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Straw Bale Building Details
An Illustrated Guide for Design and Construction
Straw bale buildings promise superior insulation and flexibility across a range of design aesthetics, while using a typically local and abundant low embodied-energy material that sequesters carbon—an important part of mitigating climate change.
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A Tiny Home to Call Your Own
Living Well in Just-Right Houses
Unfetter and unclutter your life by learning how and why to transition to a tiny home
Do you feel as though you’re living in an expensive and ill-fitting home filled with too much stuff? Do you have too much space filled with too many things, …
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Essential Rammed Earth Construction
The Complete Step-by-Step Guide
Everything you need to know to build with rammed earth in warm and cold climates.
Rammed earth – sand, gravel, and clay or lime/cement binder packed into forms – is a low-energy, high-performance building method, yielding beautiful, sustainable …
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Essential Rainwater Harvesting
A Guide to Home-Scale System Design
Design a rainwater harvesting system for any home in any climate.
Water is a crucial resource increasingly under stress. Yet rainfall, even in arid climates, can make up a sizable portion of any home, acreage, or farm’s water requirements if …
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Essential Composting Toilets
A Guide to Options, Design, Installation, and Use
From wastestream to mainstream, a practical guide to composting toilet systems.
Composting toilets are a key feature for local resilience, money saving, water conservation, resource recovery, septic system replacement, and an improved bathroom …
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Essential Natural Plasters
A Guide to Materials, Recipes, and Use
Natural plasters made of clay, lime, and other materials mixed with sand are beautiful building finishes. Fun to work with, low-impact, and allowing infinite creativity, they are high performance and provide proven, centuries-long durability.
Yet …
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Essential Earthbag Construction
The Complete Step-by-Step Guide
Earthbag construction — building with polypropylene bags usually filled with earthen materials — is a versatile, easy-to-master, low-impact, and highly durable form of building, suitable for structures from houses to root cellars.
Containing over …
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Essential Cordwood Building
The Complete Step-by-Step Guide
Cordwood construction — log-ends set in insulated mortar — is a versatile, economical, low-impact, and beautiful building method. Its durability and performance has been proven in beautiful, centuries-old buildings in North America and Europe.
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