Earthbag Building in the Mainstream Press

Here are two new articles that show the growing awareness of earthbag building and natural building as a whole. Thanks to Gail Moore and Troy Griepentrog for alerting us to these articles. What Right Do You Have to Be Here on Planet Earth? by William H. Kotke We Are Now Ready To Overthrow The Pathological … Read more

Puerto Vallarta Model Home

I have been consulting with Mike Parker who started www.childrenofthedump.org in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico about how to build inexpensive, ecological housing for poor families who subsist off recycling materials from the city dump. They typically live in shacks and shanties that are often not adequate for their needs, nor do they provide proper housing for … Read more

Instructable: How to Build an Earthbag Dome

Note: This is probably the closest we’ve come to going viral with our message about earthbag building. Skim to the bottom of this blog post and look at all the sites that are posting this story. And that’s just a few. The surge of interest came from my recent articles at Instructables.com, which combined have … Read more

Earthbag Game-changer

We believe the combination of new developments in earthbag building is a game-changer, a breakthrough that is gradually pushing earthbag into the mainstream. Long term readers have been following these developments, but I will briefly recap some key developments for new readers since there’s a recent surge in traffic. – Engineered plans are now available … Read more