This cement-block frame, earthbag-infill house was the first of its kind in Utah to receive a building permit. You can build a magnificent shelter with a couple of rolls of barbed wire, a bale of bags ...

The Nakuru earthbag orphanage stands out from the surrounding architectural typology, which is dominated by stone and concrete homes. The use of local earth as the primary construction material not ...

Thousands of people in Puerto Rico are still living under blue tarps three years after Hurricane Maria struck the island, and more than 30,000 families have asked the government for assistance after ...

F.L.O.E.!(For the Love of Earthbags!) is a design project in rural Nepal that is bringing the sustainable building method of earthbag construction to mountain communities. The project is an initiative ...

This article describes a low cost method of building insulated basement walls without concrete, using geotextiles. Typical basement walls are expensive and use large amounts of concrete, a major ...

In the video above, Andrew Mumford, co-founder of Permaculture South Africa, introduces us to “earthbag” building—a way of constructing strong homes cheaply and quickly. The technique has actually ...

Cob hands. Taken at The Firefly Gathering by Aiyanna Sezak-Blatt The massive earthquake that rattled Nepal on April 25 and the powerful aftershocks that followed have left much of the nation in ...