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Sustainable Living Apprenticeships in Costa Rica!
The Sustainable Living Apprenticeship Program is geared toward those who want to immerse themselves into learning sustainable living techniques. Our rigorous curriculum offers you the hands-on experience to build your own home, start a business building for others, or kick-start a teaching career in the green industry. We offer a range of earth building techniques which utilize local, recycled, and low cost materials. Our goal is to give you the skills and guide you on the path toward self-sufficiency. Our…
Find out more »2017 Apprenticeship in Natural Building
The Natural Living School May 1st – October 31st. $800 Month The Natural Living School is looking for highly motivated students interested in making natural building a career. Students get hands on experience as well as class time. Participants will learn how to build a natural structure to code. For more information on our programs visit our website or give us a call. www.naturallivingschool.com Pablo: 530-277-8127
Find out more »SUMMER WORKTRADE IN ASHEVILLE
[SUMMER WORKTRADE IN ASHEVILLE] Come live, learn, work & grow with us! Beautiful Eco-Urban Homestead & Goddess Sanctuary. Downtown Asheville neighborhood. Bordering 60 acres of woods & trails. Awesome community of women. HANDS-ON: Gardening + site maintenance + general tasks. Give 4 hours work/day. Get a place to camp on site, gardening & herbalism classes, organic goodies from the gardens, wifi, laundry & a naturally-treated hot tub! ELIGIBILITY: You must be responsible, clean, tidy & have some gardening/farming background. No…
Find out more »6-MONTH RESIDENTIAL INTERNSHIP
[6-MONTH RESIDENTIAL INTERNSHIP] Asheville, NC. 3 positions available >> Live, learn & grow with us at a beautiful Eco-Urban Homestead & Goddess Sanctuary. You will gain experience in the full spectrum of what we do: hands-on gardening, homesteading, site maintenance, seasonal tasks & house care. Camping, garden goodies & classes are provided. Some previous experience is necessary. For details & application, visit www.ashevillage.org/residential-internship
Find out more »Earthbag Building Workshop in Taos New Mexico by Earth and Sun Sustainable Builders
CO-CREATE A SUSTAINABLE EARTHBAG HOME JUNE 26 – OCT. 27, 2017 TAOS, NEW MEXICO Join for a week to four months. Earthbag building is an environmentally friendly and affordable building method suitable to most climates and geographies. Building blocks are made with soil collected on the building site and contained in polypropylene woven bags. In certain circumstances the bags are filled with other materials such as gravel, pumice, or sand. The bags can also be made of natural fibers such…
Find out more »Natural Building Apprenticeship Program
The Natural Builder’s Apprenticeship Program is advanced training in natural building; it has been designed as an introduction for people who want to make their livelihood from natural building, as builders, instructors and/or what have you. Apprentices will experience an intensive building curriculum during their time with us. We teach a wide selection of powerful natural building techniques, stepping through the building process, from design to finish. Part of Sundog’s philosophy in building is continually asking how to maximize smart…
Find out more »Learning to Live Off-the-Grid with Fast Cob!
Fast Cob! will give you the tools to create shelter, but we’ll also look at many ways to collect rainwater, use greywater, create a garden site and forage wild foods. All systems we will look at are created and maintained without fossil fuels, using only human, solar, and micro-hydro power. Every workshop day, we start with a meditative building session, followed by a hot, hearty breakfast. Two longer hands-on learning sessions sandwich a hot vegetarian lunch. Two snack breaks make…
Find out more »10-week Natural Building apprenticeship
In 2017 House Alive will be returning to one of the most magical places on earth: Jhamtse Gatsal children’s community. Located in North Eastern India, on the border with Bhutan, it is a place filled with love, beauty, adventure and community. Our 2015 apprentice group built a cob cottage from start to finish during our 8 week program, using almost exclusively local materials. As a natural building apprentice, you will go through the extraordinary experience of being part of a building…
Find out more »Introduction to Cob Workshop
Dates: September 25 – September 29, 2017 Location: Keystone Heights, Florida Come and join us in Florida for our Introduction to Cob Workshop! We will be constructing a small cob cottage. A perfect project for beginners and experts alike! This workshop is a great experience to learn how to build with cob and to get a broad learning overview of natural building techniques. You will get a solid foundation in cob building fundamentals. We will be constructing cob walls…
Find out more »28-day Complete Cob (Foundations, Walls, Floor & Roof) Guest House in Taylor, Texas (near Austin)
Project & Location Make sure you attend this full cob building workshop, the only one we are teaching this year! In the ideal Texan building season we will come together for one month (weekends will be free) to learn how to build a cob structure from foundation to roof, in lectures and hands-on work. We will also enjoy extra activities like yoga, chi gong, massage and local outings led by our hostess Jessica and her Austin-based Green Community. As usual…
Find out more »Introduction to Cob Workshop
Dates: November 6th – November 10th, 2017 Location: Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica Come and join us in beautiful Costa Rica for our Introduction to Cob Workshop! We will be constructing a kitchen room extension with cob and a decorative earthen wall for an existing beach home. This is a perfect class for both beginners and experts alike! This workshop is a great experience to learn how to build with cob and to get a broad learning overview of natural…
Find out more »Natural Building, Ecological Design, and Mayan Tz´utujil Culture
An Introduction to Ecological Building Techniques With focus on wattle and daub, earth bags, cob, and natural plasters November 25 — December 2, 2017 Intro to Ecological Construction For thousands of years, people have been building their homes out of the dirt beneath their feet. Natural and vernacular building techniques have roots in every culture around the world, but share the distinction of using local materials, being energy efficient, and having a low ecological footprint. Only during the past century…
Find out more »Complete Cob and Natural Building
Overview This is the most comprehensive workshop you can find. Decades of teaching on 4 different continents has helped us design this rich learning experience, giving students the tools they need to become confident earthen builders. Earth is the mother of all building materials. For millennia, and all over the world, people have used earth to build beautiful, simple, efficient and inexpensive homes. It’s plentiful, ecological and non-toxic. Plus, it can’t burn, won’t rot and is much easier and easier…
Find out more »Complete Cob and Natural Building
Overview This is the most comprehensive workshop you can find. Decades of teaching on 4 different continents has helped us design this rich learning experience, giving students the tools they need to become confident earthen builders. Earth is the mother of all building materials. For millennia, and all over the world, people have used earth to build beautiful, simple, efficient and inexpensive homes. It’s plentiful, ecological and non-toxic. Plus, it can’t burn, won’t rot and is much easier and easier…
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