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Members: 243
Category: Home Building
Founded: Feb 6, 2005
Language: English

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A group for the discussion of building techniques relating to earthbag or "superadobe" construction. Was unable to find any online forums discussing this subject specifically, so I decided to start my own.

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Microbes and earthbuilding... The adobe builder in this video adds horse manure, wheat flour paste, and powdered milk to the mix when making adobes. The horse manure provides Urea, and the Posted - Fri May 11, 2012 1:22 am	chris green hraefn_2 Offline Send Email
Re: A large sustainable, Off The Grid development project on the new I doubt many houses will end up with such heaters. The oil doesn't necessarily have to be used since most deisel engines can run off vegetable oil, so a deisel Posted - Sat May 5, 2012 7:27 pm	chris green hraefn_2 Offline Send Email
Re: A large sustainable, Off The Grid development project on the new Hi Chris, Sounds good. But I wonder, how much used cooking oil would the whole neighborhood need once all the houses have people living in them Posted - Fri May 4, 2012 10:58 am	Glenna Elf ladyglennaelf Offline Send Email
Re: Apprenticing Superadobe in Mexico & Guatemala 2012 Prof. Gernot Minke and some of his students were experimenting with a variety of methods for 'fabric form earth building' in the 1970's. One type involved Posted - Fri May 4, 2012 4:48 am	chris green hraefn_2 Offline Send Email
A large sustainable, Off The Grid development project on the news. This news segment on cbc last night features a straw bale house in Welland, Ont, heated byt used cooking oil. This project aims to be an entire off-grid Posted - Fri May 4, 2012 1:10 am	chris green hraefn_2 Offline Send Email
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