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Natural Building Blog Pics at Pinterest

June 3, 2022May 24, 2012 by Owen Geiger

This log end flooring photo has been ‘repinned’ hundreds of times at Pinterest.

Pinterest is an online pinboard or bulletin board where people post their favorite images. It’s extremely popular and a great source of ideas on home design, interior design, furniture, building with recycled materials and many other topics. At one time I considered joining and making a page of my favorite design pics, but dozens of images from our blog have been repinned or reposted at Pinterest over 1,000 times, and now there’s even a separate page with pics from our blog. So basically I got my wish without doing any additional work!

Earthbag Building Blog pics at Pinterest (now Natural Building Blog)

Resilient Communities

June 3, 2022May 23, 2012 by Owen Geiger

A resilient community has the ability to survive an extended disconnection from the global grid in areas including:
– Energy
– Food
– Security (both active and passive)
– Communications
– Transportation

Free House Plans and Desert Shelter Plans Now Available

June 3, 2022May 21, 2012 by Owen Geiger

Nine free plans such as this Craftsman house are now available as PDFs

My free plans are now available and just a click away on our Free House Plans page. This is an exciting moment for me. The four PDFs published so far represent weeks of work and dozens of files (three houses and six shelters). I’ve been sending them out by email to those who requested the plans, but now they’re available right here on our blog as free PDFs.

Top 10 Natural Building Materials

June 3, 2022May 20, 2012 by Owen Geiger

“New home construction comes at a tremendous expense to the planet. Building 1.7 million homes with traditional wood, steel and concrete frames consumes the same amount of energy as heating and cooling 10 million houses each year, according to the Consortium for Research on Renewable Industrial Materials. The environmental costs stem largely from the manufacture of the materials. Cement production, for example, requires an astounding amount of energy and results in water and air pollution and industrial waste that is usually not recycled. Using natural materials that require minimal processing or refining reduces these environmental impacts.

Multifunctional small green roofs: drought-proof shelters with wildlife habitats

June 3, 2022May 18, 2012 by Owen Geiger

“Whilst building low cost small green roofs Tim Green had a brain wave. His roofs could not only keep his buildings weather proof, he could also make them into wildlife habitats and dust them with symbiotic mycorrhizal fungi to make them more drought tolerant. Genius! …The construction took about 3 hours and cost just under … Read more