The Year of Mud offers a variety of high quality, hands-on Natural Building Workshops including cob, straw bale, timber framing, and more. We’re dedicated to creating rich, personalized learning experiences, with the help of our ten years of natural building experience....
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Berea, KY US
Disputanta Cob is a group of locals who promote and teach natural building. We build with lime mortars and plasters, with cob, other earthen materials, and salvaged items. Located in the gorgeous foothills of Central KY where spring water is plentiful, land is reasonably...
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606 256 8954
Berea, KY US
STRAWBALE STUDIO provides educational workshops, volunteer & intern opportunities, outreach, exhibits and presentations both on & off-site. Activities include Natural Building plus Rocket Stoves, Foraging, Permaculture Gardening, Worm Composting, Solar Cooking & Drying,...
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Oxford, MI US
We are a community non-profit in Harlan County, Kentucky that looks to traditional folkways to create innovative solutions to Appalachia's challenges, while inviting in the broader world to engage and connect to our natural and cultural heritage. We preserve the 800-acre...
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6065583571
Bledsoe, KY US
Natural buildings from straw bales, cob, adobe, earth bags, straw-clay, etc. Clay- and lime-based plasters and paints. And classes so you can learn too! MudStrawLove, LLC is run by Steve Kemble and Mollie Curry. After years of developing our individual skills, we met during a...
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Construction Workshops Strawbale Cob Earth bag Events Earth Plaster Permaculture Straw-clay Earthen Paint
8287754823
Asheville, NC US
The Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute (FLPCI) was founded by Michael Burns, Steve Gabriel and Karryn Olson Ramanujan in 2005. Since the beginning FLPCI has been sustained and nutured by the support of our alumni and volunteers for whom we are grateful. The board of FLPCI would...
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Certification
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Alpine, NY US
Dancing Rabbit is an ecovillage and intentional community of about 70 people set amid the hills and prairies of rural northeastern Missouri. Our goal is to live ecologically sustainable and socially rewarding lives, and to share the skills and ideas behind that lifestyle. In...
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Farming Construction Workshops Online Course Interships Ecovillage Design Education Strawbale Timber Cob Work Exchange Program / Volunteer Earth bag
6608835511
Rutledge, MO US
We are available for events, hands on teaching and being part of curriculum in natural building and sustainable living programs. Check our upcoming events to see what we are scheduled to participate in.
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Construction Workshops Consultation Strawbale Timber Work Exchange Program / Volunteer Events Earth Plaster Earthen Floors Tadelakt
6023847884
Putney, VT US
Specializing in Cordwood Masonry Construction and Earth-sheltered Housing. Powered by solar power
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5184937744
West Chazy, NY US
In hands-on classes that explore and engage, we teach the arts of design and building as an integrated process, and provide instruction in fundamental skills. We offer nearly 100 classes in Land & Community Planning, Whole Structure Design/Build, Building Systems &...
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Construction Workshops Renewable Energy Education Center Interships Timber Events Farm and Garden Design Sustainable Forestry Green Woodworking Tiny House Design Building Science Tree House Design Composting Toilets
802 496 5545
Waitsfield, VT US
North House Folk School is a small educational non-profit on the shore of Lake Superior in Grand Marais, Minnesota. We foster a non-competitive learning environment devoted to teaching the traditional northern craft. We offer over 350 courses year-round in everything from timber...
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8883879762
Grand Marais, MN US
The school is a member of the International Log Builders' Association (ILBA) and teaching is in accordance with the Association's Effective Practices and Methods for Handcrafted Log Building. (The school is closed as of July 1, 2018. See other pages in this website as to Ron...
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218 365 2126
Isabella, MN US
Through classes, workshops and service learning opportunities students gain the knowledge and skills to build their own natural, affordable home. Proceeds from CHNBS benefit our Cob For Vets initiatives!
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817 812 4909
Hughes Springs, TX US
We are the original Monolithic Dome construction company. The first Monolithic Dome ever constructed was built by David, Barry and Randy South in April of 1976 in the small town of Shelley, Idaho. David and Barry (Randy was too young at the time) had been insulating potato...
