Terra Alta - Off The Grid Permaculture Educational Centre. Natural building at Terra Alta 2016. Security Check Required. Workshops and Events. Listed Chronologically Sustainable New Construction April 25 - October 14 The Endeavour Centre Peterborough, ON, Canada Endeavour’s 2016 Sustainable New Construction program is a full time immersion program, with participants taking part in the complete construction cycle of a high-performance building using natural and low-carbon building materials.
Our 2016 project is an affordable elder-care home, featuring side-by-side units for a family and for aging parents/grandparents. This project will feature: Passive House standards for energy efficiency * Jumbo straw bale wall construction * Compressed earth block foundation and walls * High performance HVAC systems * Grid-tied photovoltaic array * Earthen floors and plasters * Local wood products * All natural finishes… and much, much more! See endeavourcentre.org/programs/new-construction for more information. Cob Yoga/Dance/Meditation Studio August 1 to Sept. 11 Cabo Verde, West Africa See cruzincobglobal.org for more information. Courses in self build and eco homes. Learn Green Building Techniques in Workshops Around the US. Ready to get your hands dirty and learn what it takes to actually build a sustainable home?
Turns out you don't have to go back to school and get another degree to get hands-on experience in green building. More Sustainable Building Courses 404 The requested product does not exist. Sustainable building environments and sculpture. Title : 7 day Intensive Cob Workshop Date : Date TBC Location : Bronwydd, Carmarthanshire, S.Wales Cost : £505/ £460 concession (including food and camping).
Course details Inspire yourself and tantalise your senses during a week connecting with the earth at a beautiful rural location in Wales. Objectives. Cob building workshops, natural building, natural design and appropriate technology. Straw-bale building courses. Untitled. Permaculture School: Workshops in 2016 - Permaculture School. Dates: Various in Summer 2017.
See below. Location: Earthaven Ecovillage near Asheville, NC Permaculture School Workshops With the exception of the Permaculture Design Course, all workshops are 3.5 days, Monday – Wednesday, 10am-5pm + Thursday 10a-1pm. (Certified) Permaculture Design Course / PDC May 24 – June 11, 2017[100 hour] Gain experience in systems-thinking and ethics-based approaches to observing, integrating, and creating thriving, bio-diverse environments for people, place and planet. 2017 Workshop dates coming soon. Food As Medicine Workshop [21 hours] Learn how to preserve and enhance the harvest, add value to food, make delicious goodies, and skill up in hands-on whole food practices. Organic Gardening Workshop [21 hours] Learn how to cultivate food and generate living systems as a foundational part of sustaining health, well-being, and life on our planet.
Village & Human Settlements Workshop [21 hours] Learn about different models of ecovillages and Transition Towns. Fee 1. The Natural Building Centre - Home. Natural Building with Cob. What is Cob?
Earth is probably still the world’s commonest building material. The word cob comes from an old English root meaning a lump or rounded mass. Natural Building Workshops for 2016 hosted by naturalhomes.org. School of Natural Building (SNaB) Training Programme Natural Building involves intuition, skill, knowledge and experience.
The School is aimed at people who want to acquire natural building knowledge & skills. Subsequently this learning could be used in various situations depending on ability and aspirations i.e. building your own house, working with others on a natural building project, designing better strawbale buildings, teaching or just for fun! We are particularly looking for women who would like to be natural builders.
Only 1% of workers on the tools in mainstream construction are women, but we estimate that women make up at least 30% of workers in natural building. Traditional and Natural Building Courses in Suffolk, UK. Woodsman, coppicer and natural eco-builder of the Roundwood Timber Framed Woodsman's Cottage. Training - UK Hempcrete. As well as having excellent sustainability credentials, hempcrete is a fun, rewarding material to build with and, once a few important principles are understood, the technique of hempcrete mixing and casting should should not be beyond the reach of any builder or competent DIYer.
However because the materials are by their very nature quite different from conventional building materials, there have been many instances where novice hempcrete builders, through lack of understanding, make simple mistakes (often with the detailing of the material, or the construction technique itself) which can cause unnecesary headaches on a build. At UK Hempcrete we are keen for hempcrete to be used as much as possible, but it is important that builders develop the necessary skills and understanding to use it properly. To help disseminate quality information about the use of hempcrete in construction, we have written The Hempcrete Book and we also provide hempcrete training to suit a range of needs. Natural Living School.
2016 Natural Living School Schedule Work and Class Schedule Monday – Thursday Friday’s will be Natural Building in Grass Valley CA.
We leave camp by 7:10am. Come back by 6pm. Raja Yoga Class on Tuesday’s at 8:30pm. Education & Events. Sustainable building environments and sculpture. Courses. All our courses are based at Plas Helyg, our lovely 7 acre smallholding at the Lammas Eco-village of Tir-y-Gafel.
Courses are run by Nigel & Cassie Lishman. A Complete Build - the Multipurpose Roundhouse ShelterJuly 8th 4pm - July 19th 11am 2016 A reciprocal frame roundhouse is a beautiful structure and yet is deceptively straightforward to build. This makes it ideal for a self builder as a first building project. On this course we will use local timber to create a large 'shed sized' roundhouse that anyone can then recreate as a multipurpose shelter. For this course you don’t need any experience, but you do need lots of enthusiasm, and a commitment to learning and working in a team.
This course is run by experienced self-builder Nigel Lishman who has worked with both Simon Dale and Ben Law, and has built roundhouses and cruck frame buildings. The course fee includes all tuition and will be fully catered serving delicious, mostly organic & locally sourced vegetarian food. Building with Hemp Lime course. This is a two-day course run at Earthship Brighton in partnership with Brighton Permaculture Trust.
The next courses are: Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th June Saturday 9th & Sunday 10th June This course is suitable for anyone interested in learning about building with hemp lime, whether they are planning their own self-build project, are an architect or building contractor, or just wanting to explore how to use this low impact material. No prior knowledge is assumed, so the course is suitable for complete beginners as well as those with some building experience. The course is spread over two days with a mixture of practical and theory sessions, reflecting the fact that, to use hempcrete successfully, builders need to have a proper understanding of the materials as well as good practical skills. Just cobbled together. Louise Roseingrave gets her hands dirty as she finds out if cob houses really do offer the dream option of a cheap and efficient self-built home without a mortgage THE devastation caused by the fallout of the Irish property boom left a sour taste in my mouth.
I need a place to live, however, and so began a mission to explore alternative methods of building. Within weeks, on a sunny Saturday morning, I found my welly-clad legs squelching in the muck of the most primitive building site imaginable. No machinery, no scaffolding, no hard hats. Women's Natural Building Workshop - I CAN FEED MYSELF.