Category: News

Clay Plaster as part of Sustainable Building Week 2022

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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Dinner & Straw Bale Home Tour 9/14/19

Please join us for a fun and elegant dinner, mezcal tasting, and guided tour of the two straw bale homes we are building at Terra Corazon Farm. This event is a fundraiser for the farm which is in the process of becoming a model for sustainable, regenerative living, building, and farming. More info and tickets …

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Our new net zero strawbale article is published

Our newest article on high-performance strawbale building is out in this month’s Home Power magazine! The article is all about our recent strawbale project that achieved Net Zero Energy Building certification through the Living Building Challenge. This home will be part of the USGBC’s Green Homes Tour on Oct 21, 2018. Here’s a link to …

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video from the Excellence in Energy Leadership award 2018

We were honored to receive an Excellence in Energy Leadership award from SDG&E in recognition of our recent Net Zero strawbale project, the Fallgren Home. As part of the award, they made this short video that promotes the project (as well as SDG&E). There is plenty wrong with our current energy system and it’s easy …

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Exciting new rules about “guest houses” in San Diego!

Whether you call them guest houses, granny flats, or second dwelling units, there’s some exciting news about them! New legislation passed in CA lifts some of the restrictions around these units, which are now all called Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs). Two of the most exciting features of the new rules, which went into effect on …

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