News
2023 Conference
nballiance

Call for conference proposals – 2023

The Natural Building Alliance is now seeking presentation and workshop proposals for our upcoming Rocky Mountain Natural Building Conference. We plan to have keynote presentations, several “breakout” presentations and/or discussions, and outdoor hands-on workshops similar to our conferences in the past. If you’d like to be a presenter or workshop host at this year’s conference, please read on.

Read More »
January 7, 2023 No Comments
Natural Building
nballiance

Boulder Green Home Tour

Our friends at the Colorado Green Building Guild are proud to present the 6th annual Boulder Green Home Tour on Saturday, September 25th, 2021.  Participants

Read More »
July 21, 2021 No Comments
2021 Conference
nballiance

New RMNB Conference Date – October 14-16, 2021

We hope to keep the overall format of the conference as much the same as possible to what we already have set up. Some things may inevitably need to change of course, so stay tuned for updates on that. If you’re currently registered for the conference as an attendee, presenter, or vendor, your registration WILL remain active, and we’ll assume you’re still excited and able to join us in 16 short months.

Read More »
July 2, 2020 No Comments
2021 Conference
nballiance

Sign Up for a Conference 5×5 slot

5×5 means 5 minutes, 5 slides. Each presenter signs up in advance and gets 5 minutes to do a presentation with a maximum of 5 slides (err, images). Presentations can be about basically anything related to natural building.

Read More »
February 18, 2020 No Comments
Straw Bale
nballiance

May 2019 Straw Bale Workshop – Lyons, Colorado

We’d like to thank everyone that came out to our Bale Stacking and Plastering Workshop back in May. The tumultuous spring weather held out for us and we had a great team for a day of fun. A big THANK YOU to Morgan Cate of Adaptive Habitats Construction and Dave Kaplan of Elevated Design-Build for letting us consume their Saturday.

Read More »
May 20, 2019 No Comments
News
nballiance

What’s in name…

COSBA will officially be changing its name to the Natural Building Alliance. Our mission, vision, and goals will remain much the same – just in an expanded format. In addition to straw bales, we’ll be honoring and advocating for ALL genres of natural building materials and methods: adobe, cob, hempcrete, timber, you name it.

Read More »
April 17, 2019 No Comments