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972 483 7423
Italy, TX US
In 1986 Rocky Mountain Workshops offered its first hands-on workshops in the handcrafted tradition of scribe-fit log construction. In 1996, we expanded our program to include timber framing. From the beginning, the Rocky Mountain Workshops' commitment has been to provide...
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970 482 1366
Fort Collins, CO US
Earthship Biotecture is a global company offering proven, totally sustainable design and construction services worldwide. The company is led by Michael Reynolds, the principle biotect and creator of the Earthship Concept.
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575 751 0462
Tres Piedras, NM US
We are an all-volunteer organization dedicated to making a long-term difference in helping veterans overcome homelessness and mental health challenges, all while honoring the Earth with sustainable building practices and respect for nature. We are implementing programs that...
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919 673 0398
Carson, NM US
The Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute (CRMPI) is a 501(c)(3) sustainable agricultural education center where ecological gardening, edible landscaping, market farming, forest gardening, horticultural and sustainability skills, and greenhouse design and management have...
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Ecological Gardening Edible Landscaping Market Farming Forest Gardening Horticultural Sustainability Skills Greenhouse Design Greenhouse Management Permaculture
970 927 4158
Basalt, CO US
We're a small home-based business in Albuquerque. We got started in 2009, offering bags & supplies to folks interested in earthbag & other alternative construction. In 2012, we expanded to offering filled sandbags to industrial & commercial clients for landscaping,...
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505 750 3478
Albuquerque, NM US
FOXHOLE HOMES' mission is to provide sustainable housing and community for veterans in need. Our goal is to build a sustainable research community that will provide housing with little or no utility bills, and provide jobs for veterans using regenerative agricultural practices...
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Construction Renewable Energy Water Conservation Greywater Systems Rain Harvesting Events Recycled Materials Earthship Volunteer
575 491 8116
Alamogordo, NM US
We are a study-workshop of bioarchitecture, formed by a group of people who work in the development of sustainable habitats through architecture with natural materials, based on respect and understanding of the social and environmental context in which we live. We aim to open a...
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Volunteers
019841206636
Tulum, AF
Al Anderson, Montana School of Log Building, has trained log builders from Denmark, China, Canada, and United States. Log building classes, a step-by-step Video Course for home learning, contractor services, and log home consultant services. Nick Anderson -logworker- directs...
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Three Forks, MT US
Mr. Barry J. Fuller researched, wrote and regularly updates this website based on the more current information. He has been a University Instructor, Alternative Materials Specialist, experimental designer, and builder - as well as a media producer. He produced the DVDs offered in...
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480 560 9563
Tempe, AZ US
At CalEarth, we provide several opportunities to learn how to build with SuperAdobe. From learning the basics through a digital course, to on-site apprenticeships, we are dedicated to our founder's mission to educate and empower.
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706 956 7533
Hesperia, CA US
We educate, design, & build Natural Buildings to Code. Our homes are self-sustainable, including a permaculture garden for food, grey water, and solar.
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530 277 8127
Nevada City, CA US
With an educational program in its twenty-third year that has seen hundreds of students and thousands of visitors,The Bullock Homestead Continues to be a work in progress. Located in a microclimate within a microclimate our land is a southwest-facing slope, where Rocky...
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Certification
3903766152
Eastsound, WA US
Lost Valley Education and Event Center is a non-profit environmental education center dedicated to empowering people to lessen their impact on the earth by teaching permaculture and sustainable living skills. It is also home to an aspiring ecovillage.
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Certification
390 376 6152
Dexter, CA US
OUR Ecovillage is a sustainable living permaculture demonstration site, education center and learning community on Vancouver Island.
OUR offers events, workshops, courses, internships, certificates, natural building, leadership, permaculture, and organic food production.
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Certification
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Shawnigan Lake, British Columbia CA
“SFIA has the nation’s first and most comprehensive Eco-Design programs including distance learning and continuing education. SFIA is devoted to innovation and reform in architectural education, offering open classes and a Master of Architecture program to graduate...
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Certification
800 634 7779
Berkeley, CA US
NorCal Community Resilience Network coordinates workshops for those who are wanting to learn more about how to better build resilient communities and regenerative communities. Previous events included: Decolonizing Permaculture; Whiteness, Radical Inclusi
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Oakland, CA US
PLACE School is a collaborative, community-based project that offers classes on a broad-range of social and environmental topics. During this critical period of transition to a post-petroleum world, our mission is to support the transition from petroleum-based lifestyles to build...
