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Trainings for Do-It-Yourself Installation of Claylin Earthen Floors
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Earthen Building Design Learn the ins and outs of designing structures that use earthen materials. This course is absolutely packed with information, including site selection, soil sampling, history, and various applications of earthen materials to achieve shelter. This theoretical course is best paired with a future hands on course. See www.earthenhand.com for more information. |
Timber Framing for the Rest of Us This workshop covers basic "post and beam" construction as done by most contractors and owner-builders using sound building design and techniques and readily available mechanical fasteners made for the purpose. Morning classroom sessions cover structural principles and examples, including basic load calculations. Afternoon hands-on work consist of laying out and a 20-sided frame for a cordwood home. There may be time for a free additional hands-on practice day on May 24, before the cordwood workshop. The textbook, supplied, is Rob's Timber Framing for the Rest of Us. See www.cordwoodmasonry.com for more information. |
Earthbag Design and Construction Learn earthbag techniques in its various forms plus be working on an actual owner/builder site at the Bonita Domes Project. Participants in this workshop will be led through a series of intellectual, cognitive, and physical exercises that seek to strengthen mind-body connections to both the technical processes, as well as the creative processes underlying the art and skill of earthbag design and construction. From structural principles and design, soil practicum and on-site planning this 7-day workshop will supply the attendee with full confidence in the building process and instill a renewed sense of community through building with the earth. The Bonita Domes project will be the focus of the course in order to gain hands on experience with a seasoned crew and an outstanding owner builder couple (Lisa Starr and Gabriel). Tuition is $300 which includes a place to camp/sleep, cook, shower/latrine facilities and hearty lunches daily! See unitedearthbuilders.com for more information. |
Cordwood Masonry Morning sessions include cordwood theory, slide presentations, explanatory tours, and discussion of the three styles of cordwood construction: built-up corners (stackwall), round houses, and cordwood as infilling within a post-and-beam framework. The kinds of wood and how long to dry them is covered, as well as various alternative mortar mixes. Installing doors and windows is detailed, as is cordwood masonry "special effects." At Earthwood, students examine several different kinds of cordwood masonry buildings. Afternoons are reserved for practical, hands-on work sessions. The project will be cordwood infilling within a new 20-sided cordwood home adjacent to Earthwood. The third afternoon affords an opportunity for students to consult with Rob about their plans, while Jaki maintains order on the worksite. This workshop gives the student a strong introduction to this ancient building technique. See www.cordwoodmasonry.com for more information. |
Sustainable Building with EARTH – Part 1 soma earth TEACHINGS offers evening, weekend and week-long teachings integrating holistic principles of design, building and living sustainably with Nature. All week/end courses have a consistent format of Circle Form Principles, Energy Balancing techniques, various meditation methods, holistic & healthy gourmet food. Earth Bag building is a unique sustainable and natural building option. This workshop will go over all the proper techniques and construction methods by building a small cold cellar, using earth bag construction. You will experience hands-on learning and a fantastic opportunity to learn this unique building skill. The weekend workshop is part A, and part B will take place during the following week for a week long intensive workshop on May 28 – June 1 for those more interested in continuing with advanced construction aspects.See www.somaearth.com for more information. |
Village Building Convergence Help build the change that you wish to see in the world! By day, participate in a number of local, natural building projects, including eight new public squares and numerous urban agriculture and permaculture installations. By night, gather for dinner as speakers and performers take to the stage. Location: St. David's of Whales, 2800 SE Harrison Website: vbc.cityrepair.org Email: vbcATcityrepair.org Phone: (503) 235-8946 |
Earthwood Techniques Low-cost foundations and earth-sheltering methods used at the Earthwood house are emphasized, accenting surface bonded wall construction and plank-and-beam roofing. The five elements that affect load calculations are discussed. Alternative foundations, drainage and waterproofing, insulation, structural considerations and the masonry stove are all covered. An explanatory tour of the Earthwood house is included, as well as a step-by-step slide presentation documenting the construction of Earthwood from floating slab foundation to earth roof. Textbook: Earth-Sheltered Houses. This is a very full day, consisting of mostly classroom instruction. Like all of our workshops, sessions are punctuated by Jaki's excellent coffee and tea breaks featured home-baked goodies, and her hearty vegetarian lunches. See www.cordwoodmasonry.com for more information. |
HEMP BUILDING COURSE Participate in a Hemp Building Course and learn about this new revolutionary building system, you will get first-hand experience from Steve Allin the leading Hemp Building expert and author of the book 'Building with Hemp'. The three days will cover Hemp Building activity, framing theory, Hempcrete mixing and installation, Hemp Plaster mixing and applications and finishes. Or email Steve for more info: hempbuildingATeircom.net |
Sustainable Building with EARTH – Part 2 soma earth TEACHINGS offers evening, weekend and week-long teachings integrating holistic principles of design, building and living sustainably with Nature. All week/end courses have a consistent format of Circle Form Principles, Energy Balancing techniques, various meditation methods, holistic & healthy gourmet food. This weekend workshop will conclude the construction of the Earth Bag cold cellar project, so if you were unable to attend the first half, there is still time to learn all about this alternative, sustainable building system. See Building with Earth Part 1 for more information. The focus in this workshop will be more earth bag construction as well as other sustainable materials as we finish off the roof and the entrance. There is no need to take Building with Wood Part 1 in advance, and if you have, it will allow you the opportunity to develop your skills while also learning some new ones.See www.somaearth.com for more information. |
Cob Bottle Wall Construction In this fun, hands-on class we will build bottle + jar cylinders and place them in a sculptural Cob mix. This is the most affordable and ecological way to bring colored glass into a structure, and the light coming through it is always fantastic. We will also discuss and try using Cob in several other applications as well. Cob a.k.a. adobe is sand, clay and straw mixed into a sculptable mud paste.
