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french drain pipe - not for water from above?

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double chamber cob oven plans - download

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The $50 and Up Underground House Book by Mike Oehler - digital download

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I built a Cinva-Ram CEB press, and I made it easier for you to build one too!

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Solar Dehydrator Plans - Combo Package download

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My shipping container cabin/shelter

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the ultimate skiddable bee hut

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Mike Oehler's Low-Cost Underground House Workshop & Survival Shelter Seminar - 3 DVD+2 Books Deal

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Alone in the Wilderness - The Story of Dick Proenneke

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Raised Earth Foundations

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porta-cabin - love shack

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Photos Of Alternative Buildings & Structures

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balecob home on earthbag foundation--building progress

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Cheapest earthbags you know of?

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Natural Swimming Pool

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Sepp Holzer root cellar

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Making cob 101 (the basics of basics)

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treehouses

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glass bottles/jars as roofing?

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DIY Dirt Road maintenance and improvement

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PEP BB roundwood.sand.club - club style mallet from hand tools

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How Vile is Concrete?

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natural, semi-affordable flooring in a prexisting house?

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Can one make cedar shingles without a froe-like device?

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Oh the stories it could tell

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Wet Spun Building

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Using Wood Ash as Floor Insulation..?

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Mike Oehler under ground home

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Passion fruit shading of tropical household walls and roof.

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Anyone have a recipe for lime paint to prevent mold in cinder block root cellar?

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Root re-enforced earthen structures.

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Building By Yourself

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Floating amphibious homes....with spring flooding approaching.

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Permaculture building (structure) philosophy?

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Keeping Track of Costs - Big Book of Receipts. (Insert dramatic piano chords)

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permaculture tinkerers presentation

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Building food storage solutions into earthen floor?

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$5000 House on the High Plains Challenge

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Preventing condensation on windows in winter

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Attic insulation

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cob or dirt floors

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When crazy dreams and crazy ideas collide, yeah? ^.^

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Clay Straw walls

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Wood ash refractory formula?

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Pure Clay as a building material?

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Anyone have a recipe for lime paint to prevent mold in cinder block root cellar?

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Any Arizona county (besides Cochise) which allow “non-traditional” building? Or California? Or...?

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I built a Cinva-Ram CEB press, and I made it easier for you to build one too!

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balecob home on earthbag foundation--building progress

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Small shake roof

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Rocket Mass Heater in tipi?

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Building a Tornado-Resistant House

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Passion fruit shading of tropical household walls and roof.

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Bamboo and daub house for subtropical climate?

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Yurt Living in Humid Climates?

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Do you have an old-fashioned sawbuck? Do you have ANY sawbuck? How'd you make it? Let us see it!

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PEP BB roundwood.sand.club - club style mallet from hand tools

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Bush steps down a slope

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Natural Canvas Wrapped Mongolian Inspired Yurts for the Off the Grid DIY type....

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