We are happy to have one of our recent natural plaster projects, Wolf in the Woods, included in Sustainable Building Week San Diego. If you register for the free self-guided tour, you’ll receive a $5 coupon for your delicious meal. And check out all the other interesting Sustainable Building Week offerings as well: Engaging …
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Reducing embodied carbon, storing carbon, and reversing climate change with biogenic materials like straw
Here is a short video we made for San Diego’s Sustainable Building Week 2021 about how biogenic materials – such as straw – not only reduce the carbon emissions associated with construction, they can even trap and store carbon in buildings, helping to reverse climate change. Running April 12 -16, 2021, Sustainable Building Week highlights …
Check out our new natural plaster website
Interested in learning more about natural plasters? Check out our new website: www.naturalplastersandiego.com
New article about straw bale and fire-resistance
I was happy to contribute to this article about the remarkable fire-resistance of straw bale buildings: https://onezero.medium.com/people-are-future-proofing-their-homes-with-straw-e25b470f5474
Limestrong lime plaster training March 14-15
We are excited to announce that we are hosting a training in Limestrong lime plasters at our current job site! These natural, durable plasters are perfect for existing homes as well as new construction. Join Ryan Chivers, owner and formulator of Limestrong Mineral Finishes, for a hands-on lime plaster weekend training at our current project …
Testimony about one of our strawbale homes in the snow
Attached are some photos taken this AM of the house - 3-4" of snow which is pretty good for Campo. Low 20's outside at night. Interior drops to 72 when the woodstove is cold or overnight, and the whole house heats quite uniformly. We haven't used the mini-split heater. I know I harp on this, but such performance is remarkable. This house is just so damn easy to live in
Straw-clay workshop 2/16/19
Learn about building with straw-clay at this hands-on workshop. Straw-clay is a method of filling in a wall with a mixture of straw and clay that, once dry, is good insulation and creates a surface you can plaster right over. It is a non-toxic, versatile, and user-friendly way to add natural insulation to any space.
Want to visit a strawbale house, touch clay plaster, or sit on a cob bench? Green Homes Tour 10/21/18
Interested in seeing some of our work in person? Here’s your chance: three projects we worked on will be open to the public on the Green Homes Tour on Sunday, Oct 21, 2018, from 10 am – 4 pm. The Tour is an annual event hosted by the San Diego chapter of the Green Building …
Saving the world with carbon-smart materials like straw
It sounds far-fetched at first, but building with straw and other bio-based, carbon-sequestering materials can help fight climate change. We can go beyond “doing less harm” with building, we can actually do some good. Check out this chart from Architecture 2030’s Carbon-Smart Materials Palette showing that straw bales not only cause less carbon dioxide to …
Fallgren Strawbale Home will be featured on SDGBC’s Green Homes Tour Oct 2018
The Fallgren strawbale home, recently certified a Net Zero Energy Building through the Living Building Challenge, will be featured on this year’s Green Homes Tour! The tour is Sunday, October 21, 2018 from 10 am – 4 pm at locations all over the county. More info and registration can be found here. *** Update: There are …