Gardening Like a Forest- A Conversation With Dave Jacke Sustainable World Radio I Love Cob – Beyond Organic Podcast Cob Houses and Natural Building Permaculture Media Blog – Podcast with Paul Stamets, Rob Hopkins and Richard Manning Transition Culture.org RichSoil.com Please leave a comment if you know of other good podcast sites.
We profiled Doctor Dirtbag’s earthbag home in a previous post. This video shows how he built his earthbag dome. Doctor Dirtbag’s YouTube Channel Note: you don’t need to put earthbags in a form. Maybe Doctor Dirtbag will share his experience with this device.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rn3AJv_4X0 “One Community is a low-impact living model demonstrating large-scale sustainability and fulfilled living as the open source blueprints for a sustainable civilization. Our mission is to demonstrate a new way of living that addresses the pressing problems of today and prepares the world for the challenges of the next century through a duplicable model … Read more
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm-SHU1fN3c&feature=related Vane Bennett from Vibez International, teaches in Baltimore, Virginia, and Jamaica, and collaborates with Scott Howard of Earthen Hand. “Vibez International is hosting a marvelous 7 day earthbag building workshop in Jamaica West Indies (July 14th-21st). The location for this project is in Sheffield, Westmoreland, 7 minutes inland of Jamaica’s West coast. We will … Read more
Here’s the fascinating inside story of how they built Frank Loyd Wright’s famed School of Architecture at Taliesin West. Desert concrete or dry-pack is more sustainable than typical concrete because it uses free local sand and stone, no gravel and very little water. Large stones reduce use of cement. “There was a query on the … Read more
“Educational Facility and Eco-Retreat Natural Building varies based on climate, ecology, and geology of the region. Not all methods are appropriate for all locations. Here in the mid-southeast, we have a plethora of materials that we can put to work to create beautiful, healthy, and comfortable buildings that have much less environmental impact than other … Read more