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Earthen Plasters and Paints Learn to mix and apply adobe/cob plasters. Also learn recipes and application of earthen paints, known as aliz, which makes a healthy eco coating for any interior. Discover the many possibilities of earthen finishes! Hands-on instruction, lectures and slides by Scott Howard. Lunch included. See See www.earthenhand.com for more information. |
Timber Framing Workshop Students will learn how to lay out, join, and build a timber frame house during our two week building course. Build a 300 sq. ft. timber frame house with passive solar design, greenhouse, roundwood porch and balcony. All timber framing is to be completed using hand tools and traditional techniques exclusively –square rule layout, scribing, etc. Learn the historic craft of timber framing using mortise and tenon joinery, as well as experiencing and learning some of the fundamental connections between building structure, design, and sustainable lifestyle alternatives. Evening lectures and activities will include timber frame planning and design, restoring old tools and sharpening, a natural materials discussion, and more. Evening events will also include fun community building activities, too! See Timber Framing Workshop 2012 for more information., and build a timber frame house. |
HempStone™ Qualification Course This will be the first Hempbuilding.com Courses held in North America. International Hemp Building expert Steve Allin will be teaching a 3 day certified course including details of floor roof & wall construction and the incorporation of electrical and plumbing services. Also Anthony Brenner of Push Design will be present to teach aspects pertaining to the American Standard Code and answer questions about building with HempStone™ in the United States. There will also be many more notably respected people on site in the interests of sustainability and building with hemp. See www.originalgreendistribution.com for more information. |
Trainings for Do-It-Yourself Installation of Claylin Earthen Floors
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HempStone™ Qualification Course This will be the first Hempbuilding.com Courses held in North America. International Hemp Building expert Steve Allin will be teaching a 3 day certified course including details of floor roof & wall construction and the incorporation of electrical and plumbing services. Also Anthony Brenner of Push Design will be present to teach aspects pertaining to the American Standard Code and answer questions about building with HempStone™ in the United States. There will also be many more notably respected people on site in the interests of sustainability and building with hemp. See www.originalgreendistribution.com for more information. |
Natural Building Finishes & Earth Plasters soma earth TEACHINGS offers evening, weekend and week-long teachings integrating holistic principles of design, building and living sustainably with Nature. All week/end courses have a consistent format of Circle Form Principles, Energy Balancing techniques, various meditation methods, holistic & healthy gourmet food. There are plenty of natural and sustainable options available to finish your home or building project. This workshop will go over the qualities and benefits of a range of finishes and plasters as well as getting experience working with them by applying different types to our recently completed earth bag cold cellar and straw bale shed! See www.somaearth.com for more information. |
Earthbag Building Basics Learn to build with Earthbags, aka super-adobe, which is a type of rammed earth. We will be building a garden wall at the permaculture project called the Seattle Homestead. This durable and versatile building See www.earthenhand.com for more information. |
Plastering and Earthen Paints Big Barn Farm hosts is second year of Earthen Hand workshops! Come see our earthbag earthship in process and participate. Learn to mix and apply plasters of adobe/cob, cement, and lime. Also learn recipes and application of earthen paints, known as aliz, which makes a healthy eco coating for any interior. Hands-on instruction, lectures and slides by Scott Howard and crew. See www.earthenhand.com for more information. |
Help Build an Earthship Join us for the earthship build in Dallas this summer! Get an education on multiple topics including, tire work, concrete work, masonry,solar panel installation, water collection/filtration, how to bypass a septic system in Texas, Texas building codes/ permitting process, finding and buying property, locating materials, budgeting the build and many more topics on living sustainably! I graduated from the Earthship Academy and am ready for my project. My facebook page for the build is www.facebook.com/EarthshipDallasTx |
3 Month Study Program in Earthen Built has teamed up with Herb Wise Farm this season to bring you a great opportunity to learn and develop your skills for self-sufficiency and self-resiliency. We are offering a three month intensive program during July, August, and September. Our goal is to offer a comprehensive program that will empower our students and give them the confidence they need to continue on with and move forward in natural building and homesteading skills. See www.earthenbuilt.com for more information. |
