GENERAL/MIXED/MISC.
Cordicles (articles on cordwood masonry/stackwall construction) - Daycreek.com
Environmental Building News
How To Build A Super Energy-Efficient Home - Countryside Magazine
How To Build & Operate A Super-Efficient Home (PDF file) - Energy Institute Press
Passive Solar and Energy Efficient Home Design - El Paso Solar Energy Association
Pointing With Lime Mortars - Cathedral Communications Limited
Publications (tamped earth floors, affordable housing tips, frost protected foundations...) - Geiger Institute For Sustainable Building
Sustainable Building Technical Manual (PDF document) - Operation Fresh Start
CONCRETE, PAPERCRETE
Care & Handling Of The Airform (for a monolithic dome) - Monolithic Dome Institute
Construction Of Simple Barrel Vaults - Flying Concrete
Fairing Out & Smoothing Ferrocement Or Curved Concrete Surfaces - Bo Atkinson
Monolithic Dome Construction (installing electrical system, fire sprinkler systems, plumbing...) - Monolithic Dome Institute
Safety First... Washing A Monolithic Dome - Monolithic Dome Institute
Spaceman's Papercrete Mixer - Starship-Enterprises.net
This Is Papercrete (includes mix recipe & tips) - Eve's Garden
EARTHBUILDING
Building Riceland (earthbag dome building) - Green Home Building
The Cob Builders Handbook (most of book available online) - Becky Bee
Cold Weather Cob (tips) - Ianto Evans
Downloadable Leaflets (plasters & finishes for cob, building methods, repair & maintanence) - Devon Earthbuilding Association
Greenroofs 101 - Greenroofs.com
Natural Building Techniques: Earthbag (tips) - Green Home Building
Our Earthship (pounding tires, planter walls, pouring floors...)
Specification For Grass & Wildflower Roof (for the UK) - Walter Segal Self Build Trust
Tractor Cob (Faster cob method. Scroll down for instructions.) - Owen Geiger
PAINT
DIY Housepaint (recipes for flour paint, oil paint, casein paint, oil glaze...) - Ecobites.com
DIY Safe, Natural Paints (recipes: flour paint, milk paint, oil paint) - Activ8 Your Potential
How To Make Economical White House-Paint (scroll down) - Chest Of Books.com
How To Make Natural Paint (milk paint recipes) - HubPages
Make Safe, Natural Paint (recipes & tips: flour, lime, casein & oil paints and combinations) - Bill Steen
Make Your Own Milk Paint - Virginia Natural Living
Milk Paint - Old House Journal
Milk Paint
VOC-Free Paint
Safe Paint
Natural Paint (recipe using fromage blanc or milk and hydraulic lime) - The Chickens Have Escaped!
Natural Paints - The Earth Pigments Company
Natural Paints With Reto Messmer (casein paint, priming, painting, silica / waterglass paint...) - Carole Crews
Natural Plaster & Paint Recipes (wheat paste paint base, aliz, casein/clay paint, casein/lime paint...) - The Rarest Bloom
Painting The Town, Naturally (recipe & method using cottage cheese) - Joseph Crawley
Recipe For Clay Paint or Alis - Mother Earth News
Those Old Lime Wash Blues: How To Make Your Own Lime Paint - Rustic Girls
Two Layer Milk Paint (perfect PH recipe for durable wood paint) - Toolmaking Art
What Is Milk Paint?: Milk Paint Recipe - PainterForum.com
White "Paint" Recipe (lime & Portland cement) - Holy Scrap Hot Springs
STRAW BALE
A Primer On Stuccoeing Straw Bale Walls - Herbert Nordmeyer
Back Issues (Look for articles in yellow: poured adobe floors, installing wiring, bale buying, finding a designer...) - The Last Straw
Free Straw Bale Emergency Shelter Plans - Geiger Research Institute Of Sustainable Building
How To Build A Straw-Bale Wall - The Food Forest
Newsletter Archives (includes many how-tos) - The Straw Bale Building Association
Plans & Budget For Building A Small "Starter" Straw Bale Home - Solar Haven
Strawbale Moisture (PDF file) - Earthbuilding Association Of New Zealand
Strawbale Tips & Resources - Skillful Means
TRADITIONAL STRUCTURES
Basic Wigwam Construction - NativeTech
Build A 15th Century Pavillion (PDF document) - CurrentMiddleAges.org
Building A Conjecturally Period Pavilion - Cariadoc's Miscellany
Building a Hogan - Navajo Homepage
How To Build A Round House (Celtic) - The World Of Celts
Plains Indian Tepee - Shelter Online
Thatched Ohlone Style House - Primitive Ways
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