Earthbag Internship opportunity in Arecibo, Puerto Rico
for community project, guided by Plenitud Eco-Educativas
Intern needed From October through December, during construction of a SuperAdobe dome, which will serve as a community healing center. Previous experience in earthbag/natural building preferred, but we will train a willing, dedicated volunteer if necessary. Please call (787) 806-7094, or email: pplenitud@gmail.com. To learn more see: http://www.plenitudpr.org .
8/10
Earthbag Construction in Uganda
Volunteer Opportunity for hands on experience and training
Hungry Minds Educational Society provides vocational training to Ugandan adults. We are building an adult education centre in Kisowera, Mukono, about 30 km from Kampala .
Construction is set to begin in January 2011 on our first building - a starter home, designed by community members. This will be an earthbag building, incorporating a root cellar, rainwater collection, composting toilet, solar cooker and adobe built-ins. We hope to finish by April 2011.
We welcome all volunteers to join us for any length of time during construction and anticipate living costs to be approximately US$500 per week. This is an opportunity for those with no experience to get first-hand knowledge of constructing using earthbags. We are also looking for volunteers who have skills in earthbag building to help with the training of our Ugandan learners.
For full details, email: hungry.mindsATymail.com.
Read more about us at: http://hungryminds.yolasite.com
Here is the latest photo of the 20 footer dome. The building is a little slow, we only have a crew of 4 right now. We are looking for a few volunteers to get this structure higher and higher. We have a Cal Earth instructor and long term apprentice. It would be a great opportunity for people interested in Earthbag building to get some hands on experience and learn a lot. We have lots of free camping space on a large river front private property and lots fresh food from the organic garden for those who can help. The site location is Winlaw B.C. The contact is Shari ( spidar1919ATgmail.com )
7/10
My name's Matt Gunn and I'm looking for experienced earthbag builders to help supervise the construction of our first building for an orphanage in Leogane, Haiti. We will be starting with two simple, 1,200 sq. foot vertical wall structures. We hope to begin around the first week of August. We will provide experienced earthbag builders with safe transportation to and from the airport, a safe place to stay, and all meals. We will have all tools, materials and laborers on site and ready to go. I'm on the ground here now if you have any questions. My email is mattAThaitianydc.org
7/10
4/10
Seeking volunteers with knowledge of Earth Bag building who would like to practice by helping us build a home in a sustainable community in Tuczon. Please contact Martha Dominguez 505 275 0597 or by email at marthacdATearthlink.net
4/10
Honduras-La Esperanza-Intibuca looking for volunteers to help with building sustainable project for the indigenous people who are Maya and Lenca. We provide housing and food; volunteers pay for air travel. This is a beautiful area in western Honduras...great place to visit learn the language or get fluent in Spanish. Travel is organized from the Airport to Intibuca; people will be taken care of and the project is to help people. The education center and other buildings are being done with earthbags and will be using solar and wind power. Contact Martha Maya-Lenca Indigenous at 505-275 0597 or email marthacdATearthlink.net
4/10
One of our (my fiance and I) primary goals in life is to build our own earth bag home once we acquire our own parcel of land. We would very much like to learn at least SOME green-building skills relevant to us if we could... but so far I cannot seem to find many such opportunities offered in the US that are either as comprehensive as I'd hope or don't cost a fortune just to participate. We'd love to just have the opportunity to be someone's apprentice or work hands on helping someone else build their house so long as we could thus freely gain the experience by such acts of volunteering. We will be available late in 2011.
Ellen Selm
Email: thesolitudeofheartATyahoo.com 3/10
Earthbag and Strawbale Full Season Natural Building Work Exchange
Are you interested in learning about Natural Building Techniques including Strawbale, Cob, and Earthbag? Do you want to get some actual hands-on experience building with earth, straw, clay, wood, and sand? Would you like to experience community life in an off-the-grid, sustainable ecovillage? If you answer YES! to these questions, then you should be interested in this work exchange opportunity! We have work exchange openings for 2-3 self-motivated, self-aware individuals looking to be here for several months from May through October. See www.dancingrabbit.org for more information.
