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The Farm (Summertown, TN)

Sustainable Communities Network Home Page

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Sustainable communities, development, and indicators

• A new Village in Ireland
• Indicators of Sustainability
• Sustainable Community Roundtable (Olympia, Washington)
• Context Institute (Bainbridge Island, Washington)
• Sustainable Communities Network
• Urban Ecology (San Francisco Bay Area)
• Montana - near Canada - just starting (3-2-02)
  Southern Indiana Group - list chat  
  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Southern_Indiana_Prepardness_Community/
• Sustainable Seattle
• The Green Plan - City of St. Catharines, Ontario
• Living Landscapes: Thompson-Okanogan, Past, Present & Future (British Columbia and Washington)
• EcoVillage at Ithaca (upstate New York)
• Intentional Communities (communes, cohousing, co-ops...)
• The Farm (Summertown, Tennessee)
• The Eco-Village Directory
  Winema Village - (Arizona)

Natural Buildings

• Planet Earth Home, by Mel Moench.
  Register your interest in this natural built home
• Jan's Cob and Natural Building
• Green-Haus, homes and our environment
• Earth Architecture Center International (Albuquerque)
• Community Eco-Design Network (Minneapolis)
• James Lux's Lighthook (Sustainable Society, Straw bale construction, ...)
• Earthships, rammed earth construction
• Earthships here at CSF
• National Lime Association
• Timber Framers Guild of North America
• Straw House Electronic Resource Page has links to both health and housing sites.
• The Last Straw periodical

Architecture

• WholEarth Community Development Corporation.
• Sustainable Building Sources (including events calendar)
• Reidy Brown's Sustainable Architecture page
• Solar Information Center (University of Oregon)
• Pathfinder's green architecture resource list
• National Center for Appropriate Technology
• The Northwest EcoBuilding Guild
• Environmental Architecture
• Sustainable Building Sourcebook
  A guide to environmental homes, created by the city of Austin, Texas. The Sourcebook includes sections on xeriscape and earth-sheltered design, among other topics.
• Austin Chronicle's Green Building Guide
• The Center for Resourceful Building Technology
• Sustainable Architecture: Eco Design and Landscaping
• Who is Christopher Alexander?
  Among other accomplishments, he's written a wonderful book called The Timeless Way of Building. These web pages include a shorter presentation of his ideas in "Domestic Architecture"
• Pattern Language for community architects

Homesteading, Self-reliance, Practical skills

• Ask Annie --Household tips and formulas [9/98]
• The Gentle Survivalist [8/98]
• Soap Making [1/98]
• Real Cider and Perry
• Homestead Home Page supports the homestead electronic mailing list. They also have addresses of contacts for Willing Workers on Organic Farms internationally on their community resource page.
• Blacksmithing Schools and Scholarships
• "So Easy to Preserve" guide to drying food.
• USDA Complete Guide to Home Canning

Discussion groups

Land in trust and conservation

• American Farmland Trust
• Farmland Information Library
• Conservation Land Trust Network of Maine
• Creating community land trust...

"Waste"

• Waste Water Treatment report from the Habitat II conference [12/96]
• City of Arcata Wetland Wastewater Treatment Plant
• Reusing Treated Wastewater in Domestic Housing: the Toronto Healthy House project

Miscellany

• Center for the Study of Community and the Sol y Sombra Foundation (Santa Fe, New Mexico)
• SalvoWeb [Architecture and Garden Antiques] (Scotland)
• PathFinder, a non-profit integrated learning center
• Eastside Neighborhood Network (Indianapolis)
• BuildNet (Construction Industry Resources)
• Campus Center for Appropriate Technology at Humboldt State University
• Sustainable Low Tech Ideas
• California Energy Efficiency Building Codes, an overview
• California Energy Efficiency Building Codes, regulations
• GreenHOME, by Washington D.C. Habitat for Humanity
• Resources on Bioregionalism
• Homestead Housing Center supports rural housing cooperatives for the elderly.
• Reports from the East St. Louis Action Research Project [9/96]
• Institute on Independent Living
• Evergreen Foundation's Ecology Resource Network:
• The Siegel House - Background: Village Homes
• Stewards Planetary House Homepage
• Green Building Primer, by Howard Associates
• "Integrated Wood Energy Systems for Sustainable Housing"
• Country Life Online (a virtual village) [1/97]
• "Where Do We Go from Here?" by Daniel Quinn. [1/97]
• Beeline: Ideas for low cost housing, including an alternative architecture bulletin board [1/97]

Integrated Green Building Techniques

Commercial Projects:

Australian Conservation Foundation Green Building Project details the pre-construction analysis, specification, modeling and post construction performance measurement of an environmentally-designed ecologically sustainable commercial office building in Melbourne, Australia.

Bicentennial Hall at Middlebury College is a 108,000-net-square-foot science building with classroom, library, research and office space. Concern for the environment was a prime consideration in this building, which used certified sustainably-produced wood from Vermont in its interior finished woodwork.

highlights projects that are part of a program in Portland, Oregon that provides “one-stop-shopping” for area businesses to help them make their properties more energy-efficient and water-efficient and generate less waste.

C.K. Choi Institute for Asian Research, University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, BC, Canada, is a 30,000-sq- ft. office building designed with the mandate of attaining a new benchmark in sustainable design. The building is reducing impact and consumption, addressing embodied energy in construction, reducing operating energy over time and creating a livable working space.

Cusano Environmental Education Center is a new facility at John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that features energy efficiency, daylighting, salvaged and sustainably-produced wood, recycled materials and a Marsh Machine on-site wastewater treatment system.

Eco-Church and Community Facility is a new church-development project in Whyalla, Australia that will incorporate the principles of sustainable development. Features include healthy building materials, natural lighting and ventilation, energy-efficient heating and cooling systems, solar energy systems and waste water recycling.

Enermodal Engineering Award Winning Green Building Projects, of Ontario, Canada, profiles the "Green on the Grand" office complex, which demonstrates the successful implementation of energy efficiency and environmental responsibility in commercial construction, and "The Waterloo Region Green Home," one of the most advanced houses in the world from the viewpoint of energy efficiency, resource conservation and environmental impact. 

Environmental Living and Learning Center, Northland College is a 32,374-sq.-ft. environmental residence hall in Ashland, Wisconsin that provides a unique living and learning opportunity emphasizing resource efficiency and renewable energy. The building's design includes wind power, solar power, water conservation and recycled materials.

Environmental Office Building in Garston, England provides a large-scale experimental facility for evaluating environmentally advanced technologies and operations. Its architects expect the building to use 30 percent less energy than similar buildings. One of the building's innovative passive design features is its concrete floor-ceiling assembly with a sinusoidal-shaped ceiling. The building is also the first in the UK to use recycled aggregate in ready-mixed concrete.

