Alternative Housing
& Energy
Designing
and building your own Resource-Efficient, healthy home
Solstice Good info on alternative construction, energy
efficiency and renewable energy
CSF: Earthfriendly and Self-Sufficient Architecture Discussion Board
Country Home Design/BuildDiscussion Board
Natural Life: Sustainable Shelter Links
Center for
Resourceful |
Building Technology
E-Building Codes - International Building Codes
Southwest Desert Sustainability Project
Building with Awareness
The Humanure Handbook On-Line |
Strawbale
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Red Feather Development Group Red Feather works with Native
Americans to meet housing needs with strawbale construction.
U.S. D.O.E.: Strawbale Comes of Age
C.R.E.S.T.: On-line Strawbale Construction Resources
Surfin' Strawbale: Online Resources
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Burbophobia: An Excellent List of Strawbale Resources
Strawbale Links
STRAP: The Strawbale Regional Assistance Project
Terra
Home: Structural Frames for Arched Strawbale Homes
Strawbale
Australia
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Papercrete (Fibrous Cement) and
Related
Building with Papercrete and Paper Adobe
Papercrete News
Fibrecrete.com A Patent-pending cement and fiber building
system.
Stone Masonry
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Multi-Arc
Tool for Masonry Arches
Cultured (Artificial) Stone |
Masonry
Advisory Council
Stone
World (Trade Magazine)
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Schools
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Solar
Energy International (Nationwide Workshops)
Sage
Mountain Center Whitehall, Montana.
Hollowtop
Outdoor Primitive School (Montana)
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Kootenay Stone Masonry Training School (British Columbia)
Irish
Stone Walls & Buildings Includes classes in Ireland.
Kleiwerks:
Cob, Slipstraw, Earth Plaster, Bamboo
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Institute for Solar Living / Real Goods
(Near San Francisco, California)
Dry Stone
Conservancy Working to promoting and preserving dry-stacked
stone walls.
Learning Stone Includes a resource directory and forum for
sharing ideas about working with stone.
Stone
Foundation A society of stonemasons and others involved
with and
/or interested in stone, stonework and stone art. |
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Cordwood Construction
Cordwood Newbee Page
Cordwood Message Board
DayCreek.com--Cordwood
Construction and More!
Log Homes
Log
Home NetZine--On-line Newsletter
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Building a Log Cabin--Construction Photo Album
Sunrise Productions Log Home Bookstore
Linking
Logs--Directory of Builders, Schools, etc.
LogHomeLinks.com--Lots of Links! |
Log House Construction Problems
Skip
Ellsworth Log Building Method
International Log Builders Association
Dream
Dove Tail Tool
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Schools
Great Lakes School Of Log Building
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Montana School of Log Building
Island School of Building Arts
Chapman Log Construction
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William M. Lasko School of Log Building
Okanagan University
College
Pine
Top School of Log Building
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Timber Framing
Joiner's
Quarterly
Journal of Timber Framing & Traditional Building
Timber Framing Magazine Online
Schools
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Fox Maple
School of Traditional Building Brownfield, Maine.
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Heartwood School |
Earth Construction: Rammed Earth, Ceramic, Earthbag, Cob, Cast Earth, Adobe & Mud
Brick Links
How To Dig Your Underground Shelter
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Kindred Rammed Earth, Inc.
David Easton's Rammed Earth Works
Rammed Earth Construction with Photos
Burlington Construction, Inc.-Good Photos & Text
Micander Rammed Earth Construction-Good Photos
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Cob Email List-Server
Mud Brick Construction-Australia
Moladi Snap together, reusable forms
Rammed Earth Construction-Australia
New Mexico Adobe and Rammed Earth Building-Code
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Earth
Building Foundation, Inc.-Rammed Earth Technical
Information
California
Institute of Earth Art and Architecture -- Earthbag Construction
Ramseal
International: Products and Repairs for Rammed Earth and Terra Tiles |