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Oakland, CA US
CruzinCobGlobal's principal activity is teaching International Cob Workshops on all continents to train students in an intercultural setting to be amateur & professional cob builders and instructors ready to work with CCG or independently or for their o
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Certification
8312127225
Santa Cruz, CA US
Miguel Elliott has been a leader in the natural building movement for over 20 years. He started his Sonoma County based business/service Living Earth Structures in 2008 after spending years travelling around the world developing his skills and being inspired by different methods...
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707 320 3609
Petaluma, CA US
Transition US is a nonprofit organization that provides inspiration, encouragement, support, networking, and training for Transition Initiatives across the United States. We are working in close partnership with the Transition Network, a UK based organiza
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Certification
7078241554
Sebastopol, CA US
To construct high quality living earth structures, such as cob benches, wood-fired ovens, and adobe dome saunas encouraging community involvement through educational workshops and gatherings around the finished project, promoting a healthy, simple and cre
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Geyserville, CA US
The Regenerative Design Institute (RDI) is a non-profit educational organization with the vision that all people can live in a mutually enhancing relationship with the earth. We envision a world in which people, inspired by nature, create and maintain healthy and abundant...
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Certification
Bolinas, CA US
Plantas medicinales talleres, venta e intercambio de plantas medicinales, aromáticas, frutales, preparados, construcción de conucos, lugar de saberes.
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0412 5582861
Altos Mirandinos, M VE
We are a small group of people, within a worldwide network, helping to incubate an alternative way of living, a new consciousness for this world. Each of us has understood at a very personal level the huge disconnection that our society have created between humans and its...
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321 3942024
San Gil, CO
We are a small group of people, within a worldwide network, helping to incubate an alternative way of living, a new consciousness for this world. We have seen the disconnection between humans and its environment (its universe, its nature) and have experience the consequences of...
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Ocamonte, CO
Cursos y talleres sobre diseño permacultural, bioconstrucción, agroecologÃa, manejo ético y eficiente del agua, tecnologÃas apropiadas, iniciativas de transición, terapias holÃsticas,educación libre, eventos y bioferias.
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+593 2-515-4865
Quito, EC
Con más de 20 años de experiencia en construccion, proporcionamos mano de obra de calidad para el mercado doméstico y comercial. ¿Necesitas una casa, un horno de leña, renovar el ático o algún otro trabajo en construccion?...
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099 470 7230
EC
Sustainable Bolivia’s mission is to enact sustainable development and environmental conservation in the Bolivian Amazon by supporting and partnering with community-led initiatives. Sustainable Bolivia uses a comprehensive approach to environmental conservation poverty...
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+591 415-513-5582
Riberalta, BO
Es un espacio comunitario dedicado a compartir saberes que señalan una forma de vida sencilla, natural, sostenible y entonces, ¡más libre! ​Somos una plataforma de transmisión de conocimientos y un puente para el encuentro con la naturaleza....
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Agriculture / Farming Volunteer Green Roof Construction Workshops Education Center Interships Events
991 898 800
Lunahuaná , LIM PE
Natural Building is a huge amount of fun! It’s a great opportunity to connect with like-minded people and work in wonderful places on inspiring projects. We are a not for profit BenCom, set up to serve the community of aspiring natural builders, particularly those who...
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Todmorden, West Yorkshire GB
Terrapalha Architects working with natural, healthy, sustainable materials since 2008 in Sintra & Lisbon, Portugal
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933 291 112
Pé da Serra Sintra, PT
We have 19 years of experience as natural building architects with extensive experience of natural materials for building and styling homes. In particular, we use straw bale, earthbag, cordwood, cob, timber, clay and lime techniques and other natural materials like bamboo for...
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Volunteers
Certification
Architecture / Construction Superadobe Workshops Consultation Strawbale Earth bag Events Earth Plaster
778791818
Forest Row, East Sussex GB
An international school set up to teach people how to develop skills in eco-construction and sustainable living. We are based 100km West of Madrid, Spain, in the foothills of La Sierra de Gredos on a one hectare plot of land. Founded in 2012, we have had the luck to see this...
