Environmental and Building Journals
and Magazines - North America
Back Home: Your Hands-on Guide to
Sustainable Living.
PO Box 70, Hendersonville NC 28793; 800.992.2546 www.BackHomeMagazine.com
Backwoods Home. PO Box 712, Gold Beach OR 97444;
800.835.2418
<editor@backwoodshome.com> www.backwoodshome.com
Bamboo Society Newsletter. 750 Krumkill Rd, Albany NY
12203-5976; www1.halcyon.com/abs
Communities Magazine: Journal of
Cooperative Living.
138-E Twin Oaks Rd #W, Louisa VA 23093; 800.462.8240 An excellent forum of
communities, for communities, by communities.
Countryside & Small Stock
Journal. W11564 Hwy
64, Withee WI 54498; 800.551.5691 <csymag@midway.net> www.countrysidemag.com
Designer/Builder. 2405 Maclovia Ln, Santa Fe NM
87505; 505.471.4549. Although written primarily by and for architects, D/B is
both eclectic and
thought provoking to anyone interested in the built environment.
Environmental
Design+Construction.
755 W Big Beaver Ste 1000, Troy MI 48084; 248.244.1280, fax 248.362.5103
<hucalm@bnp.com>
www.edcmag.com eNews,
biweekly update on sustainable and energy efficient building. Back issues
available from www.edcmag.com/FILES/HTML/EDC_reprints_and_backissues
Environmental Building News. 122 Birge St., Ste 30, Brattleboro
VT 05301; 800.861.0954 <info@buildinggreen.com> www.Buildinggreen.com/
This is a very useful monthly newsletter for professional builders and
designers interested in building Ògreener.Ó
Fine Homebuilding. Taunton Press, 63 S Main St., PO
Box 5506, Newtown CT 06470; 800.243.7252 <service@ taunton.com> www.taunton.com/fh
Green Teacher: Education for
Planet Earth. PO
Box 452, Niagara Falls NY 14304-0452; 416.960.1244 www.greenteacher.com
HempPages, The International Hemp
Journal. PO Box
550, Forestville CA 93436; 707.887.7508 <mari@hemp pages.com> www.hemppages.com
HopeDance Magazine. PO Box 15609, San Luis Obispo CA
93406; 805.544.9663
<hopedance@aol.com> www.hopedance.org
Regional progressive bimonthly.
Harrowsmith Country Life. 3650 Pitfield Blvd, Montreal
(Pierrefonds), QC H8Y 3L4 Canada; 514.327.4464, fax 514.327.0514 www.harrowsmithcountrylife.ca
<hclmag@bellnet.ca>
Home Power, the Hands on Journal
of Home-Made Power. Lots of articles on PVs, wind energy,
microhydroelectric and on passive solar heating and cooling. PO Box 520, Ashland
OR 97520; 800.707.6585 <hp@homepower.com>
www.homepower.com
IBE Newsletter. International Institute for
Bau-Biologie and Ecology. PO Box 387, Clearwater FL 33757; 727.461.4371
<baubiologie@ earthlink.net> www.bau-biologieusa.com
Inter-Americas Adobe Builder
Magazine. Southwest
Solaradobe School, PO Box 153, Bosque NM 87006; 505.861.1255, fax 505.861.1304 www.adobebuilder.com
This oversized, glossy quarterly magazine is a professional journal for the
earth building community. Back issues available.
JoinersÕ Quarterly. Fox Maple Press, PO Box 249,
Brownfield ME 04010; 207.935.3720 www.joinersquarterly.com Valuable resource for both
professionals and owner-builders interested in the revival of traditional
building techniques.
Mother Earth News. 1503 SW 42nd St., Topeka KS
66609-9929; 800.234.3368, 785.274.4300, fax 785.274.4316 www.motherearthnews.com
Occasionally features strawbale and natural buildings.
Natural Life. 508-264 Queens Quay W, Toronto ON
M5J 1B5 Canada, or PO Box 112, Niagara Falls NY 14304-0112; 416.260.0303,
800.215.9574
<natural@life.ca> www.NaturalLifeMagazine.com
Natural Home and Garden Magazine. 1503 SW 42nd St., Topeka KS
66609-9929; 800.340.5846, www.naturalhomeandgarden.com Occasionally features strawbale and
natural buildings.
New Village Journal. 2000 Center St., Ste 120, Berkeley
CA 94704; 510.845.0685 <editor@ newvillage.net> www.newvillage.net
The Permaculture Activist. PO Box 1209, Black Mountain NC
28711; 828.669.6336 <pcactivist@mindspring.com> www.ibiblio.org/pc-activist/ Excellent on a number of topics
relating to sustainable living. Occasionally features natural buildings.
Solar Today Magazine. 2400 Central Ave. Ste G-1, Boulder
CO 80301; 303.443.3130 <ases@ases.org> www.ases.org/solar/
The Temperate Bamboo Quarterly. Available from Adam and Sue Turtle,
30 Meyers Rd, Summertown TN 38483-7323. Contains much detailed information of
interest to growers.
Yes! The Journal of Positive
Futures.
PO Box 10818, Bainbridge Island WA
98110-0818; 800.937.4451 <yes@futurenet.org> www.futurenet.org
BASIN News. The international newsletter of the
Building Advisory and Information Network (BASIN). SKAT, Vadianstrasse 42,
CH-9000 St.Gallen, Switzerland; 41.71.228.5454, fax 41.71.228.5455
<info@skat.ch> www.skat.ch/ See also www.gtz.de/basin/ (Reviewed
in TLS#32)
Building for a Future. Association for
Environment-Conscious Building, Coaley, Gloucestershire, England. Quarterly. www.newbuilder.co.uk
Confort, Japanese plaster magazine.
Contact: Satomi Lander; 505.895.5029 <satomi@zianet.com> www.LanderLand.com
EarthGarden. RMB 427, Trentham VIC 3458,
Australia, fax 03.5424.1743. Quarterly. Good Life Book Club, also. (Reviewed
in TLS#24)
EcoDesign. Ecological Design Association,
Glos, UK. Quarterly. www.Salvo.co.uk/mags/EcoDesign.htm/
Green Building Digest. Queens University of Belfast, 2-4
Lennoxvale, Belfast BT9 5BY, Northern Ireland; 44.1232.335466. (Reviewed
in TLS#26)
The Owner Builder. PO Box 9000, Paterson, New South Wales
2421 Australia; ph/fax 02 4995 6228 <info@theownerbuilder.com.au>
www.theownerbuilder.com.au Bimonthly. (Reviewed in TLS#24)
Many of these journals, magazines and newsletters have
online versions.
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