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July 11-13
SolarFest
Tinmouth, VT
Sustainable Living Festival Alternative Energy Music
Cost: $$35-weekend
Website: www.solarfest.org

July 12-13, 2008
Straw Bale Raising in Central Vermont
Roxbury, VT
YOU ARE FORMALLY INVITED TO OUR STRAWBALE RAISING AND POTLUCK WHAT: Stephen, Hannah, Ijaeda and Tully are putting up the walls of their house!!! Yes, it is a house of straw--please no big bad wolves ( or friendly dogs... )Come share in the excitement! It will be a potluck, so bring a dish or beverage to share. WHEN: Saturday and Sunday, July 12 and 13 ( come one or both days) starting as early as you wanna get here! Rain date the next weekend, 19 and 20. WHERE: Our home in Roxbury, VT at 737 Carrie-Howe Rd. Parking on the road, please. Directions: FROM NORTH: Route 12a south into Roxbury. Right at Warren MTN RD in town. Left at first real rd, Webster Rd. Merge left onto Carrie-howe and stay left. Pass White farmhouse (boarded up) on right. We are the next driveway on right. FROM SOUTH (randolph): RTE 12a north.Many miles:) Pass under train bridge. Go a couple miles in to "the flats of Roxbury" (basically a few houses in a flatish area a couple miles before downtown roxbury). Look for sign for Carrie-Howe Rd on left. Go aprx 0.8 miles. Driveway on left. OH, and you do not need any special skills, just a willing/curious attitude! We are so grateful. And we will be having one or two earthen plaster parties, so if you miss the raising there is no need to worry, there will be more fun to be had quite soon :) Call 802-485-9470 if you need any other info. Hope to see you then!
Cost: $Free!
Contact: Stephen Dube
Phone: (802) 485-9470
Email: stephendube[at]tds.net

SUN, JULY 27 - SAT, AUG 2.
Natural Building Colloquium

For everyone >interested in a more sustainable and better built environment. Work >side by side with the foremost builders, designers and experts in >the fields of natural building, renewable energy, alternative fuels, >grey water systems, and permaculture. Gain knowledge and experience >through demonstrations, presentations and community building using >strawbale, cob, earthbags, natural plasters and finishes, timber >frames and other environmentally appropriate materials. On the land >and under the stars. Early registration and student discounts >available.
Phone: 607-776-4060
Website: www.peaceweavers.com

August 11-15, 2008
Straw Bale Design/Build
Warren, Vermont
Have you always wondered about straw bale construction? Heard it is only for hot and dry climates? Think again! With their combination of insulation and thermal mass, plastered straw bale walls can be perfect for cold - and even wet - climates if they are designed and built according to a set of time tested principles. This course balances sessions in the classroom and on site so you will learn to think your way through a bale house while gaining a feel for the nature of straw, clay and lime as building materials.
Cost: $750
Contact: Yestermorrow Design/ Build School
Phone: (802) 496-5545
Email: designbuild[at]yestermorrow.org
Website: www.yestermorrow.org

August 17-23, 2008
Introduction to Cob Building
Warren, Vermont
Most of us played with mud when we were children. As adults you now have an excuse to do that all over again. Perhaps half the world's population lives in earthen buildings. Building with earth is an affordable, safe and ecologically sound method of construction. During the one week Introduction to Cob Building course you will learn how to begin building your own earthen home. Cob is a combination of clay sediment, sand, and straw mixed together with water and hand formed into walls. This course will teach you how to prospect and test for appropriate building sediment, how to mix cob, various wall building techniques, the installation of windows into cob walls, methods of attachment for wood (e.g. doors, roofs), and how to sculpt niches, shelves, and furniture. We will also have discussion sessions about natural building, the siting and design of buildings, foundations and drainage, plasters and earthen floors, and electric and plumbing for cob buildings.
Cost: $750
Contact: Yestermorrow Design/ Build School
Phone: (802) 496-5545
Email: designbuild[at]yestermorrow.org
Website: www.yestermorrow.org