Skip navigation.

cob

Low-impact natural homes around the World

To inspire you to build a low-impact natural home take a look at the natural homes map where you will find straw bale, cob, earthship and other low-impact homes around the world with links to the owner's websites.

Naturalhomes.org also have an up-to-date list of natural building courses.


Gleefully Dirty – Eco-Sense May 2007 update!

Chickens feathers and slugs have given way to pumice and
curved walls. As May comes to a close who would have imagined that playing in
the mud, learning code and experimenting with pumice would garner so much
interest, and that so much fun and excitement could come out of a little bit of
arbutus, recycled glass blocks, a roto tiller, our first workshop of the

Cob House Tours on Mayne Island

Jul 28 2007 - 2:15pm

Announcing Cob House Tours on Mayne

Cob House Tours on Mayne Island

Jun 2 2007 - 2:09pm

Announcing Cob House Tours on Mayne

Eco-Sense: Sustainable Building, Systems & Living

Jul 20 2007 - 10:00am
Jul 20 2007 - 12:00pm

Tour Dates:


Eco-Sense - Sustainable Building, Systems & Living Tour

Jun 30 2007 - 10:00am
Jun 30 2007 - 12:00pm

Tour Dates:


Eco-Sense Tour: The building of a sustainable house

May 18 2007 - 1:00pm
May 18 2007 - 3:00pm

Welcome to the most sustainable building project in Canada, the Eco-Sense home of Ann and Gord Baird. This tour will show the loadbearing cob wood working shop and the house that is in progress. The house is the first of its kind, engineered to be the first code approved high occupancy load bearing cob building in Canada. The tour will be hosted by Angela Evans of Saanich.