The LINKS here will take you right to ALL the BOOKS &VIDEOS on SALE.

Tirolessa plaster-lime-cement-papercrete-mortar Sprayer
information &order from www.mortarsprayer.com

Books &Videos for Really Cheap Housebuilding...read more here.

Basic Papercrete information

Article on Fibercrete, Cobwood & Alternative recipes

Newsletter 1 Online: Read it here

Newsletter 2 Online: Read it here

Resources and web links

just copy and paste the URL (be sure to bookmark this page first)

Silver City NM- Birthplaceof modern papercrete - a newspsper interview with Eric Patterson and others creating papercrete blocks

Papercrete article in Mother Earth News, April 2,000

240 GREAT Canadian-written articles on homebuilding-all aspects

Kiko Denzer's earth oven and cob artistry site: Hand Print Press

New Papercrete building site with lots of great construction information: www.LivingInPaper.com
Living in Paper is selling THREE new DVD's, and a construction report for $250.
PLUS see the new 3 minute Papercrete Building TV news spot, with Barry the builder, showing off his papercrete blocks for homes.

Mobile Homesteading Site- Check out the solar and energy info

The Masonry Heater Association of North America at http://www.mha-net.org

A Culvert house at: http://members.aol.com/mraichyk/OuterSpace/CulvrtHs.htm

Big bunch of wonderful Straw Bale related links:
http://mha-net.org/html/sblinks.htm

A thought provoking article on developing Local Economy by Wendell Berry (Berry wrote the foreward to One Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka)
http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/299/

"In Distrust of Movements," reprinted in a local sustainable agriculture magazine http://resurgence.gn.apc.org/issues/berry198.htm Green Builder Program www.greenbuilder.com/general/BuildingSources.html or www.ci.austin.tx.us/greenbuilder

Sustainable Building Sourcebook at http:www.greenbuilder.com/sourcebook

US GOV Green Building portal to info: http://www.epa.gov/greenbuilding/

Patrick Newberry- Earth bag house construction site http://www.gnat.net/~goshawk

Tim Pye Papercrete house in AZ- http://www.moonsinger.com/casawizardmoon.htm

Twin Earthbag house domes by KELLY HART- http://www.hartworks.com

240 GREAT Canadian-written articles on homebuilding-all aspects- http://wolf.cisti.nrc.ca/irc/cbd/cbd-e.html

Papercrete article in Mother Earth News, April 2,000-
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m1279/2000_April/60578240/p1/article.jhtml

Cordwood &Papercrete- http://www.daycreek.com

the papercretenews group - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/papercretenews

Doghouse of papercrete- http://www.padobe.com/picture2.htm

Old Solberg site on papercrete: http://www.zianet.com/papercrete/

Spaceman's Barrel Mixer for papercrete: http://starship-enterprises.net/Papercrete/Barrel%20Mixer/Four%20Views.jpg

Papercrete DOME
-http://starship-enterprises.net/Domes/DomeHouse/March%202002.html

Building with Papercrete by Michael Cockram
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2002/1113/building_1-1.html
There has been an explosion of interest recently in the development of sustainable building materials, from straw bale to cob. A relative newcomer to the green materials scene is papercrete. This unlikely marriage of repulped paper and portland cement has produced a material with some intriguing characteristics.

John's stucco sprayer-John Kingsley, Wakefield, QC, Canada Sheets of papercrete- www.padobe.com/picture1.htm
floor plan- http://www.padobe.com/plan1.htm

Cal Earth, Hesperia Photo Page: http://www.calearth.org/photogal.htm

Emergency Shelter Page. A spin off from Khalili's Lunar/Mars habitat designs: http://www.calearth.org/emergshelter.htm
Cal Earth Main Page: http://www.calearth.org/index.htm

Earth Plasters-articles: http://www.strawhomes.com/bonus-articles/contents.html

Cob photos
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Canopy/7148/cobpics.html

Choosing Wood Finishes
http://www.homesteadfinishing.com

Earth building articles: http://www.dab.uts.edu.au/EBI/research/mortensen.html
http://www.dab.uts.edu.au/EBI/research/botswana.html

