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Title: Building with Earth: A Guide to Flexible-form Earthbag Construction
By: [Paulina Wojciechowska] of Earth Hands and Houses

Paperback 176 pages (October 26, 2001)
Publisher: Chelsea Green Pub Co
ISBN: 1890132810

This informative book on earth construction demonstrates how to build a structure, cheaply and robustly with earth using the earthbag technique. Paulina, using excellent illustrations and photographs, details every step of the process from design of the walls, buttresses, foundations and roofing, to the particularities of setting out the building on site, and its construction.

 
 

Title: Earthbag Building: The Tool, Tricks and Techniques
By: Kaki Hunter, Donald Kiffmeyer of OK OK OK Productions

Paperback 257 pages (June 1, 2004)
Publisher: New Society Publishers
ISBN: 0865715076

A comprehensive guide to all the tools, tricks, and technniques for building with bags filled with earth. A four-year project, this book is profusely illustrated with photographs, drawings, and technical diagrams, and based on years of experience in building with earthbags.