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Tag Archives: sand bag shelter

Emergency Earthbag Shelter Now Under Construction

Natural Building Blog Posted on May 6, 2013 by Owen GeigerJune 3, 2022

The earthbag emergency shelter Patti Stouter and I published in our UN Emergency Shelter Proposal is now under construction. This is something I’ve wanted to do for years. Drawings, articles and blog posts are all great, but there’s nothing like … Continue reading →

Posted in Earthbag Building, Emergency Shelter | Tagged affordable, disaster relief, DIY, emergency earthbag shelter, emergency housing, low cost, natural building, sand bag shelter, sustainable, temporary shelter | 21 Replies

$229,000 FEMA Trailers

Natural Building Blog Posted on May 5, 2013 by Owen GeigerJune 3, 2022

Comments from yesterday’s blog post prompted me to look up the cost of FEMA trailers for Hurricane Katrina victims. We all know the government buys $600 toilet seats, but this report about FEMA trailers really shocked and disgusted me. “A … Continue reading →

Posted in Emergency Shelter | Tagged disaster relief, disaster shelter, DIY, earthbag shelter, hurricane shelter, low cost, natural building, sand bag shelter, straw bale shelter, temporary shelter | 12 Replies

Shelters for All Update — One Year Later

Natural Building Blog Posted on March 27, 2013 by Owen GeigerJune 3, 2022

It’s been about one year since the Shelters for All $300 House design competition. (Earthbag building was the most popular building method.) Let’s look at the progress made since then. Two videos below show their work in Haiti and India.

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Posted in Earthbag Building, Emergency Shelter | Tagged community development, disaster relief, DIY, earthbag, earthbag shelter, low cost, poverty, sand bag, sand bag shelter | Leave a reply

World Shelters — Bags of Shelter

Natural Building Blog Posted on December 12, 2010 by Owen GeigerJune 3, 2022

Today’s post is from the World Shelters website at Appropedia.org. Bags of Shelter is an earthbag shelter designed for World Shelters to use as transitional shelter for people in Haiti affected by the January 2010 earthquake. World Shelters is a … Continue reading →

Posted in Design, Emergency Shelter, Introduction | Tagged bags of shelter, earthbag, earthbag building, earthbag construction, earthbag home, earthbag house, earthbag shelter, earthquake, earthquake proof, earthquake resistant, Haiti, humangineers, hurricane, sand bag, sand bag shelter, shelter, world shelter | Leave a reply

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