2/17
Yo Yo earthbag wrestlers I have been following this method for a few years and have now had the chance to donate a build. I am writing in reference to afford-ability as I have purchased the materials I needed including bags, initial cement, tools and a wheel barrow for under $1000 Australian. I estimated I could get up to 3 small domes from this. This structure is at an Aboriginal Embassy called Kuradji on the beach front of a world famous surfing spot Sandon Point, Bulli NSW east coast Australia. I am doing this in preparation for independent action on the housing crisis in the Northern Territory. I am getting together a ‘do it our sovereign selves' crew to go up and alleviate this emergency response with real solutions and sand bags… This is a call out for help and interested sand bag builders. These projects in remote Aboriginal Communities mostly desert where people are living in car bodies, tents and tin shacks in the hot Australian sun. Any interested funders, working crew or angels please contact: Daniel Jones, Indigenous Studies student at Southern Cross University, Lismore.
Daniel Jones dantares13ATgmail.com
2/10
From the beginning of June thru July 2010 we will be building an Earthbag studio/home and any help is welcome. We are a small organic orchard in the Sierra Foothills between Sacramento and Tahoe/Reno of Hwy 80 in a rural town called Cool. We will be happy to provide good food and a good experience! Very close to exciting hiking, river rafting/kayaking, fishing, horseback trails, goldpanning and more. Dan Alcorn Email: dalcorn13ATyahoo.com for more information or directions.
1/10
Looking for work building Earthbag Structures. I am a physically fit female, Cal Earth trained. Spent time at the Institute last spring, learned a lot, helped teach a couple of workshops. I would like to continue building with this amazing technique, gaining experience, spreading awareness and helping others. I am currently situated in southern BC, but I have my own accommodation and mobility with a 30ft RV and Motorbike. Willing to travel to worksite. Please contact Shari at: spidar1919ATgmail.com
1/10
Earthbag building on Koh Phangan, Thailand
Basic infrastructure (road, water) on our hillside (and seaview) jungle property has been set up in april/may of 2009. So far, we built a rather large toolshed with attached room, and a freeform earthbag house between boulders (for visuals, see http://picasaweb.google.com/phanganearthworks/) . We are soon beginning construction of several earthbag domes and are looking for enthusiasts to come, work and learn with us on this beautiful tropical island. Freshmen welcome, earthbag experience not required. At this point we can offer free accommodation in tents or possibly a room, besides the great opportunity to learn how to build your own house/dome. Short stays also welcome. Please email phanganearthworksATgmail.com for further information. Warm regards, we look forward to hearing from you!
12/09
I am
looking for a trainer to teach an earthbag building workshop
in Tijuana.
I am offering 149 plots of land for sale and I'd like to build one or two model sandbag homes (and a school to host workshops) so that the potential customers build following a similar model. I hope to offset the "traditional" cardboard and garage-door make shift houses that people build there. I feel that with good counsel and information people there will have the opportunity to build better housing. Here is a link to a website that has pictures of the property and my contact information: www.lotes-elcarrizito.com
12/09
My wife and I are looking for an earthbag project in TX., NM., AZ., or So. CA this winter. We want to volunteer and learn skills we can then use on our land in IA. this spring. Adam Albright, email: earthwormcollectiveATgmail.com
11/09
Earthbag building on Koh Phangan, Thailand
Basic infrastructure (road, water) on our hillside (and seaview) jungle property has been set up in april/may of 2009. So far, we built a rather large toolshed with attached room, and a freeform earthbag house between boulders (for visuals, see http://picasaweb.google.com/phanganearthworks/) . We are soon beginning construction of several earthbag domes and are looking for enthusiasts to come, work and learn with us on this beautiful tropical island. Freshmen welcome, earthbag experience not required. At this point we can offer free accommodation in tents or possibly a room, besides the great opportunity to learn how to build your own house/dome. Short stays also welcome. Please email phanganearthworksATgmail.com for further information. Warm regards, we look forward to hearing from you!
