A Tour of Eagleyew House On Vancouver Island

The Eagleyew house is a beautifully sculpted custom green home built with nearly 100% natural materials. The light clay walls are made with a mixture of clay and straw, and the timber frame structure is built using wood from the property. There is a wraparound living roof, and the interior has earthen floors and natural … Read more

New Straw Bale Home Helps Educate People About Climate Issues

Kathleen Draper, a climate change activist has constructed a 1,500-square-foot, three-bedroom straw bale home that she said will help reduce global warming and keep her comfortable in the harshest New York winter. “I call it my ‘dwelling on drawdown’ project,” she said, referring to the future point at which the atmosphere’s greenhouse gas levels stop … Read more

Clay Plaster Designed to Resemble Rammed Earth

Clayworks brand is now offering what they call Rammed Earth Finishes that are designed to create  earthy wall finishes that resemble rammed earth. This can be used on internal walls and is made entirely from natural earthen matterials. “Made, like the real thing, from 100 per cent natural clays, minerals, sands and colored with natural … Read more

Building an Earthbag Tiny House Online Course

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

New Hempcrete Home Sequesters Carbon

This new home of 29-year-old Shelby Howland, owner of Village Carpentry and Landscaping in Goshen, Indiana, is being built with hempcrete. The house is not only a place to live, but is a pilot project for the future of his family business. The 1,600-square-foot, two-story home has been in the works for the past nine … Read more