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We The Tiny House People (Documentary)

TV producer and Internet-video personality Kirsten Dirksen invites us on her journey into the tiny homes of people searching for simplicity, self-sufficiency, minimalism and happiness by creating shelter in caves, converted garages, trailers, tool...

How to Build a Low Cost Earthbag Tornado Shelter

Designing an earthbag tornado shelter has been on my to-do list for years. My intent was to modify my free plans at Instructables.com (see below). Yesterday I can came across the following article at Yahoo and found out concrete tornado shelters are...

More Uses for Pallets

We've already covered a wide range of things that can be made with salvaged shipping pallets. Use the built-in search engine (now much improved!) to get ideas for pallet furniture, wood cladding, ceilings and other items. This blog post lists some...

Desert Dome Shelter

This is the first of several installments on ultra low cost desert shelters. The idea came from reading Phillip Garlington's website at Rancho Costa Nada (“the cost nothing ranch”), where he tells his story of chucking a regular 9-5 job and creating...

Want to Get Emails When We Make a New Post?

Recently we moved this site from earthbagbuilding.wordpress.com to naturalbuildingblog.com, and one thing that seems to have been lost in the shuffle was how to bring along the people who were getting email reports of new posts. The other day, one...

Driftwood Furniture

Building furniture and other items around your home with driftwood is yet another low cost DIY option to consider. This topic is closely related to our previous blog post on Tree Root Furniture. The unique look seems especially appropriate for...

Natural Building Overview Video

Chris Dancey began this video a year and a half ago, but had to stop to work on his certified organic farm for awhile. Finally he was able to get back to it, which has been a ‘labor of love'. It is very nicely done with entertaining music and lots...

The Do's and Don'ts of Recycling Barn Wood

“1. Don't take on a barn reclamation project yourself. The cost of labor and time makes a barn wood recycling project a costly venture. Most barns have 10,000 board feet or more of good used building materials, much more than you can use in one home...

The Future Will Not Be Like The Past (2)

"We do not have to revert to the old ways but, for many good environmental reasons, we do need to find alternatives that offer the same benefits." Ralph L. Knowles in "Sun Rhythm Form" (1981). You can read about Knowles' work in "The solar...

How to Keep Beverages Cool Outside the Refrigerator

In the industrialized world, we know only of one way to cool beverages: place containers in refrigerators. This practice, which occurs on a massive scale, is utterly dependent on fossil fuels. However, people obtained the same result much more...