Cement/concrete Basics -Portland Cement.org: http://www.portcement.org/cb/index.asp

Concrete Countertops: http://www.taunton.com/concrete/pages/excerpt.asp

Hawaiian Bamboo Society- http://www.hawaiibamboosociety.org/
http://www.bamboonursery.com/pdf_newsetup/h_11.pdf

Building America: Houses that Work- http://www.buildingscience.com/housesthatwork/mixedhumid/default.htm

Adobe Horno Oven-how to: http://www.home.aone.net.au/elhorno/concise.htm

Cinva Ram type machine: http://www.geocities.com/abonaccorsom/Vene-Ram.html

Cinva Ram Plans: The Mississippi State School of Architecture bought this planset in Feb 2000, and conducted a class to build one. See lots of photos and excellent test brick performance data online at:
http://www.sarc.msstate.edu/gore/cinvablocks/cinva.html
Then the site was moved to Kansas Univ.:
http://www.saud.ku.edu/ngore/nilsweb/cinvablocks/index.html

Fernco Metals- Hydraulic Cinva ram-type machine:
http://ferncometal.stormloader.com/ $1100.00

PERMACULTURE RESOURCES
http://www.permaculture.com/resources.html

VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE &LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE: Resource Guide
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/vernacular.html

Green Building Materials
http://designcoalition.org/orders/ecolist.htm

The Masonry Heater Association of North America web site:
http://www.mha-net.org/
Extensive online library on masonry heating and sustainable construction, great articles, including one on strawbale moisture testers

Australian Straw bale builder/: http://strawbale.archinet.com.au/

an owner built straw house- http://www.ahouseofstraw.com/

Culvert house- http://members.aol.com/mraichyk/OuterSpace/CulvrtHs.htm

Consortium of Lime producers- http://www.e-limecementgypsum.com/

Battersby Ornamental Lime Plasters-restoration: http://www.battersbyornamental.com/

AUSTRALIA- Lime over SB renders Article:
http://barney.webace.com.au/~agstraw/lime.html

Articles on Pozzolans (clay binders for lime) The best site is the National Parks Service online at:
http://www2.cr.nps.gov/tps
an excellent list of preservation and restoration articles, many are good for natural building. Also see this article at
http://www.qcl.com.au/pozz/tech/poz_tncn.htm

Mount Vernon Conservation -lime wall plaster:
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2002/0327/culture_1-1.html

Cob Code Project by John Fordice - Other Fish Architect
http://www.deatech.com/natural/cobinfo/cobcode.html

Becky Bee's Groundworks
http://www.cpros.com/~sequoia/
Groundworks P.O. Box 381, Murphy, OR 97533, U.S.A.

Ianto Evans' Cob Cottage Company
http://www.deatech.com/cobcottage/#more
Cob Cottage Company Box 123
Cottage Grove, OR 97424
Phone or FAX (541) 942-2005
workshop schedule 2002:
http://www.deatech.com/cobcottage/cob-workshop.html

Jan 's COB &Natural building
http://www.inti-solutions.com/cob/
Jan Sturmann, Cob Courses
72 Baker Rd, Shutesbury MA 01072
(413)295-1702

John Rabe's Solar Efficient Country Home Plans
http://www.countryplans.com/
http://www.countryplans.com/jr_hist.htm

Development Center for Appropriate Technology
http://www.dcat.net/

Down to Earth Building Bee home page
http://www.alternatives.com/cob-building/

Earthfriendly and Self-Sufficient Architecture
http://csf.colorado.edu/essa/

EcoLiving Center
http://www.ecolivingcenter.com/directory/ecohomes/

History of Cob
http://www.networkearth.org/naturalbuilding/history.html

Joiners Quarterly and Fox Maple
School of Traditional Building
http://www.foxmaple.com/

