Vesicular Basalt for Earthbag Building

Vesicular basalt has lower R-value than scoria or pumice but is still suitable for earthbag building
Vesicular basalt has lower R-value than scoria or pumice but is still suitable for earthbag building
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“I have been going a bit nuts trying to find a bulk supplier of Scoria nearby. I was recently reading in an article that the area I live in has large deposits of basaltic scoria; like the biggest in the USA. So I decided to go out and look for it. I didn’t have to go further than my back yard before I noticed this stuff within every foot or so.

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Summer Bag Blitz! Earthbag and Natural Building Intensive Workshop

Summer Bag Blitz! Earthbag and Natural Building Intensive Workshop
June 27th – July 5th, 2015

Natural Building & Earthbag 9 day or 5 day Intensive – “Bag Blitz!
“Thinking about building your own Natural House? This is the in-depth workshop for you.

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Masoro Village Project/ GA Collaborative

Masoro Village Project, Rwanda
Masoro Village Project, Rwanda

“The construction of a small single-family home twenty kilometers north of Kigali, Rwanda is now complete. The building is demure: three small bedrooms, a modest living room, and a space for cooking. Poor material availability and financial limitations meant that practicality was its primary design muse.

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Her Farm, an Earthbag Home for Women in Nepal

Earthbag housing built with volunteer labor
Earthbag housing built with volunteer labor

“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.

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Building with Earthbags in Nepal

Earthbag school in Nepal built by First Steps Himalaya volunteers.
Earthbag school in Nepal built by First Steps Himalaya volunteers.

“The small kindergarden built by FSH a few years ago was built in cement, but «in Nepal cement is really of very poor quality. Look at the walls: they are already cracked!» Durga complains. «For the training centre, we have decided that we would choose something different and, after a great deal of research, I found out about the earthbag technique … which seemed to me to be THE solution»

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Bustani Permaculture Project Tanzania

Earthbag dome by Bustani Permaculture Project Tanzania
Earthbag dome by Bustani Permaculture Project Tanzania

“We’re a small NGO on north coast of Tanzania run by a French couple who have decided to help the community in a Permaculture way. We’ve built our first dome a year ago then sand bag water cistern. ….Never followed any workshop since difficult for us but read and watched few videos. All your websites help us a lot, thanks again.

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