This just in from Joe Newman, who’s building his earthbag home in New Mexico. “We have a locally produced show on NPR called Ozarks at Large. We recently had a 5 minute spot aired on earthbag building. We were interviewed along with another couple building an earthbag structure in Garfield Arkansas. Short interview, so my … Read more
The Rasin Foundation Medical Clinic in Haiti is making good progress, as you can see by the following photos. More info here.
A group near Canon City, Colorado is building an earthbag llama barn. Here’s the comment that they posted the other day. “Thanks Owen for posting the article. Our build went really well, just as easy as you make it seem with all the blogs and websites and instructables. The one thing that consistently amazed me … Read more
Construction has begun on a new clinic with environmentally friendly low cost earthbag construction at rural Petite-Riviere, Leogane, Haiti. The new clinic will have four exam rooms (including a dental suite), a treatment/surgical room, nurses station, waiting room, storage and bathroom. Completion will hopefully be in early 2011. The current makeshift clinic (seen as the metal … Read more
Pisco Sin Fronteras in Pisco, Peru has been working with earthbags for some time and their last project, just completed, is a community center. They have detailed how they went about building this at their website and we have assembled this information on a project page about it at www.earthbagbuilding.com. You can also see a … Read more
Paul Coleman’s and Konomi Kikuchi’s blog covers their building projects in Patagonia. Their earthbag house is coming along nicely. They recently built an interesting composting toilet with earthbags. Best view ever. You can read the article here.