Environmental Protection Agency Headquarters in Washington, D.C. is comprised of four separate construction projects. The renovated portions of the project reflect the reuse of significant, existing structures that support historic preservation and sustainable design objectives. By doing so, the government conserved an estimated 75,000 tons of concrete, 6,000 tons of steel, 100,000 square feet of glass, and 3,000 tons of masonry.

Four Times Square in New York, New York is a new 48-story, 1.6-million-sq.-ft. building with standards for energy efficiency, indoor ecology, sustainable materials and responsible construction, operations and maintenance procedures. The building includes an on-site fuel cell and building-integrated photovoltaics.

Gap Corporate Campus (901 Cherry) in San Bruno, California is a 191,000 sq. ft. office building designed within a conventional construction budget yet featuring daylighting, certified wood, low-toxicity finishes, green space preservation and a living roof that collects stormwater.

Lewis Center for Environmental Studies, Oberlin College is a classroom and auditorium building in Oberlin, Ohio featuring solar power, biological wastewater treatment and other strategies for building without compromising human and environmental health.

The Monastery of Christ in the Desert in Abiquiu, New Mexico is a monastery compound that was designed to include daylighting, solar electricity, solar water heating, passive solar design, sustainable building materials and a wetland.

Pennsylvania's First Model Green Building in Harrisburg is the new facility of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. The building was designed with the intention of becoming the state's first "model" green building.

Prisma Mixed-Use Commercial Development, of Nuremberg, Germany, features a microclimate that has been modified by insulating generously, using the structures' heat storage capacity, orienting the buildings appropriately, shading them, ventilating naturally, regulating humidity botanically and oxygenating and cleaning their air. The buildings save some 8,000 liters of fuel oil per heating season.

Real Goods Solar Living Center is a complex of offices and a 5,000-sq.-ft. retail showroom in Hopland, California that is completely powered by sun and wind energy. The buildings are constructed of rice straw bales and feature daylighting and sustainable landscape design.

Refuge at Ocklawaha is a 52-acre eco-resort on a converted farm bordering the 4,400-acre Ocklawaha Restoration Area wetlands in Florida. The buildings feature reused materials, and the resort is designed to have a low site impact. Landscaping involves native plants and preservation of existing trees.

Sheraton Rittenhouse Square, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is a 193-room environmentally-smart hotel. Its features include air filtered by a bamboo garden, recycled furniture and flooring, and organic sleep systems.

Southface Energy and Environmental Resource Center in Atlanta, Georgia was designed and constructed to showcase energy-efficient and green-building technologies. The building has a number of functions, including a building science learning lab, a clearinghouse for sustainable technology information and a meeting place for a variety of groups.

U.S. Postal Service Station in Fort Worth, Texas, was designed with sustainable features, including natural landscaping, rainwater harvesting, energy-efficient heating and cooling systems, straw construction and recycled-content materials. The building was honored with a 1999 White House Closing the Circle award. Read more about this award.

Van Atta Design Studio is a 2500-square-foot design studio for landscape architecture located in Santa Barbara, California, built with principles of sustainable design on a reused urban site, with a healthy indoor environment using natural light. The building includes solar panels and landscaping that creates a comfortable and appealing microclimate.

Residential Projects:

ASSISTED LIVING DIRECTORY 

Center for Regenerative Studies, California State Polytechnic University is a residential education center complex in Pomona, California that demonstrates solar energy, water reuse, sustainable food growing, waste recycling and passive solar and strawbale construction.

Chez Soleil Off-Grid House is a green home in Austin, Texas that is completely off the grid, using no utilities whatsoever. The home incorporates passive solar technology, photovoltaics, rainwater catchment, a wetlands septic system and more.

CRBT Demonstration Homes are green building demonstration projects undertaken by the NCAT Center for Resourceful Building Technology in Missoula, Montana. Projects featured on the website include ReCRAFT 90, Timber-Tech and the Northside Strawbale Project. 

Ecohouse Sustainable Home is an award-winning ecohome in Wellington City, New Zealand. The website includes photos and plan sketches. 

GreenHOME Construction Project is a construction project being carried out in partnership with the Washington, DC, Habitat for Humanity.

Home 2000 is an affordable, healthy home that adapts to changing lifestyles. It was built in Toronto using Healthy Housing and FlexHousing concepts in a project sponsored by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation and others.

NAHB Research Center Home Park is located in Bowie, Maryland and serves as a venue for the National Association of Home Builders Research Center to demonstrate, exhibit and test different building technologies. Theme projects include the 21st Century Townhouses, featuring alternatives to dimensional lumber and innovative approaches to energy efficiency, and the Resource Conservation Research House.

Replete Residence Demonstration Home is a building project in Kansas City, Kansas. The website provides ongoing details regarding its planning and construction.

Seattle Times and AIA Homes of the Year annually honor home construction projects that utilize energy-efficiency measures and innovative planning and design aspects. This link features the co-winners for 1997, Fairview Lofts and the Scott home on Mercer Island.

The Sustainable Home/Office, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, is a home/office that was constructed under the concept of "ecotecture," which focuses on natural dynamics, healthy materials, biological principles, human ergonomics, cultural respect and compassionate understanding for the planet and all living creatures.

Affordable Green Building 

Cascadia Resource-Efficient Home Plan is a resource-efficient affordable home plan that is available for sale, or for free to nonprofit organizations. It is designed to use 20 percent less energy per year than a comparable house built to Oregon code, both preserving the environment and saving money. Demonstrations of the plan have been built.

Emeryville Resourceful Building is a project that demonstrates that affordable housing and environmental sustainability are not mutually exclusive. Energy-efficient features and efficient component assemblies allowed savings in construction and operation costs that offset the use of more expensive material alternatives.

GREENHome is a Habitat for Humanity house in Washington, DC that incorporates affordable, green building features. The link includes a project profile and fact sheet.

Habitat for Humanity Sees Affordability in Energy-Efficient Homes reports on Habitat for Humanity’s efforts at incorporating energy-efficient, environmentally-friendly features in its affordable housing projects.

HUD Best Practices' Case Study Book - Communities at Work: Addressing the Urban Challenge profiles the winners and finalists in the National Excellence Awards for The City Summit (Habitat II). 

Natural Habitat profiles the energy-efficiency features of a Habitat for Humanity house in Lynchburg, Virginia.

Northside Strawbale Project is a non-profit project in Missoula, Montana to develop two strawbale homes that achieve both affordability and resource efficiency.

PATH Technology Inventory provides links to a number of innovative housing projects throughout the U.S. that accomplish durability, quality, environmental performance, energy efficiency and affordability.

Portland Place is a project designed to revitalize an urban neighborhood in Minneapolis, Minnesota by transforming substandard rentals into 52 owner-occupied homes. The project began with four homes constructed in a Habitat for Humanity blitzbuild. Homes feature energy efficiency and healthy designs.

