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The Rammed Earth House: Sustainable Building

Tammy Clayton

Using compacted soil as a building material is as old as the hills. Many examples are found around the world. A rammed earth house, however, is nothing like a mud hut and need not be primitive. It’s a lost art well-suited to sustainable home construction today. When using the proper types of sand, clay, and other…

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Green Building: Sustainable Prefab Home

Innovations in green building Have presented us with several interesting ways of owning a sustainable home over the past few years, but now these qualities are available in a prefab earth-shelter package. Unlike traditional houses, they blend in with the surrounding landscape, and harness the passive heating and cooling properties of the Earth. Better than…
May 17, 2017
Tammy Clayton