Building a home of earth » alternative construction

Natural Homes has a great site!

jen — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:09:06 +0000

Check out the Homes Map to look at green houses built all over the globe. http://naturalhomes.org/homesmap.htm

Another cool blog about alternative building

jen — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 13:28:11 +0000

earthlanguage.blogspot.com

Becky Bee on the Web

jen — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:15:39 +0000

You can now read Becky Bee’s book on Cob building on the internet at: The Cob Builders Handbook

I have loved this book for years….

Watch this Irish MudWoman

jen — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:45:57 +0000

Liz, of LizBiz Blog, is off pursuing her dream of a mortgage free beautiful home. You can watch her progress at The story of how I’ll build my own earth home.

…she lived passionately and with good humour ever after …

Affordable, Hurricane Proof Housing

jen — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:07:15 +0000

I had read about houses built from recycled shipping containers, but never about the advantages of doing this in a hurricane zone. A reader of this blog sent me some links and really whet my interest!

This simple housing in Australia, used to house some research drones in the rainforest, went through a Cat 5 hurricane. The flimsy upper deck covering tore off, but the containers stayed snug and dry.

In St. Petersburg Fla, Bob Villa filmed the construction of a container house which has an end result of looking like traditional construction. It looks exactly like it’s block and stick built neighbors, but is much more hurricane proof. The video of this project was fascinating to the Wiz and I.

This home on the coast of New Zealand was built with shipping containers. These inventive folks have an article about their project called Life at the Edge.