Green Residential Developments 

Cambridge Cohousing is a project that built 41 infill residential units on a 1.5-acre site in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The project requires a minimum of operating energy and minimizes automobile use.

Coffee Creek Center is a 640-acre project in Chesterton, Indiana, which is now in the master planning stage and which was designed to provide the qualities of a healthy small town in a design where the relationship between the built and natural environments is fundamental. The project incorporates environmental design, urban planning and landscape ecology.

Civano Sustainable Community Project is being developed in Tucson, Arizona. The project will employ a development pattern that allows residents to meet their economic needs while maintaining social values and ecological harmony.  Its components include land-use planning, efficient transportation design, green buildings and resource efficiency.

East Lake Commons is an 18-acre conservation community in Atlanta, Georgia that is pedestrian-oriented and uses cluster development. Its design allows nine acres to be preserved as an open space that includes a 6-acre garden for residents as well as woods with nature trails.

EcoVillage of Loudon County, Virginia is a 180-acre cohousing community in northern Virginia. The development preserves open space and uses passive solar and environmentally sensitive technologies for water and energy conservation. Two 25-lot cohousing communities are being developed on 15 percent of the former farm site.  

The FRoG Co-housing Cooperative, of Ithaca, New York, is the first cohousing neighborhood to be developed as part of the larger EcoVillage at Ithaca project. This 30-unit development includes a common house, communal park/pond, composting stations and the use of a variety of sustainable technologies including passive solar, superinsulation and graywater recycling.

Gaviotas Self-Sufficiency Project is a town of 200 occupants situated in Colombia's barren eastern plains that was originally started as a 1971 scientific experiment of self-sufficiency. It continues to thrive, utilizing renewable energies such as wind and solar, and has developed its own technologies in water purification and hydroponic agriculture.

Hidden Springs is a new residential community in Idaho and is based upon eight principles that aim to protect the natural environment, preserve rural character and farming traditions, preserve quality of life, increase diversity and achieve traditional design for its neighborhoods and homes.

Marsh Commons CoHousing is a cohousing community in Arcata, California that employs appropriate technology to reduce resource consumption and dependence on cars.. The development is built on a reused industrial site adjoining a wildlife refuge on a marsh. Its buildings feature salvaged wood, certified lumber and recycled paint.

Olympic Village is a 94-hectare development with 650 permanent buildings and up to 500 modular homes that was constructed as athlete housing for the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia. The development reduces demand on non-renewable energy sources, uses an integrated environmental design process and minimizes water use in buildings and landscaping.

The Quarries ecoVillage is a 750-acre eco-village in Schuyler, Virginia that focuses on sustainable design. The project features a straw-bale community building, public greenspace, environmentally sensitive siting, solar energy, energy efficiency and healthy building materials.

Residential Community Development Project is a residential community of 750 housing units in Soest, Netherlands, which was developed in a way that preserves pasture lands and utilizes planning techniques that maximize solar potential and create pedestrian friendly places. The houses themselves are highly energy-efficient, utilizing passive solar design and incorporating alternative water-collection systems.

Sun Rivers Resort Community, in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada, is a golf resort community with a number of sustainable design elements, including mixed uses, compact design, environmentally-responsive siting and more.

Ecolonia, Netherlands is an urban development designed by the Belgian town planning expert Lucien Kroll. It incorporates technologies including solar energy utilization, superinsulation, recycled content materials, reduced water consumption and organic architecture.

Windsong Cohousing Community, in Langley, British Columbia, Canada, is a development of 34 housing units clustered on 2.2 acres of a 6-acre site. The site includes a communal organic garden and is within walking distance of many amenities. Its unique wing-shape design provides passive solar gain while providing a pleasant interior street for residents.

Green Rehab Projects 

Arbor House is an environmental inn in Madison, Wisconsin that emphasizes urban ecology. The renovated historic building has a matching modern annex and features sustainably harvested wood, efficient appliances, water conservation and native landscaping.

City Environmental Services Department Headquarters, Ridgehaven Renovation is a renovation project that places the Ridgehaven building among the most energy-efficient buildings in San Diego, California. 

Environmental Protection Agency Headquarters, a new complex located in Washington, D.C., is comprised of four separate construction projects. The renovated portions of the project reflect the reuse of significant, existing structures that support historic preservation and sustainable design objectives. By doing so, the government conserved an estimated 75,000 tons of concrete, 6,000 tons of steel, 100,000 square feet of glass and 3,000 tons of masonry.

Pennsylvania Cable and Telecommunications Association Headquarters is a renovated building in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, which was designed to use less energy and create less pollution as an example of environmentally sound practices, economic efficiency and historical preservation. It includes reuse of an old building, use of recycled materials, natural light, triple-paned windows and energy-efficient HVAC systems.

S.T. Dana Building, University of Michigan is a 1903 building that was renovated for the School of Natural Resources and Environment in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Phase I created new space in a courtyard infill. The ongoing Phase II incorporates environmental considerations in remodeling spaces in the existing portion of the building.

Thoreau Center for Sustainability is an historic, San Francisco, California, landmark site that was renovated into a 75,000-sq.- ft. office complex for non-profit organizations focused on environmental and sustainable development issues. The redesign includes natural ventilation, efficient lighting and less-toxic materials, all accomplished on a modest budget.

Energy Efficiency 

Alliance to Save Energy offers an online tour of the energy-efficient features of the organization's Washington, DC, office, showcasing efficient lighting, appliances, and office equipment.

Burnet Park Zoo, in Syracuse, New York, has incorporated energy efficiency features into its new zoo buildings, including daylighting and passive solar strategies that allow downsized air conditioning.

CARB Case Study describes an energy-efficient adaptation of a popular home plan at Del Webb's Sun City Grand. The model, located in Surprise, Arizona, uses less energy to cool, requires 22 percent less energy overall and costs less to build than the standard version.

Durant Road Middle School was designed to result in a healthy and productive learning environment combining energy efficiency and cost effectiveness in Wake County, North Carolina. The building includes daylighting, efficient equipment and an energy management system.

Environmental Office Building in Garston, England provides a large-scale experimental facility for evaluating environmentally advanced technologies and operations. Its architects expect the building to use 30 percent less energy than similar buildings.

Four Times Square is a new 48-story, 1.6-million-sq.-ft. building in New York City with standards for energy efficiency; indoor ecology; sustainable materials; and responsible construction, operations and maintenance procedures. The building includes an on-site fuel cell and building-integrated photovoltaics.

Geothermal Heat Pump Project is a new heat pump system installed at Feather River College in Quincy, California, which is saving some $50,000 and 421,000 kilowatt-hours each year.

Geothermal Heating Projects provides links to a number of buildings projects utilizing geothermal heat pump systems in Minnesota. 

