listen to the briefing on the EESI
web site |
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Straw Bale house results
Results
are in from October's ecoVote and the World clearly
prefers to invest in straw bale homes but not in the
Americas where earthen structures are preferred. Read
more here.
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Building an ecoHouse
Results
are in from September's ecoVote and the World clearly
prefers straw bale construction but in the Americas
cob and straw bale are equally preferred. Read more
about the ecoVote results |
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That Roundhouse 2010, Poland
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