Insulated block forms
http://www.smartblock.com/

Natural Building Resources
http://www.strawbalecentral.com/

Papercrete News
http://www.zianet.com/papercrete/

Questions and Answers about Cob
http://www.networkearth.org/naturalbuilding/cob.html

www.greenroofs.com roofmeadow.com

http://users.bluecarrots.com/laurence/default.htm

Living Shelter Network
http://www.livingshelter.com/

Strawbale &Natural Building Site
http://www.twistedroad.com/

Sustainable Building Source Book:
http://www.greenbuilder.com/sourcebook/contents.html

Sustainable by Design
http://www.susdesign.com/

Earth house- alt building info
http://www.earth-house.com/earthbooks/articles/articles.html

http://www.wuzzyfuzzy.com/groovy_houses.htm

http://footsteps.tearfund.net/english/pdf/21e.pdf

HSU CCAT houseHumboldt State Center for AT at
http://www.humboldt.edu/~ccat/

This is the student run Buck House on campus, an old building renovated to full Appropriate Technology-solar/PV/compost/greywater over 25 years ago. A great site for learning about making a greywater marsh to recycle, composting humanure, and more.

Solar Greenhouse resources
http://www.attra.org/attra-pub/solar-gh.html

Organic Vegetable Greenhouse
http://www.attra.org/attra-pub/ghveg.html

Sustainable Village.com
http://www.thesustainablevillage.com/index.html

Real Milk Paint website at www.realmilkpaint.com
This site offers premade, dry packaged pigments for mixing with water to a real lime based "milk paint".

Tufastone &HyperTufa links
http://www.flash.net/~blhill/pages.aux/pond/recipes.html
http://www.backyardgardener.com/tufa.html
http://pages.prodigy.net/airs/rocks/making.htm
http://www.flash.net/~blhill/pages.aux/pond/hypertufa/hypertufa.html
http://www.minerals.net/mineral/carbonat/calcite/calcite.htm
Cement/concrete Basics -Portland Cement.org
http://www.portcement.org/cb/index.asp
http://www.whoohoo.net/worldturns/

http://www.mastercomposter.com/

Doing Your Own Rock Construction
http://www.homestead.org/rockwork.htm

Glasscrete
http://www.groundcullet.com/index.htm

Ferro-cement on the Homestead By Ken Davison
http://www.homestead.org/ferro.htm

http://www.ferrocement.net/

http://www.concrete-stains.com/

http://www.formblock.com.au/

Improving traditional brick-clay
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2002/0313/building_1-1.html

www.members.home.net/jayalmarode/sbhouse/sbhouse.html

http://www.infomadonna.ne.jp/~ham/book1.htm

Lightweight composite stone
http://www.geckostone.com/lwc.html

http://www.sigmaminerals.com/aboutlime.htm

http://www.arch.vt.edu/sustainability/extras/prjcts96/soilbrck/Soil_bib.htm

http://www.cjfearnley.com/fuller-faq-4.html#Dome-References

http://domegroup.org/archives/1998.09.Part1.DomeHome.html

here is a site where you can check and see if your state is currently operating under the international building code/ ubc:
http://www.intlcode.org/stateadoptions.pdf

For some simple light gauge steel frames check out :
ww.versatube.com
or www.sturdi.com

http://www.pioneersteel.com/p-alpine.html

Steens Canelo images-
http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=4293318447&code=2588578&mode=invite

upright bales-clay falls off
http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=4293318447&code=2588578&mode=invite

www.harvesthomes.ca

Sustainable Oklahoma-websites
http://www.bettertimesinfo.org/oklahoma.htm

Buy Home for no money down-article
http://realtytimes.com/rtnews/rtcpages/20020131_nehmeiah.htm

ATTRA—Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas—is the national sustainable farming information center:
http://www.attra.org/

http://www.howtostepbystep.com/home.html

http://www.re-energy.ca/

Well Drilling site: Build your own Drilling Rig Plans &Water Well Troubleshooting Book.
http://drillingfab.com/books

Straw Bale Studio- Thatch Roof in MI- Diane Bednar
http://www.geocities.com/rainforest/vines/7729/

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