When Alex Melamed and his wife moved to the tradiational brick and mortar town of Yellow Springs, Ohio they built a home only as big as they needed at the time. Melamed is a builder and could keep costs low while still incorporating high design elements like shou-sugi-ban (charred wood) siding.
affordable housing
Her Farm, an Earthbag Home for Women in Nepal
“This past month 34 high school students volunteered to build a house for women at Her Farm. Previously, one volunteer from Colorado had spent two weeks putting in the foundation for the first “earthbag” house to be built in this part of Nepal.
Shash Dine B&B Natural Building Workshops
“We are a Native American owned large acreage ranch and off grid bed and breakfast on the Navajo nation overlooking Lake Powell in northern Arizona. We wish to offer our ranch as a hosting site for workshops. We host. You teach. Funds go to you. Structure stays here with us.
Natural Building and Permaculture in Cuba
The recent normalization of relations between the US and Cuba has opened up travel opportunities in Cuba.
Natural Building in Nicaragua
“This is an overview of the natural building work I am doing in rural Nicaragua, primarily with women and young people. This article shares the conditions, existing infrastructures and materials available, and some of the successes. Nothing has proven to be a failure, though the path has taken some turns! I will follow up with a series of articles deepening the exploration of each of these points.
The House That Started a Movement
Episode 1 of 4 – The strange tale of how I came to be living off the grid, and why everyone should try it at some time in their lives – possibly right now.