Building your house from the earth.

The following are links to sites that offer information or services.

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Straw Bale

·  Straw Bale House Plans - 50 straw bale house plans.

·  Straw Bale Central  - Umbrella organization created to disseminate and coordinate information and activities regarding natural building, sustainable architecture, and ecological living.

·  Skillful Means  - Architects and builders with experience in sustainable buildings, including straw-bale and rammed earth construction.

·  Surfing Straw Bales Link Directory - This is the list if you really want to pursue an online straw bale obsession.

·  The Last Straw - Grassroots quarterly of straw-bale and natural building techniques. Includes subscription information and samples articles.

·  Agrarian Design and Practice - Strawbale building and construction methods, mainly concentrating on loadbearing.

·  Bale Raisers - Straw bale house plans for owners, builders, and designers. Stock plans, design and drafting services.

·  DMOZ Open Directory - Straw bale construction.

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Cob

·  Cob Cottage Company - Conducting research and providing information on building cob structures.

·  Groundworks - Information and resources for building cob structures.

·  Cob Email List-Server - Straw bale construction.

·  Cob and Natural Building Site - Place to discover, discuss and question all you ever wanted to know about the art of cob building.

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Adobe

·  Adobe Builder - Offers classes in adobe and rammed earth construction as well as a magazine on earthen construction.

·  Adobe Home Construction - Offers a brief history and rationale for the use of adobe. Content available in Spanish as well.

·  The Adobe House - Offers a history and specifications of building with adobe.

·  Rim Journal: House Made of Mud - Features book suggestions in addition to examples and pictures of adobe house fixtures.

·  South West Solar Adobe School - Offers pictures and a description of a project using adobe bricks.

·  DMOZ Open Directory - Earth construction.

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Other

·  Sustainable Architecture, Building and Culture  - A compendium of links and content oriented to the global community of ecological building proponents for exploring issues of sustainable design, building, community development, and culture.

·  Sustainable Building Sourcebook - Compiled by the City of Austin's Green Builder Program; information on alternative building techniques and sustainable construction materials.

·  Green Building Concepts - Tools to build a more energy and resource efficient home.

·  The Natural Home Building Source - Sustainable, passive solar, do-it-yourself house plans are featured with interior planterbeds, composting toilets, greywater recycling and septic system products.

·  Care2 - How to make an healthy, environmentally safe home.

·  Care2 - Sustainable development.

·  Professional Dome Plans - A book of detailed shop drawings and
simple formulas for building wood framed, 3v icosa, panelized geodesic
domes.

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