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sustainable living Archives - The Last Straw Journal
This article first appeared in The Owner Builder 192 December 2015/ January 2016. www.theownerbuilder.com.au By Maggi McKerron Ten years ago I fell in love with a mountain. Mt Chiang Dao…
The folks at Eco-Logis have shared a blog entry about The Bay eco-village in Quebec. Part of the article discusses their unique straw bale wall-building technique.
Carole Crews leads us on a journey through the parts of our home made with earth and water, but also tells an important story along the way.
Darcy Donovan updates us on her progress of building bale structures in Pakistan through PAKSAB
Alex Sparrow walks us through a detailed explanation how to build hempcrete walls in part two of this series
The first article in a two-set series about adobe floors. Sigi Koko begins with why we want them and in the next issue will walk us through how to install them
We review the first comprehensive how-to guide covering the topic of earthen floors. Find out why you should have it in your natural building library.
by Tom Woolley Ed Note: More in-depth information on hemp lime will be in Issue #64 due out in July. When Rachel Bevan and I did the research that led to…
By Elaine Brett Twelve years ago I had never even heard of building with straw. I lived in a four-bedroom colonial house in a subdivision in Maryland. The conventional American…
This article appeared in TLS #59 by Tim Beatley – Virginia, USA Reprinted with permission from Residential Architect magazine, November 2005. We live in disconnected times. We occupy space but…
