Earth Bag Workshop at INDIGO, Saturday, January 23rd 10am-12pm

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Comment by michael amish on January 20, 2010 at 1:25pm

Very cool...I would like to see a tire house too. This is just an introduction to how to do it...a discussion really, the hands- on workshop will come in early March and will ultimately build something out of town on some land...will keep you posted. Check out this link it's of an eartrh bag home in Haiti built by a religious brother down there and it is still standing post-quake.
here's a link to the earth bag building blog and one to Theo's blog on the ground there in Haiti right now.

Comment by Michael Levin on January 19, 2010 at 6:56pm

Hi Michael - this looks so exciting. Could you see building an earth bag home in Gainesville, or if zoning restrictions prohibited it, I bet just outside the city limits...that would be my first question. I've seen earth ships made of old tires in New Mexico and of rocks in the side of hills in Crestone, CO. The ships in Crestone were pretty plush! I'll dig up the photos I took...