Registration is open for all summer workshops and programs at O.U.R.Ecovillage as well as the "Touch Earth Touch Spirit " workshop with the Hopi Nation. Visit the workshop page for listings and registration info.
Tanzania calling! A working holiday
We return to Tanzania in September for our next building project at Baobab Home. You can participate in a Natural Building volunteer camp . There are 2, 4 and 6 week options beginning October 1, 2009. We are now taking applications. To see what we're up to view a slideshow of the site development for Baobab Home
You can support this project in different ways: become a volunteer, raise funds, tell others about the camp. Donations can be made through www.earthrisingfoundation.org
I also direct your attention to the following:
On building and being is my blog with stories from Tanzania, India and home at O.U.R.Ecovillage. I welcome your feedback.
"First Earth: uncompromising ecological architecture" is a film by David Sheen. Elke was interviewed in this film along with many other builders and activists."FIRST EARTH is a documentary about the movement towards a massive paradigm shift for shelter - building healthy houses in the old ways, out of the very earth itself, and living together like in the old days, by recreating villages. An audiovisual manifesto filmed over the course of 4 years and 4 continents, FIRST EARTH makes the case that earthen homes are the healthiest housing in the world; and that since it still takes a village to raise a healthy child, it is incumbent upon us to transform our suburban sprawl into eco-villages, a new North American dream".
Cindy Walker has started a Natural Plaster Company Cindy has worked on several projects in BC and trained with plastering experts Carole Crews and Bill and Athena Steen . If you are looking to renovate or finish your home with clay or lime plasters contact info@naturalplasters.ca
If you're looking for workshops in natural building please visit www.naturalbuildingnetwork.org for listings from all over North America and beyond
Are you considering building a natural home or addition? There's a team here to work with you: design, engineering and building. Talk to us for a consultation.
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