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…
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.
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…
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…
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%…
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…
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)…
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…