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Here’s Mud in Your A.I.: Earthen Concrete in the 21st Century

By Bruce King/Build Well: Concrete building and earthen building are the same thing: making larger rocks out of smaller rocks. The differences are simply construction technique and binder.

Now, like two galaxies slowly merging, the ten thousand year old technologies of earthen construction are evolving, improving, and joining with the two hundred year old concrete industry, itself rapidly evolving and adapting to the very new conditions of a new century.

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2025 Building Bridges Scholarship

2025 Building Bridges Conference Scholarship The Natural Building Alliance represents a welcoming community of natural builders that values diversity in background, education, skill, talent, and

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Remembering Matts Myhrman 1938-2024

Remembering Matts Myhrman 1938-2024 Matts Mhyrman, 86, Tucson-based geologist and natural builder who helped reintroduce America to the straw building movement, died Oct. 15, 2024.

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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

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