Every year we publish the most popular blog posts for the last 12 months. We’ll do that again in November on our 4th anniversary. Our goal here is to look at the most popular blog posts since we’ve started – the Best of the Bestest. Think of them as hidden gems unless you’ve read all 756 blog posts. (And if you have read them all, then you can start reading the info on our mothership at EarthbagBuilding.com. It’s all free. Enjoy.)
1. Counties with Few or No Building Codes
2. Bullet Resistance of Compressed Earth
3. Low-cost Multipurpose Minibuilding Made With Earthbags (This is my earthbag dome that almost went viral last year and got republished on dozens of blogs… see photo above.) Click here to read the free Step-by-Step How to Build an Earthbag Dome Instructable at Instructables.com.
4. Creating Earthbag House Models
5. Earthquake-resistant Earthbag Houses
6. Earthbag Rootcellar
7. Cost of Earthbag Houses
8. $2,000 Earthbag House
9. Earthbag Survival Shelter
10. Using Earthbags as Ceiling Insulation
I don’t miss a single installment….I love this guy, and I love his ideas. I wish I had the wherewithal to intern with him in Thailand.
Wow, thanks. An intern just left yesterday. In addition to practicing the basics of earthbag building, we worked out a unique house plan based on his needs.
I wonder how many other readers have read all of Owen’s great posts and also earthbagbuilding dot com besides myself? What say you, readers?
I’m starting with an earthbag root cellar…saving all the woven polypropalene chicken feed bags & dogfood bags to make it REALLY cheap…
Luke and a group of other people are designing a root cellar now. They’re thinking of a root cellar/cool pantry combination in adjoining rooms.