Category: – Organizations

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Adobe for Women

Adobe for Women is a non-profit association, founded in 2011, whose goal is the recovery and education of earth construction techniques; this is our contribution to a more human and sustainable use of space and the planet’s resources. The goal of this Project is to build 20 sustainable houses in the indigenous village of San Juan Mixtepec, in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca.

The houses are intended for 20 women in difficult circumstances who will participate in the building process. They will slowly appropriate their future home and simultaneously re find their self esteem, work abilities and hope that will transform the spaces into safe, caring places for their families.
The houses are energy efficient and built with local materials such as adobe and bamboo.

[via Treehugger.com]

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Afghan Earth Works

Afghan Earth Works is a non-profit organization working at a variety of sites around Afghanistan. Their goals are simple. They are to create valued, decently paid jobs; to show how earth, the most readily available material, may be used to create comfortable buildings which their occupants will cherish and that they can repair themselves; and to teach updated construction methods so that the buildings are both durable in Afghanistan’s harsh climate, and safe in the earthquakes which periodically devastate parts of the country.

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Vote For Earth

Abari has entered the Dell Social Innovation Competition, which operates like a business-plan competition, awarding seed funding directly to the student-led venture that best meets the judges’ criteria. Vote for their project, which seeks establish a center to design and build/prefabricate houses, schools, toilets, furniture etc. out of bamboo and earth. The center will promote traditional (and dying) construction skills by mobilizing community members and appropriating locally available materials like bamboo and earth to build modern ecological, economical and beautiful infrastructure for individuals or communities.

Registration is easy and takes 20 seconds. Vote!

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research.terra

research.terra is a multi-language website intended to serve as a tool for the community of both researchers and others interested in the subject of earth construction. It will allow one to follow the research work that has been, or is being carried out, all over the world. The main goal is to create a database that will be updated regularly, containing some basic information regarding the research, such as the title and the direct link for the work (if available online).

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European School for Earth Building

FAL e.V. invites you to participate in our trainer courses 2010 Clay Plaster for trainers I and II, see below. For both courses you can apply for an individual grant within the European Programme Grundtvig. The grant covers basicly all costs: course fee, accommodation, full board and travel costs. Conditions for applying for a Grundtvig grant are: You live in one of the member states of the European Union ( exept Germany) and you work in or you are a member of an organisation, company, NGO .., which is more or less involved in adult education. This may also be a company training self builders or training on building sites. If you are interested in participating in our 2010 European courses and you want to ask for a Grundtivig mobility grant, the deadline for submitting your application is the 15 January 15th 2010. For information on the course and on how to obtain the grant please see http://lernpunktlehm.de/wp3/?page_id=324

Comenius/Grundtvig course DE-2010-1018-001
New Educational Approach in Sustainable Natural Building Part I
Clay Plaster – Module 1
Workshop for trainers and educators
Trainer: Burkard Rüger
May 15th – May 22nd 2010

Comenius/Grundtvig course DE-2010-1019-001
New Educational Approach in Sustainable Natural Building Part II
Clay Plaster – Module 2
Workshop for trainers and educators
Trainer: Irmela Fromme and Andrea Silbermann
Guest: Japanese master plasterer Harada
July 17th – July 25th 2010

Apply for a grant within the EU-Progamme Grundtvig!
You find the courses on the Grundtvig Data base http://ec.europa.eu/education/trainingdatabase/
Language: The course language will be mainly English. However our trainers speek English, French and German. If you are not familiar with these languages we can provide training materials also in Bulgarian, Czech, Polish, Greek, Slowenian and Slowak language. Ask your National Agency for Grundtvig on the conditions for applying for a grant. You will find the addresses of your national agency here.
Please contact herz@earthbuilding.eu, if you need more information. We also would like to inform you about the Grundtvig course” Permaculture Educators’ Course including Transition Initiatives, June 11th – 18th 2010 , by our partners Living House in Denmark. For more information contact:

Uta Herz
FAL e.V.
European School for Earth Building
www.earthbuilding.eu
Tel: 0049 30 41 716601
email: herz@earthbuilding

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The Adobe Alliance Featured in Mother Earth News


Photo by Yasmina Rossi.

“The allure of elegant earthen architecture can be life-changing. At least that was the case for urbane New Yorker Simone Swan, who in the 1970s became fascinated with the ideas and designs of renowned Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy. Then the 40-something executive head of the Houston-based Menil Foundation, Swan moved to Cairo to study with Fathy. She became his most passionate advocate, and transplanted his adobe building techniques to the Southwestern United States.”

[ Mother Earth News | Adobe Alliance ]

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LEHM Conference Proceedings

The Dachverband Lehm e.V. announces the availability of conference proceedings from the 4th and 5th International Conferences on Building with Earth from 2004 and 2008.

LEHM 2008: Conference proceedings

The conference proceedings were published on the occasion of the 5th international conference on building with earth in Leipzig. The book contains all papers and posters presented at the conference in both English and German languages. Central topics include earth building norms and regulations, education and training in earth building, current research into building with earth, information networks in earth building, current problems in earthen building practice and new projects and exemplary conversions.

Published by: Dachverband Lehm e.V., 288 pages with illustrations
ISBN 978-3-00-025956-2, October 2008, German and English

Price: 50 Euro + P&P

LEHM 2004: Conference proceedings

The conference proceedings were published on the occasion of the 4th international conference on building with earth in Leipzig. The book contains all papers and posters presented at the conference in both English and German languages. Central topics include UNESCO world heritage, earth in building conservation, new projects and reducing the seismic vulnerability of earthen buildings.

Published by : Dachverband Lehm e.V., ISBN 3 00 014864 7, 324 pages with illustrations, October 2004, German and English.

Price: 35 Euro + P&P

The conference proceedings can be ordered directly from the Dachverband Lehm e.V.

Dachverband Lehm e.V.
Postfach 1172
99409 Weimar
Germany

dvl@dachverband-lehm.de
www.dachverband-lehm.de/shop/index_gb.html

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North American Rammed Earth Builders’ Association

The North American Rammed Earth Builders’ Association (NAREBA) is a not for profit entity that offers the opportunity for its members to share in the passion for working with earthen materials and to contribute to the advancement of RE construction. NAREBA builders share a resource base of over 150 years of collective building experience and have committed to building RE walls with the highest standards in the industry.