Earthships – Passive houses
Finally, 10 years after I’ve developed an interest in Earthships and almost two years after applying, I have managed to find the time to join the April Earthship academy session….
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Building an earth oven
In mid-December 2015, I gave an earth oven building workshop at Juthour Arboretum. I am thankful that Juthour welcomed me in their space to give my first workshop in my home…
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Nice & Easy Sauce: 45 days in eastern Chad
I recently spent a month and half in eastern Chad doing natural building work. My story includes trouble with the law, meat parties, and superadobe.
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10ft Dome with attached greenhouse, KMSS: update-3
Hooray! Change is good. We decided to switch gears during the last week of Rachel’s apprenticeship to teach her something different. We decided to take a break from plasterwork to…
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10ft Dome with attached greenhouse, KMSS: update-2
We are making fast progress. Interior plaster, window framing and installation are done. We are currently working on exterior plaster, and we expect to finish it within less than a…
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10ft Dome with attached greenhouse, Ka’Way Monti School for Sustainability
I arrived in Huaraz, Peru, on the 30th of June 2014 to join Whitey Flagg (a friend from Cal-Earth) at KMSS. He and his past apprentices had already built 80%…
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Rocket Mass Heater, Cal-Earth
As a part of the apprenticeship at Cal-Earth, my colleagues and I were tasked with researching rocket-mass-heaters, which are highly efficient wood stoves that store heat in an adobe or…
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10ft dome, Cal-Earth
My major project at Cal-Earth was to build a 10-foot lancet dome with a 1.5ft spring line. We constructed the dome with unstabilized earth (i.e. without adding cement or lime)…
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Emergency Shelters, Cal-Earth
During my apprenticeship at Cal-Earth, I built two emergency shelters and my fellow workshop participants and apprentices. Cal-Earth’s Emergency shelters are 6-foot lancet domes constructed in less than 12 hours…
