Earthbag Building

Earthbag Furniture

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Looking for the perfect furniture for your new earthbag home?  Everyone’s familiar with bean bag furniture, but most brands use polystyrene fill, a possible carcinogenic.  Consider making your own furniture filled with rice hulls as an all natural fill. Rice hulls are surprisingly comfortable.  I discovered this by accident about six months ago when I … Read more

The Billboard Earthbag Project

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Each year the Society for Environmental Graphic Design sponsors a contest to recognize the best in environmental graphic design.  This year’s Juror’s Award went to Norman Lee and Charles Houser for their Billboard Earthbag Project. The designers say: “Because most conventional sandbags are fabricated from polypropylene, they are very vulnerable to UV rays and quickly … Read more