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Earthbags, materials, & construction techniques


              Earthbag Structures - new site, with focus on
earthbag solutions for disaster (and disaster-prone) regions
              Beehive Homes
(Abiquiu; cooperative building workshops)
             
Green Home Building - Kelly Hart's phenomenally comprehensive site
              Calearth Institute - Founded by Nader Khalili in 1986; excellent resource!
              Quentin Wilson (instructor of Northern NM College's Adobe Construction Program; not earthbags, but still relevant)
              Earthbag House Plans - Owen Geiger's site
              OKOKOK Productions (Hunter & Kiffmeyer's once excellent site - currently offline???)
              Earthbag Building.com - venerable site of Kelly Hart & Owen Geiger
              Earthbag Building Blog (also from Hart & Geiger; what's going on abroad)
              Mustang Springs Ranch (a bit hard to navigate, but gold)
              International Code Council - good technical article from Nader Khalili & Phill Vittore
               Écobâtiment - Un site agréable et informative (en français, bien sûr!), qui est basée au Québec
               USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service Web Soil Survey application - easy to use application to access
              National Cooperative Soil Survey data for your region (all the way down to your back yard). Clay content, salinity,

              drainage, plasticity index... more than you can imagine. Outstanding. Your US tax dollars at work, folks.

        Plastering, rendering, and papercrete
              New Mexico Clay - wonderful source of dry clay additives (different colors), mica additives, and recipes
             
Plaster Workshop - photologue of Bart Santello's plastering workshop
              Mud for Everyone - Erica Ann's wonderful website
              Earth Plaster How-To - from the folks at Dancing Rabbit
              Natural Clay Plaster Over Adobe - from Building Green TV
              What is Lime Plaster? - also from Building Green TV
              Lime Plasters & Renders - the Earth Pigments Co. (luscious site!) 
              Lime Stucco Plastering - Jim Phypers' site; nice photos of application with a sprayer
              Papercrete Educational Website - part of Dirtcheapbuilder.com; cheap books & great links!
              Mixers (Papercrete or plaster) - Gordon Solberg of Las Cruces features Mike McCain's 3rd world mixer on his site

          Books (with extracts for viewing)...  or order from us through Amazon

              Earthbag Building - Kaki Hunter & Donald Kiffmeyer - a classic!
              The Art of Natural Building - Joseph Kennedy, Michael Smith, Catherine Wanek                                  
              The Natural Plaster Book
- Cedar Rose Guelberth, Dan Chiras
              The Cob Builder's Handbook - Becky Bee

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