sustainable building

Building on Our Past

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Dear Owen, I thought you might be interested in a book that I have written about sustainable building methods which ties in with your interesting earthbag building project. Please see attached postcard. Feel free to use the information on your blog if you think it is useful. Best wishes, Pete Hancock Code Green Publishing.com

Affordable Eco-homes Report

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This just in from Kelly Hart: “Dr.Jenny Pickerill recently traveled around the world on a Winston Churchill Trust Travelling Fellowship on a quest for information and insights on how folks in England (where she teaches at the University of Leicester) might better address needs for sustainable housing. One of her stops was in the rural … Read more

Rivers of Land

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This post is quoted from the Rivers of Land website. Even though their site hasn’t been maintained for a long time, they do have some very good ideas to think about. I wish them the best. Maybe another group can accomplish something similar? Who are we? We are people who have always wanted to live … Read more

Sustainable Building

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Sometimes we’re in a hurry and don’t always take time to think carefully about what we’re reading. This post links key sustainable building concepts to Wikipedia to facilitate further research. There have been lots of articles lately on sustainable building, also called green building and natural building, but what is it really? Sustainable building is … Read more

Starting a Natural Building Library

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Knowledge is power, as they say. Serious natural builders will want to draw from the best pool of knowledge available. You see, earthbag is just one part of natural building. There are design and site issues to learn about, how to best use sustainably harvested wood, how-to information on roofs, plastering, and so on. It’s … Read more