Are you looking for a DIY construction technique for building an affordable earthquake-, flood-, and bullet-resistant home? Look no further. Many years ago, after spending a significant amount of time ...

One of the greatest needs in the world is disaster-resistant housing – houses that can hold up against hurricanes, earthquakes, fires, flooding and other natural disasters. Events like this that ...

I am extremely happy to announce another major first for earthbag building. Precision Engineering has generously provided drawings and specifications for building earthbag structures in seismic areas ...

Fagnoon Art School hosted a workshop for teaching the latest methods of earthbag building, an inexpensive construction method, hoping to bring the innovative technique to their farms and villages.

In the video above, Andrew Mumford, co-founder of Permaculture South Africa, introduces us to “earthbag” building—a way of constructing strong homes cheaply and quickly. The technique has actually ...

Largely thanks to Khalili and Cal-Earth (The California Institute of Earth Art and Architecture, which he founded), earthbag building has permeated public consciousness in recent years, although the ...

A design by C-re-a.i.d. for a Maasai village in northern Tanzania, is a morphological response to the imposed need to settle, using sustainable, local and accessible materials to redefine its ...

Cob hands. Taken at The Firefly Gathering by Aiyanna Sezak-Blatt The massive earthquake that rattled Nepal on April 25 and the powerful aftershocks that followed have left much of the nation in ...

An affordable "earth home", built from rendered clay and materials from the local area, has given a family a fresh start after a fire and then a storm destroyed two of their homes in the last three ...

Largely thanks to Khalili and Cal-Earth (The California Institute of Earth Art and Architecture, which he founded), earthbag building has permeated public consciousness in recent years, although the ...