Wilderness Earthbag Cabin

Posted August 15th, 2010 by Michael Janzen and filed in Plans
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Owen Geiger recently posted this small cabin design on his Earthbag House Plans website.  It’s only 283 square feet and features a bathroom, kitchen, living space, and a sleeping loft. This may also be one of the designs to appear in Owen’s future coming house plans book.

Wilderness Earthbag Cabin

Earthbag Projects in Haiti

Posted August 8th, 2010 by Michael Janzen and filed in humanitarian
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Two earthbag home projects are underway in Haiti and are being blogged about at blog.konbitshelter.org and howsitgoinginhaiti.blogspot.com. Read more about these Earthbag Projects in Haiti on the Earthbag Building Blog.

University of Maryland students head to Haiti

Posted March 19th, 2010 by Michael Janzen and filed in humanitarian
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Some students from the University of Maryland will be spending a week in Haiti demonstrating how to build these sturdy earthbag shelters.

Earthbag Shelter Training

Earthbag Roundhouse Workshop in Thailand

Posted March 19th, 2010 by Michael Janzen and filed in Workshop
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The folks at the Earthbag Building Blog are hosting a workshop in Sakon Nakhon, Thailand from April 19-25, 2010. If a bit of world travel and earthbag house training sounds interesting to you definitely learn more about this workshop. Pictured here is one of their recently completed projects in Mexico.

Earthbag Roundhouse Workshop in Thailand

Earthbag & Pallet Emergency Shelter

Posted February 12th, 2010 by Michael Janzen and filed in Design
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Dr. Owen Geiger, the Director of the Geiger Research Institute of Sustainable Building, posted one of my design concepts on his Earthbag Building Blog. I had whipped this design up for a 1 Hour Design Challenge at Core77, in exactly 1-hour using Google SketchUp. Thanks for all the earthbag inspiration Owen!

Earthbag & Pallet Emergency Shelter

1 Hour Design Challenge

Posted January 29th, 2010 by Michael Janzen and filed in Design
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Core77 ran a 1-hour design competition looking for designers to spend literally one hour on an emergency shelter concept. I’m not sure if what I came up with is technically a ‘pop-up shelter’ as the competition asks for but it was fun to put this earthbag and pallet hybrid concept together in an hour.

1 Hour Design Challenge

Low-Cost Earthbag Buildings

Posted August 5th, 2009 by Michael Janzen and filed in Construction Method
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mini earthbag buildingIf you have a subscription to Mother Earth News you probably spotted this cute earthbag building. While it’s small footprint (8-foot diameter) is probably too small to be a tiny house for most people it is an excellent example of how easy an earthbag home could be built.  There are lots of books and plans for earthbag homes available but you can find a lot of information on the internet about building with earthbags online.

Earthbag Root Celler

Posted July 15th, 2009 by Michael Janzen and filed in Construction Method
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earth bag root cellerThis is a short article on a simple earthbag root celler. The earthbag building blog is a great resource for learning about building earthbag homes. You can also read about this root celler and how it is used by the family that built it.

Earthbag Dome Building Video

Posted May 27th, 2009 by Michael Janzen and filed in Information Resource
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earthbag-dome-video1There’s a nice slide show style video on the Earthbag Building Blog that illustrates the steps needed to build an earthbag dome home. If building homes with earthbags is new to you watching this short video will provide a quick overview.

When you’re done looking at that video there’s another earthbag dome home video on YouTube from the folks at Cal-Earth that also shows the earthbag building process.

Earthbag Home Slide Show

Posted May 6th, 2009 by Michael Janzen and filed in Information Resource
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earthbag-home-buildingThe folks at natural homes are very clever at putting together new ways of viewing and exploring the world of tiny houses. This is an example of an earthbag slide show. Earthbag homes are home literally built from bags of dirt. The bags are stacked up in strait of curved walls. Domes and arches are also possible. Visit Earthbag Building Blog to learn more about building earthbag homes. Visit natrual homes to watch the earthbag home slide show.