Archive for December, 2011

[ July 29, 2012 to September 14, 2012. ] The Sustainable Shelter Workshop Series is a 7 week course designed to empower participants with the ability to design/build/renovate their own home using simple techniques and natural, vernacular materials. During this course we will start from the ground and move up teaching not only the art/science of natural building and green design, but the corresponding [...]

[ August 5, 2012 to August 25, 2012. ] During these three weeks you will construct a sauna and, time permitting, a cob oven, from start to finish. As part of this program you will learn the basics of making a foundation, building four different wall systems with materials including cob, straw bale, light-straw-clay and cob-cordwood, and constructing a living roof. In addition you [...]

[ December 17, 2011; ] 10:00am – dark

Southern California just had a 100 year wind event that caused major tree damage. There are no written plans for the fallen trees, except bring them to the landfill and burry them or burn them which adds to global climate change. Let’s show the city what can be done to create green jobs [...]

[ July 22, 2012 to August 2, 2012. ] Come join us in July 2012 for a comprehensive straw bale building workshop at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage, where you will learn valuable skills you need to know to build your own straw bale home. You’ll get hands-on experience stacking, securing, and pinning bales, and plastering the walls with local clay. Enjoy and learn from the [...]

[ June 8, 2012 to June 17, 2012. ] The SunDog 9-day workshop is designed to teach ordinary people the skills to build their own cob cottages, from the foundation to the roof. Our projects are small, mostly under 200 square feet, geared towards attaining a high level of completion in a short amount of time.
we’ll take you through an intensive, step by step, [...]