Building with Earth: A Guide to Flexible-Form Earthbag Construction - Paulina Wojciechowska.  Using inexpensive, recycled, or salvaged polypropylene tubing or textile grain sacks, even relatively inexperienced builders can construct a tree-free retreat, studio, or full-time home. This book gives detailed instructions on earth architecture, design and siting, and building of foundations, roofs, and interior walls and floors, as well as weatherproofing and finishing. All techniques are illustrated with b&w photos of work in progress and the finished buildings.

Alternative Construction: Contemporary Natural Building Methods - Lynne Elizabeth (Editor), Cassandra Adams.  The first comprehensive guide to combining traditional natural materials and modern construction methods.  From adobe to straw bales, traditional building materials are being adapted to meet code-required standards for health and safety in contemporary buildings around the world. Not only are they cost effective and environmentally friendly, but, when used correctly, these natural alternatives match the strength and durability of many mainstream construction materials.

Build Smarter With Alternative Materials - Leon A. Frechette.  Drawing on his two decades as a general contractor in residential and light commercial construction and remodeling, Frechette passes on his experience with recycled, renewable, or otherwise less wasteful materials available commercially for foundations, framing, roofing, doors and windows, insulation, bathrooms and kitchens, and other areas.

The Alternative Building Sourcebook:  Traditional, Natural and Sustainable Building Products and Services  - Steve K. Chappell (Editor), Steve Chapell (Editor), James J. Marks.  The SOURCEBOOK is unique among green building guides in its exclusive focus on natural building methods, such as strawbale, clay infill, cob, thatch and timber framing. Useful information on associated products, services, and tools is also provided. For builders, architects, and lay people interested in natural building, The Alternative Building Sourcebook makes an excellent reference.

The Alternative Building Sourcebook:  Building With Nature  This is not just another directory of green building materials. The result is a rich compilation of helpful businesses, rounded out with instructive essays, illustrations, and sidebars. Resource categories include suppliers, publications, schools, software, videos, and workshops and conferences.
 

Alternative Housebuilding - Michael McClintock.  This book is your guide through the world of alternative house construction. It shows how to build with traditional systems now enjoying big revivals; log buildings, timber frame houses, structures made from adobe, stone or cordwood. And you will also see how to build with the newer systems: pole foundations, rammed-earth walls and earth sheltering.

Profit from Building Green: Award Winning Tips to Build Energy Efficient Homes - Jeannie Leggett Sikora. Tried-and-true techniques to give home builders the inside track to create successful green building practices and for choosing products to marketing energy efficient homes.

The Cob Builders Handbook: You Can Hand-Sculpt Your Own Home  - Becky Bee, Mitch Spiralstone (Editor), Alex McMillan (Editor).  From advice on 'snuggling' foundation rocks together to practical explanation of creating the right mix.. .the author really shows she knows how to work with earth.  Making sense in a world where a lot of things don't.
 

Serious Straw Bale: A Home Construction:  A Home Construction Guide for All Climates  - Paul Lacinski, Michel Bergeron.  This book provides the metaphorical nuts and bolts of straw bale construction for homes and other buildings. Unlike many other straw bale construction books on the market, this one looks at building design issues from the perspective of the straw bale builders and considers the particular needs of the medium. Several different techniques are discussed, focusing much information on the needs of those building in wet and/or cold environments.

The Natural House: A Complete Guide to Healthy, Energy-Efficent, Environmental Homes -  Daniel D. Chiras.  This sourcebook examines the options for building a house that is economical, energy-efficient, nontoxic, kind to the environment, and pleasurable to inhabit. Explores the pros and cons of 14 natural building methods, including straw bale, rammed earth, cob, cordwood, adobe, earthbags, papercrete, earthships, and others.

The Beauty of Straw Bale Homes  - Athena Swentzell Steen, Bill Steen.  Energy conservation, resource, recycling, and affordability of this rediscovered building material. Selecting from a variety of  building types and applications, this book vividly portrays the sensuous versatility and cross cultural appeal of this most accessible from of construction.

Build It With Bales: A Step-By-Step Guide to Straw-Bale Construction - S. O. MacDonald, Matts Myhrman.  Using plain language and detailed drawings, this new edition helps the owner-builder from design to completion like no video can. A gold mine of practical tips and techniques, this book is one no bale builder should be without.

Complete Book of Underground Houses: How to Build a Low-Cost Home  - Robert L. Roy.  Instead of marring a grassy knoll or field with the construction of a conventional house, you could design and build an environmentally sound underground or earth-sheltered home.

Complete Book of Cordwood Masonry Housebuilding:  The Earthwood Method - Robert L. Roy.  Combining the techniques of the author's previous two classic books, CORDWOOD MASONRY HOMES and EARTHWOOD, plus a decade of new information, new lessons to avoid pitfalls, and new ideas, this book offers a complete update on this dynamic housebuilding method.

The Cobber's Companion: How to Build Your Own Earthen Home - Michael G. Smith, Deanne Bednar (Illustrator).  It begins by introducing you to cob and covers all aspects of building your own home, starting with selecting the soil and the building site, the foundation, the floor, the walls, the roof, and then ending with special design touches.

Serious Straw Bale: A Home Construction for All Climates - Paul Lacinski, Michel Bergeron.  This book provides the metaphorical nuts and bolts of straw bale construction for homes and other buildings. Unlike many other straw bale construction books on the market, this one looks at building design issues from the perspective of the straw bale builders and considers the particular needs of the medium. Several different techniques are discussed, focusing much information on the needs of those building in wet and/or cold environments.

Buildings of Earth and Straw: Structural Design for Rammed Earth and Straw Bale Architecture - Bruce King, Ann Edminster (Editor).  A book for professional builders, contractors, engineers, inspectors, lenders, and architectural students. It includes special construction requirements of earth and straw, design capabilities and limitations of these materials, and documentation of testing data for use in addressing the concerns of officials. This book offers the nuts and bolts of rammed earth and straw bale building techniques, and why they are so spectacular, durable, and earth-friendly.

Earth Sheltered Designs - Davis Caves Construction.  This book was a wonderful design tool filled with lots of ideas and the possibilities of Earth Sheltered Homes.