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fresnedilla, AV ES
Escuela de Bioconstrucción para profesionales y autoconstructores. Enseñamos a construir casas altamente eficientes, sanas y ecológicas con balas de paja.
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Madrid, M ES
Natural Building Lab operates as part of a Transdisciplinary network undertaking projects that produce knowledge and built prototypes for a post-fossil society.
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030 31421883
Berlin, DE
Somos un estudio de Arquitectura y Construcción que tiene por misión producir cambios favorables al medio ambiente en todas las intervenciones que tengamos oportunidad de construir. Proyectando y desarrollando edificios, reformas, reciclajes, viviendas...
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0991 902202
Asunción , PY
Na Escola de Bioarquitetura e Centro de Pesquisa e Tecnologia Experimental em Bambu (EBIOBAMBU) se estuda, pesquisa e difunde conhecimentos da aplicação de técnicas e materiais naturais e ecológicos como a terra, fibras, materiais recicláveis, telhado de grama e...
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Apprenticeship Lodging Agriculture / Farming Construction Workshops Education Center Bamboo Sewage Treatment
(24) 99915-7129
Itatiaia, RJ BR
TIBA é um centro educacional de ecologia aplicada e arquitetura de baixo impacto. A escola alternativa foi fundada em 1987 pelo arquiteto e urbanista holandês Johan van Lengen, lenda do movimento de sustentabilidade ao redor do mundo - autor do Manual de...
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21 99253 4232
Bom Jardim, RJ BR
Nos enfocamos en la instrumentación de un proceso educativo de investigación y aprendizaje constantes, donde cada estudiante y profesor ofrezca como enseñanza su propia vida, su forma de pensar, de relacionarse, de trabajar y a la vez aprender de los demás. Nuestro...
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+56 9 7618 5431
ValparaÃso, VS CL
Centro de Capacitación de técnicas sustentables. Especialistas en superadobe- superblock o earthbagbuilding. Construcción con Quincha y otras técnicas sustentables.
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+56 9 7373 9475
Valparaíso, VS CL
O Instituto Çarakura é uma organização não-governamental (ONG), fundada em 11 de março de 2007, e qualificada pelo ministério da justiça como OSCIP. Realizar ações e práticas pedagógicas voltadas...
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48 3338 8722
Florianópolis, SC BR
Estamos sembrando las bases para un asentamiento humano sustentable. Nos proponemos vivir simplemente, en contacto con la naturaleza, organizados en forma de una pequeña villa ecológica, con principios ecológicos, comunitarios y sociales.
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+54 2227 55-2554
Navarro, B AR
Since 1993 I've run a successful permaculture consulting, design, and education business focused on integrated and sustainable approaches to landscape design, planning, and living. And as I live in a dryland environment, water harvesting has long been one of my specialties and a...
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Tucson, AZ US
Centro de permacultura
Sede de @hagamos_composta para la zona de Puerto Vallarta y Bahía de Banderas
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Volunteers
01 322 370 2104
San Ignacio, NAY MX
Are you interested in travel and permaculture? We offer courses by permaculture experts in Asia, India, Europe, the Middle East, and North America.
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Sasha Rabin has been practicing and teaching natural building since 2002. She has dedicated her work to encouraging people to engage with our built environment, and through that process reconnect with world around us.
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US
Combining Tom's 24 years of involvement in the Straw Bale/Natural Building movement along with his craftsman's knowledge of conventional building and fabrication experience and Satomi's 17 years of earthen plaster art, you will leave LanderLand full of ideas and enthusiastic...
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We specialize in hemp building.
Hempitecture is the only quality complete hempcrete construction service in the US.
Also offering Hempcrete contractor trainnning.
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Ketchum, ID US
La verdadera ecología no es renuncia, es unión, es cooperar con la naturaleza
y buscar un equilibrio entre la salud, la conservación y el espíritu en nuestras vidas.
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091 943 151
UY
Our mission is to empower ourselves and others with #naturalbuilding and #sustainableliving methods.
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Bamboo U(niversity) was an idea originally conceived to help teach professionals about the potential of bamboo as a green building material. In its current form it is a design and bamboo building workshop in Bali hosted by the Kul Kul Farm at the Green School; facilitated in...
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Abiansemal, BA ID
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