Andrew and Margo Hanson-Pierre from Clover Bee Farm in Schafer, Minnesota are building a solar greenhouse, which has a heat sink, something that will store the heat from the sun during the day and release that heat at night. The floor is made of 4-foot-deep river rock, but people also use large barrels of water … Read more
Nonprofit Critical Concrete aims to refurbish spaces that are shared by low-income communities in Portugal. They also try to educate the local community on sustainable and earth-friendly practices. The organization promotes green architecture through a summer school program that refurbishes a home for a family in need every year. Last year 32 students from 20 … Read more
Cocoa husks, dried orange peel, and ground blue pea flowers are among the ingredients that constitute a new class of building materials that could revolutionize construction. Not only are they biodegradable but some also absorb toxins. They are waste products that are used to make “Orb”, a sustainable building material that is carbon neutral. It … Read more
Tasmanian builder Andrias McMahon has been working with hempcrete on two recent projects. “The process of structurally making a building with hempcrete is not very far from a conventional building,” he said. “You need to give it a minimum of six weeks to cure — that’s the primary cure. “The overall curing process takes about … Read more
A collaboration between Company New Heroes and Krown Design, this biobased building was built using only materials that grow on Earth, including timber and mycelium, the root structure of mushrooms. First molds were created and then filled with a hemp waste substrate for the mycelium to grow on. It took four days for the mycelium … Read more
A couple of days ago this was posted on our bulletin board: “Greetings Earth-builder Aficionados, You’ll be glad to hear that I have invented patent-pending technology to make prefab earth walls, which I sincerely believe will revolutionize our built environment from production to construction to operation. As I’m sure you all know, earth is the … Read more