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New Jura Natural Building in collaboration with Sustainable Homestead Designs is proud to announce another Pine Ridge Project, the last Pine Ridge Project was led by Coenraad Rogmans of House Alive and a beautiful cob/strawbale home was built, on this build we are going to build a 30′x30′ pallet house!!
Pallets are a huge waste material in the US and abroad, their use as design structures has exploded among the “green” and architectural communities.
Our goal is to show the practicality of pallets as more than a design and incorporate them into a real living structure!!
Other groups have taken to building these very inexpensive homes in areas such as Mexico and South America and have put together some very beautiful homes.
We will be building this home on the Oglala-Lakota Pine Ridge Reservation, an area where homelessness, violence, alcoholism and abject poverty is extremely high!!
From WikiPedia:
“The Oglala Lakota or Oglala Sioux (pronounced [oɡəˈlala], meaning “to scatter one’s own” in Lakota language) live in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota bordering Nebraska and 50 miles east of Wyoming, the second-largest Indian reservation in the United States. The reservation has broadly three parts, pine covered hills and ridges, grassy plains and a desert area. The Oglala are one of seven Lakota sub-tribes, and they are federally recognized as the Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation.”
I will be offering an 8 person apprenticeship on this build where I will take you through the complete build, foundation to finished home and teach you how to build your own.
More information will be available on our website http://newjurabuilding.info
This post was submitted by David Reed.
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