Earthen Floors - applying and finishing Learn how to mix and lay Cob/earthen floors. We will cover how to cure, and finish these floors as well. Come see our earthbag earthship in process at Big Barn Farm. Hands-on and lecture instruction by Scott See www.earthenhand.com for more information. |
Permaculture and Natural Building Richard & Becky Flatau will be working with Wayne Weismann of the Permaculture Project (www.permacultureproject.com) to build a cordwood chapel on the acreage of Kinstone. For more details: kinstonecircle.com |
Earthbag Earthship Intensive Eighteen days of intensive learning at a remote site in Southern Colorado. We will build a Earthbag Earthship home for Tetsuko, a friend and buddhist practitioner who is quadriplegic. Experience an amazing natural setting! A stream with resident beavers runs by the site. Learn all the details of construction with lectures, slides, and hands on classes. You will come away from this experience ready to build your own home with little further guidance required. See www.earthenhand.com for more information. |
Cordwood Workweek The Cordwood Workweek combines all of the features of of the three-day Cordwood Workshop and the One-day Earthwood Techniques workshop, but there is more time for individual hands-on instruction and consultations. The discussions and site work are more detailed, yet the pace is more relaxed. After lunch on Wednesday, for example, we tour two cordwood homes on the way to Chateaugay Lake, then relax with swimming, hot-tubbing, conversation, and imdividual consultations on the deck at Mushwood. The project will be cordwood infilling within a new 20-sided cordwood home adjacent to Earthwood. See www.cordwoodmasonry.com for more information. |
Straw Bale Building Workshop July 22 – August 2 Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage
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Trainings for Do-It-Yourself Installation of Claylin Earthen Floors
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10-Week Women's Earthbag Dome Building Apprenticeship Kleiwerks International’s Women of the Americas Sustainability Initiative (WASI) is hosting a 10-week, hands-on natural building apprenticeship that brings together a group of women apprentices with an experienced team of earthbag builders and native St’at’imc community members. Their project is to construct a Healing & Cultural Arts Centre near Lillooet, BC. This training immersion provides participants with the opportunity to learn construction while building a dome from start to finish, develop leadership skills through facilitating local groups, work side-by-side with a community that is creating culturally appropriate local solutions, and document the story to share with wider audiences. Ideal participants are women who have follow-up projects, intend to share what they learn, want to work in the natural building trades and be part of the growing natural building movement. For details or to apply for the program, please visit www.kleiwerks.org. There are 12 seats available. |
Masonry Heater Intensive Organized and lead by Scott Howard, with special guest teachers Sun Ray Kelley and Jason Temple. This workshop will be extremely rich in cutting edge information. Students will learn the science of fire and wood burning. Assemble a rocket stove masonry heater that will heat radiant floors, water, air, provide options for cooking, and heat an adjacent greenhouse. Ideally, students can attend both weekends to get the full experience. See www.earthenhand.com for more information. |
Cordwood Masonry Morning sessions include cordwood theory, slide presentations, explanatory tours, and discussion of the three styles of cordwood construction: built-up corners (stackwall), round houses, and cordwood as infilling within a post-and-beam framework. The kinds of wood and how long to dry them is covered, as well as various alternative mortar mixes. Installing doors and windows is detailed, as is cordwood masonry "special effects." At Earthwood, students examine several different kinds of cordwood masonry buildings. Afternoons are reserved for practical, hands-on work sessions. The project will be cordwood infilling within a new 20-sided cordwood home adjacent to Earthwood. The third afternoon affords an opportunity for students to consult with Rob about their plans, while Jaki maintains order on the worksite. This workshop gives the student a strong introduction to this ancient building technique. See www.cordwoodmasonry.com for more information. |
Cordwood Construction A cordwood barn and garage will be built on the property of Chad & Mary Jane. Red cedar will be used to infill within a post and beam framed outbuilding. |
