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Lammas: permission to live on the land

Lammas Ecovillage in Pembrokeshire won planning permission in 2009 after two refusals. Why land and planning are often the real barrier.

Material Notes

Forty feet of rammed earth

The Church of the Holy Cross in Stateburg, SC, has rammed-earth walls about 40 feet tall. A material note on pisé and how it ages.

The Archive

The sun house that ran out of salt

The Dover Sun House stored the sun's heat in Glauber's salt. It worked, then it didn't. A 1948 experiment and what it still teaches.

Field Notes

Is it legal? Natural building and the code

A plain guide to model-code appendices for cob, straw bale and tiny houses, and why an appendix existing is not the same as your town allowing it.

House Study

The office under the meadow

Malcolm Wells put his own office under a meadow in Cherry Hill, NJ. What the building argued, and what it asks of anyone who copies it.

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