King Street Center, home to the offices of the King County Department of Natural Resources and Transportation of Seattle, Washington, incorporates sustainable building practices in design, construction and operation, while harmonizing with historic architectural style. The building includes energy-efficient lighting, job-site recycling and water collection.

Prisma, of Nuremberg, Germany, is a mixed-use commercial development. The building's microclimate has been modified by insulating generously, using the structure's heat storage capacity, orienting the building appropriately, shading it, ventilating naturally, regulating humidity botanically and oxygenating and cleaning its air. The building saves some 8,000 liters of fuel oil per heating season.

Oak Park Library Project is a joint-use public and high school library in Ventura, California with a state-of-the-art, energy-conserving design that includes daylighting, reduced cooling energy, reduced material use and energy-efficient windows.

Oakes Hall, Vermont Law School, in South Royalton, Vermont, is a building with 23,500-sq.-ft. of classroom space, demonstrating environmentally sound construction and operation. It uses an enthalpic energy recovery wheel, energy efficient systems and less-toxic materials.

Outdoor Lighting Standards is an initiative in Chittendon County, Vermont, which is developing outdoor-lighting standards for three case-study communities. 

Project Harambee Community Energy and Water Conservation is a grassroots effort in Atlanta, Georgia in which free ultra-low-flush toilets, low-flow shower heads and energy conservation information was distributed to low-income households in an effort to reduce water and energy consumption. 

Recreational Equipment Inc. Commercial Building is a commercial store project in Seattle, Washington in which some 75 percent of the demolition debris was reused in the new building, recycled or sold for salvage. The success of its energy conservation program has qualified the building for several Washington state rebates.

Sainsbury Millennium Store is a Greenwich, UK supermarket that aims to be 50-percent more efficient than standard stores by using natural ventilation, daylighting from skylights and heat reclaimed from the refrigeration system. The project also showcases renewable energy use.

Utah Energy Office Building in Salt Lake City, the new Utah Department of Natural Resources building, is said to be the most energy-efficient building in the state. 
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Zero-Energy Council Offices, in Hyndburn, Lancashire, UK, is the country's first public "zero-energy" building, which is powered and heated by renewable sources. The building includes daylighting; passive solar design; thermal stack effect; and photovoltaic, wind and water power. (Note: to access this story, click on the above link, then scroll down to "First Public Zero-Energy Building.")

Zion National Park Visitor Transit Center, in Springdale, Utah, is an 11,4000-sq.-ft. building now under construction. The building size was reduced by using outdoor spaces, and energy use is reduced by passive conditioning with an evaporative cooling system and thermal massing.

Materials/Water Conservation 

Building Construction Case Study documents the results of a Melbourne, Australia waste-minimisation program tested by Fletcher Construction Australia. Construction practices and materials chosen resulted in a total waste volume reduction of 15 percent, use of 43 percent less landfill space and financial savings of 55 percent. One-third of total waste volume was recycled.

Community Ecodesign Network Greenhouse is a 360-sq.-ft. greenhouse in Duluth, Minnesota, designed as an alternative graywater treatment facility for an adjacent home. The greenhouse features strawbale wall insulation, solar orientation and a rainwater catchment system, in addition to treating the home's wastewater.

The Green Institute, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, profiles nonprofit operations called The ReUse Center and DeConstruction Services, which dismantle buildings and sell used building materials as part of efforts to divert reusable construction materials from the waste stream and create job opportunities.

Mercury House of Prescott, Arizona was built by a student in sustainable development and features rooftop water catchment, constructed wetland wastewater treatment, solar hot water and solar electricty. The structure uses straw bale and cast earth construction as well as certified sustainably harvested wood and local salvage wood.

The Presidio of San Francisco, California is home to a project in which two wood-frame buildings are being deconstructed. The link includes detailed analysis of the building materials recovered for reuse.

Recreational Equipment Inc. Commercial Building is a new commercial store project in Seattle, Washington, in which some 75 percent of the demolition debris was reused in the new building, recycled or sold for salvage. The success of its energy conservation program has qualified the building for several Washington state rebates.

Resource-Efficient, Affordable Homes Project is a non-profit project in Missoula, Montana to develop two strawbale homes that achieve both affordability and resource efficiency.

Salvaged Building Materials Program explains Resource 2000, a program started by the Boulder, Colorado Energy Conservation Center to sell recycled building materials; and the Recycling Development Incubator, which facilitates economic development for recycling businesses in Colorado.

Vashon Transfer/Recycling Station is a solid waste and recyclable collection and transfer center in Vashon, Washington. Recycled flooring, insulation and paint were used to construct the center. Website includes information on King County's Environmental Purchasing Program.

Zion National Park Visitor Transit Center is an 11,4000-sq.-ft. building now under construction in Springdale, Utah. The building size was reduced by using outdoor spaces, and energy use is reduced by passive conditioning with an evaporative cooling system and thermal massing.

Collections of Green Building Success Stories 

AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Projects are selected annually by The American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment. Selection is based on criteria of energy and resource use, site design and community connection. Winning projects are profiled online.

Architecture + Energy Award Winners from 1997-2000 are profiled. Winning projects include buildings throughout the Northwest that integrate design with energy and resource conservation. Projects feature energy performance, daylighting and climate-appropriate design.

Build a Better Kitsap Model Projects, which feature commercial, residential and institutional buildings using recycled and resource-efficient materials, are highlighted.

Ecotecture Case Studies, spotlighting environmental building and development, are compiled by the Department of Design and Environmental Analysis, Cornell University.

Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) Showcase Winners provides links to winners of FEMP’s annual award program for energy savings projects in federal buildings. 

PATH Best Practice Inventory links to a number of innovative housing projects throughout the U.S. that accomplish durability, quality, environmental performance, energy efficiency and affordability.

Renewable Energy Case Studies links to a variety of case studies involving renewable energy technologies, including solar thermal, photovoltaic, wind power, small hydro, biomass and geothermal. 

Provides links to success stories on a wide variety of sustainable development topics, including Green Buildings.

for Sustainable Communities 

Albuquerque's Environmental Story: Toward a Sustainable Community was created to help students in Albuquerque, New Mexico relate compassionately to their local natural and human environment. A primary objective of the document is to foster a mindset in Albuquerque's future citizens which can lead to a sustainable future for their community. Its hands-on interpretive approach is designed to heighten students' awareness, enhance their capacity to enjoy the beauty surrounding them and develop a sense of social and environmental stewardship. 

Civano: Planning a  Sustainable Community.

Hidden Springs is a new residential community in Idaho that is based upon eight principles that aim to protect the natural environment, preserve rural character and farming traditions, preserve quality of life, increase diversity and achieve traditional design for its neighborhoods and homes.

