Earthbag Architecture: Building Your Dream with Bags (Green Home Building Book 3)
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| Rating | : | 4.92 (970 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00YDGQHK4 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 311 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-13 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Kelly has had a lifelong interest in building and has worked in construction professionally. For many years he did remodeling for clients and also on his own projects. sunvee describes a solar electric vehicle that Kelly built and drove around his community for many years. . greenhomebuilding has been active since 2000 and dreamgreenhomes was established soon after. Kelly continues to be an advocate for sustainable living through his writing and occasionally training people in specific building techniques. Now he hosts earthbagbuilding and naturalbuildingblog as well. He once built his own house with innovative earthbags and papercrete. He has produced many film, video and DVD programs related to his interests in sustainable architecture, cultural education, and animal b
Easy and informative read Joseph Richards This book was a very easy and informative read. I like that the author tried various types of earth bag building and all his trial and errors. It definitely helped to know what to and not to do.. Good resource Nero Great read. More of a story of the authors trials and errors and how he did it than a how to but still very helpful and has good info. "A good introductory book on Earthbad Architecture" according to Gavin Frazier. A good introductory book on Earthbad Architecture. I was hoping for more from this book, but it is a nice easy to read introductory book on Earthbag Building. Perhaps the author might include more content/pages for a ~$20 bookThe book is, like I said, nice if you don't want to commit to a technical building book and just want an easy to read, introduction into some earthbag building.
Earthbag building is revolutionizing how people around the world are thinking about ways of providing shelter, both temporary and permanent. Such buildings can be remarkably durable and resistant to earthquakes, floods, fires and even bullets. Discover how you can build an amazing variety of structures using little more than the earth beneath your feet. Some 240 color photographs help you visualize the possibilities of this unusual and sustainable approach to architecture.. Kelly Hart describes the basics of how to build this way, provides a history of the evolving technology and delves into detailed descriptions of the many diffe
He once built his own house with innovative earthbags and papercrete. greenhomebuilding has been active since 2000 and dreamgreenhomes was established soon after. Together, Kelly and his wife, Rosana Hart, produce video programs and publish books and market them. As a writer, he has established several websites related to sustainable architecture and written numerous articles on this topic. . Their website hartworks describes many of the books and DVDs that they sell. One DVD