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Our online store contains items of interest to straw bale enthusiasts.

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P.O. Box 1293
Angels Camp, CA 95222-1293

	Fractal Architecture: Design for Sustainability The book fills the gap between concepts of sustainability and the practice of environmental design. It is based on the assumption that sustainability and environmental design are not just industrial era (Modernist) design in green clothing, but a whole new direction with its own philosophy, techniques and expression. While this book is radical in the amount of change it calls for in environmental design professions and practice, it is conservative in emphasizing the traditional concerns of designers with geometry, history and aesthetics. Great effort has been made to integrate the text and graphics of this book in the spirit of holism inherent in sustainability By Ken Haggard, Polly Cooper. $55
	Design of Straw Bale Buildings Bruce King along with many of the contributing authors are CASBA members. This book is the current "State of the Art" for SB design. "This is intended to serve as an engineering guidebook. It has been written as much as possible to be accessible to any building professional, or even layman, but will inevitably have sections that are obscure without an engineering background. Nevertheless, in contrast with many other engineering texts, no problem-and answer sections are provided. More importantly, the book offers few cookbook formulas that might delude the reader into a false sense of design confidence. It is simply not yet possible to comprehensively delineate a prescriptive way of designing or building with straw bales, if in fact it really is with any building material." Bruce King and other CASBA members. Add $2.50 postage and handling $32
	Detail Book Published in 2000 this is a sourcebook of straw bale construction detail information that can be useful in the development of specific designs. However these are not construction drawings and are intended only as a design aid. Final details, as always, must be developed for specific conditions and circumstances. also available: Add $1.50 for Postage and handling $10
	Build it With Bales Limited Quantity in stock Add $1.50 for Postage and handling $30
	New Strawbale House Limited Quantity in stock Add $1.50 for Postage and handling $35
	EcoNest by Robert LaPorte and Paula Baker-LaPorte Add $1.50 for Postage and handling $15
	CASBA Tee Shirts Short or Long-sleeve Add $2.00 for Postage and handling $15.25