Events

[ July 9, 2010 to July 17, 2010. ] This workshop will be held at our Partner location in Point Arena California in beautiful sunny Mendicino County at the Mobert complex.
One of the most comprehensive cob course available in North America. In the past 15 years, Cob Cottage Company has taught almost 200 major cob courses. In 9 intensive days, we’ll cover in depth [...]

[ July 11, 2010 to July 16, 2010. ] This five-day course will teach the art of building with natural stone and the intelligence and logic behind it. The goal is to build a series of sculptural elements culminating in an arched entryway. Class discussions will include the science behind an arch and engineering the wooden form for its support while under construction. Taking [...]

[ 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 [...]

[ July 10, 2010 to July 18, 2010. ] This workshop offers an incredibly rich learning experience that has made it our most popular for the last 5 years. During the workshop you will develop the confidence, knowledge and skills to design and build your own natural building and sustainable living project. This workshop is for you if you are interested in [...]

[ July 5, 2010 to August 29, 2010. ] House Alive! is again offering an opportunity for people to get beyond the basics and experience an extended Natural Building apprenticeship. This immensely popular intensive course is designed for people who want to use natural building skills in a professional context or who want to take extra time to work on skill development for their [...]

[ 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 [...]

[ July 11, 2010 to July 24, 2010. ] This year’s Cob and Community will be held in the mountains above
Summerland, B.C. We will be building a recording studio of 1,000 square feet
with a post and beam frame made out of locally harvested logs. We will also
build all of the the window and door frames. Participants will learn every
aspect of cob construction: identifying materials, [...]