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Building with Awareness: The construction of a hybrid home

Constructing a straw bale solar home requires the merging of solar design with alternative building techniques.

This award-winning DVD is inspiring and informative, with more than five hours of material on every aspect of building a green home. Take a front-row seat on the work site, learning from the experts as they notch and stack the straw bales and mix the mud. Learn about foundations, post-and-beam wall framing, roof construction and insulation, interior thermal mass walls for improved efficiency, rain-water cisterns, electrical wiring and photovoltaic systems. Learn earth-plastering techniques that create beautiful wall finishes. Understand how window placement and other structural elements can help to heat and cool your home and lower your energy bills. See how the structure works as a whole and how both energy efficiency and superb aesthetics can come from the same materials.
Building with Awareness
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