Who are Natural Homes...
Natural Homes is a not-for-profit organisation
that redresses the marketing balance between sustainable and
unsustainable businesses by providing environmentally ethical, but
often less profitable, natural builders, crafts people and
environmental organisations with free access to a
mainstream audience.
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Reaching people in 8 languages...
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Natural Homes writes about using natural materials
for living a healthy lifestyle. We provide a platform, not only for
the world's natural builders to share their work, but also for the
people who base their lifestyle on natural living principles. We
currently publish in fifteen languages in facebook with some
languages also published here on our website. To enjoy our work in
your language please select from the two character language code
under the main menu. Collectively the Natural Homes Family have many
years of experience in all aspects of natural building and many
aspects of natural living from feng shui to growing apples and
from architecture to re-stringing a straw bale, with
pretty much everything in between.
Contact Natural Homes via: email: house@naturalhomes.org twitter: @naturalhomes
skype: naturalhomes
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Max left his native Denmark in 1989 and
settled in the woods of the Pacific North-West of America
for five years where he got his first introduction to
Natural Building from the
Cob
Cottage Company. He then lived in Norway before moving
to Czech Republic in 1999, where he founded PermaLot a
non-profit permaculture land trust which evolved into the
PermaLot Centre of Natural Building. He is consultant and
natural builder and has arranged two European Natural
Building Colloquia and hosted the European Straw Bale
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Inna grew up in Kazakhstan, USSR later
moving to live in Siberia where she was selected for
Olympic training as a gymnast. Inna developed a love for
art and moved to St.Petersburg to attend the Academy of
Industrial Art. Inna left Russia to live in the UK where
she has been involved in straw bale building projects with
Amazonails [now
Straw
Works and
Straw
Build] and
Chug Tugby. |
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Raluca is an architect in Bucharest,
Romania. She has a passion for designing homes based on
natural materials and traditional design. |
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Xavi is based in Amsterdam since 2006
where he runs his natural building company xavi eco. The
company is whole-heartedly committed to sustainable
construction principles. Using healthy construction
techniques and materials with low environmental impact. In
the last four years working together with Christo Markham
they have completed several projects. Since 2011
Xavi Rodriguez started to collaborate with several groups
to publish articles on natural building, which resulted in
an article on earthen plasters published in the magazine
Ecohabitar. |
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Kostas worked as an economist until 1990
when he decided to live greener. Since then he has lived
on his natural farm, builds natural homes and organizes
sustainability workshops. |
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Satomi lives in a tiny hamlet in southern
New Mexico, USA. In the small town where she lives natural
building has taken a foothold with her home as the jewel
of natural building. Satomi, with husband Tom, have made a
name for themselves over the years by doing high quality
work in straw bale building, timber framing, natural
plasters and earthen floors. |
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Peter uses and studies the application of
all the available local natural materials through his
work. Most of his natural building is repairing old and
new buildings with clay plasters, clay walls, wooden
organic furniture and green roofs. He cooperates with
sustainable architects in Slovakia through his company
Organica. Peter also works with the Scouts, Slovakian
Friends of the Earth and several other environmental
organizations. Here is some of his
natural building work and
community work. |
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