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4 May

Earth Architecture: Building With Nature (Cordwood/Stackwall)

Posted by Niko in Simplicity, Sustainability, natural building. Tagged: "nicole terry", "the mental mindfield", adobe, albert einstein, australia, building plans, building with nature, cob, construction, cordwood, cottage, doghouse, earth architecture, earthbags, earthships, earthwood building school, exterior, faq, green home building, green trust, how I built, interior, masonry, natural building, natural homes, nicoleterrycreates, papercrete, photo gallery, ravenwood cordwood cabin, sage mountain center, small house living, stackwall, straw bale, videos, yahoo group. 2 Comments

“This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.” ~Albert Einstein
Cordwood/Stackwall
How I Built Our Cordwood/Stackwall Cottage

Stackwall/Cordwood Cottage Exterior

Stackwall/Cordwood Cottage Interior

Ravenwood Cordwood Cabin

Cordwood Home

and for [...]

28 Mar

Earth Architecture: Building With Nature (Earthbags & Papercrete)

Posted by Niko in Simplicity, Sustainability, natural building. Tagged: "nicole terry", "nicoleterrycreates.com", "the mental mindfield", adobe, battery dome, biosystems, building with bags, building with nature, casa wizard moon, cob, construction, cordwood, do it yourself, earth architecture, earthbags, earthships, eco architecture, ecology, green home building, homemade survival retreat, house in the woods, judith williams, kurt vonnegut, living in paper, masonry, natural building, papercrete, rachel carson, stackwall, straw bale, sustainable, tow mixer. 3 Comments

“I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.” ~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Earthbags
Building With Bags

Earthbag Building

Earthbag House in the Woods

Homemade Survival Retreat Made of Earthbags and Papercrete

Papercrete
Papercrete
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14 Mar

Earth Architecture: Earthships

Posted by Niko in Simplicity, Sustainability, natural building. Tagged: "nicole terry", "the mental mindfield", adobe, biotecture, cob, construction, cordwood, demonstration, design principles, documentary, earth architecture, earthbags, earthship landing, earthships, earthships 101, eco building, eco tech, france, garbage warrior, greenhome building, how to cut glass bottles, how to pack a tire, leonard peikoff, masonry, michael reynolds, natural building, new mexico, nicaragua, nicoleterrycreates, papercrete, rammed earth, Simplicity, stackwall, straw bale, Sustainability, taos, youtube. 2 Comments

“To save the world is the simplest thing in the world. All one has to do is think.” ~Leonard Peikoff
Garbage Warrior

Earthships 101

Earthship Design Principles

Earthship Documentary

Earthship Biotecture

Eco Tech: Earthships

Earthship Demonstration
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6 Mar

Earth Architecture: Building With Nature (Cob)

Posted by Niko in Simplicity, Sustainability, natural building. Tagged: "nicole terry", "the mental mindfield", adobe, building with nature, cob, cob cottage company, cob in cornwall, cordwood, documentary, earth architecture, earthbags, eco building, green building, house alive, i love cob, john lennon, leonard peikoff, masonry, mud girls, natural building, nicoleterrycreates, papercrete, projects, simple life, Simplicity, stackwall, stomping, straw bale, Sustainability, uk cob, watching the wheels. 2 Comments

“Ah, people asking questions lost in confusion
Well I tell them there’s no problem, only solutions
Well they shake their heads and they look at me as if I’ve lost my mind
I tell them there’s no hurry
I’m just sitting here doing time” ~Watching The Wheels, John Lennon
Cob
Natural Cob Building

Cob Documentary
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16 Feb

Earth Architecture: Building With Nature (Straw Bale)

Posted by Niko in Simplicity, Sustainability, natural building. Tagged: "nicole terry", "the mental mindfield", adobe, building with nature, construction techniques, cordwood, debunking the myths, earth architecture, earthbags, geiger research, green home building, houses of straw, masonry, natural building workshop, natural instincts, nicole terry creates, papercrete, site evaluation, stackwall, straw bale, sustainable building, the last straw, william morris. 4 Comments

“Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.” ~William Morris
Straw Bale
Natural Instincts

Houses of Straw

Straw Bale Construction Techniques

Benefits of Straw Bale Construction

Straw Bale Houses

Straw Bale House [...]

11 Feb

Earth Architecture: Building With Nature (Adobe)

Posted by Niko in Simplicity, Sustainability, natural building. Tagged: "nicole terry", "nicoleterrycreates.com", "the mental mindfield", adobe alliance, adobe builder, alternative building, architecture, brick making, building an adobe house, calearth, construction, cordwood, earth architecture, earth turns to gold, earthbags, earthen ware, environment, frontier homes, green home building, history channel, hyper adobe, masonry, mudcrafters, muddie, natural building, natural materials, papercrete, stackwall, super adobe, Sustainability, sustainable living. 2 Comments

“It looks like you dug up a chunk of the earth…and reformed it.” ~Paraphrased quote from the video documentary, Natural Instincts
Adobe
Earth Turns To Gold

Adobe Brick Making

Adobe – Old and New

Building an Adobe House

CalEarth – SuperAdobe

Building [...]

19 Dec

Voluntary Simplicity: Intentional Communities

Posted by Niko in Sustainability. Tagged: "nicole terry", "nicoleterrycreates.com", "the mental mindfield", dancing rabbit, earthship, ecovillage, findhorn foundation, garbage warrior, henry david thoreau, intentional community, richard gregg, simple life, Simplicity, Voluntary Simplicity. Leave a Comment

“Voluntary simplicity involves both inner and outer condition. It means singleness of purpose, sincerity and honesty within, as well as avoidance of exterior clutter, of many possessions irrelevant to the chief purpose of life. It means an ordering and guiding of our energy and our desires, a partial restraint in [...]