Events

[ June 19, 2010 to June 27, 2010. ] (to be held at the Hollies complex in Co.Cork, Ireland – visit their website at www.theholliesonline.com)
After the great success in previous years the Hollies are looking forward to run this very comprehensive building course again this year. At the end of the 9 days you will know all you need to be able to go [...]

[ June 16, 2010 to June 23, 2010. ] We’ll be building a Rumford fireplace as well as a rocket mass oven with a heated bed and bench at an amazing beautiful location in the forest by Zensee, some 90 km from Berlin. We’ll also make an earthen bread/pizza oven, start a cob structure and likely some initial layers for an earthen floor.

The workshop [...]

[ June 19, 2010 to June 27, 2010. ] A complete cob workshop that provides the skills necessary to transform the earth into a cottage or studio. We will cover design, passive solar, foundations, soils/materials, cob mixing, straw-bale hybrids, doors and windows, sculptural details, roofing, plastering, flooring and more. Using inexpensive natural and local materials we’ll create a garden studio of great durability [...]

[ April 14, 2010 to September 14, 2010. ] Come live and work in our rural intentional community and join us in constructing our new Community House. Areas will include framing, natural wall systems, base coat and finish plasters, living roofs and finish carpentry. Visit www.emeraldearth.org or contact community@emeraldearth.org.

[ May 25, 2010 to July 22, 2010. ] The Natural Building Skillbuilder 2010 is a 9 week internship program at O.U.R.Ecovillage.
Participate in our learning community and learn natural building techniques.
Please read more on our website:

http://ourecovillage.org/our-activities/education-2/natural-building-skillbuilder/

[ June 1, 2010 to September 1, 2010. ] We are a young couple building a 250 square foot strawbale and cob structure on our rural land in southeastern Virginia. We are offering flexible internship positions and short term volunteer opportunities during the summer of 2010. Experiences will range from laying stone, making cob, and applying earthen plaster, and all the steps between. Interested [...]

[ June 20, 2010 to August 20, 2010. ] Cobworks is currently seeking 4-6 apprentices to build with us this summer.
During the course, apprentices will learn how to:
build a dry-stack stone foundations while working with a minimal amount of
concrete
select and collect sustainable roundwood from forest
run a small bandsaw mill; turning logs to lumber
design and build a greywater system and composting toilet
learn to safely operate [...]