Owen Geiger

Rosetta Interactive Library

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Rosetta Interactive Library home page
Rosetta Interactive Library home page

Here’s a project I’ve been working on for a couple of years. It’s not directly related to natural building, although this library website could be used to research all types of subjects.

Rosetta Interactive Library (RIL) is a library website where people go to get things done, either by working alone or collaborating with others. Billions of people use libraries. Many of these same people will want to use an online library for similar purposes. Rosetta Interactive Library is user friendly, powerful and adaptable, and can be used in many different ways as the following images illustrate.

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Earthbag Building DVD Now Available as High Speed Download

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Earthbag Building DVD Now Available as High Speed Download
Earthbag Building DVD Now Available as High Speed Download

You can still order physical copies of my Earthbag Building DVD from Amazon, but now you can also get the DVD via high speed download direct from the Internet. This is ideal for those in other countries and for people who don’t want to wait ten days or so for a DVD to arrive through the mail. Plus, the cost is only $20 instead of $28. See our sales page for ordering information.

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A Practice Earthbag Building Project

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Earthbag building project is good practice for building an earthbag home.
Earthbag building project is good practice for building an earthbag home.

“If you are considering the cheapest simplest way of building your own home with natural materials, earthbag construction could be the best way to go. For the most part you will be filling bags with dirt and stacking them. In the August/September 2009 Mother Earth News, they ran an article on this small earthbag project which needs no building permit and would be great practice in the earthbag technique or even cob, rammed earth with tires or adobe.

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My Top 10 Most Popular YouTube Videos

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If a picture is worth 1,000 words, then a video is worth… Maybe that’s why my NaturalHouse YouTube channel is so popular. 2. Finished Earthbag Roundhouse 3. Cement Plastering 4. Building an Earthbag Dome 5. Hardness Test 6. Enviro Dome Fly-through 7. $300 Earthbag House 8. How to Make Square Corners 9. Bag Size 10. … Read more

Earthbag Building Guide Sample Text Part 2

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It’s worth emphasizing that even though quite a bit of the content has been previously published on our various websites everything has been carefully distilled, updated, vetted by peer review and organized for maximum clarity. Dozens of new photos and drawings aid in understanding. The editing process alone took about six months to refine the … Read more