DVD Contents:
Earth Walls: Cob and Straw Bale
Construction in Wisconsin (27 minutes)
Organizers, entrepreneurs, and community volunteers at Madison’s
Willy St. Co-op and in rural Wisconsin build with cob (made with
clay, sand, and straw) and insulate a home with straw bales. Participants
celebrate the fun of natural building and talk about how to change
conventional construction so that similar projects can catch on
in cities. Includes demonstrations of foundations, cob mixing and
wall-building, and lime plastering.
Earth Walls excerpt, "Education
(2.5 minutes about cob building)
Photo album from the cob courtyard project
Earth Walls excerpt, "Building Codes"
(7 minutes about straw bale building)
Earth Walls appearances: Wisconsin Public Television, Wisconsin Film Festival
One
Year Later: Touching up the cob wall plaster (8 minutes)
The Hybrid Straw Bale Home revisited
(5 minutes)
Reflections on Natural Building: A
conversation with Marlin Nissen, Randy Gates, and Serenity Wehrenberg
of Outta The Box (80 minutes)
Includes discussion of choosing what kind of house to build, new
ideas for walls, foundation and roofing options, utilizing insulation
and thermal mass, embodied energy, permaculture, approaching a design,
and building codes.
Featuring:
Outta The Box: created
by Randy Gates and Marlin Nissen to educate people about natural
building and edible landscaping.
Acorn Enterprises: a Midwest-based natural and green building contractor
specializing in custom remodeling, natural building, furniture and
cabinetry, and permaculture.
Gimme Shelter: Masonry heaters, Rumford fireplaces, outdoor
ovens and more.
Music from the soundtrack: Noahjohn and Mad
Trucker Gone Mad from Madison, WI.
The
Willy St. Co-op grocery in Madison, WI,
the site of the cob courtyard featured in the film.
More resources for permaculture, natural and green building, and sustainability.
