by Richard Flatau | Jan 1, 2013 | Alternative Building, Cob, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, Green building, Natural Building
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 17,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 4 Film...
by Richard Flatau | Dec 20, 2012 | Alternative Building, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, Green building, Natural Building
Heidi Vilkman sent me photos of her wonderful natural building project in southern Finland. You can read more about Heidi’s adventure at https://www.heidivilkman.com/ go to the Eco link. Here is Heidi’s intro “This blog is about following my dream to...
by Richard Flatau | Oct 20, 2012 | Alternative Building, Cordwood Construction, Green building, Natural Building
Olle Hagman built his Writer’s cabin in Sweden in order to have a natural haven from the hustle and bustle of his job as a professor of sociology at Gotenburg University. He wrote two articles for the Cordwood Conference Papers 2011: A Social History of...
by Richard Flatau | Sep 17, 2012 | Alternative Building, Cordwood Construction, Green building, Natural Building
The Kinstone Cordwood Chapel continues on pace to completion. Weekend workdays are helping to finish the walls. Motifs with a nature theme are being placed in the walls: night, day, stars, wind, river, trees. Here are some pictures of the first completed 12 foot...
by Richard Flatau | Aug 11, 2012 | Alternative Building, Cordwood Construction, Green building, Natural Building, Uncategorized
An outstanding article about Ed McAllen’s cordwood home in Galesville, WI is featured in the current edition of New Pioneer Magazine. The article reports how Ed and his wife Julie built their lovely cordwood home for around $23,000, completing it in 1998. The...
by Richard Flatau | Aug 2, 2012 | Alternative Building, Cordwood Construction, Green building, Natural Building, Uncategorized
Tom Huber has been building cordwood for a long time. He sold his beautiful cordwood home in Watervilet, Michigan in 2005 when he moved to take a teaching position at Paul Smith’s College in the Adirondacks in upstate New York. Once he found some suitable land...
