The OSBBC is teaming up with builders and members of the NBNE (Natural Builders Northeast) to present our 2nd Annual Natural Building Conference, on March 16th...
I had the pleasure of learning about these Straw Bale specialists in Italy tonight. Filo di Paglia ('Wire Straw'). http://www.filodipaglia.com/ "Wire Straw is...
"La Maison Feuillette" is the oldest known straw bale house in Europe. It's 92 years old this year... :-) The RFCP (the French straw bale building network)...
There's some nice straw bale eye candy in the gallery of this Lithuanian company. http://www.ecococon.lt/en/straw-houses/gallery/ Ecococon has an interesting...
My apologies for the multiple posts: For some reason, Yahoo email kept telling me my email could not be sent, so I kept hitting the retry button. Chris Green. ...
I thought folks might enjoy this art installation built in Portugal. It's a 12.6 M/ 41.3' tall 'ephemeral monument' labeled 'Agricultural Mountain', and it...
New Frameworks Natural Building, of Burlington, Vermont has a book and dvd package available, titled Natural Building Companion: A Comprehensive Guide to...
LEARN HOW TO BUILD A MASONRY HEATER! For Homeowners and Masons Masonry Heaters are clean-burning heating appliances that use the renewable resource of wood for...
Hello everyone, I'm new to this group and would like to introduce myself by letting you know a little bit about our current project. We are owner / builders...
Hi there, I'm new to the site and exploring the idea of a dog house made with rammed earth/straw bales. We live in Toronto, Canada with it's share of cold...
Rammed Straw: "Rammed straw is something magical. Similar to the rammed earth technique, here the difference is that straw is bathed in a muddy water and...
Hi all! The Ontario Straw Bale Building Coalition (OSBBC) is once again hosting our annual province-wide straw house tour on Sunday, September 30, 2012, from...
I posted this on the Straw Bale Building Facebook page, but thought I should repost it here: Some of you might want to save the how-to pdf for the D.I.Y....
Next to an absolute vacuum, areogel ( or "Solid Smoke") has the lowest thermal conductivity value. It comes out at the equivalent of R-10 per inch. Figure ...
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Dirt Craft Natural Building, of Calgary, Alberta, offers, workshops, encouragement, how-tos and sometimes cob-oven baked pizza. Stop by their home page for a...
Hi Everyone, we've decided to put our straw bale place up for sale and I thought I'd mention it to the group just in case anyone is looking for, or knows of...
As a follow-up to RT's post re: Earth Tube studies, a timely Green Building Advisor article strongly urges us to very cautious about these structures. There's...
The Bad Heart Church, built in 1953/ 1954 beside the Bad Heart River in Northwest Alberta, is the oldest ~known~ straw bale building in Canada.* I was happy to...
I think some people might be interested in this new approach to building swimming pools: it uses plants to clean the water instead of chlorine and other...
Hi all, For those in the Toronto region, you may be interested in Endeavour's presentation of two sessions with the remarkable Bruce King, he of Ecological...
There's an interesting new technology rolling out. It uses a windmill to compress air and condense the water in that air. This would be good to have...
Hi Michael, I have done this kind of cost comparison before, but it's difficult information to share and feel comfortable with accuracy, because there are so...