Manatee County "Rediscovers" Its Early Vision of Sustainability sets forth both a remarkable history of planning in Manatee County, Florida that teaches by example, as well as offers a clear plan for a sustainable future.

One City, One Future City Sustainability Plan discusses the plans of a "built-out" beach community in Clearwater, Florida to put a sustainable future back into place. 

Plan 2020: Comprehensive Planning for Sustainability discusses the process and final products of the creation of Flagstaff, Arizona’s vision of the future, including intensive citizen involvement. 

Santa Monica Sustainable City Progam was adopted by this Californian city on September 20, 1994. The program includes policy guidelines and ordinances for the following areas: Community and Economic Development, Construction and Development, Education, Energy, Hazardous Materials, Housing, Purchasing, Solid Waste, Stormwater & Wastewater, Transportation and Water.

Sustainability Plan for the City of San Francisco was developed by a group of more than 350 San Franciscans–community activists and people representing many city government agencies, over 100 businesses, and academia. They gathered in working groups in 1996 to draft the "rough game plan that is necessary for a concerted effort to achieve a sustainable society." In July 1997, the goals and objectives of the sustainability plan became policy of the City and County of San Francisco, California.

Sustainable Communities Initiative serves as a formal vehicle to bring together diverse views to plan for the needs of today and tomorrow throughout the entire Austin, Texas region. It is designed to link Austin's existing programs and to reinforce additional sustainable development initiatives.

Environmental Protection and Economic Revitalization  

Bronx Community Paper Company is a planned paper-manufacturing facility to be built on the site of an abandoned railyard in the Bronx, New York. The facility will utilize 100 percent post-consumer waste paper. 

Chattanooga's Adventure in Revitalization illustrates the attitudes and projects that have changed Chattanooga, Tennessee from the "dirtiest city in America" to one of the most talked about success stories in sustainability. 

  Sustainable Agriculture 

Success Stories

Action 21 Environmental Success Stories provides links to Canadian environmental success stories in the areas of atmospheric change, biodiversity, ecosystems and toxic substances. Click on “List of Projects Funded to Date” for a comprehensive listing of projects. 

Alliance for National Renewal’s Community Stories Index offers links to a variety of community renewal success stories, focusing on community economic development, quality of life, environment, education, community diversity and other topics. 

Alliance for Redesigning Government, of the National Academy of Public Administration, features case studies focusing on topics such as community development, economic development, rural development and the environment.

Best Practices Database profiles project initiatives that address sustainability issues, such as poverty eradication, economic development, social services, environmental protection, infrastructure, housing and land use, urban and regional planning processes and disaster and emergency preparedness. 

Case Studies of BEST Winners provides a host of links to success stories about Portland, Oregon businesses that have won awards for notable energy and environmental accomplishments.  Topics include energy efficiency, water conservation, waste reduction and recycling and clean and efficient transportation. 

HORIZON Solutions Site links to a number of international projects focusing on areas such as agriculture, air pollution, biodiversity, energy, industry, transportation and waste management.

HUD Best Practices provides links to a variety of success stories in America’s communities, including housing an economic development, affordable housing and special needs populations.

HUD Best Practices' Case Study Book - Communities at Work: Addressing the Urban Challenge profiles the winners and finalists in the National Excellence Awards for The City Summit (Habitat II). 

HUD’s Beyond Shelter:  Building Communities of Opportunity – The United States Report for Habitat II profiles a number of sustainability success stories in land use, community revitalization, affordable housing and brownfield reclamation. 

ICLEI Project Summaries and Case Studies offers the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) collection of project summaries (abstracts of full case studies). Ordering information for case studies is also available on this site.   

Innovations Awards Winners provides links to a variety of success stories in the areas of community services, social services, protective services, human services, capital and environmental services and management and governance. 

Ontario Round Table on Environment and Economics: Success Stories provides links to a variety of sustainable community development projects in Canada. 

Public Technology, Inc. Technology Achievement Awards were awarded to 17 U.S. local governments for 22 initiatives that use the power of technology to improve service to citizens, cut costs and boost revenues. 

Reinvesting in America: Model Programs summarizes a number of the nation’s best grassroots programs focusing on hunger and nutrition; homelessness; low-cost housing; welfare, children, and family support; community organizing and advocacy; job training and community economic development. 

Renewable Energy Case Studies provides links to a variety of case studies involving renewable energy technologies, including solar thermal, photo voltaic, wind power, small hydro, biomass and geothermal. 

Sustainability in Action Case Study Profiles, a publication that can be downloaded from the above link, profiles outstanding sustainable community initiatives from across the U.S.

Solar Home(s) for Sale

• OWNER/BUILDER NEW MEXICO. 2bed, 1700 sq. ft. $149,000. Earthship built in 1994, 1700 sq. ft., 2bed, 1 bath, 2 kiva fireplaces.1 wood stove, brick floor near windows, skylights, 8' x 8' storage shed, compost toilet, solar and propane water heating, satellite TV system, 7,000 gallon cistern capacity, seagull drinking water system, new in 1999-2000: Kenmore washer, motorola phone with yagi hi gain antenna, water heater, prosine 3.0 3000 watt pure sine wave inverter, trac c40 charge controller, (24) I.B.E. 2 volt deep cycle high capacity 15 - 20 year batteries with water miser caps, windseeker 500 watt wind turbine, 4 kyocera 120 watt pv panels, 8 unisolar 64 watt unbreakable pv panels, 2 zomeworks passive solar trackers, 8 kyocera 51 watt pv panels (installed in 1994), kenmore refrigerator/freezer, dining table and chairs, couch. 12v lighting, DC + AC outlets.
• The Solar Strawbale House. Cool 3,400 SF SB Home built in 1994.
• Earthship for Sale. 2300 square foot Earthship with 1080 square foot straw bale artists office/studio, 770 square foot workshop/studio and 1150 square foot commercial greenhouse on 12 acres with 2 wells. Fully solar powered with underground city power hooked up and ready if you're a power hog. There is also a footing for a 2 car garage, not yet completed.
• Stilwagen Earthship For Sale! A rare opportunity to purchase a home that is completely compatable with nature and its cycles. This house is built as a true earthship so the systems in it provide effective life support. Located 1 Mile from Florissant Colorado which is 40 minutes outside of Colorado Springs. Completely off the Grid so you are in great shape for Y2K.
• Roggensack Earthship + land, under construction, for sale. Secluded Colorado home on 36.7 acres. With tire walls completed, energy independence is not far off with this 2,100 sq. ft. Finish the building to suit your needs and taste. All provisions are made to expand the floor plan to 3,000 sq. ft. to include 3 bedrooms and 2-1/2 bathrooms. $179,900

Cordwood Masonry

• Welcome to Earthwood Building School's Web Site! Everything about cordwood masonry!

Calling All Cobber's!

