Natural Building

AUGUST 18, 2021

Here is an article by Morgan Caraway recently published in www.motherearthnews.com My wife, Mary Jane, and I built our first earthbag home in 2009, after being inspired by the Mother Earth News book Earthbag Building. Along the way, we’ve learned a lot about how to streamline the process of building with earthbags.

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Foundation Housing Concrete Sustainability 52

Natural Building

MAY 13, 2006

Perhaps you've gone into that same basement in mid-winter and been surprised how warm it felt. Of course, most of us would not be comfortable in a house kept at 50 degrees, so we would need to bring the temperature up maybe 20 degrees to relax at home. Think of all the animals who dig into the ground to find refuge, comfort, security.

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Natural Building

AUGUST 18, 2007

Sustainable architecture is an exciting and important field, with many people reviving traditional methods of building and others creating innovations to established practices. The idea of making walls by stacking bags of sand or earth has been around for at least a century. Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture.

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Sustainability Architecture Green IDEA 71