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What books can you recommend on green building?
FAQs - General Questions

General Books:

  • “Building Green??? A Complete How-To Guide to Alternative Building Methods Earth Plaster * Straw Bale * Cordwood * Cob * Living Roofs by Clarke Snell and Tim Callahan – 2005
  • “Earth Construction???, A Comprehensive Guide  by Hugo Houben, Hubert Guillard, Practical Action,1994
  • “The Solar House???: Passive Heating and Cooling by Daniel D. Chiras, Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2002
  • “Adobe and Rammed Earth Buildings???: Design and Construction - Paul Graham McHenry, University of Arizona Press,1989
  • “The Art of Natural Building???, edited by Joseph Kennedy, Michael Smith, Catherine Wanek, New Society Publishers, 2002.
  • “Alternative Construction: Contemporary Natural Building Methods??? L. Elizabeth and C. Adams, John Wiley & Sons, New York 2000.

Straw Bale Building:

  • "The Straw Bale House" David Bainbridge, & Bill & Athena Steen, Chelsea Green Publications, 1994.
  • “Build It with Bales- A step by step Guide to Straw Bale Construction – Version 2,??? S.O. Macdonald & Matts Myhrman, West Press, Tucson, Arizona, 1997.
  • “Straw Bale Building – how to plan, design, and build with straw “ by Chris  Magwood and Peter Mack, New Society Publishers, 2000
  • “Hot Dirt Cool Straw" – nature- friendly houses for 21st century living – James Gratson Trulove with Nora Richter Greer, 2001.
  • "Living Homes??? – sustainable architecture and design by Suzi Moore McGregor and Nora Burba Trulsson, Chronicle Books, 2001
  • “The New Strawbale Home??? by Catherine Wanek, Gibbs Smith, publisher, Utah, 2003.
  • “Serious Straw Bale – A Home Construction Guide for all Climates??? by Paul Lacinski & Michel Bergeron, Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2000.

Cob building:

  • “The Cob Builders Handbook???: You Can Hand-Sculpt Your Own Home by Becky Bee, Groundworks, 1998
  • “The Hand-Sculpted House???: A Philosophical and Practical Guide to Building a Cob Cottage by ,  Michael G. Smith, Linda Smiley, Chelsea Green,  2002
  • “Building With Cob: A Step-by-step Guide??? by Adam Weismann, Katy Bryce, Green Books, 2006

Plastering:

  • “The Natural Plaster Book??? : Earth, Lime and Gypsum Plasters for Natural Homes by Cedar Rose Guelberth and Dan Chiras, New Society Publishers, 2003

 

 

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"E-WIRE" lights by Andy Horn

The Eco Design lighting range is made from local or recycled materials. Standing Floor Lamps, Desk Lamps, Pendant Lights and Chandeliers are available. The lamp stands are from locally moon phase harvested alien timber. Recycled car parts are used as bases. Various paper shades & low energy LED light bulbs provide good lighting and create a beautiful atmosphere.

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We offer a number of construction & info manuals on our website on natural building technologies which specifically refer to the South African context. The info manual "A LIME DUNG PLASTER RECIPE" has recently been added to the collection.   Click here for more information.

All our manuals are also now available as E-Book downloads. Click here for the E-Books.