Green Building

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Strawbale, Earthships, PaperCrete, Cob, Green Roofs...
Sustainable Architecture, Materials & Methods

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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

How To Design Your Dream Green Home - Kelly Hart

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- 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

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