Salvage Workshops and The Salvage Mining Tutorial DVDs

Learn how to build affordable, sustainable houses with salvaged materials.
Learn how to build affordable, sustainable houses with salvaged materials.

We’ve featured several Tiny Texas Houses projects here on our blog. Some readers may be interested in building their own recycled homes and so I thought we’d take a look at their educational materials. Here is the product description of the 4 DVD instructional set from Tiny Texas Houses.

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Return to the Forest Natural Building School

Return to the Forest Natural Building School
Return to the Forest Natural Building School

“The Natural Building School was founded in 2008 and has been hosting a variety of popular courses on Natural Building, Permaculture, and Appropriate Technologies. Return to the Forest strives to educate the world on sustainable building practices to complement the global movement in ecological living.

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Blue Moon Rising

Blue Moon Rising ecoresort in Deep Creek Lake, Maryland
Blue Moon Rising ecoresort in Deep Creek Lake, Maryland

“Blue Moon Rising (BMR) on Deep Creek Lake will be what we believe to be the area’s most innovative development to date. In partnership with Mother Nature, an #ecotourism retreat like no other is being created in the heart of Garrett County in Western Maryland. Using the landscape as a guide, natural structures that boast an ecologically tiny impact will be blended harmoniously with the wooded mountainside, overlooking Deep Creek Lake.

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