Earthbag Building

Emergency Earthbag Shelters for Pakistan

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Pakistan Relief: 40 earthbag emergency shelters for 400 people
Pakistan Relief: 40 earthbag emergency shelters for 400 people

Two clever examples out of many possible solutions.

“We ended 2005 with a project in the earthquake-stricken district of Bagh, Pakistan to provide Improvised All Weather Rapid Shelters (IRAS). Your strong funding of dZi this year has allow us to jump on this project with oversight from dear friends on the ground in Pakistan. Dr Neena Jain and her husband Bill Rohs are strong supporters of the dZi Foundation and were instrumental in helping us open our girl’s safe house in Sikkim, India. They are now volunteering for Austrian Aid International in Bagh for the next six months.

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New FAQ’s at Earthbagbuilding.com

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The Frequently Asked Questions section of www.earthbagbuilding.com has been accumulating pertinent questions and answers for over a decade. These had been categorized into only about a half dozen pages, which had become overly long and cumbersome for finding specific information.  I finally decided to organize them in such a way that it is now much … Read more

YWAM Orlando’s Justice Department Earthbag Home

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“YWAM (Youth With a Mission) Orlando’s Justice Department embarks on its first sustainable housing project – an Earthbag Home. Using resources that can be found almost anywhere, they are building a prototype on the campus. The hope is that, having learned to build this kind of house here, future teams can be trained in simple construction, then sent on outreach to take what they’ve learned to people who need it!”

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Farm Stay Earthbag Rentals

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Wrong Way Home Farm Stay earthbag rental unit
Wrong Way Home Farm Stay earthbag rental unit

“In the next 3 or 4 months I hope to not only complete the aquaponics component of my project, but get one “model” farm stay unit completed (which I intend to test thoroughly by living in it myself for a while).

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Eatmore Sprouts Earthbag Greenhouse

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Eatmore Sprouts 30’x90’ Earthbag Greenhouse
Eatmore Sprouts 30’x90’ Earthbag Greenhouse

“In the spring of 2011, the construction of our new greenhouse began. This is not just a regular greenhouse. In an effort to maximise thermal mass, it is being built with environmental sustainability in mind by using earth.

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