Issue #24

Sustainability and the Building Codes

International Building Code

Why Even Bother With the Codes?

Australia's Performance-Based Codes

Letter From An Inspector

A Loan Appraisal Listing Strawbale As A "Special Feature"

Preliminary Structural Test Results

Strength-Testing of Veneered Strawbale Walls

Straw-Bale Arch Test

Lightning vs Stucco

Underground Bale-Umbrella

Basement Bale Walls

Fuel-Use Report: Mongolia

The Economics of Alternative Construction

The Wizard of Oz

Huntington Estate Pty Ltd

Pigs Might Fly

Strawbale In New Zealand

A Short List of Australian Practitioners

Baled Paper Blocks

Baled Kudzu

Applying Wood Moisture Meters To Strawbale

Long-Term Moisture Monitoring Results

Canadian Moisture Investigation Preliminary Results

Applying Soil Moisture Sensors To Strawbale

Eastwood Elementary Strawbale Toolshed Project

Exoskeletons, Corners, Compression, Outlets
Issue #25

Steve MacDonald/Frank Meyer Interview

A Simple Sturdy Privacy Wall

Elephant's Foot Grade Beam Wall System

Affordable Housing for Rosebud Reservation

2-String Load-Bearing System... On Edge

Load-Bearing Hybrid

Bearing Bale Building in BC

StrawCrafter's Wall System

Notes on Post-and-Beam Systems

Modified Post-and-Beam System

A Simple Rough-Buck Frame

Evolution of a Commercial System

A Steel-Frame Owner-Builder Kit System

Pre-Fab Steel Framing

Uhuru, Spirit House

Big Bale Big Barn

Caging A Straw-Bale Tiger

Straw-Bale Veneer Construction

Keyed Bale Frame System

BaleBlock (tm)

Kin 'Ship Blasts Off

Earth-Bags and Bales

A Straw-Clay Sandwich

CASBA Seismic Testing Program

Staple Pull-Out Resistance

Exterior Pinning Put To The Test

Habitat For Humanity West Conference

Ecomaterials in Castro's Cuba

Strawbale at The Smithsonian

The Holliday's House

The First Straw-Bale House in Romania

Steel and Straw Bales

Bamboo Architecture and The Possibilities

Bamboo Roof Trusses—A Philosophy

Bamboo Resources and Book Reviews
Issue #26

European Strawbale Scrapbook: Denmark, The Netherlands, Germany, France, England, Poland, Belarus, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Romania, Kosovo, Italy, Portugal, Austria, Belgium, Northern Ireland...

International Strawbale Conference

Rainscreen Siding

Lime Plaster

History of Cob

Cordwood Masonry

Thatching

Seaweed Roofs

Wattle-and-Daub
Issue #27

Annual Resources Issue: More reviews and resources than you can shake a stick at

Bau Biologie

Are Strawbale Homes Healthy?

Sick Building Syndrome

A Fungus Among Us

The Natural Step

Road to Right Livelihood

We Built Here Now

Colorado Natural Building Workshop