Earthwood Techniques Low-cost foundations and earth-sheltering methods used at the Earthwood house are emphasized, accenting surface bonded wall construction and plank-and-beam roofing. The five elements that affect load calculations are discussed. Alternative foundations, drainage and waterproofing, insulation, structural considerations and the masonry stove are all covered. An explanatory tour of the Earthwood house is included, as well as a step-by-step slide presentation documenting the construction of Earthwood from floating slab foundation to earth roof. Textbook: Earth-Sheltered Houses. This is a very full day, consisting of mostly classroom instruction. Like all of our workshops, sessions are punctuated by Jaki's excellent coffee and tea breaks featured home-baked goodies, and her hearty vegetarian lunches. See www.cordwoodmasonry.com for more information. |
Rocket Stove Hot Tub $180 In this one-of-a-kind class, learn to assemble a simple rocket stove which will transfer heat to a tub of water via metal tube coiled within the firebox. A simple, efficient, portable, and inexpensive design that you can assemble at home with this knowledge. See www.earthenhand.com for more information. |
| Yestermorrow Design/Build School in Warren, VT has ongoing natural building courses throughout the year. All classes can be found at: www.yestermorrow.org Here are some recurrent shorter classes: Timberframing (6 Days) Students will learn the fundamentals of designing and constructing a timberframe using mortise and tenon joinery. Layout techniques, tool use and sharpening, and joinery cutting methods are taught as we work on a small timberframe project. We will also touch on frame design, joinery choices, and integration of frame and house design. This course will focus on traditional hand-cut joinery and tools and will also demonstrate some of the power tools used by modern timberframers.
Natural Paints and Finishes (2 Days) This course will teach you how to create and apply beautiful hand finished plasters and paints on many wall surfaces. The course will cover at a basic level three principle plaster and paint mediums: clay, lime, and gypsum, and finish with plaster coats, paints, and washes of clay, lime, casein, wheat paste, mica, pigments, and other natural ingredients. Emphasis will be given on learning the working properties of the materials and developing critical thinking skills to apply the knowledge in real-world situations, rather than on specific recipes for specific conditions.
Natural Design/Build (12 Days) This course provides students with a comprehensive exploration of all facets of creating an energy efficient, climate-specific natural structure. In the studio, students will develop a comprehensive design of a project through the creation of drawings of elevations, sections, plans, and scale models. In the shop, students will build a variety of insulative wall systems, examining critical details such as doors and windows, wall to roof connections, air sealing, framing options, plastering, and much more. Topics include straw bale construction, fiber-clay infill and other natural wall systems, clay and lime plasters, natural roof options, alternative foundations, water and energy conservation systems, permaculture and building-site relationships, and social and cultural contexts.
Strawbale Design/Build (5 Days) Have you always wondered about strawbale construction? Heard it is only for hot and dry climates? Think again! With their combination of insulation and thermal mass, plastered strawbale walls can be perfect for cold - and even wet - climates if they are designed and built according to a set of time tested principles. This course balances sessions in the classroom and on a demonstration project so you will learn to think your way through a bale house while gaining a feel for the nature of straw, clay and lime as building materials. |
| Solar Energy International provides hands-on training on many aspects of solar electric installations and natural building. Visit www.solarenergy.org to see what they offer. |
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Classes and Workshops offered by Eco Versity The EcoVersity was founded in 1999 by a launch team of educators, ecologists, anthropologists, and activists who gathered to design a school for students seeking innovative and practical approaches to learning from the land. In 2001 the school acquired 13 acres for a campus, centrally located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and began offering Spring, Summer and Fall continuing education programs. Check www.ecoversity.org for more information. |
| bluerockstation.com of Ohio sponsors many wonderful workshops related to skills for building earthships. |
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cobworkshops.org
lists many workshops featuring cob in North America. |
| lowimpact.org
the Low-Impact Linging Initiative in England provides information and courses
related to such topics as: eco-paints, lime, rammed earth building, strawbale
building, solar electricity, solar hot water, wind generators, wood stoves,
beekeeping, poultry, organic gardening, wild food, compost toilets, rain
water harvesting, biodiesel, etc. |
| concise-courses.com lists energy conferences around the world that relate to Green Building, HERS, BPI, LEED and RESNET. |
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