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April 10th-20th, 2010
Patillas, Puerto Rico
Your Instructor: Scott Howard
Learn about earthbag dome design and construction, earthen plasters, and methods of roofing using locally available plants. Complete a 13 x 13 foot earthbag dome that will be a bedroom. While you are there, learn about the local rainforest ecology and demonstrations of sustainable agriculture and forestry.
Gain the skills you need to build your own Earthbag dome: Dome design, Permaculture Design (as it applies to buildings), Earthbag and Gravel Foundations, Earthbag and Cob Wall systems, Passive Solar, Window placement, Earthen
floors, Earthen plasters.
Preregistration is required.
Taught in English and Spanish by the instructor.
Tuition = $1400
10% discount for bringing a friend!
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- Cross-cultural natural building
January 9-25, 2010
Dogon Country, Mali, Africa
Instructors: Scott Howard, and Atime Saye (local elder and guide).
Come build an earthen schoolroom for the Dogon people of Tirelli! Learn
about earthbag dome design and construction, as well as Dogon mud
building, agriculture and society.
Join us for this unique opportunity that will allow you to live and work with the Dogon people while learning how to build your own Earthbag dome. Topics include: Dogon culture, architecture, agriculture, and archaeology; Dome design, Permaculture Design, Earthbag and Gravel Foundations, Earthbag and
Cob Wall systems, Passive Solar, Window placement, Earthen
floors, Earthen plasters.
Preregistration is required.
Taught in English and French with aid of translators.
Tuition = $1800
10% discount for bringing a friend!
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See photos of this summer's Earth bag house workshop series.
Oct. 17th, 10am - 6pm
Newberry Cohousing, Portland, Oregon
Instructors: Scott Howard and co.
Topics include: Construction, materials, soils, plants, and care of living broofs.
This is a one-day workshop that will provide hands-on experience creating a living "eco-roof", on a new earthen cabin. Learn the advantages of living roofs, how to construct an eco-roof, how to plant your roof, and how to care for your roof-top garden. Have fun learning in this practical workshop that includes good camaraderie.
Workshop goes from 10am-6pm, excellent lunch provided.
$100 if you register by Oct. 10, $125 after.
Space is limited.
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November 8th, 12pm - 4pm
Newberry Cohousing, Portland, Oregon
Instructors: Scott Howard and co.
This one-day event will take participants through every step of building our earthen cabin.
Tour the actual structure as it is being completed. Earthbag, Cob, Living roof, Earthen plasters & floors. Detailed slide show and lecture sessions provide interested audiences with all the how-to answers, while saving most of the hard physical work for another day. We will learn to mix Cob, a basic earthen building mixture.
Workshop goes from 12pm-5pm, excellent lunch provided.
$50 before Nov. 1st, and $65 after that
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See photos of this summer's Earth bag house workshop series.
About Earthen Hand Workshops
A growing number of people are interested in natural building, earthen building, and permaculture techniques. Our workshops seek to empower people with information and hands-on instruction for a self-reliant, ecological lifestyle.
We are dedicated to educating people about the possibilities of empowerment through ecological building. Workshops offered focus on skills and intuition that allow a builder to create within a natural harmony. Each day of a workshop includes hands-on training, discussion, and lecture. We hope that anyone who attends our workshops will continue to learn and teach technologies of global self-empowerment.
Potential workshop hosts can contact us by email at: workshops@earthenhand.com. Our ideal workshop is cooperatively organized, delivering quality education while completing a useful structure at an affordable price for everyone.
Our local workshops provide:
Hands-on learning in earthen building techniques
Useful and beautiful structures that cooperate with their surrounding landscape
Opportunities to learn skills for free! - Public workshops offered annually through Portland's Village Building Convergence event.
Our international workshops:
Create a positive cross-cultural exchange
Train participants in earthen building techniques
Provide international communities with needed structures that cooperate with their surroundings
Draw funds and human energy to places where the resources are more needed
Testimonials
"I loved creating a structure by hand with our class. It was fun to get dirty and work hard with our amazing crew and teachers. We learned a specific method of natural building, but were also introduced to many ways of sculpting earthen materials and living in harmony with nature."
- Skylark
"My experience building the sound dome with Scott in Thailand was more than transformational...I became more open to the miraculous ways our earth can be utilized. It made me feel more connected to my tribal nature and to the magic that happens when we work as a community with intention to manifest!"
- Farren
