Living Underground Is Looking Better All of the Time!
The above image is Owen Geiger's Subterranean Survival Shelter Plan, available on our website. Last night, I stepped outside around midnight. It was a relatively balmy 63 degrees outside. This…
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Earthbag sunscreen
Making Sunscreen for Earthbags
Most of my readers are already probably aware, but the greatest danger to earthbags and earthbag structures, is UV exposure. They can handle moisture, impacts, even friggin gunshots and explosions…
Our October 2022 Earthbag Tiny House Workshop
Well, we had another bangin' workshop, folks! Numbers wise, this was our biggest yet with about twenty people in attendance. I only managed to get a picture of part of…
Mickey Muenning’s Organic Architecture in Big Sur
Kelly Hart of The Natural Building Blog shared the gorgeous estate of Mickey Muenning, “The Man Who Built Big Sur.” Mary Jane and I lived in Big Sur in 2007 and some of our friends lived in a house built by him, if I’m not mistaken.
Inexpensive (Earthbag, Natural, and Conventional) Building
People Doing Conventional Stick-Frame Building These Days Are Getting Sticker Shock. Lumber Prices Blew up Early in the Age of COVID and Everything Else Has Followed Suit. Follow These Tips for Affordable Earthbag and Natural Building.
What is Natural Building? Is It All or Nothing?
In This Post I Examine What the Term Natural Building Means. I Talk About Earthbag, Straw Bale, Cob, and Environmental Impact.
That Time I Worked on a Hempcrete House…
Several years ago, I got an opportunity to work on a hempcrete house for a couple of days. By that time I’d heard quite a bit about the technique and was very excited to get a chance to try it out.
Building our Earthship-Inspired Earthbag House
In 2014 our small intentional community purchased twelve acres of prime land in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Over the next year and a half, we helped our community members build infrastructure and their earthbag house. In the spring of 2016, we began work on our own earthship-inspired earthbag house.
Our Earthbag Tiny House
I quickly fell in love with earthbag building after discovering it in 2007. The fact that you could build an extremely strong, extremely inexpensive house using materials from under your feet was very appealing to me. in 2019, after building two of our own larger earthbag houses, I decided to go small and build an earthbag tiny house. I was having a bit of a midlife crisis and wanted to downsize and simplify my life or to at least model that possibility for others.
Where Can I Buy Earthbags (Sandbags)?
Hello all and welcome to the Sustainable Life School blog! In this blog, I’ll be trying to answer some of the most common questions about earthbag building. One of the more frequent questions I hear is where to find a good deal on sandbags. I usually buy mine from eBay but prices have gone up there.