• The Cob Cottage Company. Welcome to Cob Web II, the Cob Cottage Company Online!
• Welcome to the Down to Earth Building Bee home page, building solutions for sustainable communities.
• Welcome to the Down to Earth Building Bee, Bella Coola, BC, This summer in Bella Coola, on BC's mid-coast, members of SPEC and the Nuxalk Nation will collaborate in building a cob structure on the banks of the Bella Coola River. (I want to build a house very much like this example!)
• Welcome to CobNet. CobNet is an Internet Resource on earth houses, sacred spaces, and alternative construction.
• "Groundworks" Web Site Thinking About an Earth Home? You have just opened the door to a wonderful reality! Earth buildings create an environment that is nourishing to the soul.
• Jan's COB & Natural Building WEB Site. A place to discover, discuss and question all you ever wanted to know about the art of COB building.
• Natural Building Resources. Welcome to the world of natural building! Want to learn more about straw-bale construction, cob, adobe, bamboo and a variety of other techniques?
• Will Firstbrook's Cobcastle website. Everything about cob, strawbale, Earthships, and everything in between! You will be inspired to go out and start building today!!!
• Sun Ray Kelly. Natural Building Resources Natural Building Photo Gallery.
• The Natural Builder. A place for workshops, publications and information on how to build inspired structures made from natural building materials including adobe, monolithic adobe (sculptural cob), light clay, straw bales and natural plasters. The Natural Builder has written and published 3 books on natural building including earthen architecture, cob and building with natural plasters. The Natural Builder teaches others to build structures out of adobe, cob and straw all finished with lime, gypsum and earthen plasters.
• Shelter - less expensive, healthier, more humane, less industrial - options, alternatives, methods, techniques, components.... Home Page Index to: Food, Water, Shelter, Community, Health & Wellness, Learning, NGOs, Transportation, Synthesis, Readings, Writings, Plate Lunch ...
• Natural Building resource center. Great dirt bag domes and cob technology photo's.
• CobCrew is a partnership between Mike Carter and Carol Cannon. The main activities of CobCrew are earth building and landscaping with Texas Native Plants. We own land in Bastrop County, TX, on a 3-acre site where we are constructing an experimental Cob house. The building is comprised of two circles, connected by a hallway. The largest unit is 22.5' in diameter; the smaller is 15' across.
• Custom Reed and Grass Thatch. Practical values of thatch as a building material. Amidst the hustle and bustle of modern life, there is nothing like the rustic ambience of thatch to calm the senses. In addition to its natural handcrafted beauty...
• Close to the Earth, near to the bone and low on the hog..

Straw Bale

• Natural Building Resources. Welcome to the world of natural building! Want to learn more about straw-bale construction, cob, adobe, bamboo and a variety of other techniques?
• Time to Bale, Strawbale and Solar House Design and Construction.
• Terrasol, we continue to evolve these sustainable design and building methods for ease of construction, lower materials use, lasting beauty and integrity for your grand children's children. Our focus and intention is designing and building "State of the Art" environmentalyl conscious, harmonious and efficient homes and spaces. We integrate the traditional with the new, utilizing straw bale building technologies with new developments creating straw bale hybrid dwellings.
• Natural Building/Permaculture project of Patricia Kerns.
• Tucson Straw Bale House, Welcome! Carolyn and her two teenage sons, Andrzej (pron. Andre) and John-Jozef (J.J.) are building a small, efficient straw bale home in the Sonoran desert near Tucson. We are going to do as much of the labor as we can, use earthen plasters and an earthen floor, buy recycled wherever possible, and live free from the stress of a high monthly overhead, as well as living in harmony with the land. (Work begun Sept. 99) We're having fun, now!!
• Balewatch.com- My primary purpose in putting up this site is to introduce my straw bale house plans.
• WELCOME TO STRAWHOMES.COM, ONLINE HOME OF The Last Straw ~*~ The Grassroots Journal of Straw-Bale and Natural Building ~*~
• Straw Bale, Recently, there has been a revival in straw bale building--a revival that has espoused the significant virtues of building with straw, whether it be its environmental qualities, energy efficiency, sustainability, or host of others. All of these qualities are significant and noble aspects in their own right, but let’s not lose sight of the very real intrinsic quality that I believe draws most of us to straw bale building--that it touches our soul and ignites our human spirit, giving meaning to our lives by allowing our humanity to flourish in the process.
• Natural Building Resources. Welcome to the world of natural building! Want to learn more about straw-bale construction, cob, adobe, bamboo and a variety of other techniques?
• Burbophobia. Strawbale Construction in the Colorado Rockies! So you'd like your own homestead, but cookie-cutter 'burbs give you the willies. Well, here's the Straw Bale Construction antidote.
• Straw and Solar: A Perfect Renewable Match. It is late October and an early winter storm is blowing through the Sangre De Cristo Mountains of Northern New Mexico.
• The Natural Builder. A place for workshops, publications and information on how to build inspired structures made from natural building materials including adobe, monolithic adobe (sculptural cob), light clay, straw bales and natural plasters. The Natural Builder has written and published 3 books on natural building including earthen architecture, cob and building with natural plasters. The Natural Builder teaches others to build structures out of adobe, cob and straw all finished with lime, gypsum and earthen plasters.
• The Canelo Project, Connecting people, culture & nature.
• Sustainable Sources. The purpose of Sustainable Sources is to provide a solutions-based environmental site.
• OUT ON BALE BY MAIL GREETS A NEW DAWN. Sustainable living systems consultant Joelee Joyce has recently taken ownership of Out On Bale By Mail, one of the premier resource centers for strawbale construction in the Southwest U. S. Ms. Joyce will be expanding the center's services under the new name DAWN (Developing an Alliance With Nature).
• Skillful Means is an architectural and construction firm active in straw-bale. As leaders in straw-bale construction in California, we want to pass some of our experience on to others. We hope you will find this web site useful and enjoyable. Come in and make yourself comfortable.....just click on the (non-frame) house above to enter, or you can use the menu in the frame at left to to move around.
• The Community Eco-design Network has recently overhauled its web site and enhanced it considerably. We have added pictures of two of our more notable strawbale projects, and a large section on solar cold climate greenhouses which includes pictures of a greywater treatment greenhouse we did.
• Welcome to HUFF-N-PUFF Straw Bale Building Technology, Kangaroo Valley, NSW Australia.
• Current Projects from the design studio of solar7.83, Tamarack Strawbale Project, Gonzo Survival Structure, Tamarack Urban Infill Project, 1998 Menzies/Stephan Design

Adobe/Earthen

• Building Our Dream. Soon after I discovered Middle Caicos on the internet, I also discovered the Natural Building movement. I was seeking an affordable means of building an island home for our family. As a bonus, I found a philosophy that also promises to recognize and preserve the natural beauty that attracted us to the island.
• T h e E a r t h B u i l d i n g F o u n d a t i o n , I n c .. Help people learn how to utilize earth building for better, safer, shelter.
• The Natural Builder. A place for workshops, publications and information on how to build inspired structures made from natural building materials including adobe, monolithic adobe (sculptural cob), light clay, straw bales and natural plasters. The Natural Builder has written and published 3 books on natural building including earthen architecture, cob and building with natural plasters. The Natural Builder teaches others to build structures out of adobe, cob and straw all finished with lime, gypsum and earthen plasters.

