Here is an article by Morgan Caraway recently published in www.motherearthnews.comMy wife, Mary Jane, and I built our first earthbag home in 2009, after being inspired by the Mother Earth News book Earthbag Building. Our circular house was 20 feet in diameter and incorporated a bottle wall and reclaimed French doors. The build took us … Read more
Morgan Caraway, of the Sustainable Life School, has informed me that his new earthbag tiny house class is online at https://sustainablelifeschool.thinkific.com/ He says that, “After over a year of hard work, the online earthbag tiny house course is live! It covers the entire construction of our earthbag tiny house from foundation to finishing. The class … Read more
I got this email from Leeann and Cody Gantz: “I am writing to you from central Montana at the foothills of the mountains. Garden zone 4b. Very high wind area. Negative 35 degrees F is very possible here.” “I wanted to share some information for anyone who may be interested. We bought a small cabin … Read more
It is mid-afternoon in Nakuru County, Nairobi, a few meters from the shores of Lake Elementaita. On this day, a group of men and women, old and young, are busy working at a construction site. From a distance, nothing looks unusual about the ongoing work. After all, Saturday is a working day for most people. … Read more
Lindsey Andersen of Wonder Domes is building an Off Grid Sustainable Earth Bag Artist Community in the desert of Joshua Tree, California. A California native, Lindsey spent 12 years in NYC producing theater & film, acting, writing music, animating and making art. She now lives in a 1975 Winnebago in the high Mojave building free … Read more
Avid blog reader Phil Dodd wrote, “Are you aware that in mid-Wales, UK, a sustainable-living practitioner is now coming to the end of his second earthbag build on his land? Kris Harbour has now nearly finished building a large workshop with earthbag walls, and a turfed timber roof. One of the notable features of the … Read more