Mud, Hands, A House
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Make a Simple Sundial: Measure the Earth, Discover the Cosmos
This book shows how to make an accurate sundial with just a bit of simple materials, geometry, and a map with information about your longitude and latitude. It also shows how a sundial is really a model of the relationship between the earth and the sun – and, by extension, …
The Best of Making Things: A Handbook of Creative Discovery
[product id=”2″] 123456789101112131415202530405075100 Children everywhere will welcome this new edition of a classic activity book – as will their teachers and parents (especially those seeking to simplify). A “best of” compilation of two volumes, it is a unique, affordable, and child-sized handbook that doesn’t talk down to anyone. In fact, …
The Hand-Sculpted House
(Excerpted from www.cobcottage.com .) A Cob Cottage might be the ultimate expression of ecological design, a structure so attuned to its surroundings that the authors refer to it as “an ecstatic house.” They build a house the way others create a natural garden, using the oldest, most available materials earth, clay, …
Rocket Mass Heaters: Superefficient Woodstoves YOU Can Build
This book is the second edition to Rocket Stoves to Heat Cob Buildings published by Cob Cottage Company. Drawings, descriptions and photos are improved and added to. This time, they provide more clear instruction on the brick assembly, the part of building rocket stove that is all in the design, …
A Handmade Life: In Search of Simplicity
purchase Winner of The Nautilus Award 2004 in Ecology/Environment, Honoring Distinguished Literary Contribution to Conscious Living and Positive Social Change. If you believe in “learning by doing,†here is my personal recommendation for an important book to add to your Library. — Kiko Denzer William Coperthwaite lives in one of …
Build Your Own Earth Oven
More about Build Your Own Earth Oven: purchase This brand new, completely re-written edition features: revised text: updated, expanded, and completely re-organized so as to simplify the making of a super-insulated design that holds heat longer and burns less fuel; as well as a simplified, 4-step recipe for making really …