There are some great things happening out there as to alternative building techniques. Builders should get on board and realize the potential of creating sustainable communities using the Earthbag/super-adobe approach and other techniques.

I’m not talking about a pseudo version of eco-village. Where it looks right on the surface but the groundwork/what is behind the scenes is not “sustainable.” I’m talking about the real thing. There’s no reason we can’t do this.

We could start creating these lower cost small eco-villages with rain water catchment, solar power ,as well as gardens to grow food. People could really put into practice sustainable and reduced waste techniques by living them. It would really help people get back into harmony with Earth and build community.

Cities should promote this type of low cost, low impact building.

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Resources —

Types of Earthbag Building (a wealth of photos and information)

http://www.earthbagbuilding.com/projects/jtree.htm

http://www.earthbagbuilding.com/projects/projects.htm

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Bringing Earthbag building to a wider audience

Kelly Hart http://www.earthbagbuilding.com/aboutus.htm

Dr. Owen Greiger http://www.earthbagbuilding.com/aboutus.htm

Nader Khalili/Cal-Earth

Info. and More Photos http://soulsecretservice.com/2009/10/03/cal-earth-an-alternative-way-to-build/

http://calearth.org/about/about-nader-khalili.html

http://calearth.org/building-designs/eco-dome.html

April 19-22, 2010

When President Morales of Bolivia launched his invitation to the world to come to Bolivia to develop a Peoples’ Agenda for Climate Change, he never imagined the overwhelming response it would generate. Over 30,000 attending.
http://envivo.cmpcc.org.bo/?lang=en
http://pwccc.wordpress.com/

See Todays interview with on Democracy Now
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/4/23/bolivian_president_evo_morales_to_president

The poorest nations, the ones that are not industrialized for the most part, are the ones who are feeling its effects of global change first. For example Bolivia’s glaciers (providing 20% of the drinking water) are melting. They have lost an estimated 50% of their volumn in the last 40 years.  —Read More

“When I arrived at the United Nations climate summit in Copenhagen in late last year, the first thing that struck me were environmental activists braving the freezing weather to voice their disappointment at being locked out of the largest ever international meeting on climate change. Inside the conference, I realized that Bolivia was in a position similar to that of the protesters outside. We, the representatives of the majority of the world’s peoples, were effectively being left in the cold while a tiny group dominated by a few rich governments met in private to produce an unacceptable compromise.” — President Evo Morales, Bolivia
Read More

“During the intense and wide-ranging debates at the People’s Conference, we never expected to immediately agree on a global solution, but we do have the ambition of putting forward concrete proposals that represent a fundamentally democratic, inclusive and equitable approach to addressing climate change. We invite you to be a part of this urgent, ongoing dialogue, which remains open to all peoples and all governments that co-exist on this unique and fragile planet.” — President Evo Morales, Bolivia

Register to Participate

The Summit ended yesterday, a final declaration was made, The Cochabamba Protocols. Please go here http://envivo.cmpcc.org.bo/Final-Declaration-relies-on-wisdom to read about it. It has not been published in English as of 4/23/2010.

About an hour and a half outside Los Angeles in Hespiria, California is Cal-Earth. You will be amazed at these Super Adobe type structures built mostly of Earth. They are open to the public the first Saturday of every month.
What Cal-Earth is doing is amazing. It was founded by Nader Khalili, an architect, lover of Rumi Poetry, and someone who worked hard to get the word out about inexpensive shelters, he called Eco-Domes.
*Stock Plans have been approved in Hesperia City and San Bernardino County.

More PHOTOS: http://www.terihitt.com/CalEARTH.html

Bask in the simple beauty of Nature and the natural poetry of Nader Khalili.
With the ever more increasing costs of fuel and heavy loss of trees already, it is necessary to learn alternative ways of living in harmony with the Earth.

Read More here (has same beginning info. but more after that)

Workshops: http://calearth.org/learn-to-build/workshops.html

Supplies

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More Videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMNzoWkXTtc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9rZOFh7qV8&feature=fvw

Eco Villages
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT6NIj4kEbQ

http://www.youtube.com/user/druwin#p/u/1/7kNwauM5IZE

http://mu-izz.org/

About an hour and a half outside Los Angeles in Hespiria, California is Cal-Earth. You will be amazed at these Super Adobe type structures built mostly of Earth. They are open to the public the first Saturday of every month.
What Cal-Earth is doing is amazing. It was founded by Nader Khalili, an architect, lover of Rumi Poetry, and someone who worked hard to get the word out about inexpensive shelters, he called Eco-Domes.
*Stock Plans have been approved in Hesperia City and San Bernardino County.

More PHOTOS: http://www.terihitt.com/CalEARTH.html

Bask in the simple beauty of Nature and the natural poetry of Nader Khalili.
With the ever more increasing costs of fuel and heavy loss of trees already, it is necessary to learn alternative ways of living with the Earth. Creating a home from the Earth with a few other materials saves our resources and makes alot of sense. They offer training and apprenticeship courses.
You get a feeling of peace and well being moving from room to room.
It is a very interesting contrast when you drive in, because you end up driving through a new mini subdivision of houses (a single street) to get to the dirt road and parking for Cal-Earth. Our guides were truly kind and knowledgeable people. There was a pot-luck lunch (bring something if you like). —Teri Hitt

Cal-Earth
http://www.calearth.org
10376 Shangri La Avenue
, Hesperia,  CA 92345.
Tel: (760) 244-0614 Fax: (760) 244-2201
Email: calearth@aol.com
http://www.calearth.org/PhotoGallery/photogallery.html
http://www.calearth.org/EcoDome.htm
http://www.calearth.org/musegal1.htm

ABOUT THE ARCHITECT:
http://www.calearth.org/NaderKhalili/khalili.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMNzoWkXTtc
— A pile of earth, dug out from the building site, is turned into a small house called Eco- Dome (moon cocoon model), using the Superadobe technology. It documents how professionals and students from many countries training at Cal-Earth Institute built this structure. It is intended for use with materials and tools developed for instruction during the apprenticeship retreat at Cal-Earth. Superadobe technology was first presented by the architect to NASA for lunar habitats, and can build single or clustered homes on earth which are resistant to fire, floods, wind storms and earthquakes.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cal+earth&search_type=&aq=f

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMNzoWkXTtc&feature=related

Sustainable Village in Nepal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU5y_Dion9E

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http://www.designshell.com/architecture/eco-dome-a-small-house-moon-cocoon.html

http://www.earthbagbuilding.com/projects/pegasus.htm

Sustainable Village in Nepal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU5y_Dion9E