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• Golden Bamboo Ceilings: I posted a photo a while back about the new roofing tile on our earthbag roundhouse. The exterior looks great, […]
• Bamboo Mat Design Options: There are many different uses for bamboo mat such as wall treatments, ceilings, floor mats, placemats, furniture and cabinet door […]
• Shinto Shrine to Remember Forgotten City: Japanese architect Kikuma Watanabe sent me some pictures and a description of one of his latest earthbag projects described below. […]
• Arched and Coved Ceilings: “The Curve Appeal: A Photo Book of Arched Ceilings Looking for a good design or idea to incorporate into your […]
• Hyperadobe with EarthenHand: This is one of the best videos I’ve seen in illustrating how to go about building a project. In just […]
• Cool Roofs: “Cool roofs are the roofs that can deliver high solar reflectance (the ability to reflect the visible, infrared and ultraviolet […]
• Latilla Ceilings: Definition of latilla from Dictionary.com: “luh-tee-uh, a peeled branch or piece of wood laid between beams of a ceiling or […]
• More on Timbrel Roofs: Readers really liked the previous post on Timbrel Roofs. This comment is from Paul, one of our readers. “Your post […]
• Pallet Wood Ceilings: Shipping pallets are incredibly useful for building. They’re typically free, widely available and very strong. The wood is cured, and […]
• The Easy Way to Make Ferrocement Roof Panels: I just found this great technique for making ferrocement roofs at Steve’s Flying Concrete site. Steve explains how to make […]
• Box Beams: It’s good to know a variety of building ideas to draw from as you design your dream home. Box beams […]
• The Sustainable Urban Dwelling Unit: Timbrel Vaults: Timbrel vaults offer another low cost, sustainable roof building method. This method is suitable for do-it-yourself owner builders if you […]
• La Casa Vergara: La Casa Vergara was designed by José Andrés Vallejo and built in Bogotá, Colombia in just 5 months, early in […]
• Nubian Vaults in Africa: The Nubian vault is an African technique for the construction of timberless vaulted roofs. The AVN (Association la Voute Nubienne), […]
• New Compression Ring Design: The compression ring I designed and had built by a local machine shop for our earthbag roundhouse worked perfectly. It […]
• More Pics from Superadobeserrano Blog: “Such nice people … I am super happy! Machimbrado finished the roof membrane. It was a labor intense 7 days, […]
• Patagonian Earthbag Pit Greenhouse: The folks at Our Little Thing blog have created a wonderful example of a pit greenhouse built with earthbags, PVC […]
• Roundwood Loft Construction: Lowering costs is a major goal of earthbag building. One way to reduce costs is by using wood poles for […]
• Hobbit House with Second Story Deck: Here’s another version of the Hobbit House (five versions altogether) showing an open-air second story deck and rectangular windows. The […]
• Most Popular Earthbag Instructables: Instructables.com is one of my favorite sites and so I’ve been publishing how-to articles there for the last year or […]
• Vertical Wall Bags: Just when you thought you’d seen it all, here’s a new way to insulate basement walls with foam glass by […]
• All the Best Earthbag Content: For several years, Kelly and I have been filtering all the best earthbag content from the Web, writing extensively on […]
• My Top 10 Most Popular YouTube Videos: If a picture is worth 1,000 words, then a video is worth… Maybe that’s why my NaturalHouse YouTube channel is […]
• Recycled Wood: I was lounging in one of my favorite restaurants the other day and just realized all the wood there is […]
• Top 10 Most Popular Earthbag Blog Posts: Every year we publish the most popular blog posts for the last 12 months. We’ll do that again in November […]
• Animation of Underground Earthbag Building: Rob Ormerod has posted a fun animated video that condenses six months of building an earth sheltered earthbag house into […]
• Grain Bin Roofs: Another good roof option is a grain bin roof. Good quality grain bin roofs are typically maintenance free for decades, […]
• The Green School: Here’s some information that might prove inspirational if you’re incorporating bamboo into your earthbag design. Deep within the jungles of […]
• Get the Basics Right: Make sure you get the basics right so your earthbag home is safe, sound and durable. As obvious as this […]
• Earthbag Building Facebook Page: I got the following email a few minutes ago. Luke just won himself a free copy of my upcoming Earthbag […]
• A Brazilian Ecological House: Gabriel Raia Carneiro, a realtor, green builder, eco-designer, and permaculture specialist, working as a consultant in Brazil, has been kind […]
• Report from Canada: From Sierra:  here are the latest photos of our earthbag structure currently being built in B.C, Canada…it is going really […]
• How to Find Answers about Earthbag Building: Are you spending lots of time searching for earthbag information? Using the search engines on this blog and at EarthbagBuilding.com […]
• A “Recycled” School using Earthbags: This article is from www.ndtv.com, where there is also a video showing the school that has the same sound track […]
• Earthbag Building Guide Acknowledgements: The peer review process for this book has included input from other earthbag builders. I would like to thank all […]
• Video Slide Show of Newberry House: This is a detailed video slide show of building Earthen Hand’s Newberry Roundhouse, featured in an earlier post. Lots of […]
• Liens’ Tatooine Residence: Hello — we built a “double ecodome” here in Lucerne Valley, California, a rural area in the high Mojave desert. […]
• Earthbag Building Guide Table of Contents 2: More book reviews: “This book is very useful for anyone interested in working with earthbags…even those who have experience, since […]
• Earthbag Building Guide Table of Contents 1: More book reviews: “I have built with earthbags for over twenty years, having helped develop the concept with Nader Khalili […]
• Earthbag Building Guide Now Available!: Earthbag Building Guide: Vertical Walls Step-by-Step By Owen Geiger Much has been learned about earthbag building over the last few […]
• Puerto Vallarta Model Home: I have been consulting with Mike Parker who started www.childrenofthedump.org in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico about how to build inexpensive, ecological […]
• Amirta – Divine Nectar Retreat Cabin: We have a new complete project page up at www.earthbagbuilding.com: the Amirta – Divine Nectar Retreat Cabin in the high […]
• Parallel Chord Pallet Trusses: If you have access to small diameter trees and wood pallets, and live in an area not restricted by building […]
• Finished Earthbag Roundhouse Video: This is the finished roundhouse that we built in 2010. The walls were built during our April workshop, and plaster […]
• Small Diameter Roundwood Trusses: There is a glut of small diameter wood in many parts of the US, both in national forests and tree […]
• Magnesium Cement for Roofs and Plaster: There is a whole class of cement that was very popular in the days before the invention and manufacture of […]
• Reciprocal Roofs: Ziggy has the best info I’ve found on reciprocal roofs at his Year of Mud website. See: How to Build […]
• Cold Climate Earthbag Yurts: There’s great, untapped potential for superinsulated earthbag buildings in cold climates. Here’s a way to combine the best features of […]
• Pallet Roofs: I found another great way to build gable and vaulted roofs — with pallets: Pallet Pavilions The site referenced above […]
• Dome Roofs: Tim Merritt, earthbag enthusiast and reader of our blog, sent us this roof idea from GardenDome.com. Tim is considering using […]
• Ferrocement Roofs for Earthbag Structures: Ferrocement is an excellent, well tested building system used throughout the world.  This post explores two earthbag structures on our […]
• Using Earthbags as Ceiling Insulation: Owen and I have collaborated on a new article posted at earthbagbuilding.com that describes how to use earthbags filled with […]