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John Day, OR

Solwest Renewable Energy Fair

Instructor Bernhard Masterson

Tuition $360

Come to sunny eastern Oregon, and learn to do miraculous things with dirt! EORenew will offer three Workshops in John Day, Oregon this July on natural building techniques.  Camping is available on-site for workshop students, and breakfasts and lunches will be provided.  The other workshops will cover natural wall panels and earthen plaster.  Sign up for one, two, or all three workshops! Join us in making new friends, laughing, and turning the new cob bench at the fairgrounds into beautiful, usable art.

Want to expand your understanding of solar and wind energy?  Combine your trip with the highly praised SolWest Renewable Energy Fair following this workshop.

In the Cob Essentials workshop July 19-22, students will build a beautiful, durable, and thermally massive cob bench using soil, sand, and straw. The class will cover core principles and techniques for cob construction through lecture and hands-on building. Issues and techniques to be covered include: mixing, application, materials, test bricks, and how to connect cob to other parts of a structure. Lectures and labs will cover foundation, drainage, siting, passive solar, roofs, and tools. The workshop will prepare participants to use earthen materials to build anything from benches and ovens to cottages.

New Orleans, LA

http://communitybuilt.org

We will be gathering in New Orleans for our 20th anniversary conference, Transforming Communities through Collective Action, May 5-8.
The conference will bring together a diverse group of ‘community builders’, from public artists, to architects, to community organizers, to playground designers, to natural builders and educators. We will share our experiences with various projects that utilize community vision and labor to transform the physical environment. The program will include presentations, panel discussions, as well as hand’s on workshops in mosaic, mural painting, playground instrument making, and natural schoolyard design . New Orleans, a site of intense rebuilding, will serve as a rich setting for exploring practical examples communities organizing to re-build, re-pair, and re-shape their own environments!

See communitybuilt.org for conference program and registration. Early registration ends on March 26th!

Stillmeadow Retreat Center, Damascus, OR

Instructor: Michael Rise

http://holistichouseplans.com

Tuition: $660 Meals included

This workshop is designed to present a thorough grounding in the science and art of Sacred Geometry, as well as practical applications and exercises. Areas to be covered include design, art, architecture, healing, vibration, harmonic resonance, the workings and movement of the human body, sun-earth-brain-heart coherence and how to create truly sustainable environments and communities.

The Water Woman Festival, October 1- 4, 2009 in Joshua Tree, California.

The Mission of the Water Woman Festival: To promote new ways of living in
agreement with the principles and patterns of nature through the creation
and physical demonstration of art, design & lifestyle practices at the
cutting-edge of ecological function and consciousness; To offer
opportunities to collectively express our creativity and deep ,inner
connectedness with the Earth; To present ancient & cutting edge concepts and
technologies that embrace the intelligence of natural systems; To inspire
and empower people to bring this knowledge back home where they can live in
ways that are more comfortable, more affordable, more beautiful and more
sustainable than ever before.

The Vision of the Water Woman Festival: Our ongoing goal is to find and
develop permanent and welcoming locations for Water Woman Festivals that
lead to the building of regional educational institutes and eco-villages
combining Permaculture Design and Functional Art. To demonstrate ecological
design and art in ways that are both truly sustainable and radically
beautiful; To hold these spaces as places for ritual gatherings to
acknowledge our collective power to connect with and heal our planet; To
build real Eco-communities where new ideas, technologies and ways of living
come into practice.

Art in Action at the Water Woman Festival

Art inspires us to act; Radical design and creative applications of
technology raise consciousness and demonstrate better ways of living
sustainably. Designers and artists will be given the challenge of creating
highly functional art that can last 200 years or more. Art that provides
more energy than it took to build. Art that has a small carbon foot print.
Art made of re-purposed materials.

May we add you to our growing community of natural builders, educators,
artists, designers, and visionaries endorsing and/or participating with the
Water Woman Project & The Water Woman Festival?  Would you like to have a
Cob Workshop?  Take the Sustainable Art Challenge?

June 15-July 26, 2008
Jacksonville, Oregon

For the fourth year, House Alive offers our popular 6 week natural building apprenticeship. This hands-on, intensive course is designed for people who want to use natural building skills in a professional context or who want to take extra time to work on skill development for their personal project. Participants will get first-hand experience with every aspect of building a natural home, from the foundation to the roof. This program will be almost exclusively “hands-on” learning. The best way to learn how to build is simply to build, and the more you do it the more you learn. Participants will be able to take the time to develop and practice new skills under the guidance of experienced natural builders. On occasion guest builders will visit the site to teach specific techniques. http://www.housealive.org/workshops/2008-apprenticeship.html

June 9-13, 2008
Coquille, Oregon

Earth & art for your home: design, sculpture, & decoration with natural materials at the North American School of Natural Building, with Linda Smiley and others Natural plasters, paints, and finishes to design, sculpt, and help finish an existing cob cottage. We’ll start with a review of the principles of design, site analysis, 3-dimensional space and spatial dynamics, and practical beauty. Then we’ll get muddy; work will be interspersed with discussion and demos covering technical, design, and materials issues, including a full range of earthen and lime plasters, clay paints, and sculptural mixes. Explore and experiment to gain practical experience to apply to your own design problems. The site features a broad array of earthen and natural buildings and related techniques. Contact the school at 541-396-1825, or see fee and registration details online at http://www.cobcottage.com