by Richard Flatau | Apr 3, 2012 | Alternative Building, Cordwood Construction, Green building, Uncategorized
Cordwood & Natural Building Workshop Fountain City, Wisconsin July 1-14, 2012 https://kinstonecircle.com/?page_id=225 We will be teaching at a Natural Building Workshop this summer nearFountain City,Wisconsinat Kinstone. We will teach an intensive three day...
by Richard Flatau | Mar 13, 2012 | Alternative Building, Cordwood Construction, Green building, Uncategorized
Here is a listing of our upcoming workshops in Wisconsin and Alabama for 2012. If you are interested in one of these workshops, please read the information carefully. If you are able to print the registration form, do so and then snail mail it to the address listed...
by Richard Flatau | Mar 6, 2012 | Alternative Building, Cordwood Construction, Green building, Uncategorized
The new book Cordwood Construction: Best Practices 2012 has just arrived “hot off the presses.” It is the work of long time cordwood builder Richard Flatau. It is reported that this is the most up-to-date tome on cordwood building. Cordwood...
by Richard Flatau | Feb 12, 2012 | Alternative Building, Cordwood Construction, Green building
Recycling bottles is easy with cordwood construction. Simply stick them in the walls! Take a clear bottle and a a colored bottle, put them together, mortar them in the wall and “let the sunshine in…” These are a few of the many ways to make your...
by Richard Flatau | Feb 10, 2012 | Alternative Building, Cordwood Construction, Green building
When we built the White Earth Reservation Cordwood Home we had not only an excellent general contractor (Robert Zahorski) but we had a tribal project director (Bill Paulson) who is an artist of significant skill. He created the Ojibway Medicine Wheel in the cordwood...
