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1. Papercrete by Judith I've always been a do-it-yourselfer........... but this is the ultimate DIY project. You may be wondering if it's possible for a 55 (now 60) year old woman to take recycled materials and actually build her own house, especially if the main ingredien...
2. Earthbag Homes Earthbag buildings are environmentally friendly, eco-conscious, energy efficient buildings that are built out of bags of earth, stacked in certain patterns and on a solid foundation. Because of their design they easily make good use of passive solar...
3. Build a wattle and daub house. Wattle and daub (also referred to as 'ruddle and dab' and 'wattle and dab') is sort of like papier mache for living in. It's something strong and serviceable built of something unlikely. In Europe, the framework of wattle and daub begins with a timb...
4. How to Build an Earthship According to the Think Green Building Glossary , an Earthship is defined as - a building system using tires as permanent forms for rammed earth, passive solar design, rain catchment, and other integrated systems to create low-impact, energy-efficient...
5. How to Build Your Own Straw Bale House It's not an easy matter to build a straw bale house -- or any house, for that matter. How to deal with situations where your bale course is higher than the sill of your window? How to prevent your walls from leaning away from plumb? How to build so t...
6. Cob: An Ancient Building Tradition Reborn What I did with my summer vacation: spent a week covered up to my knees in mud, built walls out of said mud, had a great time getting to know about fifteen other people working with the mud, and generally fell in love with cob. Earthen building has...
7. Energy Efficient Homes with an Insulated Concrete Form System When the world is turning all signs turn to GREEN. This lens is about a building technology for energy efficient homes. Homes or commercial projects - highly energy efficient with the lowest energy consumption or completely optimized for Zero Energy...
8. EarthCraft Homes EarthCraft House is a green building program that serves as a blueprint for healthy comfortable homes that reduce utility bills and protect the environment. The aim of the program is to help home builders be leaders in smart growth management and env...
9. Load Bearing Straw Bale Houses What sustainability advantage do load-bearing straw bale houses have over the post and beam (aka infill) kind? Simply put, they can use less wood since the bales themselves carry more of the weight. They are also easier for beginners to build... Unt...
10. Building Ordinary--Sustainable Community   They're known as eco-villages, cohousing or intentional communities. This lens explores several of them and answers these questions:        What is cohousing?        What do we mean by sust...
11. About Straw Bale Construction Growing up, I always thought of hay bales as cattle fodder and covering for newly seeded lawns. Then I found a newspaper article about a family that had built their home with hay bales. While fascinating, my big question was why? What is the benefit...
12. Green VS Sustainable Green Building is getting more popular everyday, but how do you decide what is right for you? Studying and learning more about the aspects of "Green Building" is beneficial. Start by looking up some of the links in this lens. Here is one to start wit...
13. Going Green is Fueling the use of Reclaimed Wood One of the ways to earn certification points within a green building program is to use reclaimed wood. Reclaimed wood is wood that has been removed from it's prior use such as: old buildings, barns, bridges, barrels, boxes and much more. Reclaimed wo...
14. Get Rich by Saving Old Buildings (Or, why is Historic Preservation so smart).... The greenest building in the world is the one that is never built. Chew on that for a moment. So why are we tearing down everything in sight? "One might be tempted to compare the recent green wave with the rise of modernism more than a half-century...
15. KlimaHaus - An Energy Efficient Environment Friendly House Klimahaus - is a German Word which means Climatic house in English. Energy Efficient and environment friendly house is known as Climatic house (Klimahaus in Europe). Global warming and climatic changes make people to think about energy saving, les...
16. Green Living: the cost of not going green Seems like the most common reaction that the term 'going green' conjures up is that creating a 'green house' will leave you with a 'parched wallet!' This lens is about the real cost of NOT going green; that it isn't just another bandwagon to jump on...
17. William McDonough? Welcome to my lens honoring William McDonough - architect, designer, and visionary. The winner of three U.S. presidential awards - the Presidential Award for Sustainable Development (1996), the National Design Award (2004); and the Presidential Gree...
18. Green Building Product Database This lens is my personal database of green building products organized by CSI division. It is an on going work in progress.  Feel free to leave a comment and share products that you know of that could be added to this lens.
19. You Can Make Your own Green Source Energy Safely and Cheaply! For a very long time, we have relied on fossil fuels. It provides heat to our homes, gas for our cars and electricity. Since we are now using it more than ever, there is a consequence. We are depleting our resources and slowly killing our planet. F...
20. BUILDING YOUR OWN FANTASTIC MUDBRICK HOME In the little over 200 years since settlement, Australians have faced wars, depression and  massive social restructuring with a subsequent shortage of adequate and appropriate housing. Displaying an originality found in people with limited reso...