12/09
Natural Building, Earthbag Dome Work Exchange
Get hands-on experience building an earthbag dome at Dancing Rabbit ecovillage. This small house will have a living roof, earthen floor and cob walls.
Learn more about Jeffs Earthbag Building Work Exchange 3/09
On the June 14th, 2009, work on an earthbag project in the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota will begin.
A group calling themselves Nature's Compassion collaborated to organize a trip for seven Lakota people to drive across the country from South Dakota to Hesperia, California, where they all took a training course at Cal-Earth . They learned how to build eco-domes using earthbags, barbed wire, the earth under their feet, their hearts and of course their hands. Cal-Earth committed to come share their building expertise with them on the reservation this spring, when they will launch the first sustainable living project on the land of the American Horse Family.
Also some folks from recycledrice.org will be there to share their knowledge. They want people to come, camp, and help, even if it's just to take pictures, give advice, learn, cook, inspire, whatever. There will be potty shacks and water at the site. It could be a great assembly of green building people, serving and learning together.
The original design for the project was a Cal-earth ecodome, about 400 sq. ft. Then, they decided to build a tipi and connect them with an arch hallway. Of course, the tipi and it's main door will be to the
east. 3/09
Earthbag Roundhouse Workshop
April 19-25, 2010
Sakon Nakhon , Northeast Thailand
Round earthbag office: 15' interior diameter, 18” walls, earthbag foundation; Wood doors and windows, small bathroom, earthbag benches; 16 sided wood bond beam, steel compression ring; 16 sided roof is framed with 8 wood poles and milled lumber, plus terra cotta tile; Exposed wood ceiling with peeled eucalyptus saplings; Cupola with vents for natural convection cooling.
General building plan: Build walls and roof in one week (some parts won't be completely finished, such as the plaster and roof tiles, but we will do as much as we can so you get at least some experience on each step of construction). Hard, dirty work will be completed before the workshop (earthwork, digging trenches, peeling poles, etc.) so the focus can remain on learning. Workshop participants can assist with any or all building activities as they choose (ex: you may or may not want to climb on the roof, that's okay)
The emphasis is on hands-on learning, although there will be short training periods throughout the day with white board, and question and answer sessions.
Cost: $500 includes excellent hotel, shuttle van, breakfasts, dinners, snacks
Instructor: Owen Geiger
Sign-up procedure:
1. Send a short note saying “yes, I am interested in your workshop” by email to strawhousesATyahoo dot com.
2. If we get enough people to fill the workshop, then I will contact you and ask for a $100 non-refundable deposit.
3. Full payment will be required sometime next spring.
4. Note: First come, first served. Every workshop I've taught has sold out.
For more information see earthbagplans.wordpress.com/workshops
I have been studying earthbag building for a little over two years now and have yet to build one. I'm looking for some one or ones with experience who might want to work with me on a project in the Caribbean. I can be reached at: jahvjahvATgmail.com or 4109251825 6/08
I wish to create a kind of Utopia on the basis of the philosophy of Mother Earth on which we stand and are kept alive. Many youngsters throughout the world gather to think about the Mother planet so as to realize that we are all brothers and sisters under the bosom of Parent God or Goddess, beyond different sects of religions.
If we start to build one unit of the ecovillage, and if we can get some attention from the philanthropists who share with our vision, God may give us another chance to advance a step further for humanity. 'Till then and in the future, we remain unknown and modest as we proceed the way that we think right and just, with materially poor but spiritually rich people of Africa and materially rich but spritually poor people of the advanced nations. We learn a lot of wisdom from African people as we did in India and
Afghanistan. We are helped by them, not we help them. This is the joy that I am now experiencing amidst a lot of difficulties facing us.
From suffering for others, a real joy is to be born within us. That means we are not helping them, but they are helping us!
Akio Inoue
a-inoueATsta.tenri-u.ac.jp 6/08