Earthships

• Scott & Jan Derrick's Earthship Voyage - This site is about Scott & Jan Derrick's Earthship voyage. In the summer of 1999 we started building a 3 U Earthship in Cibola County, New Mexico ...
• The Crow's CO Earthship - I have put this page together to document the building of our Earthship. I will add to this page weekly, as we progress through our project.
• Constellation Earthship - Bob and Karen LeCour inks for rare orchids, high country adventures with four dogs, spiritual development, building earthships, etc.. Website recently Updated! Video tour of their Earthship is available!. Bob and Karen have posted beautiful photo's of their newly constructed Earthship and an article on what it is like to live in an Earthship after one year.
• Allen & Pat Gooch's Earthship Website. A great Earthship success story! Worth the visit!
• Earthship Global Operations. Creating Sustainable Solutions to the issues facing an evolving world. The orignator and mastermind behind the earthship concept.
• The Knapp's Earthship Page. The Earthship was my introduction to the sustainable housing concept and learning the trappings of the American dream.
• Ray Wilk's Earthship - My Earthship near Taos, New Mexico, is an off-grid home, framed with used tires packed solid with earth.
• Kathy & Dale are wonderful friends to have and this first picture (dated December 1997) is of the earthship home they are currently building, largely out of old discarded tires and aluminium cans, on a beautiful forty-acre oak and cyprus sheltered hideaway in southern Oklahoma.
• Earthship Update Well folks, here at last is my long-promised update on Kathy and Dales' uniquely innovative Earthship home. Looks fantastic, eh!
• Third Millennium Construction Society. A non-profit organization dedicated to educating and assisting in construction of environmentally friendly housing. " Reuse, Reduce, Recycle."
• A HOME FOR ALL SEASONS As we drove up the road from Camp Verde, Arizona, we caught sight of an unusually beautiful house set into a hillside. "Do you think that's it?" I asked incredulously. How could a house made of old tires look like an adobe masterpiece?
• Welcome to the Alternative Way to Building: We are a network of people dedicated to building through alternative means. Check out the NEW CD-ROM and Earthship list serv!
• Earthships are an environmental approach to building and living. See Clay Kents great ES web page.
• DENNIS WEAVER'S Home Page.
• Potters' Earthship. In October 1995 I began visiting the Potters' Earthship and I've brought back pictures. Take a tour of the Potters' place as it is built!
• Earthship for Sale. 2300 square foot Earthship with 1080 square foot straw bale artists office/studio, 770 square foot workshop/studio and 1150 square foot commercial greenhouse on 12 acres with 2 wells. Fully solar powered with underground city power hooked up and ready if you're a power hog. There is also a footing for a 2 car garage, not yet completed.
• Earthship North. Building a Home and a Community.
• Earthships Ahoy! A sustainable house, made of recycled materials, continues to push boundaries and win new adherents.
• Sundial Sustainable Community Solar Power - Natural Building - No Uniform Building Code - 1 to 4 acre homesites - available from $47,900 .
• Magnificent Earthship For Sale. SPLENDID ISOLATION! Approximately 3000 square feet. Recently owned by celebrity Dennis Weaver of "Gunsmoke" & "McLeod". Only 20 minutes from the famous Taos Ski Valley in New Mexico. Three bedrooms, one and three quarters baths. An additional room could be used as a fourth bedroom or a study.
• ST. IGNATIUS CAMPGROUND AND HOSTEL, INC., MONTANA Overnight lodging in an environmentally friendly, cozy Earthship Hostel.

Sustainable/Intentional Communities

• Crestone, CO has special energy!
• Sundial Village. Keeping in the good graces of Mother Nature.
• Earthaven Intentional community, a growing neo-tribal ecovillage, is dedicated to caring for people and the Earth by learning, living and demonstrating wholistic, sustainable culture. Culture's Edge, our non-profit education center, offers hands-on workshops and programs throughout the year which are integral to the overall vision of Earthaven as a living demonstration ecovillage.
• Stelle is self-governing. It operates on democratic principles and encourages all members of the community to become involved. Today, Stelle is a small, peaceful, beautiful and prosperous prairie village of roughly 120 residents of all ages.
• Circle Springs is a budding community in the canyon country of southeastern Utah, near the town of Moab. We own 124 acres at the base of the La Sal Mountains with streams, pinyon juniper forest and solitude. Our vision for the community is focused on developing sustainable life-styles, especially in terms of food and energy production, architecture, our relationships to ourselves and to the land. We practice consensus decision making and strive for a balance between group and private life. At this time some community activities include shared meals, play days at the river, seasonal celebrations, meetings and construction of our community building. Future activities might include these, as well as gardening, land restoration, play and, possibly, shared businesses and spiritual practice. Our land is held by a member-owned corporation, and the site-plan is modeled on cohousing. We are seeking new members, and offer paid internships and occasional workshops in natural building.
• Dancing Rabbit is an ecovillage in progress on 280 acres of beautiful northeastern Missouri rolling hills. Dancing Rabbit plans to be a locally self-reliant small town of 500-1000 residents demonstrating the long-term societal and technological changes that will ensure the integrity of the ecosphere, and the well-being of humans, far into the future. Within DR we plan to have a society of communities, including structures such as egalitarian communities, cohousing, and individual households.
• Welcome to the Community of Civano Tucson, Arizona.
• Tenacity Farm. An exercise in permaculture and community living. The Story begins like this . . . Take 3 different families from 3 different parts of the country, add 6 children, 4 dogs, 9 college degrees, and drop them on a 140 acre farm in rural Kentucky and tell them to build homes, learn to farm profitably without hurting the environment plan for your third and fourth generations, and while you're at it, get along!
• Intentional Communities: Extensive associations, groups, communities, resources listings.

Natural and Sustainable Alternative Building Structures and Information

• Smart Shelter Network. Healthy living spaces for the people and environment of Western Colorado. What Does Smart Shelter Do? The Smart Shelter Network studies Natural, Sustainable and Green Building structures only in South Western Colorado. It documents those buildings' performance through case studies (appx 200 as of Nov 1999). It provides consulting and resource information for people wanting to build environmentally responsible buildings in this area as well as slide shows, courses, workshops, lectures and advocacy work with building officials, bankers, insurance companies, appraisers,politicians and builders
• Earth Quarterly: a publication devoted to living close to, and in harmony with nature - the way we were really designed to live.
• Natural Building, Environmental, and Related Web Pages.
• Timberframing Magazine Online. Timberframing information for those wanting to buy or build a timber frame home.
• Welcome to Goshen Timber Frames' Informational Service. The articles you find here will help you to fulfill your dream of living in a beautiful timber frame home. They include information about timber frame design, cost, enclosure, tools and techniques, electric and plumbing, and many other issues that you will need to explore. The goal of this website is to help you make informed decisions throughout the process.
• Joiners' Quarterly has been publishing information about Timber Framing and traditional building since 1983. Natural Building is Traditional Building by virtue of its pure and simple approach. Straw, Wood & Clay; these were the traditional building materials, but today we think of them as Alternative Building.
• Monolithic domes-- an insulated, thin-shell concrete structure -- is extremely energy efficient, strong, fire-safe, and it lasts for centuries.
• Architect Jonathan Zimmerman, Architect Specializing in airformed concrete shells ranging in size from single family dwellings to convention centers .
• Thin Shell Concrete Domes. Bookmark this page for sure!
• Advance Canvas Design. We manufacture some of the finest Yurts and Tipis available.
• Pacific Yurts. Let the Pacific Yurt put you in your special place. We invite you to step inside for a moment, and just imagine the possibilities...
• Geodesic Domes, Greenhouses & Tents. Shelter Systems is dedicated to providing efficient and environmentally friendly solutions to shelter and gardening needs.
• The Earth Sweet Home House is an experimental residential home in Southern Vermont. Here is some information about the Building Site and Structure.
• Davis Caves Construction: Earth Sheltered Homes that are energy efficient and tornado proof! Great people and a great company!
• Enertia® Building Systems "Homes" Page: On these pages you will see innovative new homes of remarkable strength, economy, and beauty, brought to life by an elegant concept of design and the discovery of a new source of pollution-free energy.
• Sunlight Homes...imagine a custom home designed just for you... ...a floor plan with cozy indoor spaces, washed in natural daylight, tempting you to stay home forever.
• WELCOME TO WASHINGTON STATE'S MOST BEAUTIFUL VALLEY. Methow (pronounced Met - How) Valley Pictures is simply a website of photographs in and around this incredible river valley running through North Central Washington from the Cascades to the Columbia River.
• The Better Earth News, a bi-monthly "good news" magazine celebrating Sustainability, Self-Sufficiency and Living in Harmony with the Earth.
• Maine Solar House, by William Lord.
• The Southface Journal of Energy and Building Technology is now The Southface Journal of Sustainable Building.
• New England Solar Homes, Contemporary sunlit homes that you can build today!
• Home sweet earth home, designers of fine earth sheltered homes since 1977!

Composting Toilets

• The Humanure Handbook. A Guide to Composting Human Manure. You're not Y2K ready without this book! The *NEW!* Humanure Handbook (2nd Edition)
• Clivus Multrum - composting toilets Welcome to the World of Composting Toilets and Greywater Irrigation for Public Toilets and Homes.A Sustainable-Agriculture Technology
• Advanced Composting Systems. Phoenix Composting Toilet System, Oderless * Waterless * Large Capacity * Low Energy Requirements * Owner-Friendly
• Welcome to the contents page of the "Composting Toilet World" Web site. We aim to present information on composting toilets so that persons in all countries have the opportunity to help improve their living conditions and their surrounding natural environment.

Earthfriendly and Self-Sufficient Architectures at the University of Colorado. Interested in Earth Friendly Architecture? Sign up for the ESSA list serv today! We routinely hold discussions about Earthships, Straw Bale, Cob, Rammed Earth, and other sustainable natural building techniques. ESSA is one of many sites supporting architecture for sustainable living. They embrace discussions of alternative, natural or local sourced building materials such as strawbale, adobe, and recycled tires, wood, steel, ... , sustainably harvested timber as well discussions of permaculture.

Earthship
making a house from recycled tires and earth

Traditional Building
for restoration trade products, suppliers

BuildingOnline Media Review
a construction trades link list of about 200 magazines

House Plan Designs
"The largest collection of house plans on the web"

Log Homes on the Internet

DoItYourself.com
lots of FAQs, tips and repair ideas

HouseNet
Your Home Improvement Neighbors

Tools of the Trade
reviews of construction related tools, tool talk, links etc

Pegasus Originals, Inc. - needlework

Homefarm

The Small Farm Resource

Don't Panic, Eat Organic - an organic grower's page

Plants for a Future Database Search - flora species lookup

Agnic.org

Permaearth.org/

Permaculture Resources at CSF

The Permaculture Activist

Internet Garden

Virtual Garden - Plant Encyclopedia searchable

GardenGuides -- Come Garden With Us!

Gardening and Permaculture

Ecological Agriculture (Internet Links)

Farm Product Listings

Permaculture Resources

Botanical.com

Beekeeping: The Beekeeper's Home Page

USDA HOME CANNING GUIDE

Building & construction - list of periodicals

Farming - list of periodicals

Forestry - list of periodicals

Home & Garden - list of periodicals

Magazines: Woodworking, Gardening, Cooking

Cal-Earth Building
Cal-Earth Building Institute
Cob Building
Cob Cottages
Cordwood Masonry Housebuilding
Early American Homes
Earth - Stone - Wood Building Harmonics
Ecological Engineering & Sustainable Strategies
Environmental Building Products
Heritage Building Systems
Housing Infrastructure
Log Home Building
Log House Building
Natural Building Resources
Natural Building Resource Center
Nuclear War Fallout Shelter Survival Info
UNDERGROUND BUSES
Planning & Building A Home
Rammed Earth
Refrigerated Cargo Containers
Road Trip Earthship
Shelters
Sierra HomeDesign
Straw Bale Construction
Sustainable Building Links
Sustainable Homes
Sustainble Building Sourcebook
The Ark Two - Community Retreat Facility
The Natural Builder
The Potter's Earthship
The Secure Home
World Of Concrete

CELLARS:

A Modern Underground Storage Cellar
Building Your Own Underground Root Cellar
Garbage Can Root Cellar
Pallet Root Cellar
Return Of The Root Cellars
The Granddaddy Of All Underground Storage Areas
Underground Sheltered Homes

DOMES:

Dome Search
Dome Technology
Geodesic Domes
Geodesic Domes
Lydick's Dome Page
Monolithic Domes
Natural Spaces Domes
Oregon Dome

EARTHSHIPS:

Earthfriendly & Self-Sufficient Architectures
Earthfriendly Architectures
Earthship Systems
Earthships
Earthwood Building School's
Emergency Survival Shelters
Energy Efficient Construction
Global Earthships

YURTS:

Glen Echo Park - The Yurts
Nesting Bird Yurts
Pacific Yurts
Yurt Homes
Yurts Great Buildings

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