permaculture

[Harald und Margit Wedig <avantgarden@wxs.nl>]

This is what I found about building with sandbags:


     To: strawbale@crest.org 
     Subject: re: building with sandbags 
     From: The Last Straw <thelaststraw@strawhomes.com> 
     Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 12:01:39 -0700 
     Sender: owner-strawbale@crest.org 



Carol Steinfeld asked: anyone out there built anything with sandbags
[etc]

Rob Tom said: I recall seeing an article (or two?) on the technique
written 
up (with photos) in The Last Straw within the past year.
 
 
For those who haven't picked up a copy of the book Carol  co-authored
called The Composting Toilet System Book, what're ya waiting for? 
It's the most complete book on the subject's state of the art that I've
seen.

As for dirtbags, besides the CalEarth site that RTCrowley mentioned at
 http://www.calearth.org/ and Pat Newberry's site at
 http://www.gnat.net/~goshawk/index.html , there's a couple more.
 
Joe Kennedy (not the same one) worked with Nader Khalili at > CalEarth
for a
couple years when it was getting started up. There's an article by  Joe
about dirtbags (including longbags) at
http://www.networkearth.org/natural_building/earthbags.html
 
Kaki Hunter and Doni Kiffmeyer are another coupla great dirtbags, and
there's an article by them (the same one we ran recently in TLS, but 
there
are more photos with the version I put on the website) at
 http://www.networkearth.org/natural_building/honey.html
 
Carol Escott and Steve Kemble of Sustainable Systems Support  have been
doing the dirtbag thang in the Bahamas; there's an article and  photos
at
http://bisbeenet.com/buildnatural/earth.html

 
and this

To: strawbale@crest.org 
     Subject: re: building with sandbags 
     From: goshawk@gnat.net 
     Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 16:38:49 -0500 
     In-reply-to: <200003111626.IAA00691@secure.crest.net> 
     Sender: owner-strawbale@crest.org 



On 10 Mar 00, at 12:01, The Last Straw wrote:

> Carol Steinfeld asked: anyone out there built anything with sandbags
> [etc]
> 

Hello, 
it's me Pat Newberry,
been working hard so I haven't spent too much time on the list but I
noticed the sandbag 
question.
I've used sandbags / superadobe in many sections of our house.
I've combined it with both strawbales and cob as well. 
I think I missed the specific question, but  I'm paying attention now.  
I hope to have some new photos in a couple of weeks. Sort of time to
come out of winter 
hibernation.

Pat
Pat Newberry
http://www.gnat.net/~goshawk

Harald Wedig, Netherlands