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I am helping to renew my family's land in the fire-burned foothills of Santa Barbara. I recently returned from an extended time traveling abroad study...

Bellingham and Whatcom County's premier design/build contractor working towards sustainable business and construction practices! We are a full-service...

is an educational non-profit organization working for peace, environmental protection, ecological building, social justice, and the development of hea...

I have had an interest in natural building techniques for some time. It started with timberframing and has progressed and broadened. I spent the summe...

Amorin has worked all across the states with large events and non-profit organizations specializing in environmental education, and since 2005 has bee...

Ampersand Sustainable Learning Center in Cerrillos, New Mexico, is a place to explore sustainable living. Our off-grid site demonstrates sustainable...

Ancient Earth is dedicated to promoting Natural Building in all it's forms through experiential education and the use of local abundant materials. To ...

Andrew Poundstone, Kortney Garrison, Mabel Garrison Poundstone. We are a family of three living, for now, about ten miles north of Tijuana. We returne...

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Natural Building Network Youth Member, I took the natural Building Apprenticeship at O.U.R. Ecovillage. I joined NBN to learn as much as I can about a...

Barefoot Builder is a natural building team based in the Southeastern US. We teach workshops all over the country and are one of the few groups offeri...

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Bernhard Masterson is the consummate natural builder who fuses a deep commitment to sustainable systems and a rich sense of aesthetics to create uniqu...

Betty Seaman, is an artist and natural builder living in Santa Barbara County. She has taught extensively with Cob Cottage Company as well as on her ...

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You Name It: Strawbale, Cob, Straw-Clay, Cordwood, Timber Frame, Stone, Roundwood, Adobe, Earthbags, Rammed Earth, Underground, Salvaging & Scroun...

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The CBA is a non-profit organization bringing together professionals who work with communities to transform the physical environment with the energy o...

is an international network of ecological builders advocating local, natural, and affordable construction materials. BWB creates books, videos and wo...

Camp Zest is a business venture designed to bring people together to plan, build and own a network of small retreats that feature romantic, natural, e...

Candace Vanderhoff,
I am passionate about architectural design, urban permaculture and creating regenerative living systems in urban settings....

Carolyn Hernandez, Carolyn is passionate about Natural Building becoming a choice option for builders of Home and Community. Her passion has taken her...

Carrie is the co-founder and Director of Operations of the Natural Building Network. She is a designer, builder, and advocate for natural buildings an...

is the author and photographer of the book The New Straw Bale Home and co-editor/ author of The Art of Natural Building. She has also contributed arti...

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International Development Background,
training in... sustainable development and participatory group processes that facilitate community empo...

Christo Markham of Building Traditions is a natural builder, mudbrother and teacher. Offers workshops in Natural building: Cob, earthen plastering, ta...

City Repair was formed in Portland, Oregon in 1996 by citizen activists who wanted a more community-oriented and ecologically sustainable society. Bor...

Rammed Earth Designers & Builders
We are professional designers & Builders of insulated rammed earth homes. We do Full architecture des...

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Cobworks, is committed to building beautiful, affordable structures with local and natural material in a spirit of cooperation and social responsibili...

lkiisk [@] hotmail.com

Studio EESTI (Environmental Evolution Studio and Teaching Institute)

Studio EESTI specializes in...

Colorado Straw Bale Association is committed to expanding and sharing knowledge, experience and techniques for straw bale and sustainable building. CO...

cory [@] permacultureguild.us...

Craig & Kalena Lanuza. We're a couple who shares the vision of natural building and natural living. We enjoy offering our energy and talent to ind...

dan_watt1972[at]yahoo.com...

danielleacres [at] gmail.com...

Dave Veldhuizen, Six Degrees Construction, dave[at]sixdegreesconstruction.com

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David Eisenberg co-founded the Development Center for Appropriate Technology in 1991. He has decades of construction experience ranging from construct...

Im a young emerging building working in Victoria, on Vancouver Island Canada. I'm especially interested in supporting and facilitating the invisible s...

Development Center for Appropriate Technology, works to enhance the health of the planet and our communities by promoting a shift to sustainable const...

We provide affordable custom homes and energy-efficient renovations in Northern New York. Dean Anthony Construction has over 25 years of experience in...

Coordinator & teacher at the Strawbale Studio Natural Building Program outside Oxford, Michigan on rural wooded land 1 hr N of Detroit. Co-designe...

Derek Roff has been interested and involved in natural, unnatural and alternative/exploratory building since his childhood. Growing up in New Mexico ...

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Disputanta Cob is a group of locals who promote and teach natural building. We build with lime mortars and plasters, cob and other earthen materials, ...

Dane Slutzky first encountered cob as a construction work trader at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage. After falling in love with the material, he completed ...

JParDev (at) gmail.com...

Earth Building Association of New Zealand, is a network of enthusiastic and experienced volunteers, who are interested in promoting environmentally fr...

Earthed are artists and builders who create sustainable structures specialising in cob, roundpole timber frame, lime and stonework. Earthed undertake...

Scott Howard has taught earthen building since 2000. He founded Earthen Hand Natural Building to promote earthen art and architecture. His work can b...

We are natural building contractors who are committed to helping owner-builders create homes which are earth-friendly, sustainable and beautiful. From...

Ed Pease, Supporting Member...

After receiving a Philosophy degree from University of New Mexico, I moved to Colorado were I found my passion for natural building. I've been a Natur...

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Firespeaking is available to assist in design, teach workshops, consult and build. We have many years of experience in natural building, natural fini...

Five Rivers MetroParks is dedicated to the protection and stewardship of Greater Dayton’s natural heritage and to inspiring appreciation and underst...

Heirloom Timber Framing, Inc. specializes in the artistic design and hand fashioning of contemporary and traditional, quality timber framed spaces tha...

Fornyet Energi architect Flemming Abrahamsson, for more than 30 years, has been working with renewable energy from sun, wind, biomass, compost and the...

Fourth Corner Exchange is a mutual credit Time Dollar system. It supports a gift economy, which is fundamentally different from a cash economy. Goods ...

From These Hands works with clients who long to bring natural elements into their homes, offices and communities.

Our clients are ref...

Georgie Donais, based in Toronto, Ontario, designs and builds earthen structures as a way to engage people in their local public space. Though cob is ...

glenbrumbach[@] msn.com...

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Granny Earth, ND, 'teaches' people how to heal themselves using Mother Nature's plants, and is a Natural Building Network Member....

gjallen2[at]gmail.com...

Kiko Denzer lives in western Oregon, where he shares home and garden with his wife Hannah and their two small boys. He make things, writes, teaches, b...

Joehinman [@] sbcglobal.net...

Hesperian collaborates with health workers, grassroots groups and community organizations around the world to develop books that are practical, access...

Vision
HomeGrown HideAways is an environmental education organization that seeks to empower the public through experiential workshops and commu...

Holly Lubowicki, natural building enthusiast with some experience in straw bale, cob, thatching and natural building design. Interested in creating op...

House Alive! We teach workshops in cob, natural building, appropriate technology and design. We integrate these disciplines in our workshops so that p...

Irish Association Of Self Builders was launched in August 2003 by a team of volunteer self builders who themselves had struggled to understand the pro...

Jack Stephens, co-founder and Director of Communications, has been playing or living in wilderness since his days as a Boy Scout where he began honing...

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I currently live in Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico after spending about 25 years in the San Francisco Bay Area. I am very interested in natural building and...

Joe Jenkins authored the Humanure Handbook in 1995. In 1997, he wrote and published the Slate Roof Bible. Both are award-winning books that are still ...

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Kate Lundy, Natural Building Network Member.
Connecting people in my bioregion. abm900 [at] yahoo.com....

Kindra Welch of ClaySandStraw.com works to support those who aspire to live in and/or build their own natural ...

Kleiwerks International promotes social transformation and ecological regeneration by leading hands-on trainings in natural building and whole-systems...

Host of "Build Here Now" Natural Building Convergences, offers workshops in natural building, sustainable lifestyles, community building and much more...

lmc557[at]hotmail.com. I am living in cob studio I built. Took workshop with Jack Stephens and Betty Seaman through Cob Cottage. In process of buildin...

Grew up designing and building forts, ramps, go carts, you know all the kid stuff out in the mud in the middle of the forest. Have been building proff...

Linda Lloyd Supporting Founding Member bluedobe@suddenlink.net....

Architect based in TAIWAN.
Nature interpreter, Founder of the Tainan branch of the Society of Wilderness.
Liker of Chen style Tai-Chi, L...

Living Craft Project is a school of natural building and authentic living, nestled within Quail Springs Learning Oasis and Permaculture Farm.
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Lloyd Kahn is editor-in-chief of Shelter Publications, an independent California publisher. Shelter specializes in books on building and architecture,...

Our shared-learning project is focused on creating a sustainable lifestyle, more self-sufficiency, less environmental impact. It exists in the gorgeou...

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Mark Grossman lives and works as a Natural Builder in a little village in Oaxaca, Mexico. He started building with wood as a teenager in his high sch...

Mark Mazziotti is a natural building teacher and homesteader at Red Earth Farms Community Land Trust in northeastern Missouri. He apprenticed with Mic...

focused in Humanitarian Aid and International Development
martychorkey[at]gmail.com...

At Masango Dema, we use the arts to address our social and environmental needs in Zimbabwe. We are promoting a sustainable way of life that will carry...

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McGregor Alternative Technology is a Non Profit Educational Institution teaching sustainable building, renewable energy, permaculture and holistic hea...

I work one-on-one with clients to provide the highest quality finish carpentry, woodworking, cob, balecob, earthen plaster and timber construction and...

Michael Blaha is an artist, web designer, natural builder and cob enthusiast. He keeps a blog about cob, natural...

Ian Miller is a natural builder, farmer, baker and drummer. Originally from Dubuque, Iowa, he lived in California for eight years, where he was a prof...

bmodel [@] betsymodel.com...

natbuilder88[at]hotmail.com...

MudStrawLove, LLC helps people create natural buildings that bring closer connection and harmony into the lives of everyone involved. We offer fun, in...

mhuising [@] buromb.nl...

Nathan is a self-taught strategic web business consultant. His areas of experience include: labor saving and automation, list building/lead generation...

Natural Building Resources is a mail-order source for books, videos, DVDs and other information about building with, earth, timber, bamboo, more. At ...

Natural Villages is a 501(c)(3) "people profit" organization devoted to the development and sharing of practical life-skills consistent with sustainab...

house[at]naturalhomes.org...

Natural Builders Northeast is a group of builders, designers, consultants, educators, and professionals practicing the art of natural building and des...

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NextGen Hybrid Homes is a non profit organization that builds sustainable housing for low income people. We are currently located in Shiawassee County...

mikeauer [@] gmail.com...

O.U.R. Ecovillage is a 25 acre model/demonstration sustainable village, originating in 1999, is well known for its work in legitimizing sustainable de...

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I developed a hypersensitivity to chemicals 25 years ago that restricts my ability to work and live in most buildings. I am always interested in findi...

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Peaceweavers, promotes greater peace and wellness by providing a center of functional community that offers gatherings, healing work, retreats and in...

peggydinah@yahoo.com, Black Rabbit Building offers workshops, contracting, and consultation in Natural Building for owner/builders, individuals, group...

(PAL) was formed in 1989 as an NGO to pioneer and foster sustainable development programs in Latin America. Since then PAL has raised over three milli...

Permalot Centre of Natural Building is currently busy building Czech Republic's first legalized 'real' strawbale building, which will function as a de...

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I'm a trainee. I have build with loam and straw before - I apprenticed under Justin Kirmse, Lyn Giesecke and Brock Anderson - but I would like to gain...

Proyecto San Isidro, is based on a 300-acre forest-farm in the mountains East of Mexico City. In the 1950's Carlos and Magdalena Caballero began their...

Pun Pun is two projects. First is Pun Pun Organic Farm, a sustainable living, learning and seed center in Thailand. We propagate rare and indigenous s...

I have worked on over 14 sustainable building so far and am a graduate of
- Yestermorrow Design/Build School's Earth Structures Course (www.ye...

Ross is traveling the world making music with kids and learning about eco living so he can be a integral link in a successful healthy community....

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Santa Barbara Permaculture Network, is an essential resource for those interested in living sustainably. SBPN is a solid network of experienced permac...

Sarah Machtey is an artist, photographer, plasterer, cobber, straw bale builder and very active in the Natural Building movement. See her work at www...

Sarah Seitz has worked extensively throughout the United States and Canada in sustainable, green and conventional building. As a natural builder and c...

I am interested in working in the green field both because I am looking for a career change and because I believe that "living green" is important for...

Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. I am interested in publishing how-to and "glamour" books about natural and alternative building. I'd love to hear from pros...

Shannon Dealy, Cob Builder and Teacher, offers workshops and consultations locally and regularly in Australia.

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Dr. Taha, P.E. has been dedicated to engineering safe sustainable structures for over 20 years. He is an expert at ALL forms of green structures inclu...

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Carrie is the co-founder and Director of Operations of the Natural Building Network. She is a designer, builder, and advocate for natural buildings an...

Econest Building Center is owned and managed by Robert Laporte and Paula Baker-Laporte. Robert Laporte is a timber framer and natural house building ...

Andrew Morrison, creator of www.StrawBale.com, invites you to a 7 day, comprehensive straw bale construction workshop with locations around the globe....

Andrew Morrison is a leading expert in straw bale construction and is known all around the world for his work with www....

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I have been in construction for 24 years. As a builder my range of experience has encompassed strawbale, adobe, pumice-crete, rastra block, cob, and c...

Sustainable Green Country, This chapter of the Oklahoma Sustainability Network focuses on bringing together and unifying rural, suburban, and urban fa...

Sweetbeee[@]aol.com...

TBMS combines extensive experience in the natural building field and development of natural building materials with the best scientific research and a...

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The Adobe Association of the Southwest champions earth construction of yesterday, today and tomorrow. Its purpose is to be a voice within the earth bu...

The Devon Earth Building Association was formed in 1991 to sustain the ancient and traditional practice of building in earth or ‘cob’ in the South...

The Earth Building Association of Australia Inc (EBAA). The EBAA is a non-profit organization open to all with an interest in earth building. Our aim ...

The Last Straw Journal is the only journal published to record the revival and development of strawbale worldwide. (Joyce Coppinger)...

The Surya NGO has been running a project of building an ecological solar-heated Sun school in Kargyak. Children of Kargyak deserve a chance for proper...

The Timber Framers Guild is a non-profit educational membership association dedicated to the craft of timber framing. We serve as a center of timber f...

Tim Moffet, Natural Building Network Member, timmoffett [at] sbcglobal.net. Looking to join others in mutual support in building an underground earth-...

timok33{@}gmail.com...

Our team offers consultation, contracting & project management services for large & small natural building projects. Crafting beautiful, sust...

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This is the NBN Web Team. We keep the digital gears oiled....

Wendy Breiby, Globe-Trotting Permaculture and Natural Building Teacher and Sailboat Rigger.
Email her to find out where she is now... terra_a...

Wendy Crews, Sustainable Lifestyle Consulting--"Helping Everyday People Make Everyday Changes". Specializing in lifestyle evaluations, home & bus...

Natural building has been an important part of our lives for more than a dozen years. We are owner builders and have used many materials and technique...

At Red Clay Natural Building we believe that people from all backgrounds can design and build their own homes and sacred spaces, homes that are natura...

William White, *Supporting Member.
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helps communities worldwide develop a better quality of life through natural building solutions. From providing passive solar straw bale homes, creati...

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Yestermorrow Design/Build School inspires people to create a better, more sustainable world by providing hands-on education that integrates design and...