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High on Permaculture in the Rocky Mountains (video)
Kris Holstrom’s off-grid permaculture farm at 9000 feet high is living proof that food can be grown nearly anywhere. Managing…
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Building with Mud, and How to Build a Cob Oven
Cob is an earthen building material that is made of clay, sand, straw, and water. It has been used for…
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How to: Making Eco-Bricks (Costa Rica)
Finished bottles. Remember, one’s trash is another’s treasure! Last year I worked on making cob walls for a chicken coop,…
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Rob’s Modified Walipini
When a friend of mine told me that they wanted to build a walipini, my first reaction was, of course,…
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Can Earth Building Scale Up to the Mainstream? Robert Alcock on the Power of Keeping It Small
Rob Hopkins: Our recent post about Kevin McCabe’s ‘cob citadel’ and what we might learn from it about ‘scaling up’…
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Zed Eco-homes (India)
Every so often an individual is given exposure to another individual so wildly dynamic that it confuses, entertains, but most…
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A Look at Crystal Waters Ecovillage
This is an introduction to Crystal Waters, covering permaculture design, innovative housing design, intentional community living and land restoration. Crystal…
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Brooklyn Grange: A Rooftop Farm in New York (video)
Geoff Lawton at Brooklyn Grange Rooftop Farm “That view behind me is not a painted backdrop!” said Geoff Lawton to…
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Creating a Bamboo and Mud Yurt at the Art of Living Permaculture Centre, Bangalore, India
We wanted to create a natural building out of bamboo and mud on our site in Bangalore, India, as this…
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Traditional Mudhief House Building Method (Iraq)
This mudhief (or reed building) project has been done by the organisation Nature Iraq.
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Damn the Masters’ Plan! (video)
Here is an excellent video linking urbanicide to modernism. Wouter still likes the modernist aesthetic look, but he clearly analyzes…
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A Vision for Architecture as More Than the Sum of Its Parts
How Modernist Fundamentalism degrades the human and natural environment. by Michael W. Mehaffy & Nikos A. Salingaros Historic Paris and…
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