http://www.coloradostrawbale.org
COSBA is a non-profit group of people like you who are dedicated to conserving our energy and natural resources by making safe and sound homes of local, sustainably harvested materials. Although "Straw Bale" is in our name, we support the many modalities of natural and sustainable construction.

http://designbuildlive.org
In 1992 a grassroots group in Austin, Texas sprang from the "green" enthusiasm of advisors to a fledgling City of Austin Green Building Program. This group organized itself as the Sustainable Building Coalition (SBC). The SBC successfully pursued its mission to educate its members and the general public on sustainable building.

To broaden its educational scope and impact, the SBC has evolved into Design~Build~Live (DBL). DBL holds close its roots in sustainable building as it takes sustainability beyond the walls.

http://www.paksbab.org/
PAKSBAB is an international organization established in 2006, whose mission is to adapt and apply straw bale and other appropriate building methods to protect and improve the lives of the rural poor living in earthquake and extreme weather regions. PAKSBAB is developing unique systems that utilize unskilled labor, locally-resourced renewable materials, and adapt traditional building techniques. Our earthquake-safe buildings are up to 80% more energy efficient than modern conventional buildings at about 50% of the cost.

http://sbregistry.greenbuilder.com/register.straw
Please fill out this registry of strawbale constructed buildlings.

http://www.strawhomes.com/sban/index.html
One activity that SBAN is actively engaged in is the historic preservation of the ten bale buildings in Nebraska. Please sign the online petition to the Nebraska State Historical Society for help in saving and preserving Nebraska's historic straw-bale buildings to help us with this project.

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http://cobworkshops.org/
Cob Workshops is a free listing for cob building, cob and earth plaster related workshops.
Opportunities to get yourself covered in mud, learn, and meet people interested in cob

http://www.caneloproject.com/dawn/
Since 2000, with the help of many hands, hearts & good people, two small straw bale casitas have been built here along with ramadas and a bread oven, shade structures and water harvesting systems used to grow food, and gardens, which include a southwest native foods garden

The site where the structures are shown is a developing permaculture site. All the elements serve many functions, and each is a part of the design of the “whole site”. As owner and instructor using permaculture strategies here at DAWN SouthWest, Joelee Joyce seeks to teach a way to live on the Earth that takes care of the Earth, and people, and can produce a surplus to share.

http://www.dcat.net/
DCAT works to enhance the health of the planet and our communities by promoting a shift to sustainable construction and development through leadership, strategic relationships, and education.

http://www.ecobuildnetwork.org
The many societal and environmental problems associated with modern construction can be readily solved--but the vast majority of building professionals remain unaware that there exist any problems, much less of the solutions. EBNet fills this crucial gap by educating the building community, and making useful information about environmentally-friendly building materials readily available to all.

http://www.rmi.org
Rocky Mountain Institute ® (RMI), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, was established in 1982 by resource analysts L. Hunter Lovins and Amory B. Lovins. What began as a small group of colleagues focusing on energy policy has since grown into a broad-based institution with approximately eighty full-time staff, an annual budget of nearly $12 million (over half of it earned through programmatic enterprise), and a global reach.

http://www.caneloproject.com
The Canelo Project is a small non-profit organization founded in 1989. We are dedicated to the exploration and development of living systems, including growing food and building that creates friendship, beauty and simplicity.

We are known primarily for our work in Strawbale and other Natural Building techniques.

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http://www.thelaststraw.org
The international quarterly journal of straw bale and natural buliding.

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http://blackrangelodge.com/
Escape to the mountains... relax, restore, and explore the Gila National Forest at the historic Black Range Lodge Bed and Breakfast, Kingston, New Mexico

http://www.ebuild.com
Home Building Materials, Construction Tools and Building Products

http://www.potkettleblack.com/natbild/
These images are provided as a service. Don't use them for personal profit. Feel free to use them for educational purposes. If you use them, please let me know—because I'm curious. I would request that you provide visible source citation (www.potkettleblack.com).

http://www.westcoastgreen.com/about/
West Coast Green represents the largest milestone yet in the green innovation movement. The West Coast Green experience is a feast of innovations, ideas and opportunities designed to expand your business, widen your vision, and stimulate your thinking with the latest best practices and key players in building, business and design
CASBA has a booth each year at this event.

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http://www.tides.org
Bringing together people, ideas and resources, Tides actively promotes change toward a healthy and just society, one which is founded on the principles of social justice, broadly shared economic opportunity, a robust democratic process and a sustainable environment.

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