Interview with
Andrew
Morrison
from
Strawbale.com

Endorse
The Earth Charter
Today!

~ Earth Shelters ~

We began this with learning a little about the importance of "Sustain Yourself." We stepped onto the "Path of Beauty" and took a glimpse into the idea of the next "Seven Generations." We decided to reach toward "Sustainability Education" to learn more about our "Organic Earth". We found startling new ideas about "Energy" and now we return to our home to ponder. Our Homes - where we live and how they hold space for us. What kind of a homes do we live in? There has been a movement going on now for years known as the "Green Building Movement" that has been pioneering new ways to design and build the dwellings we inhabit throughout our lives that we call "home."

Natural Villages

Interdependent with nature village communities have existed on every continent from our human beginnings. Earth based homes are known for their beauty, comfort, longevity and organic nature. Human technology has always used earth as human cultures evolved.

Natural Villages promotes technologies that focus on natural, toxin free sustainable food and lifestyle development processes that support the quality, comfort, stability and vibrancy of healthy community that has been inherent in human evolution from our beginnings. Reservation based communities within native nations such as in Pine Ridge SD, are today in the best position to benefit from this process. Zoning laws for others will evolve with broad education about historic design safety realities.

Natural Villages as a community will work to generate enough popularity through the inherent process of delivering educational information and connection that we can offer products and services to our global friends. With good land use reviews and the great natural technology of organic living that bridges our modern high technology taste for global connection, the interconnection seems obvious, and it's success, a given.

Click Here to Visit Natural Villages Website

Earth Shelters 101

In the past uniform building codes have always been a barrier to alternative "green" building but today more and more governments at different levels are changing laws due to the demand from home owner builders. This video is a promo video advocating green building.

What is LEED and why should you care?

The LEED Green Building Rating System is the beginning of setting a new and higher standard of building not only our homes, but major construction projects. This video is a presentation by Tracie Hall, Executive Director of the U.S. Green Building Council explaining what LEED is and how it works.

Building Green
This 2 part 17 minute video documentary shows how homes can be remodeled to meet new standards. Many people may not be able to build a new home from the ground up but this video shows how any ole' home